2025 AUSTRALIAN AGE CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Thursday, April 10th – Friday, April 18th
- Brisbane Aquatic Centre
- LCM (50m)
- Meet Central
- Day 1 Recap/Day 2 Recap/Day 3 Recap/Day 4 Recap/Day 5 Recap
- Live Results
No records fell on the penultimate night of able-bodied racing at the 2025 Australian Age Championships, but we saw 17-year-old Joshua Conias take his age category’s 50m freestyle title in style.
Conias stopped the clock at a speedy 22.39 to qualify for this year’s World Junior Championships.
That effort checked in as the 3rd-fastest time of the teen’s career. Conias owns a lifetime best of 22.35 from last year’s Sydney Open Meet, while his 2nd-best rests at 22.347.
As a reminder, Conias is treated to watching the best in action, training at Somverville House Aquatics, the home base of Olympic champion Cameron McEvoy and coach Tim Lane.
The 14-year-old girls’ 200m fly race saw the Rock City club snag the top two slots, led by Annaliese Matthews.
Matthews captured a gold medal-worthy time of 2:18.50 as the sole swimmer under the 2:21 threshold. That obliterated her previous personal best of 2:25.05 notched at the Queensland Championships last December. Her result this evening rendered her just outside the list of top 10 age category Australian performers of all time.
Teammate Mackenzie Wyeth was next to the wall in 2:21.92 and Emma Ng from Carlile rounded out the podium in 2:23.13.
Additional Notes
- Jack Morrow collected his 3rd individual gold of the meet, reaping the top spot in the 17-year-old boys’ 100m back. He earned another World Championships bid with his winning effort of 54.82, beating the field by nearly a second en route to the St. Andrew’s swimmer turning in the first sub-55-second result of his career.
- Asha Ring of SOPAC got it done for gold in the girls’ 50m free for 16-year-olds, posting 25.67.
- Marcus Da Silva earned 100m free gold for 18-year-olds, snagging the victory in an outing of 49.30 as the only swimmer under the 50-second barrier. The Cranbrook Aquatics ace overtook his previous PB of 49.37 from when he earned silver at last year’s Junior Pan Pacific Championships.
Not sure how many swimmers have reached the standards for the junior team. 32? Seems unlikely. Some events have none and some have 3 or 4 but they can only take 2.
I have an idea of what the team will look like but I’m not 100% sure so I won’t share it. The team shouldn’t be that small because the relays allow them to add quite a few even if they don’t have QTs.
Share it you coward lol
Thought Henry might have been a second faster but going from one lane rope to another during the race probably didn’t help.
Awaiting some good performances tonight.
How far below 2mins can our young gun Henry go?
How good was charlie lutton in the 17 years 200 fly! Just snuck under jnr worlds qualifying too
Would be nice to see one of our women fly swimmers have a breakout at Nationals next week. We have solid depth in the 100, but there is a big gap to the USA girls and we don’t have Emma to rescue us in Medleys any more.
I think we just have to be happy with silver for now tbh. We’re not really threatened by anyone for silver at this point, but we’re clearly not threatening for gold either
China’s definitely a threat. We barely beat them last year in Paris.
China could easily beat us for silver. Their backstroke is improving. Someone already went a 59 low this year, and if Tang splits a 104 or possibly a 103, instead of a 105 high like in Paris, good chance they beat us.
They probably should’ve beaten us in Paris but their whole front half under-performed.
That was a comfortable looking 2.00 from Allan in 200 Back. Could be a big end to the meet for him.
“Conias owns a lifetime best of 22.35 from last year’s Sydney Open Meet, while his 2nd-best rests at 22.34”
This doesn’t make sense, his second fastest performance is “faster” than his fastest performance 🤔.
Fixed the typo, thanks.
No mention of Ollie Moclair
Indeed, Moclair is the big story, he came into this meet with a PB of 22.89, posted a 22.57 in the heats, before a 22.42 in the final just 0.03 behind Conias!