2024 AUSTRALIAN OLYMPIC TRIALS
Buckle up, people: Has there ever been a extra stacked occasion at Olympic Trials than the ladies’s 100 freestyle tonight in Australia?
Making the A-final goes to be an absolute dogfight with abilities resembling 2023 world champion Mollie O’Callaghan (52.16), defending Olympic champion Emma McKeon (52.52), top-5 performer this season Meg Harris (52.59), reigning Worlds bronze medalist Shayna Jack (52.60), four-time Olympian Cate Campbell (53.23), 2015 world champion Bronte Campbell (53.30), 200 free world report holder Ariarne Titmus (53.68), world junior champion Olivia Wunsch (53.71), and two-time Olympian Brianna Throssell (53.77) listed on the psych sheet. Irrespective of the lineup, the Aussies might be heavy favorites within the ladies’s 4×100 free relay in Paris this summer season.
Former world report holder Zac Stubblety-Cook dinner will kick off the session within the males’s 200 breast as the highest seed (2:05.95), with Joshua Yong a pair seconds behind (2:08.54). Each personal entry occasions below the Swimming Australia minimize of two:09.50. Jenna Strauch (2:22.22) and Abbey Harkin (2:23.65) are the ladies to beat within the 200 breast, as each have additionally been below the Australian Olympic mark of two:23.91.
Within the males’s 200 again, Joshua Edwards-Smith (1:55.42) and Bradley Woodward (1:55.95) boast the highest entry occasions a pair seconds sooner than the sector. They need to clear the Aussie Olympic minimize of 1:57.28 on Friday.
The lads’s 1500 free is likely to be the hardest occasion for the Aussies to qualify two particular person swimmers in right now, but it surely’s actually potential. 2023 Worlds bronze medalist Sam Quick is the highest seed at 14:37.28 with Matthew Galea subsequent at 14:57.19, a number of seconds outdoors of qualifying vary (14:54.29).
MEN’S 200 BREAST – PRELIMS
- World Document – 2:05.48, Qin Haiyang, 2023
- Australian Document – 2:05.95, Zac Stubblety-Cook dinner, 2022
- Oceanian Document – 2:05.95, Zac Stubblety-Cook dinner, 2022
- Commonwealth Document – 2:05.95, Zac Stubblety-Cook dinner, 2022
- All Comers Document – 2:05.95, Zac Stubblety-Cook dinner, 2022
- Swim Australia OQT – 2:09.50
Prime 8:
- Zac Stubblety-Cook dinner – 2:08.40
- Joshua Yong – 2:10.66
- Bailey Lello – 2:11.46
- Joshua Collett – 2:11.83
- Finlay Schuster – 2:12.57
- Matthew Wilson – 2:12.85
- Angus Menzies – 2:13.00
- Daniel Cave – 2:14.33
Former world report holder Zac Stubblety-Cook dinner claimed the highest seed within the males’s 200 breast with a time of two:08.40, already below the Australian Olympic qualifying mark of two:09.50. The 25-year-old has been as quick as 2:05.95 in 2022, and his 2:07.50 from April ranks sixth on this planet this season
Joshua Yong touched a pair seconds behind Stubblety-Cook dinner in 2:10.66, solely a few second of the Aussie Olympic minimize. The 22-year-old owns a lifetime finest of two:08.54 from April.
Bailey Lello (2:11.46) and Joshua Collett (2:11.83) had been the one different swimmers below 2:12 in prelims.
Stubblety-Cook dinner wasn’t the one ex-world report holder within the 200 breast prelims as Matthew Wilson certified sixth in 2:12.85, shut behind Finlay Schuster (2:12.57). The 25-year-old Wilson introduced the worldwide normal all the way down to 2:06.67 again on the 2019 World Championships, although he solely held the report for a day.
WOMEN’S 200 BREAST – PRELIMS
- World Document – 2:17.55, Evgeniia Chikunova, 2023
- Australian Document – 2:20.54, Leisel Jones, 2006
- Oceanian Document – 2:20.54, Leisel Jones, 2006
- Commonwealth Document – 2:18.95, Tatjana Schoenmaker, 2021
- All Comers Document – 2:20.04, Rie Kaneto, 2016
- Swim Australia OQT – 2:23.91
Prime 8:
- Jenna Strauch – 2:24.83
- Ella Ramsay – 2:25.21
- Matilda Smith – 2:26.95
- Abbey Harkin – 2:28.83
- Mikayla Smith – 2:28.99
- Kara Tinder – 2:29.40
- Reidel Smith – 2:30.28
- Zoe Deacon – 2:30.35
Jenna Strauch notched the highest time within the ladies’s 200 breast prelims at 2:24.83, solely a pair seconds off her personal-best 2:22.22 from the 2022 World Championships. The 27-year-old reached the wall inside a second of the Aussie Olympic qualifying time of two:23.91.
Ella Ramsay certified 2nd for tonight’s last with a time of two:25.21, inside a second of her personal-best 2:24.28 from final December. The 19-year-old must drop a number of tenths off her lifetime finest tonight in an effort to hit the Aussie Olympic minimize.
One other 19-year-old, Matilda Smith, clocked a time of two:26.95 for the third qualifying spot. Her finest time sits at 2:24.89 from April’s Australian Open Championships, the place she beat 26-year-old Abbey Harkin. Harkin certified 4th in 2:28.83, nicely off her personal-best 2:23.59 from 2021.
MEN’S 200 BACK – PRELIMS
- World Document – 1:51.92, Aaron Piersol, 2009
- Australian Document – 1:53.17, Mitch Larkin, 2015
- Oceanian Document – 1:53.17, Mitch Larkin, 2015
- Commonwealth Document – 1:53.17, Mitch Larkin, 2015
- All Comers Document – 1:53.72, Mitch Larkin, 2015
- Swim Australia OQT – 1:57.28
Prime 8:
- Bradley Woodward – 1:56.91
- Joshua Edwards-Smith – 1:58.14
- Stuart Swinburn – 1:58.48
- Enoch Robb – 1:58.91
- Se-Bom Lee – 1:59.36
- Marius Boll – 1:59.44
- Ty Hartwell – 1:59.60
- Mitch Larkin – 1:59.93
Bradley Woodward paced the boys’s 200 again heats in 1:56.91, already below the Aussie Olympic minimize of 1:57.28. The 25-year-old was solely a few second off his personal-best 1:55.56 from final December. On Tuesday, Woodward positioned 2nd within the 100 again (53.53) a number of tenths off the Aussie Olympic minimize (53.21).
Joshua Edwards-Smith was subsequent to the wall in 1:58.14, a pair seconds off his finest time from 2022 (1:55.42). The 21-year-old must drop one other seconds to get below the Australian Olympic qualifying mark.
Stuart Swinburn (1:58.48) and Enoch Robb (1:58.91) additionally broke 1:59 in prelims this morning to place themselves in rivalry for a top-2 end tonight.
WOMEN’S 100 FREE – PRELIMS
- World Document – 51.71, Sarah Sjostrom, 2017
- Australian Document – 51.96, Emma McKeon, 2021
- Oceanian Document – 51.96, Emma McKeon, 2021
- Commonwealth Document – 51.96, Emma McKeon, 2021
- All Comers Document – 52.06, Cate Campbell, 2016
- Swim Australia OQT – 53.61
Prime 8:
- Meg Harris – 52.52
- Mollie O’Callaghan – 52.57
- Shayna Jack – 52.65
- Bronte Campbell – 52.95
- Olivia Wunsch – 53.30
- Emma McKeon – 53.61
- Brianna Throssell – 53.78
- Milla Jansen – 54.26
Meg Harris fired off a personal-best 52.52 to guide a loaded ladies’s 100 free prelims only a blink forward of 2023 world champion Mollie O’Callaghan (52.57). Harris shaved .07 seconds off her finest time from April, remaining the No. 4 performer on this planet this season behind O’Callaghan (52.27 in April), 2024 world champion Marrit Steenbergen (52.26), and Siobhan Haughey (52.02).
Shayna Jack was subsequent to the wall in 52.65, not far off her personal-best 52.28 from the 2023 World Championships. Bronte Campbell wound up 4th in 52.95 whereas her older sister, Cate Campbell, missed the A-final by only a hundredth of a second with a Ninth-place displaying in 54.27.
World junior champion Olivia Wunsch (53.30) held off reigning Olympic champion Emma McKeon (53.61) and Brianna Throssell (53.78) for the fifth-fastest time in prelims. Milla Jansen, a 17-year-old who positioned 2nd behind Wunsch at World Juniors final September, snagged the final spot within the A-final with a time of 54.26.
200 free world report holder Ariarne Titmus missed the A-final with a Tenth-place effort of 54.37.
MEN’S 1500 FREE – PRELIMS (SLOWER HEATS)
- World Document – 14:31.02, Solar Yang, 2012
- Australian Document – 14:34.56, Grant Hackett, 2001
- Oceanian Document – 14:34.56, Grant Hackett, 2001
- Commonwealth Document – 14:34.56, Grant Hackett, 2001
- All Comers Document – 14:39.54, Mack Horton, 2016
- Swim Australia OQT – 14:54.29
Prime 8: