Erin Gallagher Joins Kaylene Korbett and Rebecca Meder in World Aquatics Champs Qualifying Times

The 2025 SA National Swimming Championships has concluded with three women swimmers having achieved qualifying times for the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore, at the Newton Park Swimming Pool in Gqeberha in the Eastern Cape on Sunday, 13, April 2025. Erin Gallagher dipped under the required time in the morning heats of the 50m butterfly […]
Breaststroke Legacy Lives On as Rebecca Meder and Kaylene Corbett Qualify for World Champs

Both Rebecca Meder and Kaylene Corbett set 200m breaststroke World Championships qualification times on the third night of competition at the SA National Swim Champs in Gqeberha on Friday
Rebecca Meder Sets World Champs Qualifying Mark at SA Swim Champs in Gqeberha

Rebecca Meder broke her own 200m IM Paris 2024 South African record and set a World Championships Qualifying Mark while Michaela de Villiers set a new national 50m backstroke record at the SA Swim Champs in Gqeberha on Thursday
Jessica Thompson and Rebecca Meder Day 1 Winners at the SA National Swimming Champs

17-year-old Jessica Thompson and New Zealand-based Rebecca Meder among Day 1 champions at the SA National Swimming Championships underway at the Newton Park Swimming Pool in Gqeberha on Wednesday
Two Final African Record at World Short Course Swim Champs in Budapest

The SA women’s 4x100m medley relay team of Milla Drakopoulos, Lara van Niekerk, Rebecca Meder and Jessica Thompson; and 50m freestyle semi-finalist, Caitlin de Lange, set new African records as Short Course Champs wrap in Budapest
Stephanie Houtman Sets New 1500m Freestyle African Record in Budapest

Stephanie Houtman set a new African record in the 1500m freestyle the Day 4 Highlight in Budapest while Rebecca Meder lined up in two finals at the Short Course World Championships in Hungary on Friday
Two More African Records for Magnificent Rebecca Meder

Rebecca Meder racked up a further two African records, and also recorded a personal best a whisker off Tatjana Smith’s continental breaststroke record at the World Short Course Championships in Budapest on Thursday
Rebecca Meder ‘Stoked’ at Qualifying for 100m Breaststroke Final in Budapest

Rebecca Meder continued to show her rising form in the breaststroke events, finishing third in her 100m breaststroke semifinal to qualify for Thursday’s final at the World Short Course Championships in Budapest on Wednesday
Rebecca Meder Shatters Long-Standing African Record on Opening Night in Budapest

Rebecca Meder took over half a second off Zimbabwean Olympic great Kirsty Coventry’s African 200m individual medley record on the opening night of the World Short Course Swimming Champs in Budapest on Tuesday.
Lara van Niekerk Leads Youthful Team SA to World Short Course Championships

SA swim star Lara van Niekerk is the only woman competitor in Team SA to have previously attained a podium finish in the previous meet, as Swimming SA confirms a youthful team for the World Short Course Swimming Champs in Budapest this week
Rebecca Meder Stars at the SA Short Course Champs

Rebecca Meder and Jessica Thompson delivered commanding performances at the SA Short Course Championships in Durban, qualifying for the World Short Course Championships in Budapest this December
No Olympic Fairytale for SA Women’s Hockey While its Mission Accomplished for Paige Badenhorst

There was no Olympic fairytale ending for the South African women’s hockey team, who went down 1-0 to the USA in their final Pool B match for a winless campaign record at the Paris 2024 Games on Saturday