Swimming

Dual Olympic gold medallist Ariarne Titmus sent the 2022 Australian Swimming Championships out with a bang, setting a World Record in the women’s 400m freestyle on Sunday night.

The 21-year-old’s time, 3:56.40, was 0.06 of a second faster than the previous record set by Katie Ledecky (USA) at the Rio Olympics in 2016.

Zac Stubblety-Cook became the men’s 200m breaststroke Olympic Champion last year in an Olympic Record time, and has outdone himself to set a World Record this week in Adelaide.

He shaved a staggering 0.43 of a second off his Tokyo time to be the first person to go under 2:06.00.

Read our full Australian Swimming Championships wrap up here.

Canoe Sprint

Dual Olympian Aly Bull won K1 1000m gold for Australia at the Internatinoal Canoe Federation (ICF) Canoe Sprint World Cup in the Czech Republic, 3.84 seconds clear of Justyna Iskrzycka (POL) and Isabel Contreras (ESP) who tied for second place.

“That was a good race. Coming back from injury (wrist), it’s probably only been about six weeks back in the boat,” Aly said.

Photo credit: Bence Vekassy

“I’ve been doing a lot of work on the bike for the last four months, but it feels good to be back.”

She wasn’t finished winning medals, as Aly teamed up with 18-year-old Pierre van der Westhuyzen, younger brother of Australian Tokyo 2020 gold medallist Jean van der Westhuyzen, to secure a silver medal in the mixed K2 500m.

Photo credit: Bence Vekassy

At his first ever international event Pierre came away with not one, but two medals. He won bronze with Noah Havard in the men’s K2 1000m.

Jean didn’t leave empty handed as he performed strongly in the men’s K2 500m, earning silver with Tom Green.

Individually Tom also shined in the men’s K1 1000m as he took silver.

The canoe sprint squad now heads to Poland for the next World Cup event from 26-29 May.

Adelaide was the place to be on the weekend as with the swimming championships they hosted the 2022 Paddle Australia Canoe Sprint Championships/Oceania Canoe Sprint Championships. Results here.

Beach Volleyball

It was silver all-around for Australian women’s pair Taliqua Clancy, Mariafe Artacho and men’s pair Chris McHugh and Paul Burnett at the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour in Turkey.

For Taliqua and Mariafe it was an improved showing after finishing fourth at their previous stop in Doha. The silver medal is the first ever for the duo on the Beach Tour.

No.3 seeds Chris and Paul are a recently formed pair that have now won their second international medal together.

Rugby 7s

The women’s Aussie 7s had already done enough to be the 2022 World Series champions, but they still gave the last tournament of the season in Toulouse a big shake.

They powered their way into their third-straight Sevens final, with New Zealand doing just enough in this final to win 21-14.

Fans were treated to double the action in France, as the men’s Sevens leg was also held at the same venue.

The Aussie men’s team had a great result against New Zealand, beating them 29-14 in the pool stages. 

However they were relegated to a fifth place playoff when the host nation managed to beat Australia 21-19 in the quarter-finals. Argentina won the fifth place playoff 22-7.

The men play the last leg of their season in London on the 28th and 29th of May, while the women have their sights on the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.

Shooting

The men’s and women’s trap shooting had remarkable performances at the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) Grand Prix in Spain, as our Olympians coming away with multiple medals.

It was an All-Australia podium in the women’s trap as Catherine Skinner won gold (30+1), Laetisha Scanlan silver (30+0) and Penny Smith bronze (21/25).

Tom Grice had the best score of all competitors in qualifying and hit a Personal Best 124/125. Tom progressed through the semi-finals and in the medal match he won gold (31/33).

Athletics

The Diamond League held their second leg in Birmingham, England – the site of the upcoming 2022 Commonwealth Games – where Jessica Hull and Oliver Hoare found their way to podium finishes.

Jessica was the best of all Australians in Birmingham, finishing second only to Tokyo 2020 silver medallist Laura Muir from Great Britain in the women’s 1500m.

Oliver Hoare, competing in the men’s 1500m knowing he’s already selected for the Commonwealth Games, finished in an encouraging third place.

Read more here.

Football

Dual Olympian Ellie Carpenter has won her second UEFA Women’s Champions League title with Lyon, the first Australian to do it twice. They beat FC Barcelona 3-1 to claim the title.

The win is bittersweet for Ellie as she had to leave the field after 13 minutes and not return due to a knee injury, which is potentially severe.

Golf

2018 Youth Olympic champion Grace Kim has won her first event as a professional at the Golf Classic in Florida, USA.

With her next closest rival five shots behind, the 21-year-old's monumental win is drawing her closer to a start on the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) Tour. The top 10 from the Epson Tour at the end of 2022 gain entry to the 2023 LPGA Tour, Grace is currently sitting seventh.

Cameron Smith and Lucas Herbert have finished on equal par at the 2022 PGA Championship in Tulsa, Oklahoma this morning.

They hold a tie for 13th and were followed by Marc Leishman (+4, T-34th), Cam Davis (+6, T-48th) and Jason Day (+8, T-55th).

Tennis

Daria Saville has come out of a tightly contested doubles final as a Strasbourg 2022 doubles champions at the WTA event in France.

She partnered with American Nicole Melichar-Martinez and prevailed 5-7 7-5 [10-6] against top seeds Lucie Hradecka (CZE) and Sania Mirza (IND) in a long one-hour and 55-minute final.

It is her first WTA title win since teaming up with fellow Aussie Olympian Ellen Perez in the Strasbourg doubles in 2019.

Daria now shifts her attention to Roland Garros, where she is one of 11 Aussies in the singles main draw.

Read more here.