2023 QUEENSLAND CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Saturday, December 9th – Friday, December 15th
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The first event of day four of the 2023 Queensland Championships was the men’s 4x200m free relay and Miami clocked a new club record to set off some fireworks.
The combination of Maximillian Giuliani, Alex Graham, Alex Grant and James Koch collectively posted a winning time of 7:09.29, highlighted by Giuliani’s masterful opening split of 1:44.79.
20-year-old Giuliani opened in 51.28 and closed in 53.51 to register his first-ever outing under the 1:45 barrier, In doing so, he is inching toward the legendary Ian Thorpe‘s longstanding Australian national record of 1:44.06 put on the books in 2001.
Top 10 Australian Men’s LCM 200 Freestyle Performers All-Time
- Ian Thorpe – 1:44.06, 2001
- Maximillian Giuliani – 1:44.79, 2023
- Clyde Lewis – 1:44.90, 2019
- Thomas Fraser-Holmes – 1:45.08, 2014
- Alex Graham – 1:45.22, 2021
- Kenrick Monk – 1:45.46, 2009
- Cameron McEvoy – 1:45.46, 2014
- Kyle Chalmers – 1:45.48, 2021
- Elijah Winnington – 1:45.53, 2022
- Grant Hackett – 1:45.61, 2004
Giuliani’s breakthrough performance has been bubbling beneath the surface all season.
It was at the Berlin stop of the World Aquatics Swimming World Cup where Giuliani clocked his first-ever international podium placement time, grabbing 200m free gold in a then-personal best of 1:46.18.
He took that time down to a new PB of 1:45.42 at the Budapest stop on the tour and was within striking distance with another successful result of 1:45.67 to take the individual event earlier here in Brisbane.
So Giuliani has gone from 1:46.18 to 1:44.79 in a matter of two months, which is just the type of trajectory he wants to see headed into next year’s Olympic Games.
Giuliani is also the 18th-best performer all-time across all nations and the Aussie now moves up to become the #2 swimmer in the world this season.
2023-2024 LCM Men 200 Free
POPOVICI
1:43.13
| 2 | Lukas MÄRTENS | GER | 1:44.14 | 04/27 |
| 3 | Sunwoo HWANG | KOR | 1:44.40 | 09/27 |
| 4 | Matthew RICHARDS | GBR | 1:44.69 | 04/07 |
| 5 | Duncan SCOTT | GBR | 1:44.75 | 04/07 |
Still not beating UK but potentially dangerous team. Best recent times and splits:
Giuliani – 1:44.79
Taylor – 1:44.56
Neill – 1:44.74
Chalmers – 1:45.19
=6:59.28
For context, UK in Tokyo was 6:58.58 and WR is 6:58.55.
Obviously this relies on every swimmer matching their best ever split, but who knows.
Max has gone from 1:48 at trials to 1:44.79 within 6 months. If he could get down to 1:43, Australia would be in it with a real chance cos Tommy Neil has been swimming well too. I think it just depends on everyone firing at once which Australia has struggled with (eg Clyde Lewis has been 1:44 flat and Mack Horton had been 1:44 split)
Brings Australia back in the medal mix for the 200 Free and 4x200m Free relay next year.
Australian Freestyle Mens and Womens over all distances is ridiculous right now.
Incoming: Battle of the Max’s!
Maximillian vs Maximus: swim-maxxing
How cool would that be.
Giuliano vs Giuliani in the 4x100free
holyy
Surprised Chalmers was never 144
100 butterfly is his dream instead .. apparently lol
speaking of it always surprises me whenever I remember 2018 comm games and how he lost the 100 free to Duncan but won the 200 free
Triple tie for 18th place.. Martens, Malyutin and Giuliani, pushing Park out of top 20 now
Rip to a legend who inspired a nation
Love to see the second 100 speed. Take notes Americans!
you’re saying going as fast as possible for the entire race is a bad strategy 😱
buT maRchAnd cAn dO iT!?!!
Amazing swims from the aussie boys
I just cant see past GB in the 4 x 200 fre
Especially with how James guy swam at europeans last week…
Potentially we could see
1 x 1.44 split and
3 x 1.43 splits
Yes I see at present GB favourites for both 4 X 200 free & 4 X 100 free.
More so the 4 X 200, (they have strong quality) but have to wait for the form of the Olympic year in the 4 x 100, US with some youngsters & possibly Dressel back & Aussies with Chalmers & a couple of youngsters & possibly a resurgent McEvoy.
Will he swim the worlds ?