From Perth To Sardinia, Australia’s Proud Open Water Traditions Proceed At World Junior Championships
A staff of eight younger Australians with their eyes on the Olympics prize will proceed an extended and proud custom once they line up on this 12 months’s World Aquatics Junior Open Water Swimming Championships in Italy.
Swimming Australia has named a staff of 4 males and 4 ladies for the three-day world titles in Alghero, Sardinia from September 6-8.
BUOYED: Sam Thorpe (St Peters Western) shows the easy fashion that noticed him win the Australian Age 10km. Photograph Courtesy: Wade Brennan Images (Wade’s Pictures)
The 4 males Samuel Thorpe ( St Peters Western, QLD), Xavier Collins (Westside Christchurch, WA) Lucas Fackerell (Breakers, WA) and Luke Higgs Warringah, NSW) and 4 ladies Sienna Deurloo (Toowoomba Grammar, QLD), Daisy Quinn (Sunshine Coast Grammar, QLD), Emily Broun (Rackley Centenary, QLD) and Chloe Brodrick (Ginninderra, ACT) will be part of a subject of greater than 200 athletes aged between 14-19 years from 35 nations on the highway in direction of the 2028 and 2032 Olympics.
Australia’s success in FINA (World Aquatics) dates again to the primary official World Championships over 25km in Perth’s jellyfish infested Swan River in 1991 which noticed Shelley Taylor-Smith emerge from a five-hour ordeal to assert the inaugural ladies’s world title and David O’Brien the hard-fought bronze within the males’s occasion.
Open Water Marathon has come a great distance since with Taylor-Smith proudly main the cost for its Olympic inclusion in Beijing in 2008.
Now some three a long time on the 2024 Australian junior staff is by itself Olympic pathway, rising from 4 States and territories from Toowoomba, the Sunshine Coast and Brisbane in Queensland to Warringah on the northern seashores in NSW, Ginninderra within the Nation’s capital within the ACT and an Taylor-Smith’s open water stronghold in Perth, WA following the record-breaking Australian Championships that concluded final week in Busselton, WA.
Samuel Thorpe follows his older brother onto the worldwide stage, with Robert Thorpe lining up this week to signify Australia within the World Aquatics 5km occasion in Doha.
Simply 0.31 separated Samuel and Xavier Collins within the 18-19 Years Nationwide title after an enthralling 10km battle.
World Junior head coach Mel Tantrum was excited to look at future stars of the game put their arms up for choice.
“At 18, Sam and Xavier are on the youthful finish of this (18-19 years) age group however they’ll be aggressive towards the Italian, French, German and US athletes,” Tantrum mentioned.
“There was solely a slim margin between these two at Nationals in order that they’ll be pushing one another and I’m positive Sam want to get one up on Rob (his brother) who completed eighth eventually World Juniors in Seychelles in 2022.
“Emily and Sienna had harder situations in Busselton, when the wind and swell picked up, and now they’ve eight months to excellent their open water abilities.
“That mentioned, they’ve each acquired nice backgrounds in pool swimming, and you may anticipate the water in Italy to be flat and quick.”
“With Luke Higgs, Lucas Fackerell, Daisy Quinn and Chloe Brodrick who went 1-2 within the boys’ and women’ 16-17 years 7.5km at Nationals you’re undoubtedly trying on the subsequent wave of athletes who can be within the body for the Brisbane 2032 Olympics.
Australian Swim Workforce, 2024 Open Water Junior World Championships, Alghero, Sardinia September 6-8, 2024:
MALE:
Samuel Thorpe
Membership: St Peters Western, QLD
Age: 18
Coach: Cameron Gledhill
Occasion: 10km
Xavier Collins
Membership: Westside Christchurch, WA
Age: 18
Coach: Jon Harrison
Occasion: 10km
Luke Higgs
Membership: Warringah, NSW
Age: 16
Coach: Angelo Basalo
Occasion: 7.5km
Lucas Fackerell
Membership: Breakers, WA
Age: 17
Coach: Harry Clark
Occasion: 7.5km
FEMALE:
Emily Broun
Membership: Rackley Centenary, QLD
Age: 19
Coach: Tim Dilger
Occasion: 10km
Sienna Deurloo
Membership: Toowoomba Grammar, QLD
Age: 19
Coach: Jason Cooper
Occasion: 10km
Daisy Quinn
Membership: Sunshine Coast Grammar, QLD
Age: 17
Coach: Luke Stafford
Occasion: 7.5km
Chloe Brodrick (Ginninderra, ACT)
Age: 17
Coach: Steve Meredith
Occasion: 7.5km
STAFF
Workforce Chief / Head Coach: Mel Tantrum (WA)
Supervisor: Vicki Nagyova (QLD)
TEAM COACHES
Cameron Gledhill (St Peters Western, QLD)
Luke Stafford (Sunshine Coast Grammar, QLD)
