2024 MIAMI SUMMER PREP MEET (AUS)
Friday, February 2nd & Saturday, February third
Miami Aquatic Centre, Gold Coast, Australia
LCM (50m)
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Outcomes – Meet Cell: 2024 Miami Summer time Preparation Meet
The 2024 Miami Summer time Preparation Meet wrapped up as we speak from Gold Coast, Australia. Among the many opponents was 20-year-old Maximillian Giuliani, a rising freestyle star among the many Aussie contingent.
Giuliani raced in his bread-and-butter 200m freestyle, posting a time of 1:48.26 to prime the sphere. The one different swimmer below 1:50 was teammate James Koch, with the 25-year-old touching in 1:49.62.
Giuliani ripped a brand new lifetime better of 1:44.79 within the 2free at December’s Queensland Championships to change into his nation’s #2 performer of all-time. He isn’t going to the World Championships however as an alternative is all-in for the Australian Olympic Trials on the calendar for June.
Giulian additionally raced in an off-event of the 50m fly, punching a time of 25.50 to get to the wall first. That represented a brand new private finest, crushing his earlier PB of 26.51 from November 2023.
15-year-old Olympia Pope made her presence identified, taking her age group’s 50m breaststroke and 100m breaststroke victories.
Pope hit a time of 33.55 within the former and 1:11.52 within the latter at this in-season coaching meet.
17-year-old Bond swimmer Milla Jansen additionally took 2 occasions, beating the pack in each the 50m and 100m freestyles.
Jansen posted 25.22 and 55.05, respectively, to seize the gold in every. The teenager possesses career-quickest marks of 25.07 and 54.08 within the occasions for reference.
Breaststroker Jenna Strauch opted for the ladies’s 50m fly the place she logged a results of 31.45, effectively behind winner Kayla Costa who bought it achieved in 27.43.
Alex Graham turned in a time of three:51.71 to prime males’s 400m free discipline by over 3 seconds.
New Zealand’s Michael Pickett produced 22.34 within the males’s 50m free and 51.33 within the 100m free because the quickest performer in every.
Of observe, teenage freestyle phenom Flynn Southam was entered on this competitors however wound up not racing.
Miami coach Richard Scarce advised SwimSwam of this two-day occasion, “the senior squad is in onerous coaching so the meet was simply race apply earlier than we head as much as the Sunshine Coast for a two-week camp subsequent week.”
