2016 Australian National Championships: Day 4 Finals Live Recap

2016 HANCOCK PROSPECTING AUSTRALIAN CHAMPIONSHIPS (AUSTRALIAN OLYMPIC TRIALS)

Women’s 100 Butterfly Multi-Class

Taylor Corry (SB14) took the women’s 100 butterfly multi-class in a time of 1:09.63, which is equal to 937 points. She was followed by Madeline Scott (SB9) who posted a 1:10.35 earning 854 points and Prue Watt (SB13) who recorded a 1:09.72 collecting 811 points.

  1. Taylor Corry (SB13) – 1:09.63
  2. Madeline Scott (SB9) – 1:10.35
  3. Prue Watt (SB13) – 1:09.72
  4. Emily Beecroft (SB9) – 1:11.78
  5. Teigan van Roosmalen (SB13) – 1:10.14
  6. Katherine Downie (SB10) – 1:09.17
  7. Paige Leonhardt (SB10) – 1:11.53
  8. Nikesh Harding (SB14) – 1:16.96

Men’s 100 Butterfly Multi-Class

Brenden Hall (SB13) won the men’s 100 butterfly multi-class in a time of 1:02.13 earning 852 points. Sam Bamham (SB9) finished second in a time of 1:03.72 collecting 790 points while Rick Pendleton (SB10) finished third posting a time of 1:00.61, which equals 788 points.

  1. Brenden Hall (SB13) – 1:02.13
  2. Sam Bamham (SB9) – 1:03.72
  3. Rick Pendleton (SB10) – 1:00.61
  4. Timothy Hodge (SB9) – 1:04.08
  5. Braeden Jason (SB13) – 1:00.02
  6. Jesse Aungles (SB8) – 1:06.75
  7. Matthew Hearne (SB10) – 1:01.88
  8. Aidan Yourell (SB10) – 1:02.39

Men’s 100 Freestyle (Semi-Final)

  • Olympic Qualifying Standard – 48.49
  • Australian Record – Eamon Sullivan – 47.05

Cameron McEvoy was the top qualifier in the men’s 100 freestyle posting a time of 48.09. McEvoy was well off his season’s best of 47.59, which sits atop of the world rankings. Matthew Abood, who is attempting to qualify for his first Olympic team, put up the second fastest time of the evening recording a 48.89.

James Roberts finished third in a time of 49.04. 17 year old Kyle Chalmers, who was the fastest qualifier in the prelims posting a 48.61, had the fourth fastest time of the evening hitting the wall in a time of 49.06.

  1. Cameron McEvoy – 48.09
  2. Matthew Abood – 48.89
  3. James Roberts – 49.04
  4. Kyle Chalmers – 49.06
  5. Kenneth To – 49.19
  6. James Magnussen – 49.21
  7. Will Stockwell – 49.29
  8. Jack Gerrard – 49.33

Women’s 200 Freestyle

  • Olympic Qualifying Standard – 1:56.95
  • Australian Record – Emma McKeon – 1:55.53

Emma McKeon has had a fantastic meet so far. On the second night of the championships she qualified for her first Olympic team winning the the women’s 100 butterfly in a time 56.89 and this evening she won the women’s 200 freestyle in a time of 1:54.83, breaking her own Australian record of 1:55.53 by over a half a second.

McKeon’s time is faster than the winning time from last year’s World Championships and places her second in the world rankings only four tenths of a second behind American Katie Ledecky.

2015-2016 LCM Women 200 Free

KatieUSA
LEDECKY
08/09
1.53.73
2sarah
SJOSTROM
SWE1.54.0808/09
3Federica
PELLEGRINI
ITA1.54.5506/26
4Emma
McKEON
AUS1.54.8304/10
5Katinka
HOSSZU
HUN1.55.4111/06
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McKeon’s teammate Bronte Barratt finished second in a time of 1:56.34. Barratt, who is swimming in her last Australian Championships, was over half a second over her lifetime best, but qualifies for her third Olympic team. Madeline Groves made it a clean sweep of the medals for St Peters Western as she finished third hitting the wall in a time of 1:57.84.

Leah Neale rounded out the top four touching in a time of 1:58.12.

  1. Emma McKeon – 1:54.83
  2. Bronte Barratt – 1:56.34
  3. Madeline Groves – 1:57.84
  4. Leah Neale – 1:58.12
  5. Tamsin Cook – 1:58.14
  6. Carla Buchanan – 1:58.34
  7. Jessica Ashwood – 1:58.73
  8. Mikka Sheridan – 1:59.70

Men’s 200 Butterfly

  • Olympic Qualifying Standard – 1:55.75
  • Australian Record – 1:54.46 – Nick D’Arcy

In the most thrilling race of the Australian Championships so far David Morgan took the men’s 200 butterfly in a time of 1:55.63 just ahead of defending champion Grant Irvine who touched in a time of 1:55.73. Both Morgan and Irvine went under the Olympic qualifying time of 1:55.75.

Morgan took a slight lead at the 50 meter mark, turning eight one-hundredths of a second ahead of Irvine, who then took over the lead heading into the last 50 meters. Morgan a great last final lap overtaking Irvine for the win.

  • Morgan – 25.72/55.67 (29.95)/1:25.81 (30.14)/1:55.63 (29.82)
  • Irvine – 25.80/55.06 (29.26)/1:25.13 (30.07)/1:55.73 (30.60)

Their times place them fifth and seventh in the world rankings.

2015-2016 LCM Men 200 FLY

LaszloHUN
CSEH
05/19
1.52.91
2Michael
PHELPS
USA1.53.3608/09
3Masato
SAKAI
JPN1.53.4008/09
4Tamas
KENDERESEI
HUN1.53.6208/09
5Chad
LE CLOS
RSA1.54.0608/09
6Daiya
SETO
JPN1.54.1404/08
7Viktor
BROMER
DEN1.55.2805/18
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Although this race was close the two finished even closer at last year’s championships where Irvine won the event in a time of 1:55.98 followed by Morgan who posted a 1:55.99.

With Irvine’s berth onto the team that makes it seven athletes from St Peters Western heading to Rio.

Keiran Qaium finished third in a time of 1:56.84.

  1. David Morgan – 1:55.63
  2. Grant Irvine – 1:55.73
  3. Keiran Qaium – 1:56.84
  4. Hugo Morris – 1:57.77
  5. Christopher Wright – 1:58.07
  6. Nicholas Brown – 1:58.17
  7. Will Harmsen – 2:00.24
  8. Isaac Jones – 2:01.75

Women’s 200 Butterfly (Semi-Final)

  • Olympic Qualifying Standard – 2:07.69
  • Australian Record – Jessicah Schipper – 2:03.41

In her second swim of the night Madeline Groves put up the fastest qualifying time in the women’s 200 butterfly. Groves took her semi-final heat in a time of 2:09.04, well off her season’s best of 2:06.36, which ranks third in the world. Brianna Throssell recorded a time of 2:09.17 while Alice Stuart posted a time of 2:11.37.

Both Groves and Throssell will have to drop their times significantly in tomorrow’s final to dip under the Olympic qualifying standard of 2:07.69.

  1. Madeline Groves – 2:09.04
  2. Brianna Throssell – 2:09.17
  3. Alice Stuart – 2:11.37
  4. Laura Taylor – 2:11.60
  5. Nicole Mee – 2:12.08
  6. Emily Washer – 2:14.02
  7. Alexandra Good – 2:14.30
  8. Tianni Gilmour – 2:14.39

Men’s 200 Breaststroke (Semi-Final)

  • Olympic Qualifying Standard – 2:09.64
  • Australian Record – Christian Sprenger – 2:07.31

Matthew Wilson was the top qualifier for the men’s 200 breaststroke final posting a time of 2:10.68. Nicholas Schafer had the second fastest time of 2:11.62 followed by Jake Packard who touched in a time of 2:12.92.

Australia had no one qualify for the World Championships in this event at last year’s Australian Championships as Schafer won the event in a time of 2:12.47.

  1. Matthew Wilson – 2:10.68
  2. Nicholas Schafer – 2:11.62
  3. Jake Packard – 2:12.19
  4. Lennard Bremer – 2:12.85
  5. Alex Milligan – 2:13.72
  6. George Harley – 2:14.10
  7. Joshua Tierney – 2:14.13
  8. Daniel Cave – 2:14.89

Women’s 200 IM

  • Olympic Qualifying Standard – 2:11.39
  • Australian Record – Stephanie Rice – 2:07.03

Olympic silver medalist Alicia Coutts qualified for Rio in the women’s 200 IM taking the event in a time of 2:09.95, well under the Olympic qualifying time of 2:11.39. Coutts, who has been battled injuries throughout the 2014-15 season, missed qualifying for last year’s World Championships in Kazan.

Rio will be her third and final Olympic Games as she announced that she will be retiring at the end of the season.

Her time places her third in the world rankings.

2015-2016 LCM Women 200 IM

KatinkaHUN
HOSSZU
08/09
2.06.58*OR
2Siobhan-Marie
O'CONNOR
GBR2.06.8808/09
3Maya
DiRado
USA2.08.7908/09
4Melanie
MARGALIS
USA2.09.2108/09
5Shiwen
YE
CHN2.09.3308/08
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The battle for the second spot on the team was an exciting one between Kotuku Ngwati and 400 IM champion Blair Evans. Both women went under the Olympic qualifying time as Ngwati posted a 2:11.03 finishing 11 one-hundredths of a second ahead of Evans who recorded a 2:11.14.

  1. Alicia Coutts – 2:09.95
  2. Kotuku Ngwati – 2:11.03
  3. Blair Evans – 2:11.14
  4. Keryn McMaster – 2:12.45
  5. Ellen Fullerton – 2:13.15
  6. Aisling Scott – 2:13.62
  7. Calypso Sherdian – 2:16.83
  8. Holly Brettle – 2:18.02

Women’s 200 Freestyle Multi-Class

Lakeisha Patterson (SB8) won the women’s 200 freestyle multi-class in a time of 2:18.98 earning 988 points. Kayla Clarke (SB14) finished second in a time of 2:16.25, which equates to 772 points, followed by Katja Dedekind (SB13) who hit the wall in a time of 2:20.97 collecting 754.

  1. Lakeisha Patterson (SB8) – 2:18.98
  2. Kayla Clarke (SB14) – 2:16.25
  3. Katja Dedekind (SB13) – 2:20.97
  4. Jade Lucy (SB14) – 2:19.89
  5. Taylor Corry (SB14) – 2:20.05
  6. Amy Cook (SB14) – 2:22.46
  7. Nicole Miro (SB10) – 2:33.45
  8. Elizabeth Slack (SB9) – 2:31.74

Men’s 200 Freestyle Multi-Class

Daniel Fox (SB14) won the men’s 200 freestyle multi-class in a time of 1:57.54, which equates to 968 points. Liam Schluter (SB14) finished second in a time of 1:59.57 earning 919 points followed by Joshua Alford (SB14) who hit the wall in a time of 2:00.05 collecting 908 points.

  1. Daniel Fox (SB14) – 1:57.54
  2. Liam Schluter (SB14) – 1:59.57
  3. Joshua Alford (SB14) – 2:00.05
  4. Logan Powell (SB9) – 2:13.22
  5. Ben Popham (SB8) – 2:24.28
  6. Aidan Yourell (SB10) – 2:13.10
  7. Reagan Wickens (SB6) – 2:44.40

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Anon
7 years ago

Commonwombat if you can’t name 8 people who are likely to beat her then she’s not “contending for a place in the final”. That suggests if things go well she’ll sneak a place into the final. Based off her performances, She will definitely final and she’s “contending for a medal”. Maybe she will get one, maybe she won’t. That’s what contending means

Gina
7 years ago

Could ppl stop snarking about relays? As a theoretical just add up the times swum in the same qualifying meet & put it out there. Some teams will do better & some worse.

No need to harangue swimmers like criminals because they occasionally take down a relay single handedly.

Nope!
7 years ago

Australias’ Ledecky in the Para World

Women’s 200 free Multi Class Event
Australian Champion – developing swimmer Lakeisha Patterson in a time of 2:18.98s just shy of S8 WR held by USA Long

Let’s look at some para rankings

2015 IPC World Rankings 200 freestyle
S8 Patterson 2:18.98 :
Ranked no2 S8 .56s behind S8 USA Long
Ranked no1 S9 .76 in front of S9 NDL Vermarian
Ranked no7 S10 6.53s behind S10 NZL Pascoe
Ranked no1 S7 24.5s infrint of S7 NZL Dubber **

Patterson also ranks in the 400 freestyle behind highly accomplished Paralympians as follows:

Ranked No1 S7 **
Ranked No2 S8 behind USA great Long
Ranked No2 S9… Read more »

tea rex
7 years ago

The 200 free is so hard at Olympic Games. Three rounds of a very tough event, just so NBC can air another filler race.

If you are a versatile stud like Sjostrom, Hosszu, Franklin, McKeon, SMOC, Heemskerk, Coleman, Ikee, Oleksiak, Ruck (maybe 5 potential finalists in that list), the 200 free is right in the middle of a mess of events you’re also likely to swim – including both free relays.

John26
7 years ago

If McKeon improves as much in the 100free as her other events, she might be putting pressure on one of the Campbells, if Bronte isn’t quite on her game, she might be on the outside looking in.

bobo gigi
7 years ago

And about the race videos, it looks as hard as for French championships to find something. There’s absolutely nothing so far.

bobo gigi
7 years ago

Weird men’s 100 free semifinals.

Nice performance by McKeon but very logical at the same time. She will make a top 5 in Rio but a medal looks hard to win if all big names swim that event.

Good to see the veteran Coutts under 2.10 in the 200 IM after all her injuries.

Slow women’s 200 fly semifinals. Logically and based on what she did in the 100 fly, Groves can swim 2.05 in final. But maybe, unlike what she did last year, she will go only 2.07 tomorrow and 2.05 in Rio. That’s better in that order.

Iain
7 years ago

Australia was always going to send a full complement of relays. And, despite commonwombat’s protestations, all have good medal shots.

Rafael
Reply to  Iain
7 years ago

Iain I just don´t know if they will send alternates if both are swimming 49..

commonwombat
Reply to  Iain
7 years ago

As that logical analysis speaking or national fervour ? The M4X100 still has to post a quailifying time …. inescapable reality due to the Kazan balls-up

We’ll know the exact status of the W4X100 later but barring incapacity to the Campbells, they should be medal shots at worst. If we have 2 sub53s and another close to then can probably get away with the slight fall away in depth this year and retain favouritism unless there’s a complete turnaround in US womens sprinting.

W4XMED – certainly has to be seen as likely medal shot given the apparent strides forward on brs & fly. Will know more on where everyone else is after US Trials.

W4X200 – NO. If the 3rd/4th… Read more »

Robbos
Reply to  commonwombat
7 years ago

Lets look at this a bit differently;

W4X100, Australia has the best no 1 relay swimmer in the world in C1, the best no2 relay swimmer in C2 & the best no3 relay swimmer. We will have 3 swimmers swimming either under 53s or 53 flat, now the 4th swimmer Wright, Seebohm or Wilson (we will find out more today) would be the relay best no 4 in the world. Australia barring illness & injury & lost of form, even then would be hard to beat.
W4X200. I would not bet against the US in this one with your money. However, there is no stand out for silver, countries like Italy, Sweden & Australia has outstanding swimmers & good… Read more »

Robbos
Reply to  Robbos
7 years ago

Of course, this is all ifs & buts & maybes, but this is not just for 1 country but for every country.

Aigues
Reply to  Robbos
7 years ago

If there was a world relay ranking, I would say that australian relays ranks are:

W 4×100 : 1st
W 4×200 : 3rd or 4th
W Medley : 1st or 2nd
M 4×100 : 4th or 5th
M 4×200 : 2nd or 3rd
M Medley : 2nd or 3rd

I think these positions would be the average ones obtained by Australia if there were 10 relay competitions this year, that would give probably 1 gold medal, 2 silver medals, 2 bronze medals. Of course an underperformance from a key member (especially E.McKeon and McEvoy) could transform this into a 0g 2s 2b, and with the underperformance of major opponents (like Franklin/Lochte) they would have 3g,… Read more »

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