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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On the second to last day of Australian trials, the girls’s 200 abet, men’s 200 hover, girls’s 50 hover, men’s 400 IM, men’s 100 free, and girls’s 1500 free will seemingly be swum.
We kick off this session with defending Olympic champion Kaylee McKeown, who is the tip seed in the girls’s 200 abet. She swam a relativley pedestrian time of 2: 11.57 this morning, but ask her to be must sooner brooding about her pattern of dropping foremost time from prelims to finals this meet. This bustle will even be fast path 100 abet world file holder Minna Atherton‘s last chance at making the Worlds team.
Any other great races that we’re going to glean a scheme to appear comprise the lads’s 400 IM, the build Olympic bronze medalist Brendon Smith leads the pack. He used to be over ten seconds off of his Australian file of 4: 09.27 this morning, swimming a time of 4: 21.86 in prelims. On the opposite hand, it used to be composed swiftly ample for him to be the tip seed, with Kieren Pollard, Se-Bom Lee, and Elliott Pogerson following him terminate in the abet of.
Presumably the largest fight of the night time will seemingly be in the lads’s 100 free, with a topic of stars including 16-year-extinct phenon Flynn Southam, who used to be honest correct 0.02 off his Australian age crew file in prelims. William Yang tied him because the tip seed, as they both swam a time of 48.62 in the heats. Jack Cartwright used to be the third sub-49 swimmer, being the third seed with a time of 48.66, whereas Tokyo 4×100 free relay member Matt Temple got right here in fourth. This bustle will seemingly be a correct opportunity to gauge how the Aussie men’s inch freestylers will fare at Worlds without Kyle Chalmers.
Ultimately, in the girls’s 1500 free, we’re going to glean a scheme to glean to be aware a bustle between Australian file holder Maddy Gough, to boot to 800 free qualifiers Kiah Melverton and Lani Pallister.
WOMEN 200 BACK FINALS
World Document: 2: 03.35 – Regan Smith (2019)
World Junior Document: 2: 03.35 – Regan Smith (2019)
Australian Document: 2: 04.28 – Kaylee McKeown (2021)
Commonwealth Document: 2: 04.28 – Kaylee McKeown (2021)
FINA ‘A’ Decrease: 2: 11.08
High 3:
Kaylee McKeown – 2: 05.31
Mollie O’Callaghan- 2: 08.48
Minna Atherton– 2: 10.20
Though Mollie O’Callaghan led after the well-known 50, defending Olympic champion Kaylee McKeown turned on the jets in the abet half of of her bustle, splitting 1: 02.29/1: 03.02 to favor the build. Her time of 2: 05.31 is pretty off her season-finest time of 2: 04.68, but composed correct ample for fourth-quickest on this planet.
O’Callaghan swam a brand sleek non-public finest time of 2: 08.48 to qualify for her fourth individual match, after qualifying in the 100 free, 200 free, and 100 abet earlier this meet. For pretty of bit on the ideal lap, it appeared that fast path 100 abet world file holder Minna Atherton used to be going to construct as a lot as O’Callaghan, but she fell in the abet of to favor the third space- that scheme she is no longer going to qualify to illustrate Australia at worlds this summer season.
MEN 200 FLY FINALS
World Document: 1: 50.73 – Kristof Milak (2019)
World Junior Document: 1: 53.79 – Kristof Milak (2017)
Australian Document: 1: 54.46 – Slash D’Arcy (2009)
Commonwealth Document: 1: 52.96 – Chad le Clos (2012)
FINA ‘A’ Decrease: 1: 56.71
High 3:
Bowen Gough- 1: 56.49
Charlie Hawke– 1: 58.00
David Morgan– 1: 58.39
Csongor Cellie took this bustle out very swiftly from lane 2, splitting a 54.77 to manual the bustle by a well-known margin at the 100 attach. On the opposite hand, Bowen Gough had a in actuality strong abet half of to pull sooner than the topic and build the bustle by over one and a half of seconds, being sooner than the FINA ‘A’ gash to boot. Gough done in third on this match last year by lower than half of a second, and he redeemed himself this time spherical to ebook a imprint to Budapest.
Alabama swimmer Charlie Hawke and 200 hover Tokyo Olympian David Morgan also got right here up sooner than Csongor in the second 100, with finest 0.39 seconds environment apart the 2 of them. On the opposite hand, neither swimmer used to be below the FINA ‘A’ gash and could well perhaps also no longer qualify for worlds.
Csongor ended up falling to fourth region, ending with a time of 2: 00.50.
WOMEN 50 FLY FINALS
World Document: 24.43 – Sarah Sjostrom (2014)
World Junior Document: 25.46 – Rikako Ikee (2017)
Australian Document: 25.31 – Holly Barratt (2019)
Commonwealth Document: 25.20 – Francesca Halsall (2014)
High 3:
Holly Barratt– 26.02
Alexandria Perkins– 26.18
Abigail Schoorl- 26.45
Australian Document holder Holly Barratt changed into the oldest girl to construct an Australian nationwide title at 34 years of age, winning the 50 hover with a time of 26.02. She used to be the well-known off the blocks with a reaction time of +0.64, and led from initiating to assemble to favor the build. Alexandria Perkins done second in 26.18, also being below the FINA ‘A’ gash.
The 50 stroke races at these trials attain no longer think who qualifies for worlds and Commonwealth Games, as different is as a lot as the discretion of Swimming Australia. On the opposite hand, if Barratt ends up making the team, she’s going to terminate off her occupation on a excessive as she plans on retiring at the pause of 2022.
MEN 400 IM FINALS
World Document: 4: 03.84 – Michael Phelps (2008)
World Junior Document: 4: 10.02 – Ilya Borodin (2021)
Australian Document: 4: 09.27 – Brendon Smith (2021)
Commonwealth Document: 4: 09.18 – Duncan Scott (2022)
FINA ‘A’ Decrease: 4: 17.48
High 3:
Brendon Smith– 4: 11.88
Se-Bom Lee– 4: 14.77
Kieren Pollard– 4: 14.78
Olympic bronze medalist and Australian file holder Brendon Smith successfully defended his nationwide title in the 400 IM, winning the bustle by with regards to three seconds. He took the early lead in the butterfly fragment of the bustle, splitting 56.68 on his first 100. On the opposite hand, Se-Bom Lee began to topic him in the backstroke and breaststroke leg. He in level of fact outsplit Smith in backstroke with a 1: 03.54 leg, and used to be honest correct 0.35 slower than Smith on breaststroke.
Smith widened the gap on freestyle, splitting 57.61 on his last two laps. Kieren Pollard began increasing on Lee in freestyle to boot, and for a second it gave the look of he would overtake him. On the opposite hand, Lee won the bustle by honest correct 0.01 seconds to qualify for his second individual match, as he licensed for the 200 IM alongside Smith earlier on the meet.
WOMEN 1500 FREE FINALS
World Document: 15: 20.48 – Katie Ledecky (2018)
World Junior Document: 15: 28.36 – Katie Ledecky (2014)
Australian Document: 15: 46.13 – Maddy Gough (2021)
Commonwealth Document: 15: 40.14 – Lauren Boyle (2015)
FINA ‘A’ Decrease: 16: 29.57
High 3:
Lani Pallister– 15: 55.40
Moesha Johnson- 16: 00.74
Maddy Gough– 16: 08.31
800 free champ Lani Pallister made it a sweep in the distance occasions when she won the 1500 free with a non-public finest time of 15: 55.40, being the true girl in the topic below 16 minutes. She took the bustle out very swiftly, being well below Australian file tempo in the well-known 500 with a swiftly opening destroy up of 5: 12.96, but then slowed down after that. On the opposite hand, she composed dominated the bustle by main initiating to assemble.
Moesha Johnson used to be second in a time of 16: 00.74 below the FINA ‘A’ gash, qualifying for her first pool match at worlds after making the team in the 5k and 10okay initiate water races. Australian file holder Maddy Gough used to be off her non-public finest time and done third, lacking the Worlds team.
MEN 100 FREE FINALS
World Document: 46.91 – Cesar Cielo (2009)
World Junior Document: 47.30 – David Popovici (2021)
Australian Document: 47.04 – Cam McEvoy (2016)
Commonwealth Document: 47.04 – Cam McEvoy (2016)
FINA ‘A’ Decrease: 48.77
High 6:
William Yang– 48.55
Zac Incerti– 48.65
Flynn Southam– 48.76
Jack Cartwright– 49.04
Matthew Temple- 49.11
Dylan Andrea- 49.12
William Yang, the tip seed from prelims, won the lads’s 100 free with a time of 48.55, a brand sleek non-public finest time for him. He demolished his extinct lifetime higher of 49.23 from March 2021 in prelims, going a time of 48.62. Second-region finisher Zac Incerti took the lead after the well-known 50, flipping in 23.28 when put next to Yang’s 23.53. On the opposite hand, Yang got right here abet in 25.02 when put next to Incerti’s abet half of destroy up of 25.37. Both swimmers qualify for Worlds in the 100 free for my fragment.
Flynn Southam used to be pretty off his prelims time of 48.62, but licensed in with a time of 48.76 and could well perhaps also glean the worlds team in the 4×100 free relay. Jack Cartwright and Matt Temple done fourth and fifth respectively, perhaps qualifying for the the same relay. 17-year-extinct Dylan Andrea also has a chance of qualifying, sneaking in a sixth-region assemble honest correct 0.01 seconds in the abet of Temple. Andrea also seen a huge descend in time in both prelims and finals. His outdated finest time before this meet used to be a 50.46 from April 2021. He diminished it to 49.42 in prelims before swimming a 49.12 in finals.
Cody Simpson, who used to be initially DQed in prelims but got the DQ overturned, done eighth with a finest time of 49.34, pretty sooner than his morning swim of 49.43.
In This Epic
Brendon SmithBrendon SmithDavid MorganDavid MorganHolly BarrattHolly BarrattJack CartwrightJack CartwrightKaylee McKeownKaylee McKeownKiah MelvertonKiah MelvertonKyle ChalmersKyle ChalmersMinna AthertonMinna Atherton