2025 Para Swimming World Sequence — Melbourne
February 14-16, 2025
Melbourne Sports activities and Aquatics Centre — Melbourne, Australia
LCM (50m)
Begin Instances: Prelims – 8:30 am native/Finals – 4:30 pm native
Reside Stream
Reside Outcomes
The 2025 Para Swimming World Sequence formally kicked off its year-long, nine-stop circuit in Melbourne, Australia this weekend. Over 100 swimmers from eight nations raced this weekend in Melbourne and the Dolphins confirmed out in pressure throughout their likelihood to race a world area in entrance of a house nation crowd. Australian swimmers received 21 of the 23 occasions and 53 of the 67 medals on provide.
Most of the medals received by Australians had been collected by athletes who competed on the Paris Paralympic Video games. After successful his first Paralympic golds in Paris, three-time Paralympian Timothy Hodge (S9/SB8) received six medals, together with golds within the males’s 100 butterfly (1:01.47) and 50 backstroke (29.97). Alongside together with his successful performances, Hodge earned silver within the 50 butterfly (28.29), 50 breaststroke (34.20), and 100 backstroke (1:03.76), plus bronze within the 100 freestyle (58.22).
The 2 non-Australian winners got here on the lads’s facet of the meet, as New Zealand’s Joshua Wilmer (SB8) received the lads’s 50 breaststroke and Austria’s Andreas Ernhofer (SM4) the lads’s 150 medley.
22-year-old Ricky Betar, a two-time medalist in Paris, joined Hodge in claiming gold in two particular person occasions. Betar, who swims within the S14/SB14 classification, triumphed within the males’s 100 freestyle (54.48) and males’s 200 IM (2:15.04).
The Para Swimming World Sequence makes use of a factors calculation system much like the AQUA factors used on the World Aquatics World Cup. Outcomes on the World Sequence are decided utilizing the factors system, reasonably than the instances, permitting swimmers to race one another throughout classifications.
Paralympian Chloe Osborn (S7) shone on the ladies’s facet of the meet, claiming three golds. The 21-year-old swept the dash freestyle occasions, successful after stopping the clock at 35.07 and 1:12.46. She flexed her freestyle vary by successful the 400 freestyle as properly after swimming 5:29.24. In Paris, Osborn was a part of the blended 4×100 freestyle relay 34 factors that received silver for Australia together with Alexa Leary, Callum Simpson, and Rowan Crothers. Simpson additionally raced this weekend. The 17-year-old positioned third within the males’s 400 freestyle and received the junior finals of the lads’s 100 breaststroke.
Madeleine McTernan, Stephanie Bruzzese, and Jasmine Fullgrabe every earned two gold medals in the course of the weekend, whereas Benjamin Hance, Brenden Corridor, and Emily Beecroft all earned a win apiece. Hance is the two-time defending Paralympic champion within the males’s S14 100 backstroke. He picked up proper the place he left off in Paris this weekend, successful the occasion in Melbourne with a 56.74. Corridor, a five-time Paralympian, received the lads’s 400 freestyle —his lone occasion of the weekend—after hitting 4:25.03.
Beecroft’s win within the 100 butterfly was a full circle second for her. 12 years in the past, she raced in her first worldwide competitors on the Melbourne Sports activities and Aquatics Middle. Now, she’s received there—in her dwelling state—at her first competitors after successful two medals (1 gold, 1 bronze) at her debut Paralympics.
Singapore’s backstroke famous person Yip Pin Xiu picked up silver within the girls’s 50 backstroke, then earned bronze within the girls’s 200 freestyle, taking up a secondary occasion as she tunes up for the 2025 season, which is able to culminate on the Para Swimming World Championships in her dwelling nation.
Lignano Sabbiadoro, Italy hosts the subsequent cease of the Para Swimming World Sequence tour from March 13-16.
