2024 AUSTRALIAN OLYMPIC TRIALS
The ultimate day of motion on the 2024 Australian Olympic Trials ought to be a thriller, with the ladies’s 50 freestyle, males’s 400 IM, ladies’s 400 IM, males’s 100 butterfly, and girls’s 1500 free on the schedule.
The session will begin with the ladies’s 50 free, the place Emma McKeon and Cate Campbell will look to bounce again after considerably disappointing performances in Friday’s 100 free. McKeon, the reigning Olympic champion in each dash freestyle occasions, missed her probability to defend her 100 free title with a Sixth-place end in 53.33, although the swim ought to be adequate to lock up a 4×100 free relay spot. Campbell, a four-time Olympian, missed the A-final by only one hundredth of a second as she recovers from an undisclosed sickness.
Nonetheless, solely considered one of McKeon/Campbell will probably qualify for the 50 free individually with Shayna Jack showing in prime type this week. The 25-year-old Jack is ranked 4th this season at 24.09 from final December, the 32-year-old Campbell is Fifth at 24.10 from final October, and the 30-year-old McKeon is sixteenth at 24.46 from April.
Each 400 IMs must also characteristic enjoyable three-way battles with Brendon Smith (4:10.15), William Petric (4:12.21), and Thomas Neill (4:13.43) amongst these searching for Olympic qualification below the Aussie minimize of 4:12.50 within the males’s occasion. On the ladies’s aspect, 20-year-old Jenna Forrester (4:32.30), 27-year-old Kiah Melverton (4:36.78), and 19-year-old Ella Ramsay (4:36.94) personal entry occasions below the Aussie customary of 4:38.53. Notably, Australian report holder (and backstroke specialist) Kaylee McKeown is absent from the ladies’s 400 IM psych sheet.
Within the males’s 100 fly, Australian report holder Matthew Temple (50.60) and Shaun Champion (51.28) lead the cost. Pop star Cody Simpson is considered one of six males with seed occasions below 52 seconds within the occasion as he takes his ultimate crack at Olympic qualification.
The session will conclude with the ladies’s 1500 free, the place Lani Pallister (15:48.96) and Moesha Johnson (15:55.75) are the favorites to qualify below the Aussie customary of 16:01.95.
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WOMEN’S 50 FREE – PRELIMS
- 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
Prime 8:
- Shayna Jack – 24.02
- Meg Harris – 24.47
- Bronte Campbell – 24.56
- Emma McKeon – 24.72
- Olivia Wunsch – 24.73
- Cate Campbell – 24.85
- Mollie O’Callaghan – 24.87
- Alexandria Perkins – 25.02
Shayna Jack dominated the ladies’s 50 free prelims by greater than half a second with a season-best 24.02, narrowly lacking her personal-best 24.01 from final yr’s World Championships. The 25-year-old stays the fourth-fastest performer on the earth this season, making her a podium risk at subsequent month’s Paris Olympics. Jack is contemporary off a runner-up end within the 100 free on Friday evening.
Meg Harris certified 2nd with a time of 24.47, lower than a tenth forward of 30-year-old Bronte Campbell (24.56) — each of whom had been below the Aussie Olympic minimize of 24.67. The 22-year-old Harris is aiming to bounce again after swimming a time within the 100 free prelims on Friday morning (52.52) that will have certified individually within the ultimate. She ranks ninth on the earth this season with a 24.28 from April’s Australian Open Championships.
Reigning Olympic champion Emma McKeon would be the No. 4 seed tonight after posting a 24.72 in prelims, only a hundredth forward of 18-year-old Olivia Wunsch (24.73). Cate Campbell clocked a 24.85 for the No. 6 seed in her ultimate probability for a fifth Olympic bid this summer season. 100 free champion Mollie O’Callaghan (24.87) and Alexandria Perkins (25.02) spherical out the remaining A-finalists.
MEN’S 400 IM – PRELIMS
- 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
Prime 8:
- William Petric – 4:20.40
- Brendon Smith – 4:21.84
- David Schlicht – 4:22.49
- Callum Thomas – 4:22.63
- Thomas Hauck – 4:24.55
- Kyle Lee – 4:24.96
- Joshua Staples – 4:26.14
- Marco Soesanto – 4:29.45
William Petric was the quickest man within the 400 IM prelims at 4:20.40, a few second forward of Australian report holder Brendon Smith (4:21.84). The 23-year-old Smith got here into the occasion as the highest seed at 4:10.15 with Petric shut behind at 4:12.21 — each below the Aussie Olympic minimize of 4:12.50.
David Schlicht certified Third in 4:22.49, solely a few tenth forward of 20-year-old Callum Thomas (4:22.63). The 24-year-old Schlicht appeared primed to decrease his lifetime better of 4:18.76 tonight after spending the previous few seasons coaching with world report holder Leon Marchand at Arizona State.
WOMEN’S 400 IM – PRELIMS
- 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
Prime 8:
- Jenna Forrester – 4:43.53
- Ella Ramsay – 4:44.57
- Kayla Hardy – 4:47.35
- Charli Brown – 4:48.12
- Kiah Melverton – 4:48.45
- Taryn Roberts – 4:52.01
- Julia Remington – 4:52.88
- Tara Kinder – 4:54.02
Jenna Forrester led the ladies’s 400 IM prelims in 4:43.53, about 10 seconds off her top-seeded time of 4:32.30 from her Third-place exhibiting on the 2023 World Championships.
Ella Ramsay was subsequent to the wall in 4:44.57, a couple of seconds forward of Kayla Hardy (4:47.35), Charli Brown (4:48.12), and Kiah Melverton (4:48.45). The 19-year-old Ramsay is trying so as to add a 3rd particular person occasion to her Paris lineup after already securing Olympic berths within the 200 IM and 200 breast.
Melverton owns a lifetime better of 4:36.78 from the 2022 Commonwealth Video games, however the 27-year-old hasn’t been below the Aussie Olympic minimize (4:38.53) since then.
MEN’S 100 FLY – PRELIMS
- 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
Prime 8:
- Matthew Temple – 51.46
- Ben Armbruster – 51.57
- Jesse Coleman – 51.67
- Shaun Champion – 51.74
- Cody Simpson – 51.78
- Harrison Turner – 52.49
- Jack Carr – 52.66
- Thomas Nankervis – 52.78
Matthew Temple led the boys’s 100 fly heats in 51.46, establishing an thrilling showdown tonight as three swimmers had been inside a couple of tenths of the 24-year-old Australian report holder.
Ben Armbruster blasted a personal-best 51.57 for the No. 2 seed, shaving a tenth off his previous-best 51.67 from final October’s World Cup cease in Berlin.
Pop star Cody Simpson wasn’t far off his personal-best 51.67 from December together with his Fifth-place exhibiting in 51.78 behind Shaun Champion (51.74) and Jesse Coleman (51.67). Their path to Olympic qualification received barely simpler with the information of No. 3 seed Kyle Chalmers scratching the 100 fly to concentrate on getting wholesome for the Olympics as he battled by sickness and again issues this week.
WOMEN’S 1500 FREE – SLOWER 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
Prime 7:
- Mackenzie Hunter – 17:01.48
- Sienna Deurloo – 17:06.57
- Bianca Crisp – 17:17.91
- Lily Tomlinson – 17:26.84
- Rosie Wilson – 17:30.20
- Daisy Quinn – 17:38.21
- Olivia Galea – 17:49.86
Mackenzie Hunter was the one swimmer inside a minute of the Aussie Olympic minimize (16:01.95) at 17:01.48 to steer the slower heats of the ladies’s 1500 free. The 18-year-old narrowly missed her personal-best 17:01.03 from April.
Sienna Deurloo had damaged 17 minutes earlier than, however she couldn’t sneak below the barrier once more with a runner-up end in 17:06.57.
Lani Pallister (15:48.96) and Moesha Johnson (15:55.75) are the favorites to qualify in tonight’s quick warmth.
