The first of our team are locked and loaded for Glasgow! 🔒🔥
Join us in congratulating the 18 para athletes selected, including seven rookies. 🎉🐬
💫 A special shout out to Lucky Patterson who will return to the pool where her Dolphins journey began - all the way back at the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games!
🔗 Read full announcement: https://t.co/IH8j5bGiq9
There's plenty more celebrations to come with the full team to be announced at the Australian Swimming Trials in Sydney from June 8-13.
Be there at SOPAC to cheer on the team live. Trials tickets available via Ticketek.
@CommGamesAUS | @SwimmingAUS | @asc
Gold Coast, it’s almost time ⏳
Emily Beecroft and her Dolphin teammates are set to light up the GC as the 2026 @Para_swimming World Series kicks off in Aussie waters 🇦🇺 💥 🏊♀️
And with nomination for the Glasgow Commonwealth Games on the line for our Aussies, every race matters 💪
Watch the action live from the GC or tune in on 9Now.
🏆 2026 Para Swimming World Series – Australia 📆 Fri 20 – Sun 22 February 📍 Gold Coast Aquatic Centre 🎫 Grab tickets at the gate (Adults $10 / Kids $5) 🔗 More event info: https://t.co/UhRMqIOVR4
#ExperienceGoldCoast
Now that was fun! 🤝🤝
With a final 50m showdown between Spain 🇪🇸 and GB 🇬🇧, Tom Gallagher, Tim Hodge, Em Beecroft and Chloe Osborn had a thrilling race and closed Night 5 in Singapore with a well-earned bronze 💪🥉🇦🇺
Team Spain won in a championship record time of 4:31.50 👏
📸 Delly Carr - Sports Photographer
BRONZE FOR BEECROFT 🥉🦋
With less than a second between the first and third place, the women’s 100m butterfly S9 final was as close as they get!
Smashed it Em 👏👏
📸 Delly Carr
BURNING DOWN DA HOUSE!
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The Aussie Dolphins are on fire!
Fresh of two 🥇🥇and two 🥈🥈our Aussies hit the water of Day 3 heats of the Para World Swimming Championships in Singapore this morning stacked with some heavy hitters including Mr Midas and newly crowned world champion 👑Tim Hodge, evergreen veteran Brenden Hall and Miss Butterfly and OAM recipient 🦋Emily Beecroft!
For triple Paralympian Beecroft, today’s hit out in the women’s 100m butterfly S9 is the same the event she nabbed a bronze medal in at the Paris Paralympics.
Also making a splash today is recent birthday girl 🎂 Paige Leonhardt. Paige turned 25 two days ago – many happy returns for your 100m breaststroke SB14 today LIONHEART! 🦁❤️
🏆2025 World Para Swimming Championships 📍Singapore 🗓️ 21-27 September 📺 Watch live and free on @PARLYMPICS YouTube channel.
⏰ Heats start from 11am AEST
@SwimmingAUS has named the team for the 2025 World Para Swimming Championships in Singapore.
The team features 22 returning Paralympians, fresh talent & legends including Brenden Hall, Alexa Leary and Ben Hance. Read more: https://t.co/gpn9KWHnqt
📸 Delly Carr | @DolphinsAUS
🗣️ Paralympic champion Emily Beecroft on what makes the National Aquatics Centre so special for aquatic sports and para-athletes.
“It’s not just because it (the NAC) will encourage the next generation of Dolphins but because it’s the first time us Paralympians were actively included in the conversation.”
🔗 Learn more about the National Aquatics Centre: https://t.co/hrg3dqzGXq
🛬🇦🇺 The Australia 2025 Para Swimming World Series is the first of nine meets scheduled for this year and gathers 72 athletes from eight different nations for multi-class events between Friday and Sunday (14-16 February).
Swimming Australia today extends its congratulations to the 12 decorated @DolphinsAUS for receiving Australia Day Honours as well as applauding icon Lawrie Lawrence.
FULL LIST 👉https://t.co/5rhNp8EbWO
Image 1: Delly Carr / Swimming Australia
Image 2: Supplied
Presenting our NOMINEES for Team of the Year: Para-Swimming 4x100m Mixed Medley Relay, Para-Rowing PR3 Mixed Double Sculls, the Steelers Wheelchair Rugby Team, and Para-Table Tennis WD20 Doubles! ✨
Who will take home the award? We can't wait to reveal on the night.
🥉Congratulations to our Paris Bronze medallists! We are so proud of every single one of you.
Your determination has paid off and we couldn’t be prouder of your success.
An experience I will never forget! 💫
I am very proud of myself for how I performed at these Games. PB’s all around and 2/3 races finished with a medal! 🥇🥉
A night to remember 💚💛
A night our @DolphinsAUS team truly did shine bright like a diamond 💎
Tenaciously showing the Aussie spirit, race, after race, after race. Australia is incredibly proud of you all 🫶🇦🇺
#Paris2024#Paralympics | @AUSParalympics@SwimmingAUS
BRONZE FOR BEECROFT 🥉💥 Emily Beecroft has claimed BRONZE in the Women's S9 100 metres Butterfly Final.
It was the first individual medal of the Games for the Sunshine Coast swimmer who was also part of Australia's GOLDEN Mixed 34 Points 4x100 metres Medley Relay team.