Cohen Tarrant Takes Down Zac Stubblety-Cook Age Record In Queensland

2025 QUEENSLAND SC CHAMPIONSHIPS

• Thursday, August 7th – Sunday, August 10th
• Brisbane Aquatics Centre
• SCM (25m)
• Meet Central
• Day 1 Recap/Day 2 Recap/Day 3 Recap
• Live Results
• Live Stream

The 2025 Queensland Short Course Championships wrapped up today from the Brisbane Aquatics Centre with additional age records being broken to conclude the prestigious event.

The 14-year-old boy’s 200m breaststroke saw Cohen Tarrant of Somerset get the job done for gold, ripping a lifetime best of 2:16.79.

The teen got to the wall over 8 seconds ahead of his competitors, handily erasing Olympic champion Zac Stubblety-Cook‘s 2:18.63 Queensland Age Record in the process.

Entering this meet, Tarrant’s career-swiftest performance rested at the 2:22.43 notched just last month. That means in just a matter of weeks, the Somerset youngster hacked over 5 seconds off his PB to establish a new Australian Age Record.

The old benchmark stood at the 2:17.32 Heath Macleod put on the books over 10 years ago in 2014.

Fairholme’s 14-year-old Bryce Krause put up another impressive performance at these championships, this time in the age group’s 50m backstroke.

Krause stopped the clock at a mighty 24.81, dipping beneath the 25-second barrier for the first time in his young career.

He held the former Queensland Age, Queensland All Comers and overall Australian Age Records with the 25.20. notched last month.

Tonight, however, he beat the field by over a second as he posted a huge personal best.

Finally, two boys cleared the former Queensland Age and Queensland All Comers Age Record in the 14-year-old 50m breaststroke.

Somerset’s Koa Stotz turned in a time of 28.36 to overtake Stubblety-Cook’s former standard of 29.59 that’s been on the books since 2013.

Stotz’s effort also cleared the Queensland All Comers Record of 29.68 Leny Grigor registered last year.

Tarrant, Stotz’s teammate, was also under the 29-second barrier. hitting 28.01 for a 1-2 Somerset punch.

Additional Notes

• Lincoln Wearing of Chandler won the 400m freestyle in a time of 3:48.26, just .01 outside his lifetime best and Queensland Age Record of 3:48.25 posted last month.
• Visiting South African Matt Sates topped the men’s open 200m IM podium in a result of 1:56.68, beating the pack by over 3 seconds. Behind him was Kiwi swimmer Zac Dell in 1:59.82 while Miami’s Karl Albertyn rounded out the podium in 1:59.85. As for 22-year-old Olympian Sates, he owns the South African national record in this event, courtesy of the 1:50.15 established at the 2022 Short Course World Championships when he earned gold.