Ed Sommerville Holds Off Duncan Scott To Full A 200m Freestyle Double At Queensland Championships
The boy from Brisbane Grammar Ed Sommerville has put the ending touches to a effectively hatched plan finishing the Queensland Championship-Japan Open 200m freestyle double on the Brisbane Aquatic Centre tonight.
A plan he hopes will assist him produce the proper flip round as he units his sights on the 2026 Commonwealth Video games and Pan Pacs – solely two weeks aside.
The 20-year-old World Championship debutant revealed his plan to duplicate the turnaround required from Glasgow to the Pan Pacs in Irvine, California.
Sommerville received the Japan Open final month in Tokyo in a time of 1:45.34 and backed as much as win tonight’s Hancock Prospecting Queensland title in 1:45.38 (24.18; 50.27; 1:17.50) – beating Tokyo Olympic silver medalliust and final week’s 2026 European Brief Course Champion, Nice Britain’s Duncan Scott (1.46.26).
STRETCHED TO THE LIMIT: GBR’s Duncan Scott at full stretch on the Hancock Prospecting Queensland Championships.Photograph Courtesy Wade Brennan (Swimming Queensland).
Rackley’s Paris Olympian and 2023 world champion over 400m, Sam Brief was a quick ending third in 1:46.46.
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Sommerville’s plan with coach Bobby Jovanovich in his nook is to proceed get out after his races – “to have a crack” and that’s simply what he did tonight and as arduous as he tried Scott couldn’t reel Sommerville in.
“We wished to make use of the Japan Open Meet and the Queensland Championships as apply to organize for the flip round between the Commonwealth Video games and the Pan Pacs subsequent yr,” stated Sommerville
“The time zone distinction between Glasgow and LA shall be much more difficult with the restoration.
“And for these Queensland championships I’m not totally tapered –so it’s a bit tougher to backup right here.
“The complete taper and a few good sleep subsequent yr and I’m certain Pan Pacs shall be manageable….It’s good to know what we working in the direction of.
“It was a world class area right here and I’ll be racing Duncan (Scott) at Com Video games so it’s good to have him right here.
“Duncan swims a distinct race to me so I can’t get caught up with how he swims the race. I simply have to stay to my race plan.
“Singapore wasn’t the perfect time sensible however there was positively some indications that there’s a good 200m on the horizon…positively some classes learnt. So wanting in the direction of 2026 the place I’ll be out to place it collectively ..that’s the plan.”
Whereas within the girls’s 200m freestyle last it was World Champion 50m freestyler Meg Harris (Rackley) who stole the march on the sector, with an upset win over Lani Pallister (St Peters Western) and her Rackley teammate Hannah Allen.
Famous sprinter Harris, the two-time Olympic 4x100m freestyler gold medallist, who received 50m silver in Paris, led from begin to end to the touch in a private finest time of 1:55.97 (26.45, 55.68; 1:25.58), Pallister second in 1:56.87 with Allen third in 1:57.99.
Whereas Pallister needed to wait till the second final occasion of the night time, scoring a powerful victory within the 800m freestyle in 8.18.31 as she mounts her problem in the direction of LA28, with world 5 and 10km world champion Moesha Johnson (Miami) second in 8:29.16 and Brazil’s Maria Fernanda Costa third in 8:31.32.
There was a spectacular swim from 13-year-old New Zealand schoolboy, Grayson Coulter who set a brand new Queensland and Australian All-Comers Age report within the 100m freestyle, clocking a scorching 51.63 – sooner than Olympic champion Kyle Chalmers report of 52.29, set in 2012.
ABREAST OF THE TIMES: Zac Stubblety-Cook dinner wins one other Queensland title in Brisbane tonight.Photograph Courtesy Wade Brennan (Swimming Queensland).
The 200m breaststroke noticed Griffith College coaching companions, Paris Olympians Zac Stubblety-Cook dinner and Ella Ramsay snatch a successful double for coach Mel Marshall.
Olympic champion in 2024 and silver medallist from Paris, former world report holder, Stubblety-Cook dinner unleashing his trade-mark power-packed last 75 metres to the touch in 2:09.37 (29.66; 1:02.39; 1:36.02) shred iff Bailey Lello (St Peters Western) 2:12.32 and Finlay Schuster (Nudgee School Swimming) 2:12.41.
Ramsay successful the ladies’s 200m breaststroke 2:24.63, from Matilda Smith (Miami) and British customer Angharad Evans (2:26.19).
Whereas the ladies’s 100m backstroke, with the queen Kaylee McKeown sitting this one out, noticed visiting Brit Lauren Cox (1:0025) snatch an exciting victory over Australian Paris workforce mates Iona Anderson (Highlanders, WA) completed second in 1:00.50 and Jaclyn Barclay (St Peters Western, QLD) third in 1:00.72.
And the mens’s going to Japan’s Juho Lee by the narrowest of margins 0.01 forward of 17-year-old Victorian rising star Henry Allan, 53.71 to 53.72 with Enoch Robb (Griffith College) third in 55.07.
Within the last occasion of the night time, Koreans Junwoo Kim (14:58.68) and Woomin Kim (15:19.04) quinellaed the lads’s 1500m freestyle with Ben Goedemans (St Peters Western) third in 15:19.58.
In an eventful begin to the day, Olympic champion Mollie O’Callaghan withdrew from the meet with a shoulder damage and Korean world champion Woomin Kim was disqualified from the lads’s 200m freestyle last.
O’Callaghan, who has been battling her shoulder issues within the again finish of 2025, revealed yesterday that she wouldn’t be taking her place in her home-town State Championships.
However the 21-year-old arrived on the Brisbane Aquatic Centre this morning and lined up within the heats of the ladies’s 200m freestyle, clocking the quickest qualifying time of the day, 1:57.77, earlier than withdrawing from the ultimate and informing meet officers she was additionally withdrawing from the remainder of the meet.
Her St Peters Western Olympic teammate and fellow 4x200m freestyle world champion, Jamie Perkins additionally withdrew from the 200m freestyle, she too sighting shoulder soreness which might effectively rule her out for the remainder of the week additionally.
O’Callaghan, who together with Perkins, swam within the victorious Australian workforce in Friday night time’s Duel Meet towards a visiting World Workforce, the place she received the 50m Freestyle Skins, stated yesterday it was time to present her ailing shoulder a while off.
“My shoulder is infected…and it’s having a little bit of a tricky time so it’s time to relaxation and recuperate earlier than getting again on observe,” stated O’Callaghan, who famous her concern wouldn’t require surgical procedure.
O’Callaghan confirming, she was setting her sights on subsequent yr’s Commonwealth Video games and Pan Pacific Championships and the World Brief Course Championships in China.
