Mollie O'Callaghan

Fast Facts

• Date of Birth: 02/04/2004
• Birthplace: Queensland, Australia
• Nickname: Moll or Molldoggy (there is a lot more)
• Sporting Idol: I don’t have one
• Favourite Quote: Get comfortable with being uncomfortable
• Biggest Challenge: (still thinking)
• Greatest achievement so far: Breaking the 200m freestyle world record
• Favourite Food: Favourite snack is yogurt but favourite meal is stuffed capsicum

Mollie O’Callaghan was born in Queensland and began swimming at the age of four and entered her first competition three years later.

Mollie’s international career began in 2019, when at age 15, she took part in the World Championships in Budapest where she won her first International medal coming 2nd in the women’s 4 x 100m Freestyle relay.

Not only excelling at Freestyle, Mollie also dominated in Backstroke events setting many Australian Age records in both strokes in her younger years.

Selected as the youngest member of the Australian Olympic Swimming Team for the 2020 ( 2021) Olympics, Mollie brought home two gold medals and a bronze at only 17 years old swimming the heats in 3 relays.

The 2022 Australian Championships saw Mollie become into her own proving herself to be a fierce individual competitor, not just a relay swimmer by qualifying for five individual World Championship events. At those Championships she secured her first Individual Gold winning the 100m Freestyle.

Later in 2022, The Commonwealth Games in Birmingham was another chance for Mollie to show the world what she has. At the Games she shone – taking home five gold medals and two silvers.

At the 2023 World Championships in Fukuoka, Mollie took home and incredible five gold medals, two of them being the individual 100m and 200m freestyle events. Mollie also broke the longest standing women’s World Record in the 200m freestyle, which officially makes her a dual individual World Champion, and a World Record holder.

Mollie and her relay teams also won gold and smashed the World Record in the Women’s 4 x 200m, 4 x 100m and Mixed 4 x 100m freestyle events.

To round off 2023, Mollie O’Callaghan was awarded the Olympic Program Swimmer of the year for the second year in a row and also was awarded the Performance of the Year Award at the Australian Institute of Sport Performance Awards.