Four-time Olympic Gold Medallist Ariarne Titmus Announces Retirement From Swimming

Four-time Olympic golden medallist Ariarne Titmus has announced her daze status from swimming.

The 25-year-old, who grew up successful Tasmania, will discontinue arsenic one of nan top region swimmers of each time.

She said she expected to return to swimming aft a break aft nan Olympics, but changed her mind.

“It’s a reliable 1 but 1 that I’m really happy with,” Titmus said successful an Instagram post.

“I’ve ever loved swimming, it’s been my passion since I was a, a small girl, but I conjecture I’ve taken this clip distant from nan athletics and realised immoderate things successful my life that person ever been important to maine are conscionable a small spot much important to maine now than swimming and that’s OK, but yeah, present we are.”

At nan Paris Olympics past year, Titmus achieved an historical 3rd individual Olympic golden medal, winning nan 400m freestyle successful nan title dubbed “the title of nan century”, wherever she defeated nan different 2 erstwhile world record-holders of this arena – American all-time awesome Katie Ledecky, and Canadian swimming prodigy Summer McIntosh.

In doing so, Titmus became nan first Australian jock since Dawn Fraser successful 1964 to triumph back-to-back golden medals successful nan aforesaid event.

Before nan Paris Games, Titmus underwent room to region an ovarian tumour.

Titmus steps distant from nan athletics arsenic nan existent 200m world record-holder, having won a staggering haul of 33 world medals including 8 Olympic medals – 4 gold, 3 metallic and 1 bronze – and 4 world titles.