Swimming information 2025 | Gina Rinehart reveals how a lot she’s paying Australia’s medallists, World Championships

Australia’s richest lady Gina Rinehart has revealed how a lot she might be paying the swimmers who shone brightest eventually week’s World Championships.

Rinehart acts as a patron for a number of Olympic sports activities, together with swimming, and has provided monetary rewards to those that discover success on the rostrum.

Swimmers who received gold medals in particular person occasions in Singapore would take dwelling $20,000 and relay occasions have been price $5000 per athlete.

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Mollie O’Callaghan will rake in probably the most cash after Singapore, along with her estimated complete payout sitting at $48,750 after clinching gold within the girls’s 200m freestyle and 4x100m freestyle relay, in addition to silvers in 100m freestyle and 4x100m medley relay.

Kaylee McKeown wasn’t far behind with $43,750 after successful gold in each the 100m and 200m girls’s backstroke occasions to go along with a silver within the medley relay.

Lani Pallister – goddaughter of Australian legend Dawn Fraser – will earn an estimated $30,000 for her efforts in Singapore that included gold within the 4x200m girls’s freestly relay, as properly silver in girls’s 800m freestyle and bronze within the 1500m freestyle.

Payments might be made immediately into athletes’ accounts inside two weeks, in accordance with a media launch from Hancock Prospecting.

“Warmest congratulations to all our swimmers, synchronised swimmers and other athletes who competed in Singapore. A spectacular effort,” Rinehart stated.

“Few people truly understand the years of hard work, discipline and sacrifice required to compete at this level. To see Australia achieve second in the world – punching well above our population size – is amazing.

“Our swimmers have come up to now because the London Olympics, the place no gold medals have been received, to now standing because the second-best swimming nation on this planet.

“This success also reflects the years of sacrifice from parents, coaches and volunteers behind the scenes who help make these records possible.

“I’m delighted to as soon as once more present monetary bonuses to our medal winners within the sports activities the place I’m patron . It’s a manner of claiming thanks and displaying appreciation for his or her dedication and achievements for our nation, and for serving to to construct nationwide pleasure.

“For swimmers like Mollie and others who achieved multiple medals, they will receive bonuses for each and every medal earned.”

Rinehart has a well-documented historical past in terms of sport, pulling her proposed $15 million netball sponsorship three years in the past earlier than being dubbed the ‘saviour’ of Aussie swimming by the likes of Cate Campbell for her monetary contributions.