2026 AUSTRALIAN SWIMMING TRIALS
- Monday, June 8 – Saturday, June 13, 2026
- Sydney, Australia
- Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre
- LCM (50 meters)
- Meet Central
- Commonwealth Selection Criteria
- Pan Pac Selection Criteria
- Psych Sheets
- Live Results
- Live Stream
- Storylines To Watch
- Live Recaps:
Welcome to the last prelims session of the 2026 Australian Swimming Trials! There are just two sessions remaining, with swimmers looking to earn their way into tonight’s finals session as the last chance to earn a spot on the Commonwealth Games and Pan-Pacs rosters for this summer.
There have been some fast swims over the last five days, though most have come from finals sessions. This morning should be a relatively fast session with two 50s, but we also have a few longer events ahead with the 400 IMs and the women’s 1500 early heat.
Day 5 Schedule
- Women’s 50 Freestyle
- Women’s MC 100 Freestyle
- Men’s MC 100 Freestyle
- Men’s 400 IM
- Women’s 400 IM
- Men’s 50 Butterfly
- Women’s 1500 Freestyle — Early Heat
The women’s 50 freestyle will be led by Meg Harris and Shayna Jack, who both had strong swims during the 100 freestyle yesterday, and will be looking to carry that momentum into today’s session.
S14 swimmer Madeleine McTernan has the fastest seed time in the Multi-Class 100 freestyle while S10 athlete Rowan Crothers has the fastest seed time in the men’s MC event.
The men’s 400 IM will be led by 200 IM champion William Petric, who has not earned a priority one spot for this summer, and will be looking to change that with his swim in this event. In the women’s 400 IM, Jenna Forrester, who has been having a very strong meet, is the top seed by about three seconds over Ella Ramsay.
The final men’s event of the meet will be the 50 fly where Kyle Chalmers and Cameron McEvoy will meet as the 1st and 3rd seeds respectively. Ben Armbruster comes in between them as the 2nd seed, just a nine hundredths ahead of McEvoy.
The session will wrap up with the early timed-finals heat of the women’s 1500. Brazil’s Maria Fernanda Costa will be the top seed in the early heats, and will likely set a time that would finish in the top eight, but she will be capped at 9th since she is an international swimmer.
Women’s 50 Free — Prelims
- World Record: 23.61, Sarah Sjostrom (SWE) — 2023
- Commonwealth Record: 23.78, Cate Campbell (AUS) — 2018
- Australian Record: 23.78, Cate Campbell — 2018
- All Comers Record: 23.78, Cate Campbell (AUS) — 2018
- SA Qualifying Time: 24.45
Top 8 Finishers
- Shayna Jack (STPET) — 24.45
- Meg Harris (RACKL) — 24.61
- Alexandria Perkins (USCS) — 24.85
- Hannah Casey (BOND) — 24.94
- Olivia Wunsch (CARL) — 24.95
- Milla Jansen (STPET) — 25.14
- Chloe Rowe-Hagans (STAND) — 25.24
- Sienna Walo (STHPT) — 25.25
Shayna Jack came out on top of the women’s 50 freestyle prelims, touching in 24.45 to finish a little under two tenths ahead of Meg Harris‘ 24.61 in 2nd place.
Jack’s swim was only five hundredths off her her season best time of 24.40. Her lifetime best is 2.99 from the 2024 Australian Trials.
Harris finished six tenths off her season best 24.02 and her lifetime best of 23.97 from the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Alexandria Perkins (24.85), Hannah Casey (24.94), and Olivia Wunsch (24.95) also came in under 25 seconds to qualify 3rd, 4th, and 5th respectively.
Women’s MC 100 Free — Prelims
S7 swimmer Chloe Osborn scored the most points in the women’s 100 free Multi-Class prelims. She touched in 1:11.64 to pick up 856 points to be the only swimmer above 800 points.
Lakeisha Patterson (S9) finished 2nd, swimming 1:03.49 to rack up 798 points, 30 more than fellow S9 swimmer Victoria Belando Nicholson, who swam 1:04.44 to pick up 763 points.
Madeleine McTernan, who had the fastest seed time and won the women’s 100 backstroke last night, finished 6th in the prelims, touching in 1:00.05.
Men’s MC 100 Free — Prelims
Rowan Crothers (S10), an set the top time and scored the most points in the men’s 100 freestyle Mutli-Class prelims, stopping the clock in 52.16 to pick up 915 points for the win.
Callum Simpson (S8) finished 2nd with 843 points after touching in 59.12. He finished just three points ahead of Tom Gallagher (S10), who scored 840 points with his swim of 53.68. Just one points behind Gallagher was Alexander Tuckfield (S10), who swam 53.70 to pick up 839 points.
Men’s 400 IM — Prelims
- World Record: 4:02.50, Leon Marchand (FRA) — 2023
- Commonwealth Record: 4:08.70, Lewis Clareburt (NZL) — 2022
- Australian Record: 4:09.27, Brendon Smith (AUS) — 2021
- All Comers Record: 4:06.22, Michael Phelps (USA) — 2007
- SA Qualifying Time: 4:13.59
Women’s 400 IM — Prelims
- World Record: 4:23.65, Summer McIntosh (CAN) — 2025
- Commonwealth Record: 4:23.65, Summer McIntosh (CAN) — 2025
- Australian Record: 4:28.22, Kaylee McKeown – 2024
- All Comers Record: 4:28.22, Kaylee McKeown (AUS) – 2024
- SA Qualifying Time: 4:38.31
Men’s 50 Fly — Prelims
- World Record: 22.27, Andrii Govorov (UKR) — 2018
- Commonwealth Record: 22.68, Ilya Kharun (CAN) — 2025
- Australian Record: 22.73, Matt Targett — 2009
- All Comers Record: 22.77, Kyle Chalmers (AUS) — 2026
- SA Qualifying Time: 22.91
Women’s 1500 Free — Timed Final (Early Heat)
- World Record: 15:20.48, Katie Ledecky (USA) — 2018
- Commonwealth Record: 15:39.14, Lani Pallister (AUS) — 2025
- Australian Record: 15:39.14, Lani Pallister — 2025
- All Comers Record: 15:28.36, Katie Ledecky (USA) — 2014
- SA Qualifying Time: 16:08.19
I’m confused about the lane assignments showing in the Heat 2 results – was there a re-seeding?
Where is Schlicht?
Didn’t swim it.
Anyone at the pool want to correct shouty footy bro and tell him that Lochte held the WR in the 200 IM before Marchand broke it in 2025. Not Phelps.
So for everyone saying “Sam Short should focus on the 400/800 and less on the 1500,” turns out Sam already knew that himself. He posted on Instagram that the 1500 is less of a focus for him but he’ll still swim it for now.
He’s obviously going to stick with the 400-800. Despite being very good, he’d need to drop a lot of time in the 200 to contend for a medal there, but he’s already capable of medalling in the 1500 (and he’s a chance for gold considering how inconsistent results seem to be).
I hope Jansen gets selected. She’s been a little slower than I thought she would be this meet but really want to see her on the team. Looks like sneaking into 3rd here will be a challenge.
Screw the criteria, Wunsch/Casey/Jansen should all be on the team because we need one or more of them to carry sprint free forward
That’s a fair argument!
As others like Troyy noted during Age Nationals, with the girls we seem to have largely traded strong freestylers for strong breaststrokers. :/
In the next age group down, we have the likes of Kira Long, Lillie McPherson and Jodie Mead – but I don’t think any of them are yet to break 55?
We should have room for everyone on the Pan Pacs team but they’re not going to be in for CG at this stage
(Except for Casey who is in for 4x200m relay)
Impressive PB there by Hannah Casey to get 2nd – she’s def on the rise.
Deserved at least some recognition…but it was all about Shayna.
looking good shayna, looking good
Nearly over 🙁
Thank God we have Comms & Pan Pacs coming up.
As ever – thanks to the SwimSwam crew for posting these recap threads!
Especially big shoutout due to how late the prelims sessions have ended and how early the prelims sessions have began.
Thank you Swimswam!!