2024 QUEENSLAND CHAMPIONSHIPS
- December 14th – December 20th
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The 2024 Queensland Championships has passed the halfway mark with 12-year-old Grayson Coulter of New Zealand once again stealing the spotlight on day 5.
Coulter took on the 50m backstroke/100m free, making some roaring noise in each. His performances are par for the course for this budding star. You can catch up on previous swims here.
First, in the 50m back for 12-year-olds, Coulter fired off a time of 28.59 to score the sole time of the field under the 30-second barrier.
Levi Thorley was next to the wall in 30.76 while Hunter Bastow clocked 31.25 for bronze.
As for Coulter, his outing beat Olympian Isaac Cooper‘s Queensland Record of 28.67, a time he logged in 2016.
As a side note, 20-year-old Cooper recently revealed he would be taking a ‘big step’ back from swimming.
The boys’ 100m freestyle was Coulter’s next victim, with the Kiwi producing a massive effort of 53.25 for the gold.
Coulter split 25.65/27.60 en route to beating the field by just over 5 seconds. His result erased the former Queensland All Comers Record of 54.81, a benchmark Japan’s Iorni Takeno put on the books in 2022.
For perspective, Coulter’s 53.25 performance would take over the U.S. National Age Group Record by a large margin. That NAG stands at 55.03 from Winn Aung in 2015.
Additional Notes
- Fairholme’s Bryce Krause put up a new Queensland All Comers Record in the boys’ 14-year-old 50m back. He turned in a time of 26.72, beating Rotuhu Teahui’s outing of 26.74 from this past April.
- Olympian Shayna Jack was in the water again tonight, racing in the women’s 19&O 50m back. Jack notched 29.11 as the bronze medalist behind winner Amber George of New Zealand (28.51) and Hannah Fredericks (28.91) who collected bronze.
Bryce Krause’s time was also the Australian record previously held by Isaac Cooper and he also broke the Australian All comers record. Leny Grigor’s 400 IM was also a huge Australian record destroying the previous time.
Jamie Jack just did a 50 free time trial in the 50 fly heats and went 21.76. Pretty great consistency for someone who only just went sub 22 for the first time.
That swim by Krause was also a national age record.
Another swim worth mentioning is 15 year old Wearing’s 3:54.47 in the 400 free which has him ranked only behind Thorpe and Winnington in the age rankings.
Down at Victorian Age Champs 16 year old Henry Allan went 54.63 to break the national age record in the 100 back.
Truly an amazing time. However, kids like this are always interesting as he does seem to be a little bit of an early bloomer from the pictures being posted; he looks more like a developed 14 year old than a 12 year old. Still ridiculously fast even in that context.
That being said, I hope he can continue to grow and progress as a swimmer. Best of luck young man!
I have been seeing his races first hand this week and he is definitely ahead of the pack in development age but as you suggest these swims are extraordinary regardless of this fact. Really hope for NZ Swimming that he can stay happy and healthy in the sport and continue his progression 🤞, he is an exciting prospect.
They will catch him soon enough.
For those curious, this puts him #2 all time 12 year old in the 100 free just behind Iori Takeno’s 53.22
How fast did he get?
Well he’s only 14, but he went a 4:19 400 IM short course meters a few months ago.
That is legit.
where do you get this data from?
just wondering for personal use