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Australian wins 100m freestyle with teammate Liv Wunsch third
Lani Pallister leads Dolphins to women’s 4x200m freestyle relay gold
A surprised Meg Harris has confirmed her status as the latest golden girl of Australian swimming with victory at the Pan Pacific championships.
Just weeks after winning six gold medals at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Harris has collected another for winning the women’s 100m freestyle at the Pan Pacs.
Continue reading...Canadian wins in championship-record time
Australia hold off Ledecky and US in 4x200 relay
US swimmers claim six golds on second night
Summer McIntosh of Canada led all the way in winning the 400m individual medley at the Pan Pacific Championships on Thursday night, bouncing back after a runner-up finish in the 200 freestyle.
Australia led all but 150 meters of the women’s 4x200 freestyle relay, with the team of Inez Miller, Lani Pallister, Hannah Casey and Milla Jansen winning in 7min 42.40sec to lower the country’s championship mark of 7:44.12 set at the 2018 Pan Pacs.
Continue reading...Australian finishes strongly to win 200m freestyle title in California
Pallister comes in second behind Katie Ledecky in 1,500m freestyle
Australia’s freestyle star Lani Pallister has collected gold and silver medals in her arduous opening to the Pan Pacific championships in the United States.
Pallister triumphed in the women’s 200m freestyle and then set a personal best when finishing behind American legend Katie Ledecky in the 1,500m freestyle in Irvine, California on Wednesday (Thursday AEST).
Continue reading...American wins 1500m freestyle in 15min 36.09sec
Walsh beats Douglass to claim 50m butterfly title
Urlando breaks Michael Phelps’ 20-year-old record
Katie Ledecky won the 1500m freestyle on opening night of the Pan Pacific Championships on Wednesday, earning the first international medal of her storied career on home soil.
The two-time Olympic champion in the event was under her own world-record pace in the early stages of the 30-lap race, with fans at the outdoor pool in Irvine, California, on their feet cheering throughout.
Continue reading...European Aquatics Championships taking place in city
Threat to water quality tested two years after Games
Paris is staging its first high-diving competition in the Seine, with athletes launching themselves from a 20-metre platform in front of the Eiffel Tower – a spectacular new test of the city’s effort to reclaim its river for sport. The event on the Pont de Bir-Hakeim has also exposed the fragility of that ambition.
Organisers suspended training on Thursday when traces of hydrocarbons were detected upstream. By Friday, the French Swimming Federation said the affected area had been treated, allowing athletes to return to the water and the event to proceed as planned. High diving concludes on Saturday with the final two rounds and medal events, while the broader European Aquatics Championships run through to 16 August.
Continue reading...After a rollercoaster week at the Commonwealth Games, the double Olympic champion says he will never stop believing what he can achieve
“I couldn’t switch off because it’s been a real rollercoaster of a week,” Adam Ramsay-Peaty says with a weary smile on a quiet Thursday morning in Glasgow. He has just endured a rough night in which, after winning his third medal of the Commonwealth Games, he managed less than three hours of sleep. The medals consist of bronze in the 100m and 50m breaststroke and a silver in the men’s 4x100m medley. For most swimmers this would constitute success and satisfaction, but Ramsay-Peaty is different.
The fact that none of his three medals are gold, or attached to anything remotely like the kind of supreme performance that Ramsay-Peaty churned out with an aura of invincibility for eight years, has taken a chunk out of the double Olympic champion. There have been tears of frustration and an admission that “nothing makes sense this week”.
Continue reading...The six-day swim meet in Glasgow ended with 37 gold, 16 silver and 23 bronze medals, masking a subtle but significant changing of the guard
Heading into these Commonwealth Games, the Australian swim team had no Kaylee McKeown (absent through illness), no Ariarne Titmus (following her shock retirement last year) and Mollie O’Callaghan battered by injury (a spinal stress fracture and a shoulder complaint). The Dolphins would have been forgiven for nursing some concern. It turns out they needn’t have worried.
On Wednesday evening in Glasgow, Australia rounded out the swim program in historic style. Having levelled the record for most gold medals won at the competition on the penultimate night (28 – equal with the 2018 home Games on the Gold Coast), the Dolphins obliterated that mark with one final night of triumph at the Tollcross Swimming Centre. A run of individual wins and success in both medley relays saw the team end the six-day meet with 37 gold, 16 silver and 23 bronze medals across the able-bodied and para-swimming disciplines.
Continue reading...Meg Harris new 100m freestyle champion as Alex Perkins lifts 100m butterfly crown
Jenna Forrester adds 400m individual medley title to her 200m backstroke gold
Mollie O’Callaghan has been sensationally dethroned as Commonwealth Games 100m freestyle champion by Meg Harris as the Australian tsunami of swimming medals gushed relentlessly in Glasgow.
Harris’s shock triumph came after Jenna Forrester continued her brilliant meet with a second gold medal, adding the 400m individual medley title to her 200m backstroke crown.
Continue reading...Australia takes home gold, silver and bronze medals in men’s 50m freestyle final as Cam McEvoy dominates
Lani Pallister cruises to victory in women’s 1500m freestyle final
Cam McEvoy has added another chapter to his swimming renaissance, dominating the 50m freestyle final at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games.
The 32-year-old was the only finalist to go under 21 seconds as he led an Australian medal sweep ahead of Flynn Southam and Jamie Jack.
Continue reading...Gymnast burst into tears after leading Australia to team gold
Five more gold in pool on as Sam Williamson beats British breaststroke great
The star gymnast Georgia Godwin has no more tears left to cry, having survived the “horrible, horrible” road back from injury to guide Australia to a team gold medal at the Commonwealth Games.
Meanwhile in the pool, Australia are turning the Tollcross Swimming Centre into a fortress after Sam Williamson, Sam Short and Mollie O’Callaghan led a parade of five gold medals on day two in Glasgow.
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Continue reading...Australian wins 400m freestyle, Forrester stuns in 200m backstroke
Women’s and men’s 4x100 freestyle relay teams cap dominant day one
Lani Pallister has consigned years of struggle and setbacks to history, opening Australia’s medal tally at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games with the first of six gold medals in the pool. Pallister’s dominant win in the 400m freestyle – the first final on the Games swimming program – was the perfect start to a Glasgow campaign that is expected to reap her a rich medal haul.
Mollie O’Callaghan later spearheaded a comfortable win in the women’s 4x100 freestyle relay, while the men’s 4x100 freestyle team rounded out the session by ruthlessly capturing Australia’s sixth gold medal. Kyle Chalmers closed clinically to ensure Australia smashed their Games record from Birmingham 2022, winning in 3:09.49.
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Continue reading...Swimmers to earn $30,000 per world record, $20,000 for a gold medal
Commonwealth Games Australia gives each team member $5,000
Freestyle king Kyle Chalmers has welcomed potential windfalls for Australia’s Commonwealth Games swimmers after Gina Rinehart offered up cash bonuses for medals and world records.
Amid a spate of high-profile athlete withdrawals from Glasgow 2026, Dolphins squad members have been given a significant incentive to take part. Billionaire Rinehart has confirmed she will deliver the same bonuses that were on offer in the pool at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Continue reading...Australian athlete, 27, won two Olympic gold medals in Paris
Jack served a doping ban after Ligandrol was found in her system
Australian swimmer Shayna Jack has announced she will retire after the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
In a video posted on Instagram in which Jack spoke with her coach Dean Boxall, the freestyler fought back tears as she said the Games – from 23 July to 2 August – would be her competitive swan song.
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