2026 Australian Age Championships
- April 11-18, 2026
- Gold Coast Aquatic Centre
- LCM (50 Meters)
- Meet Central
- Heat Sheets
- Day 1 Recap/Day 2 Recap/Day 3 Recap/Day 4 Recap/Day 5 Recap
- Live Results
The 2026 Australian Age Championships continued on with 16-year-old Lincoln Wearing busting out another impressive swim.
Chandler’s Wearing topped his age category’s 1500m freestyle in a result of 15:10.44, getting to the wall over 18 seconds ahead of the next-closest competitor.
Entering this competition, Wearing’s lifetime best rested at the 15:18.98 logged at last December’s Queensland Championships, so the budding star ripped that to shreds with tonight’s performance.
The teen now ranks 4th among the all-time Aussie 16-year-old boys, joining some very elite company.
Australia’s fastest 16-year boys over 1500m freestyle of all-time:
1. Kieren Perkins: 14:58.08
2. Grant Hackett: 15:03.67
3. Mack Horton: 15:04.87
4. Lincoln Wearing: 15:10.44
Additional Notes
- An Australian Age Record went down at the hands of 14-year-old Ishaaq Ismail of Surrey Park. Ismail won his age category’s 50m fly in a time of 24.80 as the sole competitor of the field to delve under the 25-second barrier. His time erased the former age mark of 24.97 Maxwell Cunningham put on the books two years ago.
- MLC Aquatic’s Lucy Ma claimed gold in the 14-year-old girls’ 400m IM, registering a time of 4:58.78. This gold is added to an already solid haul, bringing her total tally to six pieces of hardware altogether. Ma has swept the 200m and 400m individual medley titles, 100m and 50m breaststroke titles and the 200m and 100m backstroke titles, and she has picked up a silver in the 200m freestyle. Ma still has the 100m freestyle to go.
- Olivia Hine was .01away from cracking a national age record of Olympian Emily Seebohm‘s that has remained unbeatable for almost 16 years. Hine, who trains at Somerville House under Tim Lane, clocked 26.09 to win the 18-year girls’ 50m butterfly, a fingernail outside of Seebohm’s record time of 26.08. Jessica Whiting (Traralgon -26.93) and Audrey Jackson (Abbotsleigh – 27.09) placed second and third respectively.
Top swimmers today:
Very tough to decide between the top 2. I’ll go with the one that had the more exciting race:
Tomorrow is our last day! I’m going to miss this week.
Gotta put Labara in the talks for the 200 free with Kreutzberger too. Would’ve smoked the field in the 400 if it wasn’t for an entry mixup.
Ah thanks, my tired brain missed him oops
I missed his race and idk if he broke a record or not (sorry!)
24.51 is also *just* under the Commonwealth Games qualifying time of 24.53
ok maybe I wasn’t crazy, I was just looking at the wrong event.
Henry Allan bronze medal for 50 back Comm Games??? lol
allan won that 50 by 1.7 seconds. would have been nice to see that margin visually…
allan 24.51! #2 open australian all time
Didn’t think the camera work could get any worse but apparently it can.
Brilliant race by BOTH Leny and Lukas. Leny breaks the record.
Grigor 2:00.53
Dunn 2:01.30
Montana 2:03.39
Beats Muchirahondo who was 2:00.87
He would’ve also just beaten Se-Bom at the Aus Open with this time for 3rd overall (behind Petric and Clareburt)
Adam Dunn (youngest of the Dunn kids) dropped 50 seconds off his 1500m in the heats. 16:45
grigor new age record, 2:00.53
Dunn under the record aswell
I don’t think he was
On the rankings page it was 2.01.13 Hadler in 2010
I saw that, the graphic said 2:02.13, I cant find the results for the meet to confirm.
the swimming aus and qld record documents say 2:02.13, so the error seems to be in the rankings
Great time after a long week.
2 swimmers under the old record 👌