2023 AUSTRALIAN WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP TRIALS
The fourth day of motion on the 2023 Australian Global Championship Trials is underway with the ladies’s 200 backstroke, males’s 200 IM, ladies’s 200 butterfly, males’s 100 freestyle, ladies’s 50 breaststroke, males’s 50 backstroke, and ladies’s 800 freestyle on nowadays’s slate.
Friday morning’s consultation gets began with international document holder Kaylee McKeown taking up one in all her signature occasions throughout the ladies’s 200 backstroke prelims. The 21-year-old Olympic champion just lately decreased Regan Smith‘s international same old with a 2:03.14 in March, which used to be preceded via a 2:10.89 in prelims, for reference. On Wednesday night time, McKeown got here simply .05 seconds shy of her personal international document within the 100 again along with her successful time of 57.50.
Kyle Chalmers can also be again in motion on Friday as the highest seed within the males’s 100 freestyle (47.08). His festival contains Matthew Temple (48.07), Flynn Southam (48.23), Kai Taylor (48.41), and Cameron McEvoy (48.49), amongst others. Singer-turned-swimmer Cody Simpson (49.23) is seeded twelfth.
There are 3 males (Brendon Smith, Thomas Neill, and Se-Bom Lee) with access occasions below two mins within the 200 IM. Within the ladies’s 200 butterfly, shall we see a amusing combat between 19-year-old Elizabeth Dekkers (2:06.55) and 27-year-old Brianna Throssell (2:07.08). The ladies’s 50 breast seems to be vast open with Mia O’Leary (31.17), Jada-Talara Dixon (31.17), and Abbey Harkin (31.20) all inside a couple of hundredths of one another. And within the males’s 50 backstroke, 20-year-old Isaac Cooper will take a crack at decreasing his personal nationwide document of 24.38 from previous this yr.
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Ladies’s 200 Backstroke – Heats
Most sensible 8 Qualifiers:
- Kaylee McKeown – 2:10.44
- Iona Anderson – 2:12.76
- Jenna Forrester – 2:13.01
- Olivia Lefoe – 2:13.79
- Layla Day – 2:15.23
- Abbey Webb – 2:15.57
- Hannah Fredericks – 2:15.65
- Xiandi Chua – 2:16.32
Kaylee McKeown cruised to the highest qualifying spot within the ladies’s 200 again prelims with a time of two:10.44. The 21-year-old used to be just about part a 2nd quicker than her morning heats swim in March (2:10.89) when she decreased Regan Smith‘s international document to two:03.14.
A couple of teenagers took the following two qualifying spots about two seconds at the back of McKeown. 17-year-old Iona Anderson (2:12.76) edged 19-year-old Jenna Forrester (2:13.01) as the one different swimmer sub-2:13 in prelims. Anderson went 2:13.74 final season however didn’t swim ultimately yr’s Australian Trials.
Males’s 200 IM – Heats
- Global File: 1:54.00, Ryan Lochte (2011)
- Commonwealth File: 1:55.28, Duncan Scott (2021)
- Australian File: 1:55.72, Mitch Larkin (2019)
- All Comers File: 1:54.98, Michael Phelps (2007)
- Swimming Australia QT: 1:57.74
- Global Aquatics ‘A’ Minimize: 1:59.53
Most sensible 8 Qualifiers:
- Thomas Neill – 2:00.31
- William Petric – 2:00.76
- David Schlicht – 2:01.84
- Brendon Smith – 2:01.99
- Elliot Rogerson – 2:02.27
- Gabriel Gorgas – 2:02.47
- Joshua Kerr – 2:02.55
- Kieren Pollard – 2:02.63
21-year-old Thomas Neill claimed the highest qualifying spot within the males’s 200 IM with a 2:00.31, no longer some distance off his personal-best 1:58.99 from April’s Australian Nationwide Championships. 18-year-old William Petric additionally produced an excellent 2:00-point time with a 2:00.76, inside a 2nd of his lifetime very best (2:00.09) from March’s NSW State Open Championships.
22-year-old Brendon Smith received this match ultimately yr’s Australian Trials with a 1:58.59, however he’s seeded fourth (2:01.99) at the back of 23-year-old David Schlicht (2:01.84). Closing yr’s runner-up finisher, Se-Bom Lee (1:59.48), used to be disqualified from this morning’s heats.
Ladies’s 200 Butterfly – Heats
- Global File: 2:01.81, Liu Zige (2009)
- Commonwealth File: 2:03.41, Jessicah Schipper (2009)
- Australian File: 2:03.41, Jessicah Schipper (2009)
- All Comers File: 2:05.41, Madeline Groves (2015)
- Swimming Australia QT: 2:07.89
- Global Aquatics ‘A’ Minimize: 2:09.21
Most sensible 8 Qualifiers:
- Elizabeth Dekkers – 2:07.94
- Abbey Connor – 2:08.46
- Brianna Throssell – 2:10.50
- Bella Grant – 2:10.77
- Laura Taylor – 2:12.35
- Brittany Castelluzzo – 2:12.73
- Kayla Hardy – 2:13.99
- Rafaela Kopellou – 2:14.25
Elizabeth Dekkers led the best way within the ladies’s 200 fly with a 2:07.94. The nineteen-year-old is aiming to decrease her lifetime very best that she set throughout her victory at April’s Australian Nationwide Championships in 2:06.55.
18-year-old Abbey Connor used to be as regards to part a 2nd at the back of Dekkers, and just a 10th of a 2nd off her very best time (2:08.36) from final yr’s Commonwealth Video games. 27-year-old Brianna Throssell (2:10.50) edged 18-year-old Bella Grant (2:10.77) for the 3rd qualifying spot in prelims. Throssell’s lifetime very best is a 2:06.58 from the 2016 Australian Championships whilst her season very best sits at 2:07.08 from April, when she positioned 2nd at the back of Dekkers at Nationals.
Males’s 100 Freestyle – Heats
- Global File: 46.86, David Popovici (2022)
- Commonwealth File: 47.04, Cameron McEvoy (2016)
- Australian File: 47.04, Cameron McEvoy (2016)
- All Comers File: 47.04, Cameron McEvoy (2016)
- Swimming Australia QT: 47.96
- Global Aquatics ‘A’ Minimize: 48.51
Most sensible 8 Qualifiers:
- Kyle Chalmers – 48.09
- Jack Cartwright – 48.21
- Flynn Southam – 48.75
- Dylan Andrea – 49.08
- Matthew Temple – 49.17
- Alexander Graham – 49.30
- Kai Taylor – 49.32
- Josha Salchow – 49.37
2016 Rio Olympic champion Kyle Chalmers fired off a 48.09 to tempo the lads’s 100 unfastened heats. The 24-year-old just about surpassed his time of 48.00 from April’s Australian Nationwide Championships, and used to be as regards to a 2nd off his personal-best 47.08 from the 2019 Global Championships.
Fellow 24-year-old Jack Cartwright snagged the second one seed with a 48.21, only a couple tenths off his lifetime very best from the 2017 Global Championships (47.97). Cartwright used to be method quicker than his 49.35 from April’s Australian Nationals, the place he positioned 6th. He’ll want to set a brand new own very best throughout this night’s last with the intention to meet Swimming Australia’s qualifying time of 47.96.
18-year-old Flynn Southam used to be the one different swimmer below 49 seconds this morning. His time of 48.75 used to be about part a 2nd off his personal-best 48.23 from final yr’s Junior Pan Pacs. Singer-turned-swimmer Cody Simpson didn’t make the A-final, tying for 9th position with a 49.54.
Ladies’s 50 Breaststroke – Heats
- Global File: 29.30, Benedetta Pilato (2021)
- Commonwealth File: 29.72, Tatjana Schoenmaker (2021)
- Australian File: 30.15, Chelsea Hodges (2022)
- All Comers File: 30.15, Chelsea Hodges (2022)
- Global Aquatics ‘A’ Minimize: 31.82
Most sensible 8 Qualifiers:
- Mikayla Smith – 31.38
- Jade-Talara Dixon – 31.41
- Mia O’Leary – 31.61
- Abbey Harkin – 31.68
- Maaike Vrij – 31.99
- Tilly King – 32.04
- Zoe Deacon – 32.06
- Isabella Johnson – 32.27
Males’s 50 Backstroke – Heats
- Global File: 23.71, Hunter Armstrong (2022)
- Commonwealth File: 24.04, Liam Tancock (2009)
- Australian File: 24.38, Isaac Cooper (2023)
- All Comers File: 24.38, Isaac Cooper (2023)
- Global Aquatics ‘A’ Minimize: 25.16
Most sensible 8 Qualifiers:
Ladies’s 800 Freestyle
- Global File: 8:04.79, Katie Ledecky (2016)
- Commonwealth File: 8:13.59, Ariarne Titmus (2022)
- Australian File: 8:13.59, Ariarne Titmus (2022)
- All Comers File: 8:11.35, Katie Ledecky (2014)
- Swimming Australia QT: 8:26.71
- Global Aquatics ‘A’ Minimize: 8:37.90
