2022 AUSTRALIAN SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS
Wednesday, Might perchance perchance simply 18 – Sunday, Might perchance perchance simply 22, 2022
SA Aquatic and Leisure Centre, Oaklands Park, South Australia
LCM (50m)
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The 2022 Australian Swimming Championships are honest spherical the nook and we’re keeping music of the head storylines heading into the meet. One such storyline is the females’s speed freestyle turnover. With many of Australia’s top swimmers taking the summer season off, masses of spots indulge in unfolded for 100 freestyle at World Championships this summer season.
The Australian females won gold in the 4×100 freestyle on the Tokyo 2020 Video games and 3 of the 4 females who swam if the final for the nation won’t be racing at this 365 days’s Trials. Legendary sisters Cate Campbell and Bronte Campbell, along with 11-time Olympic medalist Emma McKeon are now now not among those entered in the tournament.
Emma McKeon and Cate Campbell were also Australia’s representatives in both the 50 and 100 freestyles. McKeon took gold in both of the sprints on the Olympics, whereas Campbell took bronze in the 100. Without 3 of their top sprinters, this meet will give the the relaxation of the field a shot at breaking thru.
The A total lot of Relay-ers
Moreover to to the Campbells and McKeon, Meg Harris, Mollie O’Callaghan, and Madi Wilson raced for Australia on the 4×100 freestyle relay last summer season. Harris raced in the final and split a 53.09, whereas O’Callaghan (53.08) and Wilson (53.10) swam handiest at some stage in prelims.
Both Wilson and Harris dipped below 53 seconds at some stage in the extremely-speedy 100 freestyle final on the Tokyo Trials last 365 days. Wilson hit a 52.76 for 3rd total, whereas Harris hit a 53.92 for 4th. O’Callaghan modified into a 53.25 for 6th assign to effect a assign on the team.
O’Callaghan, on the opposite hand, hit a brand fresh PB at some stage in the prelims of the 4×100 freestyle when he hit a 53.08. O’Callaghan notably posted a 1: 55.11 world junior sage in the prelims of the 4×200 freestyle, hitting a 1: 55.11, however didn’t bag a assign in that tournament in the final. Her opening split of 1: 55.11 modified into sooner than all 3 of the swimmers who had a relay takeover in the final (McKeon – 1: 55.31, Wilson – 1: 55.62, Leah Neale – 1: 55.85).
Every with a PB between 52.76 and 53.08, the trio of relay swimmers who indulge in entered to speed this tournament in Adelaide would perchance be among the many favorites to bag internal the head 6 and they also’ll all be gunning for a person swim in Budapest this summer season.
The Return of the Jack
Shayna Jack modified into one amongst Australia’s key speed freestyles for several years. She raced for Australia on the 2017 World Championships and helped the team to silver in the females’s 4×100 freestyle and blended 4×100 medley, along with bronze in the females’s 4×200 freestyle and 4×100 medley.
Jack also picked up medals on the 2018 Commonwealth Video games, the 2013 and 2015 World Junior Swimming Championships, and the 2018 Pac Pacific Championships.
She qualified to speed for Australia on the 2019 World Championships, however honest sooner than the meet began she examined obvious for Ligandrol, a banned substance. She harm up getting banned from the sport for 24 months from July 2019 – July 2021, which design that 2022 Worlds is the main main long direction meet she’s been eligible for.
Jack confirmed that she’s animated to speed this summer season when she threw down a 53.13 100 freestyle to defend the tournament on the Novel South Wales Issue Open Championships in March. That swim modified into among the many quickest in the arena this 365 days and makes her the 4th seed at Australian Championships.
Jack would perchance be one to gape in both the 50 and 100 freestyle, all in favour of her in-season slide and past consistency racing on the head stage of Australian sprinting.
The Easiest of the Rest
The tip 4 entrants seem elegant locked in right here all in favour of that handiest Wilson, Harris, O’Callaghan, and Jack indulge in entered with a sub-54 time. That doesn’t imply, on the opposite hand, that there isn’t capacity for any individual else to fabricate a switch and anguish for a assign on the team.
Ariarne Titmus isn’t racing on the World Championships, however she is entered to speed at Trials. She’s on the entry checklist in the two events she won Olympic gold in 2021 (the 200 and 400 freestyle), however she’s also entered in the 100 freestyle. Her time right here a 54.36, has been as speedy as a 54.28, and opened with a 55.55 in her fastest-ever 200 freestyle. Titmus has the functionality to crack 54 and must soundless be one to gape right here.
Whereas she’s now now not racing on the World Championships, she is expected to speed on the Commonwealth Video games and must soundless be making an try to nab a assign on the 4×100 freestyle.
Brianna Throssell (54.27) and Leah Neale (54.32) both indulge in Olympic, World Championship, and Commonwealth Video games medals to their names, having both raced the 4×200 freestyle in Tokyo. Whereas Neale hasn’t been as eager on the sprints at world meets, Throssell raced butterfly in the females’s and blended 4×100 medley relays in Tokyo and likewise made the final in the 200 butterfly.
Both of them will indulge in a shot right here at capitalizing on the head-close absences and potentially bag themselves onto the 4×100 freestyle relay, or tournament the tournament in my intention, as well to the different events they contest. Throssell will be entered to speed the 100 butterfly, 200 butterfly, and the 200 freestyle, whereas Neale is entered in the 200 and 400 freestyles.
We currently outlined a few of the most promising up-and-coming Australian swimmers in our “Young Weapons to Stare” put up. Amongst those highlighted modified into 15-365 days-aged, Milla Jansen. Jansen currently swam her first-ever sub-55 100 freestyle when she 54.94 in April to make stronger upon her 55.05 PB from the month sooner than.
Jansen has considered critical development this 365 days, having begun the season with a 56.73 from April 2021. At Australian Olympic Trials last 365 days she finished 42nd total with a 57.33. Now that she has reached the 54-2nd barrier she’s displaying signs of momentum that might perchance well well well also enable her to bag a World Championships-qualifying swim.
A total lot of fresh outliers that will be racing the 100 on the meet encompass Holly Barratt (54.84), Abbey Webb (54.44), and Rebecca Jacobson (54.63).
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Ariarne TitmusAriarne TitmusBrianna ThrossellBrianna ThrossellBronte CampbellBronte CampbellCate CampbellCate CampbellEmma McKeonEmma McKeonHolly BarrattHolly BarrattLeah NealeLeah NealeShayna JackShayna Jack