2018 AUSTRALIAN SWIMMING TRIALS
- Wednesday, February 28th – Saturday, March 3rd
- Optus Aquatic Centre, Marine Parade, Southport, Queensland
- Prelims at 11:00am local (8pm EST previous night)/Finals at 7:15pm local (4:15am EST)
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Taking time off after the Rio Olympic Games appears to be just what the doctor ordered for Australian speedster Cate Campbell, as the freestyle dynamo scorched a new Australian National Record, Commonwealth Record and All Comers Record in the 50m freestyle on the final night of this year’s Australian Championships.
Already earning a morning mark of 24.19, C1 turned on another cylindar for the final race, overtaking her own previous personal best and past Aussie NR of 23.84 from 2016.
Of her remarkable performance tonight, Campbell said, “It is a personal best. They don’t come around often at the ripe old age of 25 so I will take them when I can.”
Speaking to her 2017 break, C1 stated, “To be honest the first couple of weeks [back in pool] I was a bit worried but after a while your body remembers.
“It’s a big weight off my shoulders knowing I can come out and improve under pressure. I feel I am in a much better place to cope with that.”
Catch her record-breaking performance below, courtesy of Channel 7.
Cate Campbell is ON SONG!
She gets a new Australian record, looks in great shape for @GC2018.#7CommGames pic.twitter.com/AHaQDRQdwD
— 7CommGames (@7CommGames) March 3, 2018
I couldn’t imagine that so many things can happen during 50m race. To be at start 0.11 sec behind then at some point in the middle to be almost body length ahead of world record and to lose at the end 0.1sec. Like a classic screenplay design.
I think and hope that Cate Campbell will successfully challenged Sjostrom’s 50m world record, but record at 100m will stay with Sarah and for many years to come.
Sarah Sjostrom – 23.69. Reaction time – 0.64
Cate Campbell. – 23.79 Reaction time – 0.75
The reaction time is a part of the race, but it is not swimming.
Also after reading the article of how she got whiplash (due to the blocks falling on her) it makes me wonder if that is also a reason for her late reaction time (somewhere in the back of her mind is worried it’ll happen again).
Awesome PBs for her and Shayna in the race (glad Shayna managed to sneak in to make the team)!
I hope she puts down this kind of performance this summer or at world’s in 2019. Like Mark Lewis said we sometimes see these fast times in the Winter/spring but something happens and we don’t see it at the end of the summer.
If she does can you imagine what that 50 free will look like at World’s? Could have 5 women in the hunt for the gold if not more.
So happy for Cate. It could go down on the Gold Coast!
Cate swims her best in her home country. She swam ahead of Sjostrom’s WR line until about 5 meters to go.
My guess is the WR line is evenly distributed for the whole 50, just straight up 2.11m/s (so doesn’t account for being faster on the start). I’m skeptical that Sjostrom would’ve put a whole body length on C1 over 10m.
One thing about Tokyo, it’s in a time zone only two hours behind Sydney and Melbourne. She (and the other Aussies) may do better in 2020 as a result; time zones can make more of a difference than people think.
it doesn t for the great Kyle Chalmers