2024 AUSTRALIAN OLYMPIC TRIALS
Buckle up, people: 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 reminiscent of 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. Irrespective of the lineup, the Aussies will probably be heavy favorites within the girls’s 4×100 free relay in Paris this summer time.
Former world document holder Zac Stubblety-Cook 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 instances underneath the Swimming Australia minimize 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 instances a pair seconds quicker than the sector. They need to clear the Aussie Olympic minimize of 1:57.28 on Friday.
The lads’s 1500 free may be the hardest occasion for the Aussies to qualify two particular person swimmers in at the moment, however it’s actually doable. 2023 Worlds bronze medalist Sam Brief is the highest seed at 14:37.28 with Matthew Galea subsequent at 14:57.19, a number of 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-Cook dinner, 2022
Oceanian Report – 2:05.95, Zac Stubblety-Cook dinner, 2022
Commonwealth Report – 2:05.95, Zac Stubblety-Cook dinner, 2022
All Comers Report – 2:05.95, Zac Stubblety-Cook dinner, 2022
Swim Australia OQT – 2:09.50
Prime 8:
Zac Stubblety-Cook 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-Cook 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 this planet this season
Joshua Yong touched a pair seconds behind Stubblety-Cook dinner in 2:10.66, solely a couple of second of the Aussie Olympic minimize. The 22-year-old owns a lifetime finest of two:08.54 from April.
Bailey Lello (2:11.46) and Joshua Collett (2:11.83) have been the one different swimmers underneath 2:12 in prelims.
Stubblety-Cook 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 normal 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
Prime 8:
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
Prime 8:
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
Prime 8:
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
Prime 8:
