Olympic gold medal profitable swimmer Madi Wilson has introduced that she is anticipating the beginning of her first youngster together with her fiancé Matt Brief, the couple introduced on Instagram on Wednesday.
The pair posted an image on Instagram that featured them standing on the crimson (black) carpet on the Australian Cricket League occasion that occurred Tuesday night time in Melbourne.
There Matt, who performs for the Adelaide Strikers, was named Participant of the Event for the Huge Bash League for the second-straight season, simply the third participant within the league’s historical past to attain that feat.
However the larger information for the couple got here within the easy caption: “Mum & Dad ❤️” with Wilson standing within the conventional being pregnant pose together with her hand on her stomach.
The couple had been engaged in October, with no anticipated due date or wedding ceremony date but introduced.
The 29-year-old Wilson raced for Australia on the 2016 and 2020 Olympics. At these meets, she received back-to-back golds as a part of Australia’s 400 free relay, silver within the 400 medley relay, and bronze within the 800 free relay.
She additionally has 17 lengthy course World Championship medals and seven quick course World Championship medals. Most of these are in relay occasions, with the exception being a 2015 particular person silver medal within the 100 backstroke.
She final raced for Australia on the 2023 World Championships the place she swam the 100 backstroke individually, ending ninth within the semi-finals, and in addition swam within the heats of the ladies’s 400 free relay, girls’s 800 free relay, girls’s 400 medley relay, and combined 400 free relay, incomes three gold and one silver medal.
Whereas Australia’s depth within the girls’s freestyles imply that they’ll have loads of backfill for her spot this summer time on the Paris Olympic Video games, they aren’t fairly as deep within the backstrokes in the case of the medley relays, as their two finest Kaylee McKeown and Mollie O’Callaghan have numerous races to swim and are anticipated to be within the finals quartet.
They did obtain a little bit of a revelation on that entrance in December, although, when 18-year-old Iona Anderson swam 59.24 on the Hancock Prospecting Western Australia Relay Swimming State Championships. That’s three-tenths sooner than Wilson went in prelims final yr, and assuming Australia will get some wholesome breaststrokers is nice sufficient to maintain them within the combine with a central lane in that 400 medley relay closing earlier than handing off to their superstars within the closing.
