2023 QUEENSLAND LC PREPARATION MEET #1
- Saturday, October 7th & Sunday, October 8th
- Brisbane Aquatic Centre
- LCM (5om)
- Entries
Several high-profile Australian swimmers will be diving in this weekend at the 2023 Queensland Long Course Preparation Meet. The two-day affair is headed to the Brisbane Aquatic Centre and offers a quality racing opportunity for athletes prior to this December’s Queensland Championships.
Newly-minted world champion Cameron McEvoy will be representing his Sommerville House Aquatics Club at the event, entered in his sole specialty of the men’s 50m free.
29-year-old McEvoy is coming from a statement-making performance in Fukuoka where he crushed his fastest 50m freestyle ever, producing a time of 21.06 for gold. The swim rendered McEvoy the 4th-fastest man of all time in the event.
Joining McEvoy this weekend will be former World Record holder Zac Stubblety-Cook.
24-year-old ZSC of Chandler is bypassing his signature 200m breast and instead will take on the 50m and 100m breaststroke races. ZSC owns lifetime bests of 27.94 and 59.51, respectively.
Additional swimmers on which to keep an eye at this competition include World Championships silver medalist in the women’s 200m fly Elizabeth Dekkers, versatile 19-year-old Ella Ramsay and 2018 Commonwealth Games medalist Laura Taylor.
In other news: a few days ago Chelsea Hodges had her first races back since the surgery in Darwin going 31.45 and 1:08.80.
At the same meet Macey Sheridan moved herself up the 13 yo rankings in both the 50 and 100 back with 29.15 and 1:02.86. Only McKeown and Atherton are ahead of her now.
God we need her for the medley relay. Her 1:05 split is literally the difference between winning or losing by 2+ seconds
Well Strauch will also be back in action later in the week. Fingers crossed both can stay healthy 🤞
Concur. Both Hodges and Strauch can deliver sub 1.06 splits which will usually “keep you in business” unless someone drops something ridiculous.
Neither are perfect fits for 100 with Hodges being a 50 specialist who struggles to go the distance and Strauch being 200 optmised. Both are a level or two above Harkin or anyone else on the scene.
Ideally you would like to see someone new arrive out of age ranks but it would need 2+sec drops over a short time frame. Love to see it but not banking on it.
There’s a lot of younger girls with a tonne of upside too, I wouldn’t be shocked to see one of them do something special off a good 12 months.
Yes true… I don’t see anyone else getting to 1:05 by Paris though. Hopefully one of them will prove me wrong!
Sub 22 for Cam?
22 low
21 high or 22.0
called it
He went 22.00