Watch Olympic champion Cameron McEvoy Race 25 Freestyle

2025 SPEEDO SC PREPARATION MEET

• Saturday, July 5th & Sunday, July 6th
• Brisbane Aquatic Centre
• SCM (50m)
• Meet Central
• Results

🇦🇺2025 Speedo Short Course Preparation Meet
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The 2025 Speedo Short Course Preparation Meet took place in Queensland, Australia over the weekend with several big stars diving in to tune-up their racing skills ahead of this month’s World Championships.

Olympic champion Cameron McEvoy was among the contenders, with the 31-year-old Sommerville House Aquatics’ star diving in several times in the sprint freestyle events.

McEvoy raced three editions of the 25m freestyle race, punching times of 9.41 on day one, followed by 9.36 and 9.43 on day two. The next-closest competitor was Jamie Jack who was also sub-10 seconds with a time of 9.91.

Both McEvoy and Jack overtook the former Queensland Record of 10.03 Ashley Callus established in 2009.

McEvoy will be representing Australia in the men’s 50m freestyle in Singapore, an event in which the veteran currently ranks #1 in the world (21.30).

Also headed to Singapore for the green and gold is 21-year-old William Petric, with the St. Peters Western ace racing the 200m IM and 400m free at this competition.

In the former, Petric punched a result of 1:56.14 as the sole 200m IMer under the 2:00 barrier. His effort checked in as a new lifetime best, erasing the 1:58.54 notched 4 years ago.

Petric settled for silver in the 400m free, producing a mark of 3:46.85 behind winner Elijah Winnington.

25-year-old Winnington hit a time of 3:41.61 to get the job done, with the Dean Boxall-trained star owning a PB of 3:37.45 from 2020 to rank as his nation’s 4th-swiftest performer in history.

Additional Notes

• Kai Taylor produced a time of 47.56 to get to the wall first in the 100m free. That held off Ed Sommerville of Brisbane Grammar who finished in 47.92 followed by New Zealand’s Zachary Dell who hit 49.61 as the bronze medalist.
• Taylor also took on the 200m free, logging 1:43.56 as the clear winner.
• The men’s 18-year-old 50m free was taken by McEvoy’s training teammate Joshua Conias. Conias touched in 21.82 for the gold.
• Jack was the top men’s 50m freestyler, turning in a time of 21.44 to beat the pack by over a second. He owns a lifetime best of 20.89 from last year to rank 4th among all Australians.