2023 QUEENSLAND MEDAL SHOTS LC PREP MEET #2 (AUS)
- Friday, November 10th – Sunday, November 12th
- Brisbane Aquatic Center
- Queensland, Australia
- LCM (50m)
- Entries/Live Results
The second of two Queensland Medal Shots Long Course Preparation Meets is slated to get underway on Friday, November 10th. The first edition took place last month while both competitions mark fine-tuning opportunities ahead of December’s Queensland Championships.
At the first QLD Medal Shots meet we saw world champion Cameron McEvoy produce a time of 22.00 in the men’s 50m free. The 29-year-old Somerville House Aquatics star is expected to race in that event this time around as well where he’ll face 22-year-old Thomas Nowakowski of the USC Spartans once again.
Another world champion set to dive in is 22-year-old Kaylee McKeown. The Griffith star is bypassing her bread-and-butter backstroke events to instead try the 50m and 100m breaststroke events on for size.
This is far from the first time McKeown has dabbled in breaststroke, however. The Olympic champion showed her versatility in clocking a lifetime best in the 100m breast in February of this year. While competing at the Victorian LC Open Championships, McKeown registered a time of 1:06.86 to knock a second off her previous career-quickest of 1:07.85 from 2020.
Periodically racing breaststroke has paid dividends for McKeown in the 200m IM. In 2022 when she earned silver in the event at the World Championships, McKeown’s breaststroke split was 37.32. This year in Fukuoka, McKeown punched a split of 37.18 for the fastest leg of the field in just the heats, although she wound up ultimately getting disqualified in the event.
McKeown is entered as the top seed in both the 50m and 100m breast where she’ll fend off two teenagers in 16-year-old Hayley Mackinder, also of Griffith, as well as 15-year-old Olympia Pope of Miami.
Additional ones to watch this weekend include Flynn Southam, Leah Neale, Milla Jansen, David Morgan and Chelsea Gubecka.
Kaylee scratched the meet. Lame.
Cam went 22.2 and is in heavy resistance training apparently.
Doesn’t look like there will be anything interesting to report from this one
Maybe she had a few too many last night at the awards ceremony. Neale and Jansen also scratched.
Yeah I assumed that was the case
Just great to see one of the world’s best swimmers perform in ANY and every event she (and her coach) wants to.
Imagine the comments on here if Katie Ledecky was entered into a 50m Fly. I’m sure plenty would predict she would break the WR lmao
The only swimmer, male or female, that have 8 events in this year’s top 25.
Talk about versatility!
I’m more interested to see what Kaylee can do in the 100 fly than breaststroke.
Some other prominent entries:
Abbey Connor
Kai Taylor
Jaclyn Barclay
Fly is interesting because it impacts her IM but isn’t interesting on its own. Her breast times are legitimately competitive in isolation.
Probably the 3rd best 100 breaststroker; likewise over 200; an arguable case could be made for no.2 status.
As a 54low 100free and a sub 1.57 200 free performer; she would be a realistic candidate for every other country’s 4X100 & 4X200 other than AUS & USA ….and would be a probable heats option for the latter.
She broke all the backstroke records so she’s moving on to breast
Smashed them.
I wouldn’t be surprised if she emerges as AUS No 1 ranked breastroker…
She’s already tied 1st for the 100 breast, but I guess she could improve and take sole #1
This may have been covered before but is there a line up where she swims brst in the Aussie medley relay?
Bk=MOC
Brst=Kaylee
Fly=Emma
Free=C1 / take your pick out of the other 52 low swimmers.
Given the difficulties on the brst leg this summer it might be a(nother) thought. The only thing is I assume MOC is focusing on free and not doing much bk training.
Yes this was discussed before and during worlds. It’s not ever going to happen though
And in that order, she/he left out Jack. Jack would be the Free representative.
But kill this, you’d have to be hoping she swims Breast.
i know one nation wishes she would.
She would need to be 1:05 for it to start being a consideration, and she is very good at breaststroke, but I don’t think she is 1:05 good.
I wouldn’t say never … Kaylee and Mollie might go big PBs in breast and back this year and Shayna is already a faster anchor than Mollie.
I mean… I guess? But Mollie is unlikely to swim backstroke individually because all events conflict for her. I don’t see them throwing Mollie on back and Kaylee on breast when neither are entered in those events individually
Kaylee extending her gap over Mollie in the 100 back hasn’t helped, I haven’t done the math but I imagine Kaylee would have to get down to a 1:05 and Mollie to a 57 high for it to even be considered and even then it would depend on how Hodges/Strauch/Harkin are swimming, if it didn’t happen this year I can’t really imagine it happening next year
that being said technically Kaylee has swam breaststroke on a medley relay with Mollie before so its not as if its never happened but it was a 4×50 scm in 2020 and Mollie still swam freestyle on it
It was discussed A LOT during Fukuoka world Championship
Hodges and strauch are back and both seem to be on form early in season, good signs
Strauch in particular.
A lot of alliteration allotted
She didn’t “drop” the event at Worlds this year – she got DQd. Looking forward to seeing what she can do!