Four-time Olympic gold medallist Ariarne Titmus broadcasts retirement from swimming | Swimming

Four-time Olympic gold medallist Ariarne Titmus has introduced her shock retirement from swimming.

The 25-year-old, who grew up in Tasmania, will retire as one of many best distance swimmers of all time.

She stated she anticipated to return to swimming after a break after the Olympics, however modified her thoughts.

“It’s a tough one but one that I’m really happy with,” Titmus stated in an Instagram publish.

“I’ve always loved swimming, it’s been my passion since I was a, a little girl, but I guess I’ve taken this time away from the sport and realised some things in my life that have always been important to me are just a little bit more important to me now than swimming and that’s OK, but yeah, here we are.”

At the Paris Olympics final 12 months, Titmus achieved an historic third particular person Olympic gold medal, successful the 400m freestyle within the race dubbed “the race of the century”, the place she defeated the opposite two earlier world record-holders of this occasion – American all-time nice Katie Ledecky, and Canadian swimming prodigy Summer McIntosh.

In doing so, Titmus grew to become the primary Australian athlete since Dawn Fraser in 1964 to win back-to-back gold medals in the identical occasion.

Before the Paris Games, Titmus underwent surgical procedure to take away an ovarian tumour.

Titmus steps away from the game as the present 200m world record-holder, having gained a staggering haul of 33 worldwide medals together with eight Olympic medals – 4 gold, three silver and one bronze – and 4 world titles.