Judging by the early evidence from the Tokyo Olympics, winning gold medals for Australia is very much women's work.
Australia's golden girls of the pool have already claimed three gold medals - and have their sights set on a record haul as the country heralds in a new era of swimming superstars.
The team is led by Ariarne Titmus, 20, who stunned the world by beating America's great Katie Ledecky to claim gold in the 400m freestyle on Monday.
Her race came after sisters Bronte and Cate Campbell, Emma McKeon and Meg Harris claimed Australia's third consecutive 4x100m relay crown on Sunday.
Kaylee McKeown, 20, made it three days of gold in a row for Australia, flying home first in the 100m backstroke on Tuesday and breaking the Olympic record.
And with Aussies ranked first in 13 different swimming races for the Games, officials are quietly confident they could be looking at a record meet.
Australia's golden girls have carred the country so far through the Tokyo Olympic Games, owning all three of the country's gold medals and adding a world and Olympic record (pictured Emma McKeon)
Kaylee McKeown made it three days of gold in a row for the country, flying home to claim gold in an Olympic record in the 100m backstroke
The team is spearheaded by Ariarne Titmus, who catapulted herself into the international lexicon with a stunning win over America's greatest ever female swimmer Katie Ledecky in the 400m freestyle to claim gold on Monday
Ariarne Titmus
The 20-year-old became an international household name on Monday, kicking clear of the great Ledecky to claim gold in the 400m after an astonishing final quarter of the race.
American broadcaster NBC pre-empted Titmus' success, quietly sending a camera crew out to Brisbane to follow the prodigy's preparation for the Olympics.
They were aware of her reputation and threat to the USA legend, word that hadn't spread as far as Ledecky's teammate Lilly King who proclaimed the USA would win every single individual swimming event - echoing the arrogance of Sydney 2000 Olympics bad guy Gary Hall Jnr.
Hall Jnr famously said USA's 4x100 relay team 'would smash Australia like guitars' before Ian Thorpe hunted him down to win gold for the Aussies, break a world record and the team celebrate poolside by playing air guitars.
King quickly retracted her words after she saw the trial form of the young Aussie team, saying 'she wasn't trying to start anything up.'
Titmus meanwhile was going about her work, despite constantly being disparaged by her arch-rival Ledecky who would only refer to the young Aussie as 'she' in interviews and said 'you don't win medals in trials' when told of her form.
Titmus celebrates the momentous win after beating US rival Katie Ledecky for the top gong in the 400m freestyle
Golden girl: Titmus beams as she holds up the gold medal for the women's 400m freestyle
The Tasmania-born star and her family uplifted their roots from the island state when she was just 14 and already a triple age champion, with her father Steve saying they had to move north to chase her Olympic dream.
'Tasmania does not provide the structure for a swimmer who has reached Ariarne's level and wants to explore their full potential,' her dad said in 2015
'This has been a very difficult and stressful decision for the whole family, because we love Tasmania and the people, but we have no choice. The decision is also not just based on Ariarne's swimming, but long-term opportunities for the whole family.
'The regrets in life are not what you did, but what you didn't do and we want to give, not just Ariarne, but also her sister Mia, the best opportunities in life, not just in sport but for their future education and working careers.'
The move was a successful one, with Titmus adding gold in the 400, favourite for the 200 and to heavily contest for the 4x200m relay and 800m.
A beautiful embrace: Titmus was spotted hugging Boxall after the race while fist-bumping another coach
Titmus celebrates the momentous win after beating US rival Katie Ledecky for the top gong in the 400m freestyle
20-year-old Kaylee McKeown has become Australia's latest gold medallist after storming home to win the 100m backstroke in Tokyo
Kaylee McKeown
Like Titmus, McKeown won her first gold medal at just 20 this week, storming home in a tightly contested 100m backstroke final against two world class competitors.
McKeown sent shockwaves through the swimming community by smashing the world record in the Australian trials last month; the first world record to be broken since the pandemic.
The young swimmer from Redcliffe in Queensland's south-east became an immediate darling of Australia's Olympic Games with refreshingly honest and open interviews, including screaming 'f*ck yeah' to her family back home following her win.
Her joy is tempered by the family tragedy inspiring her success; the loss of her father to brain cancer last year.
Sholto McKeown passed away after a battle with brain cancer in August last year, with McKeown getting a tattoo as tribute saying 'I'll always be with you' on her foot.
'I hope you're proud, and I'll keep doing you proud,' she said after the win.
Kaylee's father was diagnosed with grade-four glioblastoma in June of 2018, undergoing round after round of chemotherapy hoping to see his daughters grow up and perhaps win an Olympic gold.
'I use it every day that I wake up,' McKeown said of her dad last month. 'I know it's a privilege to be on this earth and walk and talk.'
The family have rallied around Kaylee in the lead up to the Tokyo Games, with her father dying before he could see his daughter win her first gold medal
McKeown's gold is Australia's third so far at the Tokyo Olympics after Ariarne Titmus and the women's 4x100m freestyle relay team
Had the Games been held as originally scheduled this time last year, Sholto would have had the chance to witness Tuesday's golden moment, but the Covid pandemic delayed the event and he sadly passed away aged 53 in August.
'My dad always said he would love to have seen us swim at the 2020 Olympics together,' McKeown told the Sydney Morning Herald.
'It's amazing, we would have been able to race at the Olympics if it had gone ahead, then come home and be able to see him. He timed it perfectly... he had the run of his life to have potentially seen us race at the Olympics.
'That's my biggest goal, to tick that box off for him. He always wanted to see that and you never know what they are doing up above; whether or not he can see that. It's always in the back of my mind. That's something he wanted to see us achieve.'
She became the second McKeown daughter to take home a gold after sister Taylor won gold at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in the 200m breaststroke and a silver medal in the 4x100 medley relay at the 2016
