Aussies Wrap Up World Swimming Championships With A World File

It was solely becoming that the Australian crew’s incredible 4 - Alexa Leary, Rowan Crothers, Chloe Osborn and Callum Simpson – within the final swim of the whole program, mixed to ship a world file (3:58.40) within the combined 4x100m freestyle and Australia’s ninth gold medal of the 2025 World Para Swimming Championships in Singapore. 

Leary solely is aware of one pace and that’s flat out. The freshly topped silver medallist within the 50m freestyle dove in first and at a blazing tempo modified over to Crothers in 58.79. That’s faster than her official 100m S9 world file time of 58.89 seconds. However, in combined Para-swimming, lead off swims are usually not eligible for world information. 
 
Crothers, Australia’s undisputed dash king who holds the world 100m and 50m S10 crown, set Osborn up for a cushty lead together with his 50.62 break up. Just over two-hours earlier, world championship debutant Osborn gained silver within the 100m S7 closing. She then handed off to Simpson who powered house for gold. 

The Australian Para Swimming Team, with coach Mel Tantrum on the helm, completed the championship with 9 gold medal, 9 silver and eight bronze for a complete of 26 medals and completed seventh on the medal desk behind Italy (18-17-11), USA (18-6-11) and China (17-9-7). 
 
An thrilling 10 months till the Glasgow Commonwealth Games was arrange by a mix of gold medals from six people, together with a double gold hauls every from Crothers and Simpson, a world-record breaking relay, and a few well timed assists from veterans akin to Brenden Hall, Ahmed Kelly and Rachael Watson. 

 Tantrum stated: “Experienced campaigners like Brenden Hall, Lucky (Patterson) and Tim (Hodge) really stepped up in and out of the pool and our emerging athletes like Callum Simpson and Chloe Osborn were buoyed by their momentum. 
 
“Singapore was a successful campaign, especially by our measure of success for individual performance … in comparison, Manchester 2023 was our most successful world champs campaign in a decade, in terms of individual gold medals with eight, and we have equalled that. 
 
“We have a good mix of youth and experience and our performance measures are being met … the first two years of a Paralympic cycle are all about building individual experience and expertise so we as a whole team can succeed and lift on the runway to Glasgow, LA and beyond. What this team achieved here in Singapore reflects this success.” 
 
Tantrum then stated some highlights of the Dolphins seven-day marketing campaign included: 

• Not simply Ben Hance’s world file (100m backstroke S14) however his skill to constantly produce world-class performances within the large enviornment;

• Simpson at his debut worlds bettering on his gold within the 100m freestyle S8 to again up and declare a second world title within the 200m particular person medley;

• Leary’s exponential development from her accident three years in the past and that the freestyler continues to boost the bar within the S9 class, file after file, gold after gold;

• Patterson’s skill to beat quite a few limitations and defend her world title and her development as a pacesetter;

• Debutant Declan Budd, 17, graduating from highschool the identical week the crew left for Darwin staging camp. Budd featured in all three finals of his occasions.

Additionally, Simpson boasted the largest medal tally of the 25-strong Australian crew with three golds, one silver and a bronze. 

The closing evening haul of 1 gold, three silver and one bronze, was ignited by Tom Gallagher who claimed a silver medal win from lane 8 within the males’s 100m backstroke S10. 

Then, the most senior feminine member on the crew, Rachael Watson, 33, claimed a bronze medal within the girls’s 100m freestyle S3. 

2025 World Para Swimming Championships | Medal Tally 
Gold: 

• Rowan Crothers – males’s 50m freestyle S10

• Ben Hance – males’s 100m backstroke S14

• Tim Hodge – males’s 200 particular person medley SM9

• Callum Simpson – males’s 100m freestyle S8

• Alexa Leary – girls’s 100m freestyle S9

• Lakeisha Patterson – girls’s 400m freestyle S9

• Callum Simpson – males’s 200m particular person medley SM8

• Rowan Crothers – males’s 100m freestyle S10

• Mixed 4x100m freestyle 34pt – Alexa Leary, Rowan Crothers, Chloe Osborn, Callum Simpson

Silver:  

• Tom Gallagher – males’s 50m freestyle S10

• Ahmed Kelly – males’s 150m particular person medley SM3

• Chloe Osborn – girls’s 400m freestyle S7

• Jake Michel - males’s 100m breaststroke SB14

• Tim Hodge – males’s 100m butterfly S9

• Callum Simpson – males’s 50m freestyle S8

• Tom Gallagher – males’s 100m backstroke S10

• Chloe Osborn – girls’s 100m freestyle S7

• Alexa Leary – girls’s 50m freestyle S9

Bronze: 

• Callum Simpson – males’s 400m freestyle S8

• Lewis Bishop – males’s 100m butterfly S9

• Alex Tuckfield – males’s 400m freestyle S10

• Emily Beecroft – girls’s 100m butterfly S9

• Brenden Hall – males’s 400m freestyle S9

• Col Pearse – males’s 100m butterfly S10

• Mixed medley 34pt relay – Tom Gallagher, Tim Hodge, Emily Beecroft, Chloe Osborn

• Rachael Watson – girls’s 100m freestyle S3

Photo: Delly Carr 

By: Swimming Australia 

Published: 28 September 2025