Australian Age Championships: Victoria’s Newest Rising Star Henry Allan Headlines Report Assault On Night time 5
Victorian backstroking discover Henry Allan has led a six pack of Australia’s brightest stars who lit up the Brisbane Aquatic Centre on a file tumbling Night time 5 of the Nationwide Age Swimming Championships.
Allan (Bendigo East, VIC) rocketed into the Australian All-Time 100m backstoke High Ten along with his record-breaking time of 53.73 to decrease his personal 16 years Nationwide file for the third time over the previous 5 months.
He jumps forward of certainly one of Swimming Victoria’s favorite swimming sons in triple Sydney 2000 Olympic medallist Matt Welsh on the Australian All-Time High Ten.
RECORD ONE: Victoria’s newest age star Henry Allan greets the decide with one other Australian Report. Picture Courtesy Bec Ohlwein/Swimming Australia.
100 Metres Backstroke – Australian All-Time Rankings
World Report 51.60 Thomas Ceccon (Ita)
52.11 Mitch Larkin
52.97 Hayden Stoeckel
53.10 Ashley Delaney
53.38 Bradley Woodward
53.43 Isaac Cooper
53.47 Josh Beaver
53.55 Ben Treffers
53.59 William Yang
53.73 Henry Allan
53.78 Matt Welsh
Simply final month in Sydney the gifted teenager received the NSW Open 100m backstroke title in spectacular fashion, breaking his personal Australian 16 Years file into the discount along with his time of 54.23 (26.26).
A time quicker than Olympians Isaac Cooper (55.07) and Andrew Lauterstein (55.44) had swum on the identical age, leaving Enoch Robb (Griffith, QLD) 55.21 and Joshua Edwards-Smith (Griffith College, QLD) 55.38 in his wake.
Henry had earlier smashed his personal Australian 16 Years 50m backstroke file not as soon as however twice in someday, reducing it to 25.00 within the NSW ultimate the place he beat Paris Olympians Zac Incerti and Bradley Woodward.
Allan and coach Jordan have lately hung out working with Olympic gold medal coach Craig Jackson within the Melbourne Vic Centre program at MSAC.
His file run began final December when he lowered Olympian Andrew Lauterstein’s earlier mark.
Earlier within the night Allan was solely simply outdoors Jayden Hadler’s 2011 Australian Age file in profitable the 16 years 50m butterfly in 24.59 – 0.28 outdoors the London Olympian’s time of 24.31.
Allan was final evening joined by Bryce Krause (Fairholme/Toowoomba QLD), Christopher Montana (Trinity Grammar, NSW) and Koa Stotz (Somerset, QLD), Sienna Toohey (Albury, NSW) and Ainsley Trotter (Bond, QLD) in an evening of scorching instances.
In all, 5 information have been damaged tonight:
Krause bettered his personal Nationwide file within the 14 years 50m backstroke – set on Night time 4 within the profitable Queensland relay – touching the wall in 26.41.
Two-metre-tall Stotz punched the air in celebrating his second Nationwide file at this meet, profitable the 14 years 100m breaststroke in 1:04.21 -taking 0.2 off Olympian Matthew Wilson’s 2013 mark of 1:04.44.
RECORD THREE: Koa Stotz makes a splash after setting his Australian Report.. Picture Courtesy Bec Ohlwein/Swimming Australia.
Then Trinity Grammar NSW’s Christopher Montana claimed his second Nationwide file of this meet – profitable the 15 years 50m breaststroke in 28.47 – taking 0.59 off Haig Buckingham’s 2020 file of 29.06.
RECORD FOUR: Christopher Montana all smiles after his Australian file Picture Courtesy Bec Ohlwein/Swimming Australia.
Earlier than Bond College’s Ainsley Trotter ripped out a 27.88 within the 17 years 50m backstroke to set an Australian All Comers’ file which bettering the time of 28.08 set by a number of Olympic gold medallist Mollie O’Callaghan, 4 years in the past.
RECORD FIVE: Ainsley Trotter in a lane of her personal in Brisbane. Picture Courtesy Bec Ohlwein/Swimming Australia.
Already having made a reputation for herself together with her Australian Age file within the 100m breaststroke on Night time three, NSW 16-year-old Sienna Toohey once more impressed within the 200m breaststroke (2:27.92) – profitable her third gold of this meet, including to the 100m breaststroke and 200 IM.
Coached by Wayne Gould, Toohey beat subsequent finest Lily Koch (2:28.90) by a second with Amelie Smith (2:29.35) third.
The rise of Toohey has come on the excellent time for the Dolphins’ breaststroke shares following the retirements of Olympic medallists Jenna Strauch and Chelsea Hodges.
And within the males’s 18 years 200m freestyle featured Cranbrook’s Marcus Da Silva surging within the again finish of the race to cease the clock at 1:48.19 forward of WA’s Tex Cross (1:49.32) and Xavier Collins 1:49.48.
In different occasions:
It was double bother within the boys’ 15-years 400m freestyle with twins Lincoln and Isaac Carrying claiming first and second respectively. For Lincoln it was his second gold of the meet whereas Isaac edged out Luke Lee to safe silver and his first 2025 Nationals medal.
Australian Age star Macey Sheridan, certainly one of 11 Northern Territory swimmers competing in Brisbane, received gold within the women’ 15-years 100m backstroke in 1:03.12, holding off Chandler QLD’s, Dory Lee (1:03.80) and Somerset, QLD’s Jessica Melo (1:04.19).
Within the women’ 14-years 400m freestyle, Queensland swimmers reigned supreme with Miami’s Jessica Conradplacing first, Molly Bawden from Kawana Waters in second (4:23.07) and Ava Hogan from Woogaroo third (4:24.94). Impressively, Conrad shaved nearly 10 seconds off her seed time to win her first gold of this meet with a time of 4:20.57.
Nicholas Stoupas (Caulfield Aquatics, VIC), coached by two-time Olympian Kenrick Monk secured gold within the boys’ 17-years 200m backstroke in 2:17.11.
His fellow Caulfield Aquatics, clubmate Thomas Sutherland dead-heated for second with Ned Cane (SOPAC, NSW ) after they touched in at 2:19.55.
