Australian SC Championships: Backstroking Golden Lady Kaylee McKeown Returns To Racing In Adelaide En-Route To Budapest
Backstroking golden lady Kaylee McKeown will headline 13 members of Australia’s Paris Olympic group once they return to racing at this month’s Australian Brief Course Championships in Adelaide as she units herself for defence of her World SC titles in Budapest.
Contemporary from her Paris triumphs the place McKeown (Griffith College, QLD) defended her 100 and 200m backstroke crowns, the 23-year-old will likely be joined by fellow Australian medallists, membership mates Lani Pallister and Moesha Johnson as nicely asAlexandria Perkins (USC Spartans, QLD), Olivia Wunsch (Carlile, NSW), Iona Anderson (Breakers, WA), Max Giuliani (Miami, QLD), Josh Yong (UWA West Coast, WA) and Matt Temple (Marion, SA).
HAIL THE BACKSTROKING QUEEN: Kaylee Mckeown of Australia celebrates after successful the gold medal within the 200m Backstroke Girls Remaining in the course of the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games at La Protection Enviornment in Paris (France), August 02, 2024.
Together with Paris teammates, World LC silver medallistLizzie Dekkers (Chandler, QLD), bronze medallist Jenna Forrester (St Peters Western, QLD), Tokyo relay bronze medallist and World LC champion Isaac Cooper (St Andrews, QLD and Se-Bom Lee (SOPAC, NSW).
McKeown will contest the 50, 100 and 200m backstrokes and the 100IM when the four-day World SC Trials meet, marketed because the “Swimming Australia Sprints” will get underway on September 26 on the South Australia Aquatic and Leisure Centre.
One of many actual stars of the Paris Video games, McKeown has returned to coaching on the Gold Coast Aquatic Centre underneath the route of Griffith College HP program assistant coach Janelle Pallister – with head coach Michael Bohl stepping method from mainstream teaching for the following 12 months and pending the January arrival of British Olympic coach Mel Marshall.
McKeown was lately named the Olympic Program Swimmer of the Yr on the Australian Swimmer of the Yr Awards after an historic Olympic marketing campaign culminating as Australia’s Closing Ceremony flagbearer, who turned the primary Australian to win 4 particular person Olympic gold medals at her second Olympics –with the profitable defence of her backstroke double.
And in doing so, surpassed the likes of swimming greats Ian Thorpe, Daybreak Fraser and teammate Emma McKeon.
BACK IN THE HOUSE: World SC star Lani Pallister was the stand-out in Melbourne in 2022. Photograph Courtesy: Giorgio Scala / Deepbluemedia / Insidefoto
McKeown additionally turned the primary feminine swimmer to efficiently defend the 100m and 200m backstroke titles in Olympic historical past, finishing her Paris marketing campaign with a complete of 5 medals -two gold (100m and 200m backstroke), one silver (4x100m girls’s medley relay) and two bronze (4x100m combined medley relay and the 200 IM).
She now has a complete of 9 Olympic medals – 5 gold, one silver and three bronze medals.
The 23-year-old had put the world on discover in October final yr when she broke the ladies’s 50m backstroke world report in Budapest with a time of 26.86 seconds, cementing McKeown as the primary individual to carry all three lengthy course backstroke world information over 50m, 100m, and 200m.
McKeown and Pallister’s Olympic gold medal-winning daughter,Lani Pallister (4x200m freestyle) will now each set their sights on defending their World SC titles in Budapest from December 10-15 – with McKeown already securing automated choice underneath the Swimming Australia standards as a person medallist in Paris.
The pair dominated the 2022 World SC Championships in Melbourne with McKeown successful the 100 and 200m backstroke double whereas Pallister was named the Feminine Swimmer of the Meet after taking out the 400,800 and 1500m freestyle treble.
Pallister fought again from COVID in the course of the Paris marketing campaign to win gold in Australia’s all-conquering 4x200m freestyle group on the Video games, alongside Ariarne Titmus, Mollie O’Callaghan and Brianna Throssell.
STAR ON THE RISE: Australia’s World LC silver medallist Iona Anderson; Photograph Courtesy: Andrea Masini / Deepbluemedia / Insidefoto
She is going to contest the 100, 200, 400 and 800m freestyle in Adelaide and will likely be joined by Paris 10km Marathon silver medallist Johnson within the 200, 400 and 800m freestyle with Johnson additionally contesting the 1500m freestyle.
Paris younger weapons Anderson, Wunsch and Perkins will all have busy applications – World LC silver medallist and World Junior champion Anderson (a silver and bronze relay swimmer in Paris) lining up in 50, 100 and 200m backstroke, the 50m and 100m butterfly, 50m freestyle and 100IM.
Whereas Wunsch, a member of Australia’s dominant gold medal-winning 4x100m freestyle relay group and silver medal successful medley relay swimmer Perkins will each contest the 50 and 100m freestyle and butterfly doubles.
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