By Braden Keith on SwimSwam
Swimming Australia is the latest federation to confirm that it won’t send a swimming team to the 2026 Youth Olympic Games in Dakar, Senegal. Swimming’s other global super power, the United States, also won’t send a team.
A scaled-back version of the quadrennial event will be held in Africa this year after a four year delay from the scheduled 2022. Among the changes are no relays and reducing the roster to 2 boys and 2 girls per country. The event is heavily designed around focusing efforts on better engaging Africa in the Olympic movement, which leaves limited developmental value for the major swimming nations.
Both Australia and the United States will instead focus their junior teams toward the Junior Pan Pac Championships from August 17-20 in Vancouver, Canada.
Australia has had a successful history at the Youth Olympic Games. In the three editions, they have won five gold medals (which ranks them 5th) and 32 total medals (which ranks them 3rd).
At the last edition in 2018, Kaylee McKeown won gold in the 50 backstroke, silver in the 100 backstroke, and bronze in the 200 backstroke. Those medals came after her senior international debut at the 2017 World Championships.
Australia also won a silver medal in the girls’ 400 medley relay; Chelsea Hodges won silver in the girls’ 50 breaststroke; and Michaela Ryan won bronze in the 200 fly.
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