2026 Australian Age Championships
- April 11-18, 2026
- Gold Coast Aquatic Centre
- LCM (50 Meters)
- Meet Central
- Heat Sheets
- Day 1 Recap/Day 2 Recap/Day 3 Recap/Day 4 Recap
- Live Results
Records continued to fall on day five of the 2026 Australian Age Championships, where the nation’s budding stars took center stage at the Gold Coast Aquatic Centre.
13-year-old Nash Hawkins joined the party by firing off a new lifetime best and Age Record en route to taking his age category’s 200m breaststroke gold medal.
Hawkins stopped the clock at a rapid time of 2:23.05, a mark which obliterated the former Age Record and All Comers Record that had been on the books since 2012.
That former effort stood at the 2:24.83 Olympic champion and former world record holder Zac Stubblety-Cook previously held.
Tonight, Hawkins split 32.84/37.14 (1:09.98)/36.94/36.13 to get the job done, handily defeating his rivals.
Stingrays swimmer Sunny Kito was next to the wall in 2:26.94 followed by Liam Chang who rounded out the podium in 2:30.98.
Entering this competition, Hawkins’ lifetime best in this 2breast event rested at the 2:29.69 logged just this past February. That means the teen hacked nearly 5 seconds off that result to throw down this new PB.
🔥✍️ Nash Hawkins rewrites the books!
Zac Stubblety-Cook’s 13y boys’ 200m breaststroke national age record had stood since 2012.
Enter Nash Hawkins from Corrimal with a sizzling 2:23.05 to break Zac’s 2:24.83 to take the win. 🥇🔥
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— Swimming Australia (@SwimmingAUS) April 15, 2026
Additional Results
- 17y Girls’ 400m Individual Medley: Rocky City’s Amelie Smith picked up her fifth gold medal of the meet when she stopped the clock at 4:42.66, well under qualifying time for Junior Pan Pacific Championships. Chandler’s Ava Gaske was next to wall in 4:51.64, followed by New Zealand visitor Ariella Riley (4:59.88) and Maya Bearman (Logan Vikings – 5:01.76).
- 16 Years Boys’ 200m Breaststroke: Somerset teen Leny Grigor put down a cracking 2:12.48 to claim gold, an All Comers record and another likely swim at the Junior Pan Pacs in Vancouver this August.
- 15 Years Boys’ 50m Freestyle: Koa Stotz (22.89) registered the sole time of his age category under the 23-second barrier. Stotz had already claimed a new Aussie Age record in the 50m breaststroke at this meet for which he consecutively holds the 13yr, 14yr and 15yr boys’ national age record in.
- 16 Years Boys’ 50m Freestyle: Christopher Montana upset top-seeded Ethan Haegebaert to continue his dominance in this age group. Haegebaert crushed a super quick PB of 22.39 this morning, a time that narrowly missed Kyle Chalmers‘ Australian and All Comers record by just 0.06. Trinity Grammar’s Montana notched 22.59 ahead of Haegebaert (22.77). Knox Pymble’s Lukas Dunn touched third (23.07) in the final event.
