2024 AUSTRALIAN AGE CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Monday, April 8th – Sunday, April 14th
- Gold Coast Aquatic Centre, Queensland, Australia
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Day two of the 2024 Australian Age Championships unfolded today from Queensland with some of the nation’s most exciting young stars in the pool.
For some, the competition is a stepping stone for the Australian National Championships occurring next week, as well as the Australian Olympic Trials on the calendar for June.
This competition is a qualification opportunity in its own right, with athletes vying for slots on the Junior Pan Pacific Championships roster.
14-year-old Macey Sheridan of Darwin captured gold in the girls’ 200m back tonight, stopping the clock in a time of 2:18.80.
She represented the sole swimmer under 2:19, as Heidi Schumack of SOPAC touched in 2:19.46 for silver while Brisbane Grammar’s Eloise McLellan rounded out the podium in 2:20.54.
As for Tim Few-coached Sheridan, her time this evening represents a new lifetime best, overtaking the 2:19.70 logged at last year’s edition of these championships. At that competition, Sheridan came away with a remarkable 6 medals.
Sheridan also tried the 50m freestyle on for size this evening, earning silver in a time of 26.36.
That got her to the wall behind New Zealand’s Alyssa Lawson who struck gold in 26.17. Griffith’s Maya Zunker was 3rd in 26.45.
Last night’s 100m breast victor for 16-year-old girls, Hayley MacKinder, was back in the water, this time in the 200m distance.
Coached by two-time Olympian Thomas Fraser-Holmes, MacKinder battled with Julia Remington of All Saints with the latter getting the final touch.
Remington logged 2:29.13 and MacKinder was next to the wall in 2:30.31 in a reverse of last night’s 100m breast outcome. Ella Mounter earned bronze in 2:33.30.
Both Remington and MacKinder have been quicker in their young careers. Remington owns a PB of 2:27.73 from December’s Queensland Championships and Remington posted 2:28.01 just last month at the Gold Coast Championships.
The boys’ 18-year-old 200m IM saw World Junior Championships teammates Karl Albertyn of Miami and Josh Kerr of Manly hit the top 2 times of the night.
Albertyn clocked a time of 2:01.37 while Kerr was over a second behind in 2:02.29. Singapore’s Zackery Ay also landed on the podium, albeit well back in 2:05.73.
Albertyn’s effort rendered him Australia’s 9th-fastest 18-year-old 200m IMer in history.
Additional Notes
- Taryn Roberts of Rocky City grabbed gold in the 17-year-old girls’ 200m IM. She won the top prize in 2:19.32, followed by Alanna Torrance who was right behind in 2:19.70. World Championships medalist Jaclyn Barclay punched 2:20.32 for 3rd place.
- 14-year-old Ethan Haegebaert topped his age group’s podium in the 50m free in a time of 23.66. That makes him the 3rd-swiftest Australian ever in his age category.
da Silva 48.98 split
matt welsh just brought up the m4x100 free from 2000. but I thought that no one remembered that race?
Fackerell the Mackerel 🥴
Knox knocking on the door
Churchies praying for a win
Bond shaken, not stirred
Rackley rack up another victory
They didn’t say these I’m just auditioning for next year’s commentary team… 😉
The Bond one should at least get you an interview!
Hats-off.
lol
Marion carry on! 😉
that should get you a ch9 contract for the olympics, considering the loud rugby guy comes up with “boxall bulldog” and “submadean”
Kurt Hanson would have been awesome. Sigh. He does actual research
how do you have Wunsch and Jansen both leading off their club relays and completely fail to mention them until their last 5m, only to say “I hope that wasn’t their fastest swimmer” about the world junior champion…
AAAARGH!!!!
‘Bird flying home’…..AGAIN!!!!
*drink*
‘Casey….that is the case!’
‘Nudgee, giving it a real nudge!’
Hilarious.
Kate threw in a new but just as lame one earlier.
‘Trotter trotting home’
*vomit*
Hope some adults are doing Nats commentary.
lmao – down to last couple of races and supposedly ‘the crowd is building’..
so meet mobile is the only way to see what clubs are in what lanes? because they don’t announce them behind the blocks, and the results page doesn’t show the seed times anymore
A demonstration of how to comment on relays without mentioning ANY of the swimmer’s names!
I don’t think any of these guys (aside from Matt Welsh, maybe) are really cut-out to do the ‘play-by-play’ commentary. As for the colour/expert role…hmmm…..
“in the 4×100, they get 2 laps”
class commentary
After listening to these experts for two days, I have learned absolutely nothing about swimming or any of the competitors.
But now you know how to tell when a swimmer looks ‘strong’, surely? 😛
And every age swimmer longs to swim under lights.
OK, Kate is rectifying that (no names style) now
2 hours into the session and finally some results show up….