2024 AUSTRALIAN OPEN CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Wednesday, April 17th – Saturday, April 20th
- Prelims at 10am local (8pm previous night ET), Finals at 6pm local (4am ET)
- Gold Coast Aquatic Centre, Queensland, Australia
- LCM (50m)
- Non-Olympic Qualifying Event
- Women’s Races to Watch/Men’s Races to Watch
- Meet Central
- Final Start List
- Day 1 Prelims Live Recap | Day 1 Finals Live Recap
- Day 2 Prelims Recap|Day 2 Finals Recap
- Live Results (also available via Meet Mobile: “2024 Australian Open Championships”)
- Australian Channel 9 Livestream / YouTube Livestream
While competing on day 2 of the 2024 Australian Open Championships, a non-Olympic selection event, Elizabeth Dekkers fired off a new All Comers Record en route to 200m fly gold.
19-year-old Dekkers stopped the clock at 2:05.20, a new lifetime best, to overtake the previous All Comers Record of 2:05.26 she notched at the 2023 edition of this competition.
As a refresher, All Comers Records are akin to U.S. Open Records and represent the fastest time ever recorded on Australian soil by a swimmer from any nation.
Runner-up status went to Olympic medalist Brianna Throssell in 2:06.98, a near-lifetime best and Abbey Connor earned bronze in 2:08.09.
With just .06 separating Dekkers’ 2 quickest times, the difference came primarily on the front end where she took it out .24 faster this year.
| Dekkers’ New All Comers Record – 2:05.20, 2024 | Dekkers’ Old All Comers Record – 2:05.26, 2023 |
| 28.83 | 28.92 |
| 31.84 (1:00.67) | 31.99 (1:00.91) |
| 32.23 | 31.96 |
| 32.30 (1:04.53) | 32.39 (1:04.35) |
The reigning Commonwealth Games champion remains ranked #3 among Aussie all-time performers in this event. She also remains ranked 14th in history worldwide.
All-Time Aussie Women’s LCM 200 Fly Performers
- Jessicah Schipper – 2:03.41, 2009
- Maddie Groves – 2:04.88, 2016
- Elizabeth Dekkers – 2:05.20, 2024
- Susie O’Neill – 2:05.81, 2000
- Samantha Hamill – 2:05.99, 2009
Dekkers ranks #2 in the world this season with Trials on the horizon for June.
2023-2024 LCM Women 200 Fly
SMITH
2:04.80
| 2 | Elizabeth Ann Dekkers | AUS | 2:05.20 | 04/18 |
| 3 | Yufei Zhang | CHN | 2:05.57 | 09/24 |
| 4 | Summer MCINTOSH | CAN | 2:05.73 | 01/11 |
| 5 | AIRI MITSUI | JPN | 2:06.54 | 03/22 |
Dekkers has landed on 3 elite international podiums including having earned silver last year in Fukuoka (2:05.46), bronze at the 2022 Short Course World Championships (2:03.94) and gold at the 2022 Commonwealth Games (2:07.26).
A quiet achiever, gradually lowering her PR. Expect a big drop when she is tapered in the coming months!
going to be a battle in Paris
She really is a specialist. Never anything too amazing at 100fly or 100/200 free but always world class at this distance.
As it’s likely to be her only event in Paris, some other swimmers may find her a real challenge.
She’s still only 19 so probably can add more speed in the 100m fly hopefully.
It’s always fun to see a 200m stroke specialist
I don’t understand how she’s able to swim 2:05 with how she swims it.
I kinda love it – she probably has the best fly pull in the world. She also keeps her hips up so high for an entire 200 which is astonishing.