2024 Australian Olympic Trials: Day 4 Finals Reside Recap

By Retta Race on SwimSwam

2024 AUSTRALIAN OLYMPIC TRIALS

• Monday, June tenth – Saturday, June fifteenth
• Brisbane Aquatic Heart – Brisbane, Australia
• Prelims at 11am native/9pm earlier day ET; Finals at 7:30pm native/5:30am ET
• LCM (50 meters)
• Swimming Australian Olympic Nomination Standards
• Meet Central
• Up to date Psych Sheet
• Warmth Sheets
• Day 1 Prelims Recap | Day 1 Finals Recap
• Day 2 Prelims Recap | Day 2 Finals Recap
• Day 3 Prelims Recap | Day 3 Finals Recap
• Day 4 Prelims Recap
• Reside Outcomes
• Livestream (VPN Wanted)

WOMEN’S 200 BACK – FINAL

• World File – 2:03.14, Kaylee McKeown (AUS), 2023
• Australian File – 2:03.14, Kaylee McKeown, 2023
• Oceanic File – 2:03.14, Kaylee McKeown, 2023
• Commonwealth File – 2:03.14, Kaylee McKeown, 2023
• All Comers File – 2:03.14, Kaylee McKeown, 2023
• Swim Australia OQT – 2:09.74

GOLD – Kaylee McKeown, 2:03.30 *OLY Qualifier
SILVER – Jaclyn Barclay, 2:07.88 *OLY Qualifier
BRONZE – Hannah Fredericks, 2:08.25

22-year-old Kaylee McKeown unleashed a near-world record-setting time, ripping a successful effort of two:03.30 to handily defeat the sector en path to qualifying for her Third particular person Olympic occasion.

Opening in 1:00.58 (29.08/31.50) and bringing it residence in 1:02.72, (31.47/31.25) the reigning world document holder and Olympic champion simply put up the 2nd-fastest 200m backstroke efficiency in historical past.

High 5 Ladies’s LCM 200 Again Performances All-Time

1. 2:03.14 – Kaylee McKeown, 2023
2. 2:03.30 – Kaylee McKeown, 2024
3. 2:03.35 – Regan Smith, 2019
4. 2:03.69 – Regan Smith, 2019
5. 2:03.70 – Kaylee McKeown, 2023

For her half, 17-year-old Jaclyn Barclay of St. Peters Western simply certified for her first Olympic Video games, capturing silver in a time of two:07.88. That simply cleared the Swimming Australia-mandated Olympic Qualification Time of two:09.74 .

Her time was inside hanging distance of her best-ever outing, a results of 2:07.03 to snag silver at this yr’s World Championships in Doha.

Hannah Fredericks bagged the bronze, producing a mark of two:08.25, a brand new private finest by properly over half a second.

Of notice, 32-year-old Emily Seebohm positioned fifth in a mark of two:10.80, a formidable end result lower than a yr after giving start to her first little one. As Seebohm missed qualification within the 100m again earlier, the veteran’s bid to look at a fifth Olympic Video games has concluded.

MEN’S 200 IM – FINAL

• World File – 1:54.00, Ryan Lochte (USA), 2011
• Australian File – 1:55.72, Mitch Larkin, 2019
• Oceanic File – 1:55.72, Mitch Larkin 2019
• Commonwealth File – 1:55.28, Duncan Scott (GBR), 2021
• All Comers File – 1:54.98, Michael Phelps (USA), 2007
• Swim Australia OQT – 1:57.23

GOLD – William Petric, 1:57.54
SILVER – Brendon Smith, 1:58.12
BRONZE – Se-Bom Lee, 2:00.11

19-year-old William Petric put up the swim of his life as he roared to the wall first on this males’s 200m IM.

The Nunawading ace captured gold in a time of 1:57.54, dipping beneath the 1:58 barrier for the primary time in his younger profession.

Splitting 25.58/30.39/33.03/28.54, Petric outperformed his earlier private better of 1:58.95 from final month’s Sydney Open.

His outing this night fell simply .31 shy of the Swimming Australia-mandated OQT of 1:57.23. Nonetheless, it did dip beneath the World Aquatics OQT of 1:57.94 and his PB may simply sway selectors so as to add him to the roster through a provisional decide relying on how the remaining occasions shake out.

Petric is now Australia’s 4th-fastest 200m IM performer in historical past. We’ll see what he has in retailer within the 400m IM later within the competitors.

All-Time Australian Males’s LCM 200 IM Performers All-Time

1. Mitch Larkin – 1:55.72, 2019
2. Leith Brodie – 1:56.69, 2009
3. Tommy Neill – 1:57.41, 2023
4. William Petric – 1:57.54, 2024
5. Daniel Tranter – 1:57.55, 2013

Olympic bronze medalist within the 400m IM, 23-year-old Brendon Smith was the one different racer to get beneath the two:00 threshold.

Griffith’s Smith turned in a time of 1:58.12 to earn runner-up standing whereas Se-Bom Lee rounded out the rostrum in 2:00.11.

MEN’S 100 FREE – FINAL

• World File – 46.80, Pan Zhanle (CHN), 2024
• Australian File – 47.04, Cameron McEvoy, 2016
• Oceanic File – 47.04, Cameron McEvoy, 2016
• Commonwealth File – 47.04, Cameron McEvoy, 2016
• All Comers File – 47.04, Cameron McEvoy, 2016
• Swim Australia OQT – 48.06

GOLD – Kyle Chalmers, 47.75 *OLY Qualifier
SILVER – William Yang, 48.08
BRONZE – Flynn Southam, 48.11

To not take something away from these elite performers, however just one swimmer dipped beneath the 48-second barrier in tonight’s males’s 100m free last and simply 6 had been beneath the 49 threshold at an Olympic Trials affair.

25-year-old multi-Olympic medalist Kyle Chalmers took this males’s 100m freestyle out in 22.81 and closed in 24.94 to cease the clock in 47.75. That scored the only time of the sector beneath the OQT of 48.06 to ship ‘King Kyle’ to his Third Olympic Video games.

Though Chalmers has been sooner this season, proudly owning a time of 47.63 from April’s Open Championships, he bought the job completed tonight after having modified coaches from Peter Bishop to Ash Delaney.

Extra on Chalmers’ Teaching Change

Of notice, Chalmers uncharacteristically led the sector on the primary 50, holding off a charging William Yang and Flynn Southam on the wall.

Lower than a yr after present process again surgical procedure for a benign tumor, 25-year-old Yang proved his mettle with a stellar silver in 48.08.

Yang was 23.18/24.90 to the wall, painstakingly falling simply .02 exterior of the OQT. His end result represents a brand new private finest, slicing .12 off the 48.20 put up in April.

He’ll be joined by 19-year-old Southam (48.11) and Jack Cartwright (48.40) on the lads’s 4x100m free relay. Southam owns a PB of 47.77 however couldn’t get in that realm this night, whereas 25-year-old Cartwright owns a PB of 47.84 from main off the lads’s 4x100m free relay finally yr’s World Championships.

Cartwright has been effervescent beneath the floor for a while now and took benefit of this chance to qualify for his first Olympic video games within the relay.

The remaining last unfolded as follows:

fifth –Kai Taylor, 48.57
sixth – Zac Incerti, 48.73
seventh – Jamie Jack, 49.01
eighth – Maximillian Giuliani, 49.17

WOMEN’S 200 FLY – FINAL

• World File – 2:01.81, Liu Zige (CHN), 2009
• Australian File – 2:03.41, Jessicah Schipper, 2009
• Oceanic File – 2:03.41, Jessicah Schipper, 2009
• Commonwealth File – 2:03.41, Jessicah Schipper, 2009
• All Comers File – 2:05.20, Elizabeth Dekkers, 2024
• Swim Australia OQT – 2:07.72

GOLD – Elizabeth Dekkers, 2:06.01 *OLY Qualifier
SILVER – Abbey Connor, 2:06:82 *OLY Qualifier
BRONZE – Bella Grant, 2:08.86

20-year-old Elizabeth (Lizzie) Dekkers busted out a robust again half to take this ladies’s 200m fly, attending to the wall in a last time of two:06.01.

She overtook Abbey Connor after 100m mark and didn’t look again, with Connor scoring silver 2:06.82, simply off her morning swim of two:06.43. Bella Grant collected bronze in 2:08.86.

Dekkers earned silver on this occasion on the 2023 World Championships, placing up a time of two:05.46 in Fukuoka. She dropped that PB all the way down to 2:05.20, the present All Comers File she placed on the books at this yr’s Open Championships to verify in because the #3 Australian performer in historical past.

As for Connor, her morning swim of two:06.43 represented a brand new lifetime finest, overtaking her earlier PB of two:06.59. Tonight’s 2:06.82 effort is simply her Third-ever foray beneath the two:07 barrier.

At one time, Connor hinted at retirement however did an about-face and got here again to the pool. She simply certified for her first Olympic Video games with tonight’s efficiency.

WOMEN’S 800 FREE – FINAL

• World File – 8:04.79, Katie Ledecky (USA), 2016
• Australian File – 8:13.59, Ariarne Titmus, 2022 & 2023
• Oceanic File – 8:13.59, Ariarne Titmus, 2022 & 2023
• Commonwealth File – 8:11.39, Summer season McIntosh (CAN), 2024
• All Comers File – 8:11.35, Katie Ledecky (USA), 2014
• Swim Australia OQT – 8:22.20

GOLD – Ariarne Titmus, 8:14.06 *OLY Qualifier
SILVER – Lani Pallister, 8:18.46 *OLY Qualifier
BRONZE – Jamie Perkins, 8:30.18

After a near-world document within the ladies’s 400m free, a brand new world document within the 200m free, Olympic champion Ariarne Titmus added a third invidual occasion to her Paris lineup as she topped this 800m free podium.

The Dean Boxall-trained famous person punched a time of 8:14.06 to win decisively, with Lani Pallister additionally qualifying in 8:18.46.

Titmu’s effort now ranks her Third on the planet on the season and got here inside half a second of her personal nationwide document of 8:13.59 clocked in each 2022 and 2023.

Pallister stays ranked 4th on the planet, courtesy of the 8:15.11 notched throughout final yr’s World Cup in Budapest.

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