Event History

The Country Swimming Championships is moving into its fifth year on the Australian Swimming calendar, having its inaugural occurrence in October 2022, with the last three years extravaganzas in late September, early October. It is a national level Swimming Championships aimed at swimmers from all regional and remote communities across Australia. Specialised event providing opportunities and experiences for swimmers to encourage retention, ongoing participation in active sporting endeavours and a love of the NT.

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The Championships are targeted towards swimmers, both able bodied and para (multi-class) discipline athletes, who are locationally disadvantaged and underrepresented at existing national competitions, being from Regional areas across Australia. Age ranges for the Championships are 11yrs & over. We are very excited this year to announce the invitation of metro swimmers to the Championships. The reasoning is to increase depth of racing, spread the experiences that Darwin and the NT have to offer, while still ensuring the focus of the event is on Australia's regional swimmers. Additionally, we have kept the 25yrs and over category, for our Masters swimmers, that we added last year. Swimming is a life skill and we aime to encourage that life-long journey in competitive swimming. We are excited to have this innovative addition and hope that Masters swimmers, including swimmers parents take up the opportunity to be apart of this great event and race your children.

The inaugural event occurred from in October 2022 at the Parap swimming pool in Darwin. Over the years this event has attracted over 1000 individual competitive swimmers from over 95 different swimming clubs from across the country, competing in nearly than 10,000 events. We have had over 700 competitors (and their families) attending from outside the NT, having an incredible experience taking in some of the bucket list of activities here in Australia's dream destination. There is also plenty of opportunities for coaches and officials here as well, as this isn't just a swim meet, but truly an extravaganza of swimming and an experience all attendees will take with them for a lifetime.

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This year marks a significant change in the format of the event; one that strengthens the depth of swimmers, opens NT swimming to the country and provides a great opportunity for regional swimmers to showcase themselves and everything that is great about regional swimming to the rest of the country.