2024 AUSTRALIAN OLYMPIC TRIALS
Buckle up, of us: Has there ever been a extra stacked occasion at Olympic Trials than the ladies’s 100 freestyle tonight in Australia?
Making the A-final goes to be an absolute dogfight with skills corresponding to 2023 world champion Mollie O’Callaghan (52.16), defending Olympic champion Emma McKeon (52.52), top-5 performer this season Meg Harris (52.59), reigning Worlds bronze medalist Shayna Jack (52.60), four-time Olympian Cate Campbell (53.23), 2015 world champion Bronte Campbell (53.30), 200 free world document holder Ariarne Titmus (53.68), world junior champion Olivia Wunsch (53.71), and two-time Olympian Brianna Throssell (53.77) listed on the psych sheet. Regardless of the lineup, the Aussies might be heavy favorites within the girls’s 4×100 free relay in Paris this summer season.
Former world document holder Zac Stubblety-Prepare dinner will kick off the session within the males’s 200 breast as the highest seed (2:05.95), with Joshua Yong a pair seconds behind (2:08.54). Each personal entry occasions underneath the Swimming Australia lower of two:09.50. Jenna Strauch (2:22.22) and Abbey Harkin (2:23.65) are the ladies to beat within the 200 breast, as each have additionally been underneath the Australian Olympic mark of two:23.91.
Within the males’s 200 again, Joshua Edwards-Smith (1:55.42) and Bradley Woodward (1:55.95) boast the highest entry occasions a pair seconds sooner than the sector. They need to clear the Aussie Olympic lower of 1:57.28 on Friday.
The boys’s 1500 free is likely to be the hardest occasion for the Aussies to qualify two particular person swimmers in in the present day, but it surely’s definitely attainable. 2023 Worlds bronze medalist Sam Quick is the highest seed at 14:37.28 with Matthew Galea subsequent at 14:57.19, just a few seconds outdoors of qualifying vary (14:54.29).
MEN’S 200 BREAST – PRELIMS
- World Report – 2:05.48, Qin Haiyang, 2023
- Australian Report – 2:05.95, Zac Stubblety-Prepare dinner, 2022
- Oceanian Report – 2:05.95, Zac Stubblety-Prepare dinner, 2022
- Commonwealth Report – 2:05.95, Zac Stubblety-Prepare dinner, 2022
- All Comers Report – 2:05.95, Zac Stubblety-Prepare dinner, 2022
- Swim Australia OQT – 2:09.50
High 8:
- Zac Stubblety-Prepare dinner – 2:08.40
- Joshua Yong – 2:10.66
- Bailey Lello – 2:11.46
- Joshua Collett – 2:11.83
- Finlay Schuster – 2:12.57
- Matthew Wilson – 2:12.85
- Angus Menzies – 2:13.00
- Daniel Cave – 2:14.33
Former world document holder Zac Stubblety-Prepare dinner claimed the highest seed within the males’s 200 breast with a time of two:08.40, already underneath the Australian Olympic qualifying mark of two:09.50. The 25-year-old has been as quick as 2:05.95 in 2022, and his 2:07.50 from April ranks sixth on the planet this season
Joshua Yong touched a pair seconds behind Stubblety-Prepare dinner in 2:10.66, solely a few second of the Aussie Olympic lower. The 22-year-old owns a lifetime greatest of two:08.54 from April.
Bailey Lello (2:11.46) and Joshua Collett (2:11.83) had been the one different swimmers underneath 2:12 in prelims.
Stubblety-Prepare dinner wasn’t the one ex-world document holder within the 200 breast prelims as Matthew Wilson certified sixth in 2:12.85, shut behind Finlay Schuster (2:12.57). The 25-year-old Wilson introduced the worldwide commonplace right down to 2:06.67 again on the 2019 World Championships, although he solely held the document for a day.
WOMEN’S 200 BREAST – PRELIMS
- World Report – 2:17.55, Evgeniia Chikunova, 2023
- Australian Report – 2:20.54, Leisel Jones, 2006
- Oceanian Report – 2:20.54, Leisel Jones, 2006
- Commonwealth Report – 2:18.95, Tatjana Schoenmaker, 2021
- All Comers Report – 2:20.04, Rie Kaneto, 2016
- Swim Australia OQT – 2:23.91
High 8:
- Jenna Strauch – 2:24.83
- Ella Ramsay – 2:25.21
- Matilda Smith – 2:26.95
- Abbey Harkin – 2:28.83
- Mikayla Smith – 2:28.99
- Kara Tinder – 2:29.40
- Reidel Smith – 2:30.28
- Zoe Deacon – 2:30.35
Jenna Strauch notched the highest time within the girls’s 200 breast prelims at 2:24.83, solely a pair seconds off her personal-best 2:22.22 from the 2022 World Championships. The 27-year-old reached the wall inside a second of the Aussie Olympic qualifying time of two:23.91.
Ella Ramsay certified 2nd for tonight’s ultimate with a time of two:25.21, inside a second of her personal-best 2:24.28 from final December. The 19-year-old must drop just a few tenths off her lifetime greatest tonight as a way to hit the Aussie Olympic lower.
One other 19-year-old, Matilda Smith, clocked a time of two:26.95 for the third qualifying spot. Her greatest time sits at 2:24.89 from April’s Australian Open Championships, the place she beat 26-year-old Abbey Harkin. Harkin certified 4th in 2:28.83, effectively off her personal-best 2:23.59 from 2021.
MEN’S 200 BACK – PRELIMS
- World Report – 1:51.92, Aaron Piersol, 2009
- Australian Report – 1:53.17, Mitch Larkin, 2015
- Oceanian Report – 1:53.17, Mitch Larkin, 2015
- Commonwealth Report – 1:53.17, Mitch Larkin, 2015
- All Comers Report – 1:53.72, Mitch Larkin, 2015
- Swim Australia OQT – 1:57.28
High 8:
- Bradley Woodward – 1:56.91
- Joshua Edwards-Smith – 1:58.14
- Stuart Swinburn – 1:58.48
- Enoch Robb – 1:58.91
- Se-Bom Lee – 1:59.36
- Marius Boll – 1:59.44
- Ty Hartwell – 1:59.60
- Mitch Larkin – 1:59.93
Bradley Woodward paced the boys’s 200 again heats in 1:56.91, already underneath the Aussie Olympic lower of 1:57.28. The 25-year-old was solely a few second off his personal-best 1:55.56 from final December. On Tuesday, Woodward positioned 2nd within the 100 again (53.53) just a few tenths off the Aussie Olympic lower (53.21).
Joshua Edwards-Smith was subsequent to the wall in 1:58.14, a pair seconds off his greatest time from 2022 (1:55.42). The 21-year-old must drop one other seconds to get underneath the Australian Olympic qualifying mark.
Stuart Swinburn (1:58.48) and Enoch Robb (1:58.91) additionally broke 1:59 in prelims this morning to place themselves in competition for a top-2 end tonight.
WOMEN’S 100 FREE – PRELIMS
- World Report – 51.71, Sarah Sjostrom, 2017
- Australian Report – 51.96, Emma McKeon, 2021
- Oceanian Report – 51.96, Emma McKeon, 2021
- Commonwealth Report – 51.96, Emma McKeon, 2021
- All Comers Report – 52.06, Cate Campbell, 2016
- Swim Australia OQT – 53.61
High 8:
- Meg Harris – 52.52
- Mollie O’Callaghan – 52.57
- Shayna Jack – 52.65
- Bronte Campbell – 52.95
- Olivia Wunsch – 53.30
- Emma McKeon – 53.61
- Brianna Throssell – 53.78
- Milla Jansen – 54.26
Meg Harris fired off a personal-best 52.52 to steer a loaded girls’s 100 free prelims only a blink forward of 2023 world champion Mollie O’Callaghan (52.57). Harris shaved .07 seconds off her greatest time from April, remaining the No. 4 performer on the planet this season behind O’Callaghan (52.27 in April), 2024 world champion Marrit Steenbergen (52.26), and Siobhan Haughey (52.02).
Shayna Jack was subsequent to the wall in 52.65, not far off her personal-best 52.28 from the 2023 World Championships. Bronte Campbell wound up 4th in 52.95 whereas her older sister, Cate Campbell, missed the A-final by only a hundredth of a second with a Ninth-place displaying in 54.27.
World junior champion Olivia Wunsch (53.30) held off reigning Olympic champion Emma McKeon (53.61) and Brianna Throssell (53.78) for the fifth-fastest time in prelims. Wunsch dropped virtually half a second off her previous-best 53.71 from final September. Milla Jansen, a 17-year-old who positioned 2nd behind Wunsch at World Juniors final September, snagged the final spot within the A-final with a time of 54.26.
200 free world document holder Ariarne Titmus missed the A-final with a Tenth-place effort of 54.37.
MEN’S 1500 FREE – PRELIMS (SLOWER HEATS)
- World Report – 14:31.02, Solar Yang, 2012
- Australian Report – 14:34.56, Grant Hackett, 2001
- Oceanian Report – 14:34.56, Grant Hackett, 2001
- Commonwealth Report – 14:34.56, Grant Hackett, 2001
- All Comers Report – 14:39.54, Mack Horton, 2016
- Swim Australia OQT – 14:54.29
High 8:
- Allesio Macri – 15:40.84
- Tex Cross – 15:40.92
- James Smith – 15:42.94
- Noah Kamprad – 15:53.76
- Nolan Carrel – 16:08.47
- Benjamin Wainman – 16:13.20
- Tommy Lane – 16:17.23
- Corben Powell – 16:18.57
The slower heats of the boys’s 1500 free got here right down to the wire as Allesio Macri (15:40.84) eked previous Tex Cross (15:40.92). The 18-year-old Macri dropped virtually 9 seconds off his seed time of 15:49.14.
James Smith (15:42.94) and Noah Kamprad (15:53.76) had been the one different swimmers who went underneath 16 minutes. The Aussie Olympic lower sits at 14:54.29.
Tonight’s favourite, 2023 Worlds bronze medalist Sam Quick, seems to have scratched out of the occasion.
