South Australian State Championships: Critical Paris Medal Contender Matt Temple Lays Down Scorching 50.60 To Declare 100m Butterfly Remaining
South Australia’s rising Olympic medal hopeful Matt Temple has tonight continued his world class assault on the 100m butterfly – stopping the clock in 50.60 at his dwelling State Championships in Adelaide – his third quickest time ever.
The 24-year-old, who completed equal fifth in Tokyo, has began 2024 in the identical scorching kind he completed 2023 on the second evening of finals motion on the South Australian Open Championships – additional affirmation that he’s a practical medal likelihood.
Australia has by no means gained the occasion – first swum in Mexico Metropolis in 1968 – with simply 5 Australians – Glenn Buchannan (Bronze; 1984); Scott Miller (Silver; 1996); Michael Klim (Silver, 2000); Geoff Huegill (Bronze, 2000) and Andrew Lauterstein (Bronze 2008) all swimming their manner onto the rostrum.
ON THE FLY: Matt Temple in full cry. Picture Courtesy:Delly Carr (Swimming NSW)
Temple had smashed his personal Australian report final month, letting rip a 50.25 on the Japan Open – breaking his personal Nationwide mark of fifty.45, set on the 2021 Trials and he wasted no time on the SA Sports activities And Aquatic Centre tonight – setting a cracking tempo by means of the primary 50m of 23.81 – the identical time he had cut up earlier within the evening within the 100m freestyle.
The previous Victorian left his Marion coaching companions, German Nationwide Josha Salchow (54.78) and World 100m freestyle champion Kyle Chalmers (54.71) in his wake,
Earlier within the evening, it was 2016 Olympic champion Chalmers who had has asserted his hometown ascendancy to win his host blue ribband 100m freestyle title.
The 25-year-old has his sights on a uncommon slice of historical past – profitable again the Olympic crown he gained as an 18-year-old in Rio in 2016, solely to see the flying US condor Caleb Dressel snatch the crown in Tokyo inn 2021 after which profitable it again in Paris.
The boys from Marion, Chalmers (48.82), fellow Olympian Temple (48.99), Salchow (49.32) and sixth-placed former Queenslander Dylan Andrea (49.79), within the squad for the Paris choice marketing campaign, began the present for his or her dwelling crowd.
It was Chalmers out in lane seven who led the sector by means of the 50m flip in 23.62, adopted by Temple (23.81), Andrea (23.92) and Salchow (24.02) earlier than Temple powered off the flip, his good mate Chalmers in his sights down the second 50m, truly swimming marginally quicker, Temple dwelling in 25.18 and Chalmers in 25.20 – simply 0.17 separating the pair.
The Marion-based foursome are persevering with to push one another, underneath the masterly teaching of Peter Bishop,each within the coaching pool and in terms of racing as they set their sights on the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Others within the race included rising New South Welshman Marcus Da Silva (Cranbrook, NSW) who was fourth in 49.45 and visiting Swedish dash star in Isak Eliasson (49.71).
2004 South Australian Open Swimming Championships FINALS, after Day 2:
Males
50m freestyle
Grayson Bell (TSS Aquatic, QLD) 22.33
Kyle Chalmers (Marion, SA) 22.66
Matthew Temple (Marion, SA) 22.66
100m freestyle
Kyle Chalmers (Marion, SA) 48.82
Matt Temple (Marion, SA) 99
Josha Salchow (Germany) 49.32
400m freestyle
Thomas Hauck (All Saints, QLD) 3:57.93
Kyle Chalmers (Marion, SA) 3:59.04)
Marcus Da Silva (Cranbrook, NSW) 3:59.77
50m backstroke
Will Sharp (Nunawading, VIC) 26.35
Tane Bidios (Knox-Pymble, NSW) 26.48
Noah Pronk (Immanuel School Piranhas, SA) ) 27.53
200m backstroke
Will Sharp (Nunawading, VIC) 2:01.56
Thomas Hauck (All Saints, QLD) 2:04.19
Evan Chee (Nunawading, VIC) 2:04.53
100m breaststroke
Sam Williamson (Melbourne Vicentre, VIC) 1:01.47
Will Petric (Nunawading, VIC) 1:02.36
James McKechnie (Starplex, SA) 1:03.61
100m butterfly
Matt Temple (Marion, SA) 50.60
Kyle Chalmers (Marion, SA) 54.71
Josha Salchow (Germany) 54.78
200m particular person medley
Will Petric (Nunawading, VIC) 1:59.97
Evan Chee (Nunawading, VIC) 2:06.70
Will Sharp (Nunawading, VIC) 2:09.12
Girls
50m freestyle
Bronte Campbell (Cruiz, NSW) 24.61
Abbey Webb (Cruiz, NSW) 25.12
Brittany Castelluzzo (Tea Tree Gully, SA) 25.40
200m freestyle
Abbey Webb (Cruiz, NSW) 1:58.69
Jaimie DeLutiis (Wests Illawarra, NSW) 1:59.85
Brittany Castelluzzo (Tea Tree Gully, SA 2:00.92
400m freestyle
Molly Walker (Southern Efficiency, SA) 4:15.19
Emily White (Marion, SA) 4:24.73
Clara Carrocci (Norwood, SA) 4:26.97
50m backstroke
Olivia Lefoe (Nunawading, VIC) 29.19
Ingeborg Loeyning (Norway) 29.29
Isabel McLachlan (Marion, SA) 29.79
100m backstroke
Olivia Lefoe (Nunawading, VIC) 1:02.05
Bella Grant (Trinity Grammar, NSW) 1:03.23
Meg Senior (Cruiz, NSW) 1:03.23
100m breaststroke
Tara Kinder (Melbourne Vicentre, VIC) 1:09.21
Emily Nobbs (Cruiz, NSW) 1:11.27
Ava Rollason Cruiz, NSW) 1:13.47
200m breaststroke
Tara Kinder (Melbourne Vicentre, VIC) 2:29.41
Zoe Deakin (Nunawading, VIC) 2:32.56
Reidel Smith (Nunawading, VIC) 2:33.78
50m butterfly
Olivia Wunsch (Carlile, NSW) 27.09
Brittany Castelluzzo (Tea Tree Gully, SA) 27.16
Bella Grant (Trinity Grammar, NSW) 27.92
200m butterfly
Kayla Hardy (Cruiz, NSW) 2:11.65)
Brittany Castelluzzo (Tea Tree Gully, SA) 2:13.35
Bella Grant (Trinity Grammar, NSW) 2:13.43
400m particular person medley
Kayla Hardy (Cruiz, NSW) 4:45.14
Emily White (Marion, SA) 4:57.04
Arabella Bahr (Norwood, SA) 5:01.21
2024 South Australian Open and MC Swimming Championships – LIVE RESULTS
