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RussellEbertHandball said:
Beat me to it but he has the fastest 400m time this year year from nationals in April, now the fastest 800m time this year and 10th fastest male ever and 3rd fastest Aussie behind Hackett and Thorpe, who only swum it 2 or 3 times and beat Hackett in those races.

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Aussie Sam Short Blasts 7:40.39 800 Free To Become 10th Fastest Performer Ever

19-yr-old Sam Short ripped a lifetime best of 7:40.39 to win the men's 800m free at the 2023 Aussie World Championship Trials, making history in the process.
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Missed Tokyo by a fingernail too. To be mentioned in the same breath as the great Hackett at such a young age is very encouraging for a promising future.
 
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GOLD – Kai Taylor 1:46.25
A good human story about this swim. He swam in Lane 8 as a last minute entrant after Chalmers pulled out. You probably know he is the son of our past Olympic champ Hayley Lewis and 9Now showed footage of her going bananas during his race. What was most impressive was that he led from start to finish against a red hot opposition.
 
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BGman said:
Only two qualified swimmers per event per team so what in your opinion is the solution to these almost impossible SWIMAUST times and our relays and medleys as surely they know this will be inhibit our success now and in Paris.
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They are trying to save money as well as drive up performance. Swimming Oz isn't flushed with funds and the federal government wont give a big kick in for Olympics until about 2026 - 6 years before Brisbane, especially as the Labor government tries to reign in spending in its first term.

They have to take some for the medley relays in each stroke and let them swim their individual events. Stubltey-Cook will go as he will qualify for the 200m breaststroke, so as he has done a World Aquatics qualifier for the 100m, let him swim that individual event and also the medley relays.

Its just stupid to not even try and win a bronze medal in medley relays or pinch a silver and with DQs in relays maybe even win gold, by not having a team because of ridiculously high qualifying times.
 

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RussellEbertHandball said:
They have to take some for the medley relays in each stroke and let them swim their individual events.
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THAT COVERS THE MEDLEYS BUT WHAT OF THE SPRINT RELAYS. A 400M FREE SWIMMER IS NOT NECESSARILY A GOOD 100M SWIMMER, DITTO 50M TO 200M.
 
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BGman said:
THAT COVERS THE MEDLEYS BUT WHAT OF THE SPRINT RELAYS.
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The women will get 2 qualifiers for both sprint events and they will start both relays as favourites as plenty have done qualifiers.

The men - Chalmers will do a qualifier and several will do a World aquatics qualifier and they will get a decent team. They are mad not to send a men's 4x 200m relay team, Chalmers might even swim that. If they are sending a team they would be stupid not to let Kai Taylor swim the individual event as well as Alex Graham.

Keiran Perkins in December 2021 was appointed Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Sports Commission (recently changed to Sport Australia), and they are the government body that controls the governments funding allocation for elite sports. Maybe he has to lean on Swimming Oz and tell them to pull their heads in and give us a shot to win relay medals if they want to keep some of their funding.
 
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Junior Pan Pacs champion Flynn Southam fired off the fastest 100m free time of his young career, hitting 47.77 to gain Fukuoka qualification.

World class swim by Flynn, first time under 48secs in a major meet. I have been following this huge prospect for past two years. Bold prediction, may be one of our all time sprint greats.
 
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Ariane Titmus has refuted media rumor that she intends retiring after Paris. You little beauty Arnie. Her next assignment is taking on her Yank rival Katie Ledecky in six weeks in Japan. Should be one super race.
 
Good Golly Miss Mollie ( got spelling right this time) again.

Mollie O'Callaghan - MOC is what they are calling her - beat Olympic 100m freestyle champ Emma in tonight's 100m free final. It was a shocking broadcasted race. The female caller was ordinary, the timing system didn't work on the touch, and she called Mckeon as the winner, wheras to my eye on a s**t small phone, Mollie looked the winner to me and her name came up first in the lane graphics.

Mollie is now the 4th fastest Aussie ever, behind Emma and the Campbell sisters and 8th fastest in the world.

Arianne Titmus swam in the 100m final finished 6th with a 54.26 which is a PB by 0.51 sec which is great for her 200m speed but means she probably swims the 4x100m free relay heat.

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2023 Australian World Championship Trials: Day 5 Finals Live Recap

World Record holder and reigning Olympic champion Zac Stubblety-Cook will contest his signature 200m breast on night five of the 2023 Aussie World Trials.
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WOMEN’S 100 FREESTYLE – FINAL​

  • World Record: 51.71, Sarah Sjostrom (2017)
  • Commonwealth Record: 51.96, Emma McKeon (2021)
  • Australian Record: 51.96, Emma McKeon (2021)
  • All Comers Record: 52.06, Cate Campbell (2016)
  • Swimming Australia QT: 53.61
  • World Aquatics ‘A’ Cut: 54.25
GOLD – Mollie O’Callaghan 52.48
SILVER – Emma McKeon 52.52
BRONZE – Shayna Jack 52.64

In an extremely close finish that brought some of the top freestylers in the entire world to the wall, it was 19-year-old Mollie O’Callaghan getting there first in a super quick 52.48.

That represents a new personal best for the St. Peters Western star who already took the 200m free title here. MOC split 25.50/26.98 to remain the 8th quickest performer worldwide in history.

Entering this meet, Olympic medalist O’Callaghan’s personal best rested at the 52.49 produced at last year’s Australian National Championships. Her victory here keeps the Dean Boxall-trained star ranked as the 4th fastest Aussie in history in this event.

Top 5 Women’s LCM 100 Freestyle Performers All-Time
  1. Emma McKeon – 51.96, 2021
  2. Cate Campbell – 52.03, 2018
  3. Bronte Campbell – 52.27, 2018
  4. Mollie O’Callaghan – 52.48, 2023
  5. Shayna Jack – 52.60, 2022
It was Shayna Jack who led at the halfway mark in a split of 25.14 while Emma McKeon was right behind in 25.18. McKeon ultimately snagged silver in 52.52 while Jack also landed on the podium in 52.64.

Think about that for one moment – a time of 52.64 earns 3rd place. What depth these Aussie women have. For perspective, the winning time at the 2022 U.S. National Championships was 53.53.

Meg Harris rebounded from her 200m free disappointing swim with a 4th place finish here in 53.09, Madi Wilson earned 5th in 53.42 and Ariarne Titmus finished 6th in 54.26.

MOC’s swim now takes over the season’s world rankings crown, surpassing the 52.50 Hong Kong Olympic medalist Siobhan Haughey produced on this year’s Mare Nostrum Tour.

McKeon moves up to rank 3rd in the world this season while Jack is 4th.


I watched about half of the 1500m for men and Sam Short won and completed the 400/800/1500ctreble. He is the next big thing in Oz distance swimming

MEN’S 1500 FREESTYLE – FASTEST HEAT​

  • World Record: 14:31.02, Sun Yang (2012)
  • Commonwealth Record: 14:34.56, Grant Hackett (2005)
  • Australian Record: 14:34.56, Grant Hackett (2005)
  • All Comers Record: 14:39.54, Mack Horton (2016)
  • Swimming Australia QT: 14:56.86
  • World Aquatics ‘A’ Cut: 15:04.64
GOLD – Sam Short 14:46.67
SILVER – Elijah Winnington 15:08.28
BRONZE – Nick Sloman 15:11.72

It was the Sam Short show once again with the 19-year-old Rackley star wracking up his 3rd individual victory of this competition. He has already won the 400m and 800m freestyle events here in Melbourne.

In this 1500m, Short produced the only time of the field under 15:00 as well as the only time under the Swimming Australia-mandated QT of 14:56.86 needed for Fukuoka.

Elijah Winnington placed 2nd behind Short, just as the St. Peters Western ace had done in the 4free and 8free. 23-year-old Winnington clocked 15:08.28 for silver while open water Olympian Nick Sloman rounded out the top 3 in 15:11.72.

As for Short, his outing here beat his career-best result of 14:48.54, the time it took him to grab the gold at the 2022 Commonwealth Games.

His time here now inserts Short into the 7th slot in the worldwide rankings on the season.

In the 400m he is ranked number 1 and 800m ranked number 1 in 2023.
 
RussellEbertHandball said:
The female caller was ordinary
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Oh she was, droning diction and as you say made plenty of boo boos, specially announcing one swimmer had failed the QT when she had in fact gone under it by over a second. Just cant recall who off top of my head.
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Short into the 7th slot in the worldwide rankings on the season.
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Is that all. He did say he had more in the tank for the Worlds, so a podium finish is on the cards
 
 

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BGman said:
RussellEbertHandball
I wonder if you would post current Speedo world rankings as I dont subsribe to SwimSwam
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I don't either but you can do event by event at the following link, just change male/female, stroke and distance and set distance or if you click on the relevant options you get all stokes and 7 pages at

Speedo World Swimming Rankings

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This is what I selected to get the 7 pages.

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World Aquatics also have a similar page, just that you have to do it event by event and can set the date from 1st of January.

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World Aquatics

The official website of World Aquatics
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I'm looking at the squad they picked and who got the Swimming Oz qualifying time which is based on the 8th placed time average of the finals in last years world champs and the Tokyo Olympics.

The Non-Olympic events have their own selection policy. They have to obviously do a World Aquatics qualifying time but its at the discretion of the National Head Coach if anyone gets to swim in these events.

5. Non-Olympic Events
(a) Non-Olympic events that will be held at the Competition are the Men's and Women's 50m Backstroke, 50m Breaststroke, 50m Butterfly and the Mixed 4 x 100m Freestyle.
(b) The National Head Coach will determine which, if any, members of the Team will compete in the Non-Olympic Events at their absolute discretion. Any decision made by the Team Head Coach regarding the Non-Olympic Events specified in clause 5(a) is not capable of being appealed either under the SA Appeal Charter or otherwise.

Cut and paste and rearrangement of - Australia Names 38 Swimmers to 2023 World Championships Roster

Australian World Championships Individual Event Qualifiers Through Day 6
This list includes swimmers who broke the Swimming Australia qualifying time and placed top two in finals.

Freestyle
50m
  • Cam McEvoy – men’s 50m free (21.41)
  • Shayna Jack – women’s 50m free (24.22) also 3rd fastest 100m Free and 5th fastest 200m Free
  • Emma McKeon – women’s 100m fly (56.74), 100m free (52.52), 50m free (24.26)
100m
  • Kyle Chalmers – men’s 100m free (47.44)
  • Flynn Southam – men’s 100m free (47.77)
  • Emma McKeon – women’s 100m fly (56.74), 100m free (52.52), 50m free (24.26)
  • Mollie O’Callaghan – women’s 100m back (58.42), 200m free (1:53.83), 100m free (52.48)
200m
  • Ariarne Titmus – women’s 400m free (3:58.47), 200m free (1:54.14), 800m free (8:15.88)
  • Mollie O’Callaghan – women’s 100m back (58.42), 200m free (1:53.83), 100m free (52.48)
400m
  • Sam Short – men’s 400m free (3:43.38), 800m free (7:40.39)
  • Elijah Winnington – men’s 400m free (3:43.48), 800m free (7:45.75)
  • Ariarne Titmus – women’s 400m free (3:58.47), 200m free (1:54.14), 800m free (8:15.88)
  • Lani Pallister – women’s 400m free (4:02.43), 800m free (8:20.56), 1500m free (15:56.31) also 3rd fastest 200m
800m
  • Sam Short – men’s 400m free (3:43.38), 800m free (7:40.39)
  • Elijah Winnington – men’s 400m free (3:43.48), 800m free (7:45.75)
  • Ariarne Titmus – women’s 400m free (3:58.47), 200m free (1:54.14), 800m free (8:15.88)
  • Lani Pallister – women’s 400m free (4:02.43), 800m free (8:20.56), 1500m free (15:56.31)
1500m
  • Lani Pallister – women’s 400m free (4:02.43), 800m free (8:20.56), 1500m free (15:56.31)
  • Moesha Johnson – women’s 1500m free (16:03.02)
*** Sam Short 14:46.67 - Swimming Oz's qualifier is 14:56.86, think that was just missed by SwimSwam and he swims the 1500m.

Backstroke
100m
  • Kaylee McKeown – women’s 200m IM (2:07.60), 100m back (57.50), 200m back (2:03.70)
  • Mollie O’Callaghan – women’s 100m back (58.42), 200m free (1:53.83), 100m free (52.48)
200m
Breaststroke
100m
200m
Butterfly
100m
200m
Medley
200m
400m
Others named
Swimming Australia also named:
  • Jack Cartwright 3rd fastest 100m Free
  • Shaun Champion 2nd 50m Butterfly and 3rd 100m Butterfly
  • Isaac Cooper 100m Backstroke winner 53.46, SA 53.00, WA 54.03, 50m Back winner 24.56 WA 25.16
  • Alex Graham 2nd 200m Free and 8th 100m Free
  • Abbey Harkin 200m Breast winner 2:23.93 SA 2:23.91, 100m Breast win 1:07.26, SA 1:06.40, WA 1:07.35. 50m Breast win 31.14, WA 31.82
  • Meg Harris - 4th fastest 100m, and 8th fastest 200m
  • Kiah Melverton 2nd 400m IM
  • Kai Taylor - 200m Freestyle winner winner 1:46.26, SA 1:46.06, WA 1:47.06, 4th fastest 100m Free
  • Matt Temple 100m Butterfly winner 51.35 SA 51.28, WA 51.96 and 5th fastest 100m Free
  • Sam Williamson 50m Breaststroke winner 27.17 WA 27.33
  • Madi Wilson 5th fastest 100m Free and 5th fastest 200m Free

100m Breastroke winner GOLD – Zac Stubblety-Cook 59.68 Swim Oz time 54.49, WA time 54.75 already selected for 200m Breast
50m Butterfly winner GOLD – Cameron McEvoy 23.07 WA time 23.53 already selected for 50m Free

Looks like we will field a squad in all 8 relays even though we might not enter individuals in 100m Back, Breast and Fly for men and 100m Breast for women, eventhough the winners of all these events have done a World Aquatics qualifying time.
 
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Was a busy week for fans like me. Not only the swimming, but tons of track and field athletes competing across Europe as well.

Our male 800m runners were some of the stars with Peter Bol making his return to the track and running well, with his training partner Joe Deng clocking a World Champs qualifier plus other guys running PBs.
 
AdelaideGT said:
Was a busy week for fans like me. Not only the swimming, but tons of track and field athletes competing across Europe as well.

Our male 800m runners were some of the stars with Peter Bol making his return to the track and running well, with his training partner Joe Deng clocking a World Champs qualifier plus other guys running PBs.
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Why not add some detail, also interested in athetics. How are McSwayne and Maloney traveling at the moment.
 
Some world champs /world cups are coming up in the northern hemisphere summer so keep an eye out for them in the following events listed below.

A few World cups have already been held this year and some last year. This year have already had - Baseball, Basketball 3 x 3 both men's and women's, Hockey men's and Handball men's for teams sports but also individual sports ie Boxing world champs, Judo world champs and Taekwondo world champs.


World Aquatics - all 6 disciplines between 14th-30th July Fukuoka Japan
World Athletics - 19th-27th August Budapest Hungary

Football Women's World Cup - 20th July – 20th August Oz and NZ
Basketball Men's - 25th August – 10th September across Philippines, Japan and Indonesia. Women's was last year in Sydney
Beach Volleyball Men's and Women's - 6th-15th October Mexico (2025 is in Adelaide)
Handball Women's 29th November – 17th December Denmark, Norway and Sweden

Canoe Slalom - 19th-24th September London
Canoe Sprint - 23 - 27 August 2023 Duisburg Germany (just north of Dusseldorf)

Cyling Road - 3th–13th August 2023 Edinburgh and around Scotland
Cyycling Track - 3th–13th August 2023 Glasgow Scotland
Cycling BMX - 3th–13th August 2023 Glasgow Scotland
Cycling Mountain Bike - 3th–13th August 2023 around Scotland

Gymnastics Artistic - 30th September - 8th October Antwerp Belgium
Rowing - 3rd - 8th September Belgrade Serbia
Sailing - 10th-20th August The Hague Netherlands
Weightlifting 2nd–17th September Riyadh Saudi Arabia
Wrestling - 16th–24th September Belgrade Serbia

Above sports cover about 2/3rds of the medal events in Paris.
 
BGman said:
How are McSwayne and Maloney traveling at the moment.
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Neither are at their best with both having a DNF at their last competition.

McSweyn was, I think, put down to a calf strain. Moloney was competing - along with Cedric Dubler & Daniel Golubovic, Australia's other two 8000+ decathletes - in the famous Gotzis competition. He started off well but withdrew from the comp after being hit by food poisoning.

A bunch of Aussies - mainly middle-distance runners competing in Germany overnight and it will be interesting to wake up to results in the morning:

800-A Bol, Perrot
800-B Lunn, Raper

1500-A Myers, Blake, Whitely
1500-B Wyatt-Smith, Lewis, Hussey
1500-C Johnson

400 Carli
800-A Kirsopp-Cole

Cameron Myers' performance will be fascinating as it's his international debut for the kid who only turned 17 a coupla weeks ago.
 
US Swimming trials start Tuesday US time. You can read articles and daily summaries plus links to other stuff on the RHS a screen or two down from the top at following SwimSwam link.


2023 U.S. National Championships

Full coverage of 2023 U.S. National Championships on SwimSwam. 2023 U.S. National Championships results, recaps and video.
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Shock at US nationals/trials as Caleb Dressel finished 29th place after the heats of the 100m and only swam the C final because a couple of people pulled out.

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Caeleb Dressel Places 29th In Men's 100 Free To Open U.S. National Championships

The two-time world champion and reigning Olympic gold medalist in the 100 free was nearly two and a half seconds slower than his PB of 46.96 from 2019.
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It was a rocky start to the 2023 U.S. National Championships for Caeleb Dressel, as he didn’t come within earshot of making the final of the men’s 100 freestyle on Tuesday morning.

Dressel, the two-time world champion and reigning Olympic gold medalist in the 100 free, finished 29th overall in the prelims in a time of 49.42, nearly two and a half seconds slower than his personal best of 46.96 set in 2019.

Dressel was more than a second shy of what was required to make it back into the ‘A’ final (48.37), where the top eight swimmers will vie for a berth to the World Championships tonight.

The 26-year-old had previously been as fast as 49.80 this season, done at the FAST Senior Open earlier this month.

If he doesn’t swim the 100 free again this season, 49.42 will mark his slowest season-best time in nine years:



Ledecky swam the 3rd fastest 800m in history on first night of finals. The US men's might not have its usual great 4x100m Free relay team without Dressel and the times of many swimmers was so so. They have won last 2 Olympics and 3 World Champ relay golds.

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2023 U.S. Trials: Day 1 Finals Live Recap

Abbey Weitzeil (pictured) notched a lifetime best 52.92 in prelims to lead the way into finals in a crowded women's 100 free field on Day 1 of U.S. Trials.
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  • World Record: 46.86, David Popovici (ROU) — 2022
  • American Record: 46.96, Caeleb Dressel — 2019
  • U.S. Open Record: 47.39, Caeleb Dressel/Ryan Held — 2021/2019
  • Championship Record: 47.39, Caeleb Dressel/Ryan Held — 2021/2019
  • World Aquatics ‘A’ Cut: 48.51
  • 2022 U.S. Trials Top 4 Time: 48.25
  • 2022 Worlds Medal Time: 47.71
Top 8:

  1. Jack Alexy (CAL) — 47.93
  2. Chris Guiliano (ND) — 47.98
  3. Matt King (TFA) — 47.99
  4. Destin Lasco (CAL) — 48.00
  5. Ryan Held (NYAC) — 48.08
  6. Justin Ress (MVN) — 48.18
  7. Macguire McDuff (FLOR) — 48.24
  8. Drew Kibler (CSC) — 48.42
Jack Alexy. Chris Guiliano. Matt King. Destin Lasco. That’s quite an unlikely 4×100 freestyle relay for the American men.

Alexy led the race from start to finish, flipping at the 50-meter mark in 22.61, with King following in 22.74. It was an incredibly tight race down the stretch, as the entire field was bunched together in the final meters. Alexy got his hand on the wall first with a winning time of 47.93, .18 seconds slower than his morning swim.


Oz trial results. Last world champs US time was 3:09.34 and Oz's 2nd place was 3:10.80

1 Chalmers, Kyle 24 MARI 47.44
2 Southam, Flynn 18 BOND 47.77
3 Cartwright, Jack 24 STPET 48.50
4 Taylor, Kai 19 STPET 48.60
5 Temple, Matthew 23 MARI 48.82
6 Andrea, Dylan 19 CHAND 48.94


Swimming at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay - Wikipedia

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All sessions of the US swimming are being live-streamed at

Finals start about 9am AEST so convenient for Aussies.
 
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