2024 Australian Olympic Trials: Day 6 Finals Recap

2024 AUSTRALIAN OLYMPIC TRIALS

Good Morning, Good Night, and Good Afternoon to wherever you might be. It’s the final session, the Ultimate Countdown, if you’ll, of the 2024 Australian Olympic Trials. After tonight, we should always know everybody who has been nominated to take the journey to Paris.

It’ll be an attention-grabbing session as we begin with the shortest occasion on the ladies’s program and finish with the longest. Beginning us off is the Ladies’s 50 free, the place Shayna Jack could have the center lane tonight. Her time this morning, 24.02, represented the second quickest time of her profession, along with her greatest standing solely being .01 sooner. For reference, she received the silver medal on the 2023 World Champs within the 50 free in 24.10.

Along with her swim this morning, Jack improved upon her earlier season’s better of 24.09 however stays the fourth quickest on this planet.

If she might drop a little bit extra tonight, she might enter the rarefied sub-24:00 territory. Trying to chase Jack down are Meg Harris and Bronte Campbell. Harris had an amazing 100 prelims swim, qualifying first into finals, however faltered within the remaining, including time and putting third. Harris can be on the lookout for her first particular person berth at an Olympics after having received two medals for her relay contributions.

Having a resurgence, the third seed for tonight is Bronte Campbell, the youthful sister of Cate Campbell. C2’s prelim time of 24.56 was beneath the Swim Australia Qualifying time of 24.67, however should first move Harris. As for C1, this represents her final likelihood of constructing her fifth Olympic workforce. Campbell has a season-best of 24.10 however has reportedly been coping with sickness.

The final occasion swings fully in the wrong way as Lani Pallister will look so as to add one other occasion to her 400 and 800 free in addition to her anticipated 4×200 free relay berth. Moesha Johnson is the one different swimmer with an entry time beneath the usual, and, because the sixth place finisher on the 2023 World Champs, she must be in good stead to e book her ticket to Paris.

Sandwiched between the 2 occasions are the boys’s and ladies’s 400 IM and the boys’s 100 fly. Australian File holder Brendon Smith took issues simple this morning, cruising into tonight’s remaining in a 4:21.84, 11 seconds slower than his seed. Taking prime billing forward of him this night can be Will Petric. Petric received the 200 IM however was .31 off the qualifying minimize, so can be trying to push it tonight.

The ladies’s 400 IM tonight can be led by 2023 bronze medalist Jenna Forrester. Forrester has struggled a little bit this meet, having an off-200 IM on day one and by no means actually getting it going from there. She was 4:43.53 this morning and has a private greatest properly beneath the Qualifying time, however she might want to be sure that she’s firing on all cylinders. Then again, Ella Ramsay, who obtained the higher of Forrester within the 200 IM, is certified in second and can look so as to add one other occasion to her rising checklist.

With the absence of Kyle Chalmers from this morning’s prelims, the 100 fly feels extra open, particularly contemplating that .32 is all that separates 1st from fifth. Main the cost is Matt Temple, who entered because the # 1 seed however should really feel some strain as Ben Armbruster, Jesse Coleman, Shaun Champion, and Cody Simpson are in such shut hanging distance.

WOMEN’S 50 FREE – Finals

• World File – 23.61, Sarah Sjostrom, 2023
• Australian File – 23.78, Cate Campbell, 2018
• Oceanian File – 23.78, Cate Campbell, 2018
• Commonwealth File – 23.78, Cate Campbell, 2018
• All Comers File – 23.78, Cate Campbell, 2018
• Swim Australia OQT – 24.67

GOLD –  Shayna Jack, 23.99* OLY Qualifier
SILVER – Meg Harris, 24.26  *OLY Qualifier
BRONZE – Emma McKeon, 24.32

Shayna Jack posted the most effective race of her profession in path to the victory right here. Jack led the quickest race on the schedule from begin to end, producing a profession better of 23.99, dipping beneath the 24-second barrier for the primary time. Her earlier private greatest stood at a 24.01. Along with her time, Jack maintains her place because the 4th ranked swimmer on this planet this season, shifting nearer to Kasia Wasick (23.95).

For Jack, this week has been an enormous step in finishing her comeback from a 2 yr doping suspension to make her first Olympic Video games. The dash star was suspended days earlier than the 2019 World Championships for 4 years for a constructive drug check outcome. She later had that suspension lowered to 2 years, however nonetheless missed the Tokyo 2021 Olympic Video games on account of the suspension.

Meg Harris continued her very sturdy displaying this week to publish a runner-up efficiency of 24.26, incomes her first particular person occasion for Paris. Harris already certified to symbolize Australia within the 4×100 free relay earlier this week, simply lacking making the 100 free individually as properly along with her third place end.

Defending Olympic Champion Emma McKeon is not going to have an opportunity to defend her title as she completed a slender third behind Harris, posting  time of 24.32 within the course of. McKeon will solely be swimming the 100 butterfly individualy in Paris.

MEN’S 400 IM – Finals

• World File – 4:02.50, Leon Marchand, 2023
• Australian File – 4:09.27, Brendon Smith, 2021
• Oceanian File – 4:08.70, Lewis Clareburt, 2022
• Commonwealth File – 4:08.70, Lewis Clareburt, 2022
• All Comers File – 4:06.22, Michael Phelps, 2007
• Swim Australia OQT – 4:12.50

GOLD –  Brendon Smith, 4:10.18* OLY Qualifier
SILVER – William Petric, 4:11.78 *OLY Qualifier
BRONZE – David Schlicht, 4:20.78

Defending Olympic bronze medalist Brendon Smith and younger star William Petric each managed to get the job carried out of their remaining alternative to qualify for Paris.

From the onset of the race, it was clear that each swimmers had a mission. The pair pulled forward on the butterfly leg of the race and by no means regarded again. Practically even by means of the primary 200 meters, Smith managed to drag forward on the breaststroke leg with Petric falling off the tempo barely. On the ultimate 50, it was clear that Smith would make the minimize and all eyes turned to Petric, who used a large closing leg to shut nearly a physique size on Smith. When all was stated and carried out, Smith hit the wall in a time of 4:10.18, simply off of his Australian File from Tokyo, whereas Petric touched in a private better of 4:11.78, dropping a few half second off of his entry time (4:12.21).

The pair additionally completed 1-2 within the 200 IM, although in reverse order. In that race, Petric heartbreakingly missed the Swim Australia Olympic Qualifying time of 1:57.23 regardless of dropping a private greatest 1:57.54. Now, it’s nearly sure that Petric can be swimming the occasion in Paris as a consequence of his 400 IM qualification.

WOMEN’S 400 IM – Finals

• World File – 4:24.38, Summer season McIntosh, 2024
• Australian File – 4:28.22, Kaylee McKeown, 2024
• Oceanian File – 4:28.22, Kaylee McKeown, 2024
• Commonwealth File – 4:24.38, Summer season McIntosh, 2024
• All Comers File – 4:28.22, Kaylee McKeown, 2024
• Swim Australia OQT – 4:38.53

GOLD – Ella Ramsay, 4:36.56  * OLY Qualifier
SILVER – Jenna Forrester, 4:38.16 *OLY Qualifier
BRONZE –  Kiah Melverton, 4:42.82

In the same story to the boys’s race, the ladies’s 400 IM featured two swimmers on a mission. Already certified within the 200 IM, Ella Ramsay had one other actually sturdy efficiency, dropping a small private better of 4:36.56. Ramsay managed to drag forward of 2023 World Championship bronze medalist Jenna Forrester on the breaststroke leg and by no means regarded again, including one other particular person occasion to her slate for Paris. After the racce, Ramsay talked about that regardless of the non-public greatest, she hoped to drop a sooner time on this race, along with her eyes set to Paris for one more alternative to enhance.

Following an “off” meet, Forrester managed to get it carried out on the wire, narrowly besting the Swim Australia qualifying time of 4:38.53 along with her time of 4:38.16. Forrester’s profession greatest stands at a 4:32.30  from the 2023 World Championships. If she will be able to get near that, anticipate her to be a medal contender in Paris.

MEN’S 100 FLY – Finals

• World File – 49.45, Caeleb Dressel, 2021
• Australian File – 50.25, Matthew Temple, 2023
• Oceanian File – 50.25, Matthew Temple, 2023
• Commonwealth File – 50.06, Joshua Liendo, 2024
• All Comers File – 50.45, Matthew Temple, 2021
• Swim Australia OQT – 51.17

High 8:

WOMEN’S 1500 FREE – Quickest Heats

• World File –15:20.48, Katie Ledecky, 2018
• Australian File – 15:46.13, Madeleine Gough, 2021
• Oceanian File – 15:40.14, Lauren Boyle, 2015
• Commonwealth File – 15:40.14, Lauren Boyle, 2015
• All Comers File – 15:28.36, Katie Ledecky, 2014
• Swim Australia OQT – 16:01.95

High 8: