2024 AUSTRALIAN SHORT COURSE CHAMPIONSHIPS
The penultimate night time of racing on the 2024 Australian Brief Course Championships noticed 23-year-old Kaylee McKeown rip a brand new nationwide document within the ladies’s 50m again.
McKeown, the 100m/200m again reigning Olympic gold medalist, fired off a lifetime better of 25.40 to clear the sector and declare her 2nd title at this competitors.
Teammate Lani Pallister was additionally within the pool tonight, racing within the last of the ladies’s 400m free.
22-year-old Pallister, skilled by her mom Janelle Pallister, put up a strong efficiency of three:56.27 to handily defeat the sector within the sole outing beneath 4:00.
Pallister’s consequence checks in because the #2 efficiency of her profession and simply the 2nd time she’s been beneath the 4:00 threshold. Her private finest stays on the 3;55.04 she posted for gold on the 2022 Brief Course World Championships.
Behind Pallister tonight was 29-year-old veteran Leah Neale of Rackley. Neale scored a stable results of 4:00.63 to affix Pallister in incomes provisional qualification for December’s Brief Course World Championships.
Neale’s silver medal-worthy efficiency represents the 2nd-best time of her profession. Her private finest of three:58.80 was placed on the books on the 2020 Digital Queensland Championships.
25-year-old David Schlicht doubled up on his 400m IM victory by successful the lads’s 200m IM race this night.
Schlicht stopped the clock at 1:54.11 to carry a few half-second benefit over Joshua Collett of Bond who settled for silver in 1:54.66. Gabriel Gorgas rounded out the rostrum in 1:55.79.
Schlicht and Collett each dipped beneath the Swimming Australia-mandated qualification time of 1:55.25 wanted to provisionally qualify for Budapest.
Tara Kinder continued her profitable meet, wrangling up her third particular person gold of those championships.
21-year-old Kinder of Melbourne Vicentre already gained the ladies’s 100m breast and 400m IM however now collected gold within the 200m IM.
Kinder put up a time of two:06.87 to beat the sector by over 2 seconds. Subsequent to the wall was Kayla Hardy in 2:08.99 whereas Jamie De Lutiis additionally landed on the rostrum in 2:09.45 for bronze.
Kinder’s outing obliterated her earlier private finest of two:10.07 logged simply final month on the Victorian Open Brief Course Championships. Hardy’s time got here inside putting distance of her PB, a time of two:08.11 turned in for twelfth place on the 2022 Brief Course World Championships.
Earlier than the night time was over, 24-year-old Alexandria Perkins made her presence recognized in a giant approach within the ladies’s 100m butterfly.
The USC Spartan fired off a monster time of 55.45 to seize the gold, holding off a charging Lily Worth who completed simply .12 behind in 55.57.
Perkins and Worth be a part of an elite group of Aussie ladies who’ve hit a 55-point time on this occasion and now sit among the many best-ever.
Prime 5 Aussie Girls’s SCM 100 Butterfly Performers All-Time
- Alicia Coutts – 55.30, 2013
- Emma McKeon – 55.39, 2019
- Felicity Galvez – 55.43, 2010
- Alexandria Perkins – 55.45, 2024
- Lily Worth – 55.57, 2024
The boys’s 100m fly noticed the highest 5 finishers all break the 51-second barrier with Olympian Matt Temple main the cost.
25-year-old Temple touched in 50.04 so as to add the occasion to a attainable Budapest lineup and runner-up Jesse Coleman additionally made the grade in 50.20.
