2022 AUSTRALIAN SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS
Wednesday, Can also 18 – Sunday, Can also 22, 2022
SA Aquatic and Leisure Centre, Oaklands Park, South Australia
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Who will qualify for the 2022 World Championships on Day 3 of the Australian Trials? Prepare alongside stay as we obtain into the third night of finals. This day’s session will characteristic the females’s 200 free, 200 breast, and 100 aid, alongside with the males’s 200 IM, 50 aid, 100 breast, and 800 freestyle.
WOMEN’S 200 FREE FINALS
World File: 1: 52.98 – Federica Pellegrini (2009)
World Junior File: 1: 55.11 – Mollie O’Callaghan (2021)
Australian File: 1: 53.09 – Ariarne Titmus (2021)
Commonwealth File: 1: 53.09 – Ariarne Titmus (2021)
FINA ‘A’ Minimize: 1: 58.66
Top 8:
Ariarne Titmus – 1: 53.31
Mollie O’Callaghan – 1: 54.94
Madi Wilson – 1: 55.86
Kiah Melverton – 1: 55.94
Leah Neale – 1: 56.10
Lani Pallister – 1: 56.28
Brianna Throssell – 1: 56.34
Meg Harris – 1: 56.82
Olympic champion Ariarne Titmus didn’t fracture any time within the path of this lag, opening it up below world document tempo (55.60) with a 55.57 opening 100. She was ahead of Federica Pellegrini‘s tempo till the closing lap, however didn’t somewhat preserve on and accomplished in a time of 1: 53.31.
That time ranks because the third-most attention-grabbing efficiency within the historical past of the tournament, within the aid of most attention-grabbing Pellegrinis’ World File and Titmus’ possess Australian File of 1: 53.09.
This swim by Titmus is the new fastest swim within the realm this season and the suitable sub-1: 54 we’ve viewed in 2021-22. The 21-yr-outdated confirmed after the lag that she obtained’t be going to the World Championships this summer, opting instead for the Commonwealth Video games.
Even without her, the Australians flexed their muscle groups by exhibiting some horrifying depth on this 200 free.
The probably particular person qualifiers for the World Championships within the 200 free will be Mollie O’Callaghan and Madi Wilson. O’Callaghan swam a new most attention-grabbing time of 1: 54.94 to crack her worn higher of 1: 55.11.
Wilson, who raced the 200 free at the Tokyo Olympics and is a staple of the Australian freestyle relays, bought to the wall in a time of 1: 55.86, a half of-2d faster than the 1: 56.39 she delivered within the Olympic closing closing yr the set up she accomplished eighth. Wilson’s PB is a 1: 55.68 from closing yr’s Olympic Trials.
Distance swimmers Kiah Melverton and Lani Pallister, who already licensed for the Worlds group within the 800 freestyle, will probably additionally obtain a expose right here for the relay alongside with Olympic bronze medalist Leah Neale.
MEN’S 200 IM FINALS
World File: 1: 54.00 -Ryan Lochte (2011)
World Junior File: 1: 56.99 – Hubert Kos (2021)
Australian File: 1: 55.72 – Mitch Larkin (2019)
Commonwealth File: 1: 55.28 – Duncan Scott (2021)
FINA ‘A’ Minimize: 1: 59.76
Top 8:
Brendon Smith – 1: 58.59
Se-Bom Lee – 1: 59.48
Joshua Collett – 2: 00.59
Mitch Larkin – 2: 01.06
David Schlicht – 2: 01.44
Gabriel Gorgas – 2: 02.28
Marco Soesanto – 2: 02.32
William Petric – 2: 02.82
Brendon Smith merely about matched his prelim swim from the Olympic Video games on this closing, a hit the males’s 200 IM in 1: 58.59, magnificent off his 1: 58.57 PB from Tokyo. The 400 IM Olympic medalist is now the Australian champion within the tournament and can contest the lag in Budapest this summer.
Smith was additionally a limited faster than his time from the 2021 Olympic Trials, the set up he clocked in at 1: 58.82. The opposite Australian representative within the 400 IM at closing summer’s Olympics, Se-Bom Lee, was the suitable other man sub-2: 00 right here to solidify 2d, touching in 1: 59.48 to acquire below the FINA ‘A’ fashioned and qualify for Worlds.
Mitch Larkin, who holds the Australian document on this tournament at 1: 56.21, was first at the 100 in 55.77 however couldn’t preserve onto the lead. A 2021 Olympic semi-finalist within the 200 IM, Larkin difficulty up slipping out of podium opponents at the stop of the lag and accomplished in 2: 01.06, with Joshua Collett the use of a mountainous 33.82 breast leg to snag third in 2: 00.59.
WOMEN’S 200 BREAST FINALS
World File: 2: 18.95 – Tatjana Schoenmaker (2021)
World Junior File: 2: 19.64 – Viktoriya Gunes (2015)
Australian File: 2: 20.54 – Leisel Jones (2006)
Commonwealth File: 2: 18.95 – Tatjana Schoenmaker (2021)
FINA ‘A’ Minimize: 2: 25.91
Top 8:
Jenna Strauch – 2: 23.26
Abbey Harkin – 2: 24.85
Taylor McKeown – 2: 25.32
Matilda Smith – 2: 26.17
Mikayla Smith – 2: 26.69
Ashleigh Oberekar – 2: 26.89
Ella Ramsay – 2: 31.29
Reidel Smith – 2: 31.62
Mikayla Smith and high seed Jenna Strauch had been the leaders on the hole 50 of this lag, splitting 32.22 and 32.78, respectively. Strauch gained adjust by the 100-meter sign in 1: 08.77 and prolonged her lead into the closing, finishing in a time of 2: 23.26.
Strauch has now obtained every the 100 and 200 breast right here in Oaklands Park, earning a nod in every occasions in Budapest. Strauch accomplished ninth closing yr at the Olympics in 2: 24.25.
Smith didn’t arrange to preserve that early lead and accomplished this lag in fifth location overall with a 2: 26.69. As a replace, Abbey Harkin added a 2d 2d-location set up in 2: 24.85 to undercut the FINA ‘A’ fashioned.
Harkin joined Strauch on this tournament in Tokyo and placed 17th in 2: 24.71, magnificent lacking the semi-finals.
Taylor McKeown, a 2016 Olympian, was below the FINA ‘A’ cut of 2: 25.91 with a time of 2: 25.32 for third, which methodology that she’s place herself into opponents for a Commonwealth Video games expose. Matilda Smith was subsequent with a 2: 26.17.
MEN’S 50 BACK FINALS
World File: 23.71 – Hunter Armstrong (2022)
World Junior File: 24.00 – Kliment Kolesnikov (2018)
Australian File: 24.54 – Ben Treffers (2014)
Commonwealth File: 24.04 – Liam Tancock (2009)
Top 8:
Isaac Cooper – 24.44
Ben Armbruster – 25.13
Bradley Woodward – 25.35
James Bayliss – 25.61
Ty Hartwell – 25.69
Andrew Rice – 25.76
Harrison Abeya – 25.77
Joshua Edwards-Smith – 25.90
Isaac Cooper acknowledged in a post-lag interview that he knew he had what it took to crack the Australian document on this tournament. He was merely.
Cooper place up a time of 24.44 to eradicate the Australian title within the males’s 50 backstroke and make stronger upon the national document of 24.54, set up of living by Ben Treffers in 2014. Cooper obtained’t mechanically qualify for the World Championships for the explanation that 50 aid is no longer a desire tournament, however this swim might perhaps perhaps well obtain him consideration.
Cooper will additionally be aid later on to lag the 100 backstroke the set up he’s the 2d seed with a 53.43 to Mitch Larkin‘s 52.75.
Ben Armbruster held onto his 2d-location location and undercut his prelims time of 25.34 with a 25.13.
Bradley Woodward and James Bayliss had been magnificent out of doors of the tip two, hitting times of 25.35 and 25.61, respectively. Ty Hartwell rounded out the tip five in 25.69. Particularly, if one amongst the tip two swimmers doesn’t obtain nominated right here, 200 backstroke winner Joshua Edwards-Smith (eighth in 25.90) might perhaps perhaps well presumably obtain a shot at racing this tournament.
WOMEN’S 100 BACK FINALS
World File: 57.45 – Kaylee McKeown (2021)
World Junior File: 57.57 – Regan Smith (2019)
Australian File: 57.45 – Kaylee McKeown (2021)
Commonwealth File: 57.45 – Kaylee McKeown (2021)
FINA ‘A’ Minimize: 1: 00.59
Top 8:
Kaylee McKeown – 58.49
Mollie O’Callaghan – 59.12
Minna Atherton – 1: 00.62
Alyssa Burgess – 1: 01.60
Bronte Job – 1: 01.61
Tahlia Thorton – 1: 01.67
Hannah Fredericks – 1: 01.80
Olivia Lefoe – 1: 02.16
She regarded cherish she shall be on tempo for the realm document at about a aspects on this lag, however Kaylee McKeown was a piece of off her world document within the females’s 100 backstroke tonight, swimming a time of 58.49. McKeown did a tumble taper for this meet, which methodology that she kept up practicing till the Saturday old to it began.
That’s totally different from her technique at closing yr’s Trials, the set up she broke the realm document in 57.45 to qualify for the Olympic Video games. McKeown went on to eradicate gold in Tokyo in 2021, and has now licensed to strive to eradicate her first-ever World Championships title.
McKeown was if truth be told a limited slower than her season-higher of 58.31, which she hit in February and ranks her because the 2d-fastest swimmer within the realm this season. Regan Smith is #1 with her 57.76 from the U.S. Trials.
Mollie O’Callaghan is on fire at this meet and has magnificent added a third particular person tournament to her doubtless World lineup, clocking 59.12 for 2d location. That’s a piece of off her higher of 58.86, however passable to acquire onto the group. She licensed for the 100 free on Day 1 and licensed for the 200 freestyle earlier on this session.
Honest out of doors of the tip three, Minna Atherton was a piece of over the FINA ‘A’ cut in 1: 00.62, and Alyssa Burgess rounded out the tip four in 1: 01.60.
MEN’S 100 BREAST FINALS
World File: 56.88 – Adam Peaty (2017)
World Junior File: 59.01 – Nicolo Martinenghi (59.01)
Australian File: 58.58 – Brenton Rickard (2009)
Commonwealth File: 56.88 – Adam Peaty (2017)
FINA ‘A’ Minimize: 59.75
Top 8:
Zac Stubblety-Cook dinner – 59.60
Joshua Yong – 1: 00.04
Samuel Williamson – 1: 00.52
Jake Packard – 1: 00.91
Cooper van der Laan – 1: 01.16
Matthew Wilson – 1: 01.24
Nash Wilkes – 1: 01.26
Adam Selwood – 1: 01.28
It might perhaps in point of fact probably perhaps perhaps well be laborious to bet against the 200 breaststroke Olympic champ and world document holder in any breast tournament at these trials. Zac Stubblety-Cook dinner, new off of atmosphere a new world document within the males’s 200 breast, confirmed that to be ethical within the 100 breast closing right here, handing over a sub-minute swim of 59.60 to beat the discipline and add the tournament to his record for World Championships this summer.
Stubblety-Cook dinner was a tad below his most attention-grabbing time of 59.69 from closing yr. Following him within the lag was Joshua Yong in 1: 00.04, narrowly lacking the FINA ‘A’ cut of 59.75.
That is also attention-grabbing to seek if 200 breast qualifier Matthew Wilson gets nominated to swim the 100 at Worlds despite a sixth-location set up right here (1: 01.24). Wilson’s PB is 59.17 from 2019.
MEN’S 800 FREE FINALS
World File: 7: 32.12 – Zhang Lin (2009)
World Junior File: 7: 45.67 – Mack Horton
Australian File: 7: 38.65 – Grant Hackett (2005)
Commonwealth File: 7: 38.65 – Grant Hackett (2005)
FINA ‘A’ Minimize: 7: 53.11
Top 8:
Elijah Winnington – 7: 45.30
Samuel Immediate – 7: 48.65
Joshua Staples – 7: 58.26
Alec Mander – 8: 00.54
Matthew Galea – 8: 03.13
Elliot Rogerson – 8: 04.90
Zac George – 8: 04.92
Alexander Grant – 8: 09.05
After a hit gold within the 400 freestyle on day 1 of the meet, Elijah Winnington got right here aid within the 800 free to recall first location in a time of 7: 45.30, dipping below his old higher of 7: 51.44 set up of living in December 2020. In between this lag and the 400 free, Winnington additionally placed 2d within the 200 freestyle (1: 46.01) and is now taking a watch at swimming three particular person occasions at the World Championships.
Winnington was the accepted to eradicate the 800 right here, however Samuel Immediate pulled off an excellent 2d-location set up by notching 7: 48.65 within the closing. Immediate magnificent overlooked qualifying for the group on Day 1 when he placed third within the aid of Winnington and Mack Horton within the 400 free closing.
Immediate was entered with a 7: 52.18, which he swam in April 2021, which methodology that right here is his first time below 7: 50 within the 800, and it additionally gets him below the FINA ‘A’ cut (7: 48.65).
Joshua Staples additionally crack eight minutes right here for third in 7: 58.26. Alec Mander touched in 8: 00.54 for fourth and Matthew Galea was fifth in 8: 03.13.
In This Tale
Ariarne TitmusAriarne TitmusBen TreffersBen TreffersBrendon SmithBrendon SmithFederica PellegriniFederica PellegriniKaylee McKeownKaylee McKeownKiah MelvertonKiah MelvertonLeah NealeLeah NealeMack HortonMack HortonMinna AthertonMinna AthertonMitch LarkinMitch LarkinTaylor McKeownTaylor McKeownZac Stubblety-CookZac Stubblety-Cook dinner