Swimming

While a treasured ocean pool on the Eyre Peninsula's far west coast is back up and running, to the delight of locals and tourists, some regional South Australian communities await access to their jetties.

When Shen came to Australia three years ago, she didn't have much swimming experience. Now, she's teaching other migrants in regional New South Wales how to approach the water with confidence.

Free diver Michaela Werner sets a new world record by swimming 101 underwater laps of a 25-metre pool in under an hour.

In communities where high temperatures and stifling humidity are the norm, residents have been without community pools for years.

Sporting and community groups using the Adelaide Aquatic Centre have found temporary homes ahead of the redevelopment as concept designs for the new facility have been revealed.

Australia's first confirmed athlete for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games has been named, with open water swimmer Chelsea Gubecka thrilled to be heading to her second Olympics, even as questions remain over the event's River Seine location.

Kaylee McKeown has won her third backstroke title in consecutive days in Budapest to seal the World Cup series crown and a $158,000 jackpot.

Not satisfied with breaking the 50m backstroke record, Australian star Kaylee McKeown tops her own 100m world record in Budapest.

Australian swimmer Kaylee McKeown now holds all three backstroke world records after smashing the 50 metre mark in the Swimming World Cup event in Budapest. 

Swimming Australia adopts a new constitution that gives athletes a greater voice and increases the voting base of the organisation.

Ursula Carlile, who was the first and only woman to become the head coach of the Australian swimming team, dies aged 86.

Darwin is hosting regional Australia's future swimming stars with the country swimming championships underway at Parap pool.

The dangers of drowning are being highlighted ahead of summer as weather warms across Australia.

Unlike at most swim schools, at Lord Howe Island there is no shallow end. There, lessons take place in the island's lagoon.

Grazier Brendan Cullen and former policeman Ben Clavel are part of a relay team which has swum the English Channel in 13 hours and 15 minutes — the culmination of months of hard work, including training in the Menindee Lakes.

One of the last remaining diving pools in Sydney is slated for closure, leaving only two publicly accessible diving facilities. 

The freestyle world record holder said she was "petrified" the discovery in her ovary could impact her "biggest dream" and chances of becoming a mother. 

Olympic star Bronte Campbell, en route to a fourth Games in Paris, wins the 100 metres freestyle at the Australian short course championships in Sydney.

Paralympic swimmer Jack Ireland has broken a world record on the opening night of the Australian Short Course Swimming Championships.

The national report by the Royal Life Saving Society Australia found 42 per cent of drownings occurred more than 5 kilometres from a Surf Life Saving service.

World Aquatics sets strict rules for individual Russian and Belarussian swimmers to return to competition before the Paris Olympics, banning team from completing.

Steve Titmus, the father of Olympic Swimmer Ariarne Titmus says don't be the coach and just be the parent, as he discusses the sacrifices of raising an athlete.

Your kid is still wearing that Matildas merch and bugging you to join a local soccer club, but you're scared off by the reports of sky-high club fees. So, how expensive is it? And how can junior sport in general become more affordable?

When Piper Stewart was 12, she noticed there weren't many other Indigenous children at her local pool in Griffith, NSW. So she raised $40,000 to give them swimming lessons.

Australian swimming is mourning the death of Olympic gold medallist John Devitt, who broke 14 world records across his 13-year swimming career.