2024 AUSTRALIAN OLYMPIC TRIALS
Entire Meet Prelims Warmth Sheet
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The 2024 Australian Swim Trials are nigh upon us. After taking dwelling 9 gold medals and 21 general from Tokyo, the Australian group will solely look to develop upon their success from the 2023 World Championships. In Fukuoka, the Australian squad topped the medal desk, taking dwelling 13 gold medals and 25 general.
Earlier than we bounce into previewing the primary session, it ought to be famous that Swim Australia’s choice process has qualifying instances that could be totally different than the Olympic Qualifying Occasions, colloquially known as the “A-cut.” Nations are free to impose more durable requirements, and Swim Australia opted to make use of “a time that’s equal to the time that certified eighth into the ultimate” on the 2023 Worlds as their customary except it was slower than the OQT.
For instance, the Swim Australia customary within the ladies’s 100 fly is 57.17, whereas the OQT is 57.97. Nevertheless, the SA customary within the males’s 100 breast is 59.49, which equals the OQT as a result of the Eighth-placed time into finals (59.50) on the 2023 Worlds was slower. That stated, with out additional ado, let’s get to the meet.
The primary preliminary session is bookended by the 400 freestyle, giving us swim followers an excellent large serving of star energy. The ladies begin off the meet, and we are going to instantly be handled with seeing Ariarne Titmus. The quickest lady ever within the occasion and reigning Olympic gold medalist is the highest seed within the 400, entered along with her World Document swim from Fukuoka of three:55.38. Whereas considered one of solely a handful of swimmers within the sub 4:00 membership, there may be strain behind her as Lani Pallister has an entry time of 4:01.75 and can look to position herself into an excellent lane tonight to carry off the likes of Kiah Melverton and Leah Neale.
Whereas the 2023 ladies’s gold medalist opens the session, the lads’s gold medalist closes it. Sam Brief, who gained gold in thrilling vogue in Fukuoka, is the highest seed within the males’s 400. Entered together with his profitable time of three:40.68, Brief can have a goal on his again, as 2024 Worlds silver medalist Elijah Winnington is seeded not too far again with a time of three:41.22. Brief and Winnington are comfortably forward of the remainder of the sector and should play the prelims protected or might be focusing on Lukas Märtens‘ world-leading time of three:40.33. The German swam that point this April and over took Brief as being the quickest swimmer within the occasion since Solar Yang‘s 2012 efficiency.
Sandwiched between the 2 400s are the ladies’s 200 IM, the lads’s 100 breaststroke, and the ladies’s 100 butterfly, three occasions which can be actually not missing in expertise.
The 200 IM solely ups the star energy as Kaylee McKeown begins her Olympic marketing campaign. McKeown, who swept the backstroke in Tokyo, has her sights set on the 200 IM, an occasion wherein she was controversially disqualified in, on the 2023 Worlds. Entered along with her latest Australia Document time of two:06.99, McKeown will take the middle lane this morning. Chasing after McKweon shall be Jenna Forrester. Forrester, who bronze within the 400 IM in Fukuoka, additionally has an entry time below the Olympic Qualifying time.
The boys’s 100 breaststroke is the anomaly, as it’s the solely occasion on the docket this morning with no swimmer entered in a time below the Swim Australia Qualifying Time of 59.49. Zac Stubblety-Prepare dinner and Samuel Williamson are closest, however they’ll have their work reduce out for them in the event that they want to qualify within the occasion individually. The winner is more likely to be chosen no matter time for the Medley Relay, however nothing is for certain. ZSC is trying to shave .02 off his seed, whereas Williamson is on the lookout for rather less than half a second however should fear about Joshua Yong, who’s simply .01 behind Williamson.
Don’t be alarmed should you see the celebs and stripes within the ladies’s 100 fly. Because the meet is open to international athletes (known as guests and given the “(V)” tag of their entries), we can have a wide range of totally different nations represented. American Linnea Mack is entered within the 100 fly, as is Japanese star Rikako Ikee. Ikee is the #3 seed and is probably going trying to get some sturdy last-minute racing earlier than Paris. Forward of her within the seeding are Emma McKeon and Brianna Throssell. Each have been a mainstay of Australian butterflies over the previous decade and McKeon, an 11-time Olympic medalist, shall be trying to punch her ticket to her third video games. Each are entered nicely below the usual of 57.11, however kids like Alexandria Perkins and Lily Worth shall be on the lookout for the upset.
Interspersed between these occasions, there would be the prelims of the ladies’s and males’s Multiclass 200 and 400 free. Swimmers in these occasions shall be trying to make the Paralympic group, however because of the factors system and quota system, will seemingly solely discover out their standing on the of the meet.
WOMEN’S 400 FREE – Prelims
- World Document – 3:55.38, Ariarne Titmus (AUS), 2023
- Australian Document – 3:55.38, Ariarne Titmus, 2023
- Swim Australia OQT – 4:04.98
- 2021 Time to Remaining – 4:08.30, Mikayla Messer
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WOMEN’S 200 IM – Prelims
- World Document – 2:06.12, Katinka Hosszu (HUN), 2015
- Australian Document – 2:06.99, Kaylee McKeown, 2024
- Swim Australia OQT – 2:10.62
- 2021 Time to Remaining – 2:16.37, Blair Evans
High 8
Males’s Multi Class 200 Free – Prelims
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Girls’s Multi Class 200 Free – Prelims
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MEN’S 100 BREAST – Prelims
- World Document – 56.88, Adam Peaty (GBR), 2019
- Australian Document – 58.58, Brenton Rickard (AUS), 2009
- Swim Australia OQT – 59.49
- 2021 Time to Remaining – 1:01.84, James McKechnie
High 8
WOMEN’S 100 FLY – Prelims
- World Document – 55.48, Sarah Sjostrom (SWE), 2016
- Australian Document – 55.72, Emma McKeon, 2021
- Swim Australia OQT – 57.17
- 2021 Time to Remaining – 59.80, Elizabeth Dekkers
High 8
Males’s Multi Class 400 Free – Prelims
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Girls’s Multi Class 400 Free – Prelims
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MEN’S 400 FREE – Prelims
- World Document – 3:40.07, Paul Biedermann (GER), 2009
- Australian Document – 3:40.08, Ian Thorpe, 2002
- Swim Australia OQT – 3:45.43
- 2021 Time to Remaining – 3:53.24, Silas Harris
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