2025 QUEENSLAND CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Saturday, December 13th – Friday, December 19th
- Brisbane Aquatic Centre
- LCM (50m)
- Meet Central
- Day 1 Recap/Day 2 Recap/Day 3 Recap/Day 4 Recap
- Live Results
Day five of the 2025 Queensland Championships saw multiple athletes from the age group set stealing the show despite a slew of Olympians taking to the Brisbane Aquatic Centre pool.
For instance, 13-year-old Grayson Coulter of New Zealand put up a phenomenal performance to take his age category’s gold medal in the 400m freestyle tonight.
Coulter stopped the clock at a eye-popping time of 3:59.40 to not only beat the field by 20 seconds, but to also take down the All Comers Record for 13-year-olds that’s been on the books since 2008.
The All Comers Record, which represents the fastest time logged by a swimmer from any nation but on Australian soil, stood at the rapid 4:03.37 retired Olympic champion Kosuke Hagino of Japan established over 17 years ago.
Entering this competition, Coulter’s lifetime best rested at the 4:08.49 he produced at this year’s New Zealand Age Championships in April. That means the teen hacked nearly 9 seconds off that outing to bust out his best-ever performance.
Splits for Coulter’s 3:59.40 swim are below:
27.02 56.14 (29.12)
1:26.37 (30.23) 1:57.08 (30.71)
2:28.07 (30.99) 2:59.23 (31.16)
3:30.31 (31.08) 3:59.40 (29.09)
For perspective, Coulter’s result would render him the 6th-fastest American 13-14-year-old boy in history.
17-year-old Henry Allan also impressed this evening, taking on the 50m backstroke.
Allan of Bendigo East posted a stellar result of 24.89, a time which would have grabbed gold in the open category of the event.
The teen’s swim was just .01 outside his lifetime best of 24.88 turned in at April’s Australian Age Championships.
It was Isaac Cooper of St. Andrew’s who took the open 50m back title, logging an effort of 25.06 to get the job done.
That held off Korea’s Lee Juho, the 30-year-old who notched a new national record in the 200m back last night.
Lee stopped the clock at 25.23 and his countryman Ji Yuchan rounded out the podium in 25.49.
Olympian Sam Short dove in for the men’s 800m freestyle, taking the victory in a time of 7:46.33.
That held a healthy advantage over 18-year-old Kim Junwoo of Korea who settled for silver in 7:49.90 followed by St. Peters Western swimmer Benjamin Goedemans who earned the bronze in 7:57.75.
Rackley’s 22-year-old Short now ranks #1 in the world this season, dethroning Chinese champion Zhang Zhanshuo.
2025-2026 LCM Men 800 FREE
SHORT
7:36.73
| 2 | Johannes LIEBMANN | GER | 7:37.94 | 04/12 |
| 3 | Sven Schwarz | GER | 7:41.14 | 04/24 |
| 4 | Lukas MÄRTENS | GER | 7:41.31 | 04/24 |
| 5 | Zhang Zhanshuo | CHN | 7:44.45 | 03/22 |
Additional Notes
- Iona Anderson, a two-time silver medalist at the 2024 World Championships, captured the win in the women’s 50m backstroke. The 20-year-old put up 27.79 to keep visiting British ace Lauren Cox at bay. Cox was just .10 behind in 27.89 and 19-year-old Mackenzie Burns of St. Peters Western bagged the bronze in 28.64.
- Two swimmers out of Japan made some noise in the 12-year-old girls’ 50m backstroke event. Kotoha Hikawa and Hikari Sakakibara earned the top two spots on the podium with the former hitting 29.51 to the latter’s 29.71 as the sole swimmers of the field to delve under the 30-second barrier. Both also dipped under the Queensland All Comers Record of 30.34 Bronte Job established in 2016.
- The 17-year-old girls’ 200m IM saw Amelie Smith of Rocky City grab the gold, registering a time of 2:15.15. That erased her former personal best of 2:16.90 logged as a 16-year-old during this April’s Australian Age Championships.
- Lincoln Wearing, the 16-year-old who took down Kieren Perkins‘ 800m free age record last night, followed up with a solid time of 1:49.68 to take his age category’s 200m free event.
15:18.98 for Wearing in 1500.
You people are very strange. Perhaps every time an American goes slower than a 2:07 200IM you should comment about how it’s slower than a Chinese 12 year old
It’s 3 seconds slower than Luka Mijatovic’s PB and Lincoln Wearing is younger than him
Cunningham’s Fly is on tonight. 53:69 in the 100.
Nice one. #3 all time behind Hadler and Chalmers. Really thought Dunn would get to 53 first.
In the 52s by nationals
A PB by Olympia Pope in the 2BR?
I hope so.
PBs are tough to come by when you’re so very good (as she was) at age 13-14.
Another All comers record for Coulter in 200 Free – 1:52.13
Wins it by 10+ seconds – just another night at the office! :O
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2:02.70 for Grigor in 200IM.
Backstroke was a concern, hitting the rope most of the way. Still an excellent time.
surely he’ll break the age record soon!
How much time do you reckon he lost caressing the lane rope?
I’d have to watch a replay. Lane 5 seemed to gain on him in last 20 metres of that leg. He might just swim close to the rope on backstroke in every IM.
Cunningham scared the Aus Aged record in 50 Fly – 24.39.
It’s a Hadler record too – very few ever get close to those.
We have such great depth in the Boys 14-16/17. Really exciting.
Seems to be much less so with the girls (except for a few stand-outs), though I’m happy to be corrected on that front!
We’re a small country, we sadly won’t have great replacements in our ranks all the time.
The boys are the ones we’ll be counting on in LA and Brisbane. Most of our elite female athletes are thankfully *just* young enough that they could hold on to until Brisbane as well. After Brisbane we may be in some trouble but who cares at that point haha.
0.08 off…he will get it at Nationals
hes a UNIT for being 13, praying his career keeps going well. 1:54 at 12 was nuts, this is up there too.
I mean Thorpe was focusing on the 100-200, had a shoulder injury, and had taken 5 years off when he came back tbf.
I do think he’s faster than Thorpe was at 13 though.