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BEIJING Olympic bolter Hayden Stoeckel has joined the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra in a bid to extend his career to the 2012 London Games.

A Sunshine Coast sports physician killed in a plane crash en route to the Kokoda Track has been described as the Tiger Woods, Don Bradman and Ian Thorpe of her profession.

INVERURIE'S Hannah Miley played her part in Britain's success at the world swimming championships as the 4x200m relay team took bronze yesterday.

AUSTRALIA claimed a gold medal and two world records in successive events at the world swimming championships in Rome overnight.

Australiaa s Olympic fairytale is set to turn into a Roman nightmare with the womena s 4x200m freestyle relay team hit by injury and the loss of newcomer Meagen Nay.

James Christie Toronto - Last updated on Thursday, Jul. 02, 2009 06:18PM EDT S wim coach John Rodgers of Australia, whose legacy includes Olympic gold medals and world records by his relay swimmers, has been hired to oversee the swimming high performance centre at the University of Toronto.

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Australian swimmers have won six gold medals at the final day of competition at the Mare Nostrum series in Monaco, with Libby Trickett and Christian Sprenger picking up two each.

Christian Sprenger has continued his outstanding form at the Mare Nostrum series in Monaco, winning the men's 200-metre breaststroke final and qualifying fastest for the semi-finals of the 50m breaststroke.

CANET, France, June 11. THE final night of long course meter swimming at the Mare Nostrum stop in Canet featured a Norwegian record and several of meet records taking a tumble.

WORLD champion Libby Trickett went close to re-claiming the world record as she swam the second-fastest 50m freestyle of her life at Canet in France yesterday.

FOUR of Australia's top swimmers have grabbed international victories overnight as they build momentum for next month's world titles.