World Record Holder Ariarne Titmus Broadcasts Engagement to Accomplice Mac Powell

Wedding bells will quickly be ringing for Ariarne Titmus, with the Australian World Record holder and Olympic champion saying her engagement to companion Mac Powell. Titmus shared the information in an Instagram submit alongside pictures of the proposal.

Titmus and Powell bought engaged final week in Mykonos, Greece, whereas celebrating her birthday across the islands. The couple have been collectively for about two years, first going public with their relationship on the Australian Open in January 2025.

One of the highest swimmers on the earth over the previous couple of years, Titmus received eight Olympic medals throughout two Olympic Games, together with 4 golds, three silvers and one bronze. She made her Olympic debut on the Tokyo Games in 2021, the place she received gold within the ladies’s 200 free and 400 free. She additionally picked up a silver medal within the ladies’s 800 free and helped safe the bronze medal within the ladies’s 4×200 freestyle relay.

At the 2024 Paris Olympics, Titmus efficiently defended her title within the 400 free and received gold within the 4×200 freestyle relay, along with bringing residence silver medals in each the 200 free and 800 free.

Aside from her Olympic success, Titmus received 9 World Championship medals, three Pan Pacific Championship medals and eight Commonwealth Games medals over the course of her profession, giving her a large {hardware} assortment.

Titmus holds the World Record within the ladies’s 200 free with a time of 1:52.23, which she set on the 2024 Australian Olympic Trials. She can be part of Australia’s World Record-setting 4×200 free relay crew from the 2023 World Championships, the place Titmus, Mollie O’Callaghan, Shayna Jack and Brianna Throssell clocked a time of seven:37.50.

Titmus retired from aggressive swimming in October 2025, expressing pleasure to show her consideration in the direction of different elements of her life.

Since retiring, Titmus has taken up completely different talking and presenting roles. She joined Australia’s Channel Seven on the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow as a reporter on the pool deck and is the host of the most recent season of “What’s Up Downunder”,  a journey documentary present specializing in Australian caravanning.

Powerll is a Melbourne-based funding analyst.