2025 QUEENSLAND CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Saturday, December 13th – Friday, December 19th
- Brisbane Aquatic Centre
- LCM (50m)
- Meet Central
- Live Results
On the heels of the unique Australia vs. The World competition, which concluded yesterday, the 2025 Queensland Championships kicked off today from the Brisbane Aquatic Centre.
That means we’re set to see a host of international talent continue to race down under, with this meet’s entries including Great Britain’s Duncan Scott and Angharad Evans, Korea’s Kim Woomin, Hwang Sunwoo and Lee Juho, New Zealand’s Lewis Clareburt, the Netherlands’ Milou van Wijk and Nyls Korstanje, just to name a few.
Day one, however, was all about the relays, with a slew of domestic squads taking to the pool as a warm-up for their upcoming individual events, which begin tomorrow.
Women’s Open 4x50m Free Relay
First up was the women’s open 4x50m free relay, with the USC Spartans taking the gold in a solid effort of 1:40.55.
They eked out the victory over Bond’s foursome, which stopped the clock less than half a second later in 1:40.92 while St. Peters Western delivered a time of 1:41.17 for the bronze.
USC’s team included Lucy Dring (26.00), Alex Perkins (24.32), Kaylee McKeown (25.04) and Sophie Mayes (25.19) to get the job done.
As for lead-off Dring, the 23-year-old’s leadoff represented the 4th-best time of her career, one which boasts a personal best of 25.71 from this year’s World Championshps Trials.
Bond’s team consisted of Milla Jansen (25.16), Hannah Casey (24.73), Adriana Fydler (25.83) and Layla Day (25.20).
Bronze medal-earning SPW saw Olympic medalist Shayna Jack set the stage with an impressive 24.54 opener. Stef McCarthy then notched 25.47 ahead of third leg Jaclyn Barclay who produced 25.91. Fellow Olympic medalist Lani Pallister concluded with a 25.25 anchor.
Men’s Open 4x50m Freestyle Relay
It was the team from St. Peters Western who topped the podium in the men’s race, courtesy of the combination of Jamie Jack, Jack Cartwright, Kai Taylor and Elijah Winnington.
Hitting a time of 1:28.92, Jack kicked things off in 22.08 and Cartwright continued the speed with 22.49. Taylor turned in a spicy third leg of 21.73 and Winnington sealed the deal in 22.62.
Bond’s combination of Ben Armbruster (22.60), Joshua Collett (22.45), Jesse Coleman (22.61) and Flynn Southam (22.49) secured silver in 1:30.15.
Nudgee College rounded out the podium in 1:30.84. The squad was comprised of Dylan Andrea (23.25), Jye Bennion (22.99), Oliver Linde (22.50) and Harrison Turner (22.10).
Of note, Isaac Cooper delivered a lead-off mark of 22.06 on his St. Andrew’s relay, which finished off the podium.
Women’s Open 4x50m Medley Relay
Olympic champion and world record holder McKeown helped guide her USC Spartans squad to the gold medal. The team registered 1:50.80 to beat the field handily, with Bond next to the wall in 1:53.02 followed by St. Andrew’s who claimed bronze in 1:53.71.
Unfortunately, at the time of publishing, McKeown’s lead-off split didn’t register on the results, nor did the second leg Caitlyn Ribbons.
Splits which did appear for the USC Spartans included Perkins’ fly leg of 25.57 and Dring’s final split of 25.49.
Bond’s runner-up relay included Layla Day (29.41), Tilly King (31.70), Claudia Fydler (26.69) and Jansen (25.22).
Mackenzie Burns (28.97) led off St. Andrew’s, with her outing within striking distance of her flat-start PB of 28.65 from March of this year.
Georgia Edwards hit 32.14 followed by 21-year-old Chloe Rowe-Hagans‘ effort of 26.84. Erin McGarry brought it home in 25.76.
Additional notable splits included Elizabeth Dekkers logging a fly leg of 27.24 and Jack producing an anchor of 24.33 on the St. Peters Western squad.
Casey anchored the Bond ‘B’ team in 24.83, while the SPW ‘B’ team included a 28.75 lead-off by Jacklyn Barclay, a breast leg of 24.29 from Jenna Forrester and an anchor of 25.44 at the hands of Pallister.
Men’s 4x50m Medley Relay
Bond got the job done for gold, thanks to the combination of Armbruster, Joshua Collette, Jesse Coleman and Southam.
Together, they produced a mark of 1:39.25 as the victors.
Splits for Bond included 25.56 for Armbruster, 27.28 for Collett, 23.81 for Coleman and 22.60 for Southam.
That was enough to hold off St. Andrew’s who touched over a second later in 1:40.56. Their team included Cooper (25.10), Thomas Sutherland (28.32), Jack Carr (23.94) and Jezze Gorman (23.20).
SPW bagged the bronze just a hair later in 1:40.68 as the only other team under the 1:41 barrier.
Nicholas Nankervis logged 27.11 with Bailey Lello next in line at 27.89. Taylor hit 24.28 in the third leg before Jck ripped a head-turning anchor of 21.40.
Other splits included Harrison Turner posting 23.52 on the fly leg for Nudgee College and Rackley’s Tommy Neill putting up 22.34 as their anchor.
Mixed Open 4x50m Medley Relay
Finally, the mixed open 4x50m medley relay saw St. Andrew’s come out on top.
Isaac Cooper produced 25.15 for the lead-off, with Sutherland next to dive in for 28.78 on breaststroke. Burns hit 26.74 and Rowe-Hagans concluded the contest in 24.95.
Bond’s top team settled for silver, only a fingernail behind in 1:45.65.
Their team included Day (29.51), King (27.03), Armbruster (24.11) and Southam (24.99).
Griffith bagged the bronze in 1:46.21.
Splits included Enoch Robb (26.14), Nash Wilkes (27.89), Alice Monaghan (27.05) and Phoebe Bentley (25.13).
According to the results, Casey checked in with a 23.04 anchor on Bond. Considering her best-ever flat start is 24.96, this may be a timing error.
Jamie Jack scored another big-time anchor on SPW’s team, delivering 21.37 to conclude his day’s events.
I think Henry Allan swam a 0.01 PB in the men’s 100 back 53.72 from his PB at Age Nationals earlier this year
Distance boy Lincoln Wearing just went 50.4 in the 100 free ahead of Max Cunningham 50.5. Both 16 yo.
Lincoln should have a nice 200 free later in the meet.
No one sub minute in the women’s 1 back.
Short 146.46, about 0.5 faster than he has been outside of a trials meet. Hopefully, he can continue to increase his speed, not only for his 400 free, but also for the 4×200 relay.
Chris Montana – 1:02.63.
Close to his PB? I don’t think he has ever dipped below 62.
What a stand-out he is, esp. given our chronic (too harsh?) deficiency in this event at Open level.
Was he ill/injured at WJCs last year?
PB is 1:02.5
Earlier Montana was right on his PB in the 100 breast at NSW States.
Snap. :O
Meg, 1:55.9. PB by almost a second. Is she going 52 low sometime this year?
Is she trying to get a spot in the 4×200?.
I reckon the extra volume is for the 100 but the improvement in the 200 and possible relay swim is a nice bonus.
She went 156.29 in 2021, not as big a PB as I thought.
Troyy beat you to it. 🙂
Maybe – with Arnie now definitely out of the equation, there is obviously another spot up for grabs.
Somerville: he seems to have found a way to reduce his 2nd half fatigue (vs. his Singapore outings)?
Certainly a decent time for in-season.
Still the same race plan and slower than trials but maybe he’s not fully primed here and will have a back half that matches his 50.2 front half next year. Really one would be aiming to go 1:43 if they’re going out in 50.2
Yep.
Didn’t go back and check, but I thought the 50.2 100 split tonight was close to what he did at Worlds last year (in individual and relay).
He even went out in 49 in one of those swims at Worlds. I forget which one.
Worth noting 15 yr old Annika Silvester logging a fly split of 27.09