2023 VICTORIAN OPEN LONG COURSE CHAMPIONSHIPS
- February 17 – 19, 2023
- Melbourne Sports Centre
- LCM (50m)
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- Day 1 Recap
- Results – Meet Mobile: 2023 Victorian Open LC Championships
Day two of the 2023 Vic Open concluded today from the Melbourne Sports Centre.
Olympic champion Kaylee McKeown stole the show at a swift time of 57.93 to take the women’s 100m backstroke, her fastest since the Tokyo Olympic Games. You can read more about McKeown’s swim here.
In other events, 16-year-old Olivia Wunsch topped the women’s 50m freestyle race, stopping the clock in a time of 25.46. The Carlile athlete’s performance here checks in just outside the top 5 performances of her young career, one which boasts a lifetime best of 25.09 at last year’s Aussie Age Group Championships.
Wunsch also raced the women’s 100m fly, producing a time of 1:00.15 as runner-up to Isabella Boyd. Boyd, 17 out of Nunawading, produced a time of 59.69 to get to the wall first.
The women’s 200m breast saw visiting Japanese swimmer Kotomi Matsugi get it done for gold in a mark of 2:30.58 while Joshua Yong won the men’s 100m breast in a result of 1:00.19.
For 21-year-old Yong, his time here represents the 3rd quickest of his career. The UWSC swimmer has been as speedy as 59.99 from the 2022 Commonwealth Games. That sub-minute outing was posted in the semi-final, while Yong ultimately placed 7th in a mark of 1:00.60.
William Yang earned the men’s 50m fly gold in a time of 23.49. That touched out New Zealand’s Cameron Gray who wound up as the silver medalist tonight in 23.58.
Finally, in the men’s 200m free, it was Cameron Bladen who got to the wall first. 21-year-old Bladen of TigerSharks Swimming Club stopped the clock in a time of 1:49.70, the sole result of the field under the 1:50 threshold.
Additional Winners
- Bradley Woodward clinched the men’s 200m back in a result of 1:58.65.
- Maddy Gough topped the women’s 400m free podium in a time of 4:11.40 over Tamsin Cook who settled for silver in 4:14.91.
- The men’s 200m IM saw Se-Bom Lee get gold in a result of 2:01.59.
