2024 AUSTRALIAN OPEN CHAMPIONSHIPS
WOMEN’S 200 IM – HEATS
- World File – 2:06.12, Katinka Hosszu (2015)
- Australian File – 2:07.03, Stephanie Rice (2009)
- Commonwealth File – 2:06.88, Siobhan-Marie O’Connor (2016)
- Australian Olympic Qualifying Time – 2:10.62
Prime 10 Qualifiers:
- Kaylee McKeown (GUSC) – 2:08.66
- Ella Ramsay (CHAN) – 2:11.98
- Kayla Hardy (CRUIZ) – 2:15.57
Kaylee McKeown blasted a 2:08.66 in prelims for the highest time of the morning by over three seconds. That point was simply over a second off of her finest time of a 2:07.60 from 2023 Australian Trials.
Break up Comparability:
| 2024 Aussie Open | ||
| 50 Fly | 29.14 | 27.74 |
| 50 Again | 33.58 | 32.08 |
| 50 Breast | 35.52 | 37.25 |
| 50 Free | 30.42 | 30.53 |
| Complete | 2:08.66 | 2:07.60 |
Her largest break up from this morning’s swim was her breaststroke break up because it was virtually two seconds sooner than her break up throughout her finest time. She was out slower right now on each the butterfly and backstroke legs.
To indicate how massive of a break up this was, listed below are the splits of Kate Douglass and Alex Walsh from their finest 200 IM occasions.
| McKeown | Douglass | Walsh | |
| 50 breast | 35.52 | 36.8 | 36.84 |
This morning’s swim ranks at #8 on the planet this yr to this point. Douglass of the US leads the way in which after swimming a 2:07.05 in finals at 2024 Worlds in Doha.
The 200 IM overlaps with the 200 backstroke on the 2024 Olympic Video games. Prelims and semifinals of the 200 IM are on the identical day as the ultimate of the 200 backstroke. In finals, the ultimate of the 200 backstroke is scheduled to start simply 55 minutes earlier than the beginning of the semifinal of the 200 IM.
The following day, the 200 IM last is 34 minutes earlier than the ultimate of the blended 4×100 medley relay. McKeown led off Australia’s 4×100 blended medley relay to bronze on the 2020 Tokyo Video games and led the relay off to silver on the 2023 World Championships.
McKeown swam the occasion at 2023 Worlds however was disqualified in semifinals for the again to breast flip as she didn’t contact the autumn absolutely on her again. In different phrases, she rotated too far in the course of the cross-over flip too early.