SWIMMING AUSTRALIA HIGH-PERFORMANCE INVITATIONAL
- April 6th – April 9th
- Miami Aquatic Centre, Queensland
- LCM (50m)
- Recap #1
- Results – Meet Mobile: Swimming Aus High Performance Invitational
Day 4 Highlights
After already having seen impressive performances here in Queensland at the hands of Kaylee McKeown, Meg Harris and others, the final day of this High-Performance Invitational saw a stunner from another Olympic champion.
Zac Stubblety-Cook took on his signature 200m breast this evening, putting up a super solid 2:08.22 to easily defeat the field and put the world on notice yet again with the World Championships on the horizon.
Opening in 1:03.36 and closing in 1:04.86, ZSC’s time here represents his best effort of this calendar year so far.
After registering a huge 2:07.00 last December at the Queensland Championships, 23-year-old ZSC followed that up with another impressive result of 2:08.38 last month.
Slicing another .16 off to get his 2:08.22 now renders the Chandler swimmer ranked as the world’s 3rd fastest swimmer so far in 2022.
Top Men’s 200m Breaststroke Performers 2022
- Yu Hanaguruma (JPN) – 2:07.99
- Ryuya Mura (JPN) – 2:08.11
- Zac Stubblety-Cook (AUS) – 2:08.22
Remarkably, ZSC has been under the 2:10 threshold in this event a head-turning 24 times during his still-rising career.
Promising 200m flyer Elizabeth Dekkers also made some noise in her bread-and-butter event, stopping the clock in a mark of 2:08.09.
Splitting 1:01.99/1:06.10, 17-year-old Dekkers of Newmarket Racers represented the only swimmer of the 2fly field to get under 2:11 in the race.
Dekkers narrowly missed out on making the Australian Olympic team for Tokyo, having scored a time of 2:08.49 at the Trials when she had already been as fast as 2:07.25 earlier in April of last year.
Brianna Throssell nabbed the women’s 200m free victory in a productive 1:57.59, edging out runner-up Leah Neale who hit the wall in 1:58.02.
World Junior Championships gold medalist Lani Pallister logged 1:58.88 to round out the podium, while off-an-elbow-injury Meg Harris was also under the 2:00 threshold in 1:59.08.
As a side note, the competition had some fun with a prize wheel of sorts, dealing out cash and other prizes, as seen on Harris’ social media.
One has to be super confidant in themselves with that race strategy! Play to your strengths!