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July 3: NSWIS swim star Andrew Lauterstein has moved himself well into medal contention for this month's World Championships in Rome by breaking the Commonwealth and Australian record for the 100m butterfly at the Giorgio Armani Swim Meet in Milan overnight. DAVID MOASE reports...
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LITTLE WARRIOR GETS IRONMAN PADDLING (Surf Sports)
 July 3: The serious illness of a cousin's young son has inspired Gold Coast surf lifesaver Nathan Henderson to take on a gruelling one-man paddle from Byron Bay to Burleigh Heads.
Nathan, an ironman competitor for the Currumbin Vikings Surf Life Saving Club and a lifeguard for Gold Coast City Council, has tagged the challenge ‘A Paddle 4 Little Warriors' and is aiming to raise money for the Royal Children's Hospital Foundation in Brisbane. click for moreTHE ROAD TO ROME (Swimming)
THE SWIMSUIT SAGA ... AUSTRALIA'S swimmers could be wearing a greater variety of swimsuits than ever before at the Rome World Championships following FINA's decision to backtrack on plans to ban non-textile suits for the remainder of 2009. Australian coach Alan Thompson expressed his frustration with the issue when speaking on Sydney's Sky Sports Radio on Friday, saying the decision had thrown the swimming world into chaos again. click for moreSUPERSTAR CHAD REED SET TO DEFEND SUPER X CROWN (Other Sports)
 June 29: Australia's two-time supercross world champion Chad Reed is ready to face the challenge of the sport's biggest superstar and a battalion of young guns when the second Super X series gets under way in October this year.
Defending champion Reed heads the classy line-up of competitors for the second season of Super X, which will be contested over seven rounds across Australia and New Zealand. click for moreLAUTERSTEIN REMAINS UNBEATEN AS PHELPS SIZZLES IN MONTREAL (NSWIS)
Lauterstein heads back to the NSWIS training base in Italy knowing there will be no rest for the Olympic bronze medallist after Phelps went within a whisker of Ian Crocker's 100m butterfly world record with a sizzling personal best time of 50.48 at the Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal over the weekend - a time just 0.08 outside Crocker's world mark, set in the same pool at the 2005 World Championships. David Moase Reports..... click for more |
June 29: News from the world of swimming
June 22: NSWIS swimming stars Andrew Lauterstein and Libby Trickett made it a golden end to their European campaign with dominant victories at the Paris Open Championships that finished today - but for the unbeaten Lauterstein, the imposing figure of Michael Phelps has once again stamped his authority on world swimming.
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NSWIS TRIO NAMED FOR CANOE-KAYAK WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS (NSWIS)
Australian Canoeing has named an 18-strong team, which will be led by Olympic golden boy Ken Wallace who will be joined by his sister Bernadette and five other members of the 2008 Beijing Olympic team. click for moreNSWIS ATHLETES SHOW TOP FORM IN BERLIN (NSWIS)
Roff took advantage of a fast pace to set a dazzling personal best in the 1500m while long jumper Lapierre leapt past eight metres in his first European meet of the Northern Hemisphere season. click for moreMONACO MEDALS FOR NSWIS SUPER SQUAD AS PARIS AWAITS (NSWIS)
 June 15: New South Wales Institute of Sport scholarship holders Libby Trickett and Andrew Lauterstein will move on to Paris this weekend for their final pre-World Championship hit out after again leading the medal charge for the Australian contingent at the Mare Nostrum meet in Monaco at the weekend.Trickett continued her impressive European campaign by claiming gold medals in the 50m and 100m freestyle, while Lauterstein won the 100m butterfly and was second in the 50m. click for more LIGHTNING LIBBY IN RECORD BREAKING FORM (NSWIS)
Trickett's win in a meet record 24.15 seconds was one of five for members of Australia's World Championship team on the night. click for more |
June 19: New South Wales Institute of Sport scholarship holders, Olympian David Smith and new-comers Jo Brigden-Jones and Murray Stewart have today been named in the Australian Sprint-Canoe Kayak team for this year's World Flatwater Championships in Canada.
June 16: New South Wales Institute of Sport athletes Jeremy Roff and Fabrice Lapierre showed impressive form in the first leg of the IAAF Golden League held in Berlin at the weekend.
June 11: NSWIS sprint queen Libby Trickett raced to the second fastest 50m freestyle time in the world in 2009 as she led the Australian challenge at the Mare Nostrum meet in Canet, France, early today.
