2024 AUSTRALIAN AGE CHAMPIONSHIPS Monday, April 8th– Sunday, April 14th Gold Coast Aquatic Centre, Queensland, Australia LCM (50m) Meet Central Entries SwimSwam Preview Live Results (Meet Mobile: “2024 Australian Age & MC Age Championships”) Day 1 Recap/Day 2 Recap/Day 3 Recap/Day 4 Recap/Day 5 Recap/ Day 6 Recap The last session of the 2024 Australian Age Championships in Southport, Queensland finished up tonight with a few of the competitors’s dominant teenagers gathering extra hardware. These champions functioned as a stepping stone for the approaching Australian Nationals, in addition to the neighboring Australian Olympic Trials. For others, this competitors is a certification chance for slots on the Junior Pan Pacific Championships lineup. On the group front, St. Peter’s Western gathered the most points, taking the team prize ahead of Knox Pymble and Rackley. St. Peters Western– 2338 pts Knox Pymble– 1977 pts Rackly– 1879 pts Final Day Highlights 15-year-old Ava Gaske of Chandler protected her 4th gold of the satisfy, taking her age’s 400m IM occasion. Gaske stopped the clock at 4:46.55 to hold a healthy benefit over Rock City’s Amelie Smith who touched in 4:49.49 for silver and the just other time under 4:50. Gaske’s efficiency checks in as a big-time individual finest, eliminating the 4:53.47 logged at the 2023 edition of these champions. She now ranks as the 5th-best Aussie 15-year-old entertainer in history. Her other golds here consist of 200m fly (2:15.65), 800m totally free (8:48.84) and 400m totally free (4:18.93). 17-year-old Marcus Da Silva showed his enhancements as soon as again, clearing the field in his age classification’s 100m totally free, The Cranbrook professional athlete cranked out a winning effort of 49.37 as the sole swimmer of the field to get under the 50-second barrier. Thomas Booth was beside the wall in 50.22 while Xavier Collins completed the podium in 50.81. Dividing 24.02/ 25.35, Da Silva produced a brand-new life time best, beating the 49.45 set up at January’s South Aussie States. He now connects Olympic legend Ian Thorpe as Australia’s 6th-fastest 17-year-old young boys’ 100m complimentary entertainer all-time. Da Silva’s PB couple with his best-ever outcome of 1:48.45 in the 200m complimentary currently notched at this fulfill. St. Peters Western’s World Championships medalist Jaclyn Barclay concluded her Age Championships project with a definitive win in the women’ 200m back. The 17-year-old published 2:09.09 to beat the field by over 7 seconds en path to gold. Barclay divided 30.29/ 32.51/ 33.20/ 33.09 en path to clocking the 2nd-best time of her young profession. Her PB stays at the 2:08.76 placed on the books at last December’s Queensland Championships. The teenager finished the backstroke treble after currently having actually declared triumphes in the 50m (28.87) and 100m (1:00.19) ranges. 17-year-old Olivia Wunsch of Carlile liquidated her project in design, ripping a time of 58.62 to take her age’s 100m fly. Opening in 27.73 and bringing it home in 30.89, the sprint ace raced to the top of the podium ahead of Jessica Cole and Elloise Doolan. The previous hit 59.07 for silver and the latter 59.85 for bronze. When it comes to Wunsch, the teenager’s efficiency tonight represents the 2nd-fastest of her profession. She’s been as swift as 56.78 from last summer season’s NSW State Championships. Wunsch was among the most effective swimmers at this satisfy, wrangling up the following cumulative outcomes: 50m fly gold– 26.34 50m complimentary silver– 25.03 100m complimentary gold– 53.99 100m fly gold– 58.62 Additional Notes 15-year-old Henry Allan recorded gold in his age’s 100m back, publishing 56.93. That marked the Bendigo East swimmer’s first-ever venture under the 57-second barrier. Taking the young boys’ 16-year-old 200m back occasion by practically 4 seconds was Jack Morrow. Coached by Olympian Ash Delaney, Morrow punched a time of 2:02.39. Bond’s Mikayla Bird got to the wall initially in the 16-year-old women’ 200m fly. She punched an outcome of 2:12.38 to get the edge over SOSC’s Rafaela Kopellou who went for silver in 2:12.81. Isabella Osborn likewise arrived at the podium in 2:14.49 as the bronze medalist. About Retta Race Retta Race Former Masters swimmer and coach Loretta (Retta) grows on a non-stop however efficient schedule. Nowadays, that consists of having actually simply made her MBA while working full-time in IT while owning French 75 Boutique while likewise offering swimming insight for BBC. Learn more”
Marcus Da Silva Nails 100 Free PB To Close Out 2024 Australian Age Championships – SwimSwam
