2025 SOUTH AUSTRALIA STATE OPEN CHAMPIONSHIPS
The 2025 South Australia State Open Championships kicked off right this moment from SA Aquatic & Leisure Centre, highlighted by a big-time swim by the hands of Olympic champion Kyle Chalmers.
Again at Marion after a pre-Olympic stint at St. Andrew’s, 26-year-old Chalmers fired off a time of twenty-two.18 within the heats adopted by a ultimate swim of twenty-two.01 to interrupt the South Australian state document.
The previous state benchmark stood on the 22.07 Chalmers put up in 2019 along with his 22.01 outing representing the 2nd-best time of his profession. The South Aussie’s PB stays on the 21.98 notched on the 2024 Australian Championships.
The following-closest swimmer in tonight’s contest was 30-year-old Japanese star Katsumi Nakamura who hit 22.58 whereas Marion teammate Matt Temple rounded out the rostrum in 23.38.
Each Temple and Chalmers appeared within the final occasion of the night, racing on the Marion males’s medley relay. Temple clocked a cut up of 55.56 on fly and Chalmers anchored in 51.13 on freestyle.
Within the girls’s 50m free, 18-year-old Olivia Wunsch of New South Wales produced a speedy effort of 25.49 to take the gold, a couple of second outdoors her lifetime better of 24.45 from final yr.
That garnered the sting over Tea Tree Gully 24-year-old Brittany Castelluzzo who settled for silver in 25.70 adopted by Ellysia Oldsen who bagged bronze in 26.17.
15-year-old Sienna Toohey was additionally in motion this night, demonstrating her prowess within the girls’s 200m breaststroke.
The Alsbury Beginner budding expertise put up a gold medal-worthy time of two:30.91 to beat the sector by effectively over 6 seconds. Toohey has been as speedy as 2:29.52 in her profession, an effort logged finally yr’s Australian Age Championships.
Extra Winners
- 17-year-old Isabel Sheldrick turned in a time of 29.27 to take the ladies’s 50m again, coming simply over half a second outdoors her PB of 28.64 from final yr.
- Masaki Yura of Japan gained the boys’s 50m again decisively, along with his results of 25.35 getting him to the wall over one and a half seconds forward of the pack.
- The boys’s 100m breast noticed Japan’s Taka Taniguchi get it performed for gold in 1:00.66. James McKechnie was the quickest Australian, hitting 1:02.51 because the silver medalist.
- Ruka Takezawa topped the ladies’s 400m free podium in 4:11.26, holding Castelluzzo at bay. Castelluzzo notched 4:14.16 and Molly Walker was subsequent to the touch in 4:14.52.
- The boys’s 400m free noticed Gabriel Gorgas dominate the sector, with the 22-year-old handing over a time of three:57.94 as the one swimmer underneath the 4:12 threshold.
- Joseph Hamson of Knox Pymble produced a time of two:04.81 to take the boys’s 200m butterfly occasion.
