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Kyle Chalmers has announced he is no longer competing in the Olympics after Paris 2024 but he is not retiring as a swimmer.

Aussie freestyle ace took on the Pier to Pub open water race last month, securing her fourth title at the annual event in the process.

British Olympic champion Adam Peaty is spending time down under, taking on a training camp on the Gold Coast before his next meet.

Trinidad and Tobago swimmer Dylan Carter finished sixth in the men’s 50-metre butterfly final at the 16th FINA World Short Course Championships in Melbourne, Australia on Wednesday. Carter stopped the clock in 22.14 seconds. Winning gold was Brazilian Nicholas Santos in 21.78, followed by Noe Ponti of Switzerland in 21.96 and Szebasztian Szabo of Hungary

Three more national short course swimming records fell last weekend at the 2021 International Swimming Federation’s (FINA) World Short Course Swimming Championships in Abu Dhabi. Olympic swimmer Alex Sobers set a new national mark of 48.83 seconds in the men’s 100m freestyle yesterday. Competing in the seventh heat of the event and stationed in lane five, the 23-year-old was fifth in a tight finish. Uzbekistan’s Aleksey Tarasenko was the eventual …

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