Final Night Of Action Unfolded At 2025 Aussie Age Championships

2025 AUSTRALIAN AGE CHAMPIONSHIPS

• Thursday, April 10th – Friday, April 18th
• Brisbane Aquatic Centre
• LCM (50m)
• Meet Central
• Day 1 Recap/Day 2 Recap/Day 3 Recap/Day 4 Recap/Day 5 Recap/Day 6 Recap
• Live Results

The final day of able-bodied racing at the 2025 Australian Age Championships was brought to a close tonight at the Brisbane Aquatic Centre.

The overall club point score winner was Carlile, who snagged 2009 points ahead of St. Peters Western, whose 10-year run was ended with a 2nd-place trophy from 1787 points. Knox Pymble rounded out the top 3 clubs in 1757 points.

The World Junior Championships roster is expected to be announced by Swimming Australia later this month.

Final Day Highlights

• 16-year-old Henry Allan completed his dominant display across multiple disciplines, bringing his total haul to 5 golds, 1 silver and 2 national records. The final night saw the Bendigo East rising star top the 200m back podium in a swift 1:59.53 to conclude his campaign. That marked the sole time of the field under the 2:00 threshold en route to Allan improving upon the lifetime best of 2:00.09 logged just last month.
• The 50m fly for 17-year-old boys saw Cash Milner get it done for gold in 24.07, a new PB by over half a second for the St. Andrew’s swimmer. His result was within striking distance of the Australian Age and All Comers Record of 23.92 Churchie’s Thomas Pattison put on the books two years ago.
• Warringah’s Luke Higgs secured 400m freestyle gold in the 16-year-old boys’ category, posting 3:58.40. When all was done and dusted, the teen collected gold across the 400m/800m/1500m free as well as the 400m IM. He also clinched 200m IM and 200m free silver as a testament to his versatile range.
• Amelie Smith produced a gold medal-worthy outing of 4:15.75, a big personal best over her previous PB of 4:19.09, to secure her 4th gold of the competition. The Rocky City ace already earned the top spot across the 800m, 1500m free and 400m IM.
• Knox Pymble’s Lukas Dunn is bringing home an incredible 8 medals in the 15-year-old boys category. This evening he bagged the 50m back bronze after earning 100m free gold, 100m fly gold, 100m back gold, 50m fly gold, 200m IM gold, silver in the 50m free and bronze in the 100m breast
• Nudgee swimmer Zoe Ammundsen successfully defended her 100m/200m backstroke double for 17-year-old girls. Tonight she posted a time of 2:12.26 for gold.

Among the relay action this evening, the Cranbrook Aquatics’ foursome of Tate Sirianni, Ollie Moclair, Jacob Whitton and Marcus Da Silva came within a hair of breaking the boys’ 14-18 4x100m free relay Aussie and All Comers Record.

The quartet collectively stopped the clock at 3:23.47, falling just .11 shy of the 3:23.36 record St. Peters Western established in 2021. Da Silva hit the fastest split of his relay with a speedy 48.43 anchor.

The 14-15 boys 4x50m free relay saw its Aussie and All Comers record go down at the hands of Knox Pymble.

Ethan Haegebaert (23.64), Dunn (22.88), Hudson Hegarty (23.53) and Oliver Wall (23.61) combined to collectively stop the clock at 1:33.66 to establish the new benchmark.

Griffith University’s quartet of Maya Zunker, Tribeca Liu, Alice Monaghan and Piper Asquith produced a new Aussie & All Comers Record in the girls 15-17 4x50m free relay.

Zunker (15) led off in 26.18 before handing it off to 16-year-old Liu who kept the momentum in 25.31. Then 17-year-old Monaghan maintained speed in 26.34 before 17-year-old Asquith sealed the deal in a final leg of 26.15.