2025 AUSTRALIAN SWIMMING TRIALS
- Monday, June 9th – Saturday, June 14th
- SA Aquatic & Leisure Centre, Oaklands Park, South Australia
- Prelims at 11am local (9:30pm ET night before)/Finals at 7:30pm local (6:00am ET) nights 1&2; 7pm local (5:30am ET) nights 3-6
- LCM (50m)
- Swimming Australia World Championships Selection Criteria
- Meet Central
- Livestream (VPN needed outside of Australia)
- Start List
- Heat Sheets
- Results
- Recaps
After six days of high-octane racing at the SA Aquatic & Leisure Centre, a squad of 40-strong pool and open water swimmers was announced by Swimming Australia for this summer’s World Championships.
The lineup includes a strong mix of steely veterans and keen newcomers who will represent the green and gold, with 10 headed to their first senior long course World Championships.
On the older end of the spectrum, 31-year-old Cam McEvoy remarkably qualified for his 7th Worlds appearance.
The father-to-be topped the men’s 50m freestyle podium in a season-best 21.30 to become the #1 swimmer in the world at the moment.
He’ll be joined by also father-to-be Kyle Chalmers who nabbed the 100m free and 50m fly victories while placing as runner-up behind McEvoy in the 50m free.
Olympic multi-gold medalist Kaylee McKeown successfully completed a sweep of the backstroke discipline to earn her spot on the roster, while Olympic teammate Mollie O’Callaghan made the cut in 4 individual events of the 100m free, 200m free, 50m back and 100m back.
O’Callaghan has a chance to become Australia’s most successful World Championships swimmer in history, with her current haul of 8 gold medals approaching Ian Thorpe‘s record-setting bounty of 11.
Lani Pallister was the unofficial MVP of the competition, reaping gold across the 400m, 800m and 1500m freestyle events while also snagging runner-up in the 200m free.
Now training under Dean Boxall at St. Peters Western, 23-year-old Pallister took down Ariarne Titmus‘ Australian national record in the 800m free while also establishing a new Australian and Commonwealth Record to win the 1500m free on the final night of action.
16-year-old Sienna Toohey represents the youngest member of the World Championships squad, courtesy of her 100m breaststroke victory here.
Toohey was emotional after topping the podium in a lifetime best of 1:06.55.
Finally, 20-year-old Olympian Ella Ramsay was another multi-event qualifier, punching her ticket for the women’s 100m/200m breaststroke and 200m/400m IM.
Those left off the Singapore lineup include 28-year-old Olympic medalist Zac Incerti.
In hindsight, Incerti may have miscalculated his racing strategy, as he punched a super solid time of 1:45.80 to lead the men’s 200m freestyle heats, only to withdraw from the final.
He then took on the 100m free where he finished 6th in 48.46 but was left off the roster with several other swimmers already available to contest the men’s 4x100m and 4x200m free relays.
Other past Australian World Championships swimmers who missed making the roster include Olympic champion Shayna Jack and Elizabeth Dekkers.
Jack placed 8th in the 100m free and 5th in the 50m free while Dekkers finished 3rd in the 200m fly.
Relay Thoughts
- 18-year-old Milla Jansen was named to the team after finishing 6th in the women’s 100m free. This was a discretionary pick, as the selection criteria stated that only the top 2 finishers in the 100m and 200m freestyle events would be selected for relays while the remaining would be decided via the coaches. Jansen’s participation will help free up the big guns such as Mollie O’Callaghan from needing to race the relay prelims.
- Two men’s breaststrokers are on the team in the form of Nash Wilkes and Zac Stubblety-Cook. Wilkes won the 100m but missed the QT while ZSC won the 200m in a Singapore-worthy result. Both should be available for medley relay duties so we’ll see what transpires in Singapore.
- Elijah Winnington‘s sole individual event is the men’s 400m free, so he should be fresh for the men’s 4x200m free relay. Maximillian Giuliani also missed 1free and 2free individual qualification so will be a solid swimmer in the stable to help spread the workload. The same holds true for 200m freestyle victor Ed Sommerville in terms of the men’s 4x100m free relay.
Dolphins Head Coach Rohan Taylor said of the squad for Singapore, “I am excited by what this team can do over the next four years.
“This is the beginning of the third Olympic campaign I have been the head coach of, and this team has a strong nucleus in place. The end goal is LA … but to be great in LA this very young team, which boasts X rookies, is going to learn what is needed on the global stage in Singapore,” he said.
“This team is heading to Singapore to gain exposure to international competition … this is the start of our runway. I have watched our pathways develop, and our athletes grow internationally for the past 30 years.
“This is a very balanced program that I know can challenge the very best swimmers in the world. We have to be purposeful about what we do as we don’t have the abundance of numbers of the likes of US and China.
“We have to find the talent like a Sienna Toohey, and these are the stories we love, the ones that inspire Australia through swimming.”
| POOL ATHLETES | AGE | CLUB |
| Abbey Connor | 20 |
USC SPARTANS
|
| Abbey Webb* | 24 | CRUIZ |
| Alex Perkins | 24 |
USC SPARTANS
|
| Ben Goedemans* | 21 |
ST PETERS WESTERN
|
| Brad Woodward | 26 | MINGARA |
| Brendon Smith | 24 |
ST PETERS WESTERN
|
| Brittany Castelluzzo | 24 |
TEA TREE GULLY
|
| Cam McEvoy | 31 |
SOMERVILLE HOUSE
|
| Charlie Hawke* | 22 | HUNTER |
| David Schlicht | 25 | MLC AQUATIC |
| Ed Sommerville | 20 |
BRISBANE GRAMMAR
|
| Elijah Winnington | 25 |
ST PETERS WESTERN
|
| Ella Ramsay | 20 |
GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY
|
| Flynn Southam | 20 | BOND |
| Hannah Casey* | 19 | BOND |
| Hannah Fredericks* | 22 |
ST PETERS WESTERN
|
| Harrison Turner | 21 |
NUDGEE COLLEGE
|
| Isaac Cooper | 21 | ST ANDREW’S |
| Jamie Perkins | 20 |
ST PETERS WESTERN
|
| Jenna Forrester | 22 |
ST PETERS WESTERN
|
| Jesse Coleman* | 20 | BOND |
| Josh Edwards-Smith | 22 |
GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY
|
| Kai Taylor | 21 |
ST PETERS WESTERN
|
| Kaylee McKeown | 23 |
USC SPARTANS
|
| Kyle Chalmers | 26 | MARION |
| Lani Pallister | 23 |
ST PETERS WESTERN
|
| Lily Price | 22 | RACKLEY |
| Matt Temple | 25 | MARION |
| Max Giuliani | 21 | TSS AQUATIC |
| Meg Harris | 23 | RACKLEY |
| Milla Jansen | 18 | BOND |
| Moesha Johnson | 27 | MIAMI |
| Mollie O’Callaghan | 21 |
ST PETERS WESTERN
|
| Nash Wilkes* | 23 |
GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY
|
| Olivia Wunsch | 19 | CARLILE |
| Sam Short | 21 | RACKLEY |
| Sienna Toohey* | 16 | ALBURY |
| Tara Kinder | 22 |
MELBOURNE VICENTRE
|
| William Petric | 20 |
ST PETERS WESTERN
|
| Zac Stubblety-Cook | 26 |
GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY
|
| OW ATHLETES | AGE | CLUB |
| Chelsea Gubecka | 26 |
YERONGA PARK
|
| Moesha Johnson | 27 | MIAMI |
| Kyle Lee | 23 | NORTH COAST |
| Nick Sloman | 27 |
MELBOURNE VICENTRE
|
| Tayla Martin* | 26 |
CARLILE SWIMMING CLUB
|
| Thomas Raymond* | 22 | NOOSA |
*Dolphins rookie
Moesha Johnson doesn’t swim the 800 FR or the 1500 FR, yet gets a free pass on the squad (pool athletes). What a joke!
If I were Tia Kritzinger, I would be royally pissed.
She swum it at nationals as allowed by the selection criteria.
The qualifying criteria was set out well before these trials so all athletes and coaches knew what they were up against, Moesha has done nothing wrong and layed down some impressive swims in April, then leaving her selection at the mercy of her competitors who were not quick enough to beat her times at these trials. Tiana is certainly the big loser out of this selection criteria by being left off the team entirely but I really wonder if Jamie Perkins couldn’t find that extra 1 second over 800m had Moesha been in a lane where Jamie could see her in the trials 800m 🤷.
Moesha 8.25.42 in April
Jamie 8.26.20 at trials.
Put them in the same race on the same day with same pressure and who knows what the outcome would have been.
Jamie might be relieved to not have to swim the 800
😁 you might be right.
Lucky to get one gold
Side note:
Isaac Cooper makes the team in one solitary event 50 back – no relays, no 100m events – so he will most likely make final or miss out in semis – then go sightseeing on Sentosa island the rest of the time in Singapore .. sweet life really
Isaac Cooper is like the Michael Andrew of Australia. They both made the team this time, but a lot of question marks hang over Michael Andrew’s future. Maybe time to start thinking about another career after pro swimming.
Note for Retta – Jansen and Jack finished 6th and 7th in the 100 free – not 5th and 6th. There was a tie for 4th, so there was no 5th place.
As you say there was no 5th place. But Jack was actually 8th in the final behind Jaimie De Lutiis.
You’re right
Corrected, thanks!
I think this is the first senior meet ever that Olivia Wunsch, Milla Jansen and Hannah Casey are all together which bodes well for the future of the women’s relay teams
As they’re the literal next gen after Meg and Mollie
Why did he pull out of the 200 final
Crazy to leave off Incerti when he’s the second fastest 200 but seems like they were making a point that you need to swim the final
Selection seems strict this time since it is the world champs. Maybe, coaches are not pleased with him pulling out of the 200 free final
I think they sent a strong signal to those who try attempt the same thing next year or more importantly 2028:
You can’t expect to be automatically included just because you swim fast heat.
So what message does this send to Tiana Kritzinger who swam into 2nd in the 1500 and bettered the QT but was left off the team for someone who didn’t bother to turn up at trials at all 🤷.
What’s good for 1, has to be good for all!!
No it was clear from the beginning the selection criteria for open water swimmers are different when it comes to 1500 free and based on this criteria Moesha swam much much faster like 14 seconds much faster than Kritzinger did in April so she knew what what was on the line coming into these Trials .. I’d rather take a 16.02 swimmer any day
It’s not correct to say Johnson “didn’t bother to turn up to trials”. The rules were that open water swimmers could post a time before the trials, and she did. SA didn’t want the open water swimmers, given the mileage they have already done this year, to overwork themselves 5 weeks out from Singapore. Tiana knew what time she had to do but couldn’t beat it. Whereas Zac just stuffed up.
“SA didn’t want the open water swimmers, given the mileage they have already done this year, to overwork themselves 5 weeks out from Singapore”
If that were true then why the hell did Moe just do another 10k in Portugal, yesterday? Let’s be honest, the travel time is probably more what SA were trying to avoid for Moe but these pre-trials opportunities for the O/W crew were written with Moe in mind this year. The criteria has not been worded this way before this year. It was special treatment (and I understand why, considering her times swam) but if Charlie Hawke decided to stay in the US and ask for his times to be considered, he would not be on… Read more »
Moe just swam 10k in Portugal yesterday. That’s laughable the criteria was to not overwork the O/W swimmers.
Because she’s already qualified for both open water and pool swimming so she has the freedom to swim and prepare for Singapore without having the pressure of qualifying 5 weeks out .. why are you hellbent on attacking a swimmer who was following a set guideline / selection policy as if she’s doing something illegal or inappropriate to you ? Are you somehow related to this Krizinger chick because you’re certainly giving her a “sore loser” image in this website now right now ?!
Apologies for giving off the wrong impression. Moesha certainly has done nothing wrong and had she been at trials would more than likely have placed 1st or 2nd to book her rightful spot on the pool team anyhow so I understand she is the correct athlete for the spot. I was attempting to draw correlations between Zac’s omission and Moe’s inclusion and the different sets of goal posts that athletes have to aim for, sometimes just doesn’t seem to be the same set of goal posts for all that’s all.
I’d agree if he didn’t also make top six in the 100 only a few hundredths slower than fifth place. I think the combination should’ve been enough.
Based on the times posted at the Aussie swim trials, the men will be hard-pressed to even medal in the non-freestyle events.
That’s no different to last year and the years before that except for Zac SC
Kyle is a good chance to medal in the 50 fly. Matt Temple a chance in 100 fly. ZSC will likely medal in 200 breast.