2023 QUEENSLAND CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Saturday, December 9th – Friday, December 15th
- Brisbane Aquatic Center
- LCM (50m)
- Swimming Australia 2024 World Championships Qualifying Criteria
- Meet Central
- Draft Entries
- SwimSwam Preview
- Day 1 Recap/Day 2 Recap
- Live Results
Although World Record holder Mollie O’Callaghan stole the show on night two of the 2023 Queensland Championships we wanted to make sure you didn’t miss a powerful swim by Cody Simpson on the men’s side.
Contesting the 100m butterfly at the competition, 26-year-old Simpson ripped a personal best time of 51.67 to top the 100m butterfly pack. He split 24.19/27.48 to beat out Shaun Champion who touched in 52.55 while Ben Armbruster logged 52.72 for bronze.
Simpson’s effort sliced .11 off his previous career-best of 51.78 posted at this same competition last year and his time matched the World Aquatics Olympic Qualification Time of 51.67 for Paris 2024.
Despite a PB, Simpson’s result fell short of the stiff Swimming Australia-mandated qualification time of 51.17 needed to qualify for the 2024 World Championships. That same 51.17 benchmark is what Swimming Australia mandated as the qualification time needed for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.
Regardless, Simpson now ranks #4 on the season in this LCM 100 fly event with only Aussie Matt Temple owning a faster time of 50.25 from the Japan Open. Temple’s result in Tokyo established a new Aussie national record to rival Simpson heading into next year’s Olympic Trials.
2023-2024 LCM Men 100 Fly
Liendo
50.06
| 2 | Noe PONTI | SUI | 50.16 | 04/06 |
| 3 | Caeleb DRESSEL | USA | 50.19 | 06/22 |
| 4 | Matthew William Temple | AUS | 50.25 | 12/03 |
| 5 | Maxime GROUSSET | FRA | 50.59 | 06/21 |
In terms of the all-time Australian performers list, Simpson’s 51.67 renders him the 8th-best ever.
Top X Australian Men’s LCM 100 Butterfly Performers All-Time
- Matt Temple – 50.25, 2023
- Andrew Lauterstein -50.85, 2009
- Grant Irvine – 51.00, 2017
- Kyle Chalmers – 51.37, 2020
- David Morgan – 51.47, 2019
- Shaun Champion – 51.54, 2022
- Jayden Hadler/Jesse Coleman – 51.66, 2015/2023
- Cody Simpson – 51.67, 2023
I always forgot Andrew Lauterstein won bronze behind the legendary Phelps – Cavic duel in Beijing.
Also winning bronze by 0.01
Not bad time for SJ in 50 Fr 24.0 KM 200IM 2.07 .
Is that a PB for Jaclyn Barclay in 200 back?
Also, Elizabeth Dekkers is so consistent.
Big PB for Barclay.
We’ve been commenting over here: https://swimswam.com/ocallaghan-takes-on-six-swims-on-day-two-of-2023-queensland-championships/
Max Giuliani just went 1:44.80 leading off a club relay!!!!
3rd Australian to do it, #2 Australian, T18 all time.
What a rate of improvement!
Showed 1:44.80 on the screen but according to Meet Mobile it’s 1:44.79
Yes, what a cracking swim. So pleased for him.
Cody making Olympics brings more eyeballs to the sport. A win for everyone (except Chalmers)
Temple looks to have one of the fly spots sewn up, but the second spot is quite open. Aus really should be sending a medley relay team of the likely heat swimmers/newbies to Doha get some relay experience. Besides the medley relay heats at Comm Games Simpson hasn’t had much relay experience and Armbruster and Champion have even less.
An excellent swim but a cautionary note sould be taken from 12 months ago when he was similarly quick but it proved a season outlier as he failed to match it thereafter.
Can he get 2nd at Trials behind Temple ? Yes, but not sure he’s at the very front of that queue. WA A mark is doable but think Aus QT is a step beyond him.
He’s potentially in the 4X100 discussion but they may only take 5 (and co-opt Temple for heats & maybe McEvoy if he posts a 48.5 or better at some point. Currently have 2023 Worlds quartet and Guiliani ahead of him
His best shot is the second butterfly spot. They’ll take that person for heats and then provided they have a QT which he does, he’ll be able to swim it individually. The problem is there are 3-4 guys who are in the 51 mid to 52 low mark who are all competing for that one spot
Fully agree
Need cody to make it
I want him to make it. What an amazing story. It’s going to be so difficult. Jesse Coleman, Shaun champion and David Morgan are still in play? I think if swims just a little faster and make top2 at the trials swimming wouldn’t risk taking only Matt Temple because the medley relays are very important.
I also think for Cody to get to is dream, it’s better that he didn’t qualify for Doha, because that way he as a few more months is solid training. I also think that he should really work on his starts, turn and underwater…that’s half a second right there.
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According to Brett Hawke he wasn’t rested/tapered either so if this is any indication to go off off he’ll hopefully be alot faster.
ben armbruster not david morgan