16-Year-Old Max Cunningham Swims 48.65 100 Free, Edward Sommerville Posts 1:40.59 200 Free

Day two of this 12 months’s Queensland Quick Course Championships has concluded, leaving no scarcity of quick swims and prime instances.  Brisbane Grammar’s Max Cunningham swam a 48.65 within the 100 free to equal Aussie legend Kyle Chalmers for #2 all time within the 16 12 months previous age group. Solely Flynn Southam, who went 48.05 in 2021, has been quicker. Cunningham was out in 23.34 earlier than coming residence sturdy in a 25.31. This swim obliterated his earlier better of 52.03, a time he swam simply earlier this 12 months in April on the Australia Age Group Championships. Past successful towards his age group, Cunningham had the quickest swim total as nicely. He went on to win the 100 again for 16 12 months olds in a brand new finest time of 55.16, simply over 3 seconds quicker than his PB of 58.28.

Edward Sommerville, who swam the lengthy course model of this occasion in Singapore simply final week—ending seventeenth in prelims– shaved 0.05 seconds off his PB within the 200 free. He swam a 1:40.59, simply two tenths off of Maximillian Giuliani‘s 1:40.36 Australian document from 2024 SC Worlds. Sommerville stays the #2 performer in Australian historical past, together with his earlier PB being the previous Australian document. Sommerville was out like a rocket—quicker than Luke Hobson‘s world document time on the 100—however paid for it dearly. He break up 47.32/53.27, although his opening 100 was quick sufficient to get him underneath his earlier PB.

Splits Comparability:

Edward Sommerville
Edward Sommerville
Maximillian Giuliani

New PB
Former Australian/Oceanic Report & Former PB
Present Australian/Oceanic Report

50m
22.78
23.82
23.56

100m
24.56
25.55
25.43

150m
25.79
25.89
25.56

200m
27.48
26.13
25.81

Last Time
1:40.59
1:40.64
1:40.36