2023 AUSTRALIAN WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP TRIALS
- Tuesday, June 13th – Sunday, June 18th
- Prelims at 10am local (8pm previous day EDT)/Finals at 7pm local (5am EDT)
- Melbourne Sports & Aquatic Center
- LCM (50m)
- World Championships Selection Criteria
- Meet Central
- Final Start List
- Day 1 Prelims Live Recap/Day 1 Finals Live Recap
- Day 2 Prelims Live Recap/Day 2 Finals Live Recap
- Day 3 Prelims Live Recap/Day 3 Finals Live Recap
- Live Results
- Livestream (9now)
Night three of the 2023 Australian World Championship Trials included two non-selection events, the men’s 50m breast and women’s 50m fly. But in the events in which swimmers were vying for spots on the Fukuoka roster, the top guns delivered in spades.
For instance, the women’s 200m free saw an impressive seven swimmers get under the 1:57 threshold across the A- and B-finals, led by Olympic medalist Mollie O’Callaghan.
19-year-old O’Callaghan logged a huge personal best of 1:53.83 to get under the 1:54 barrier for the first time, touching out reigning Olympic champion Ariarne Titmus in the process. Titmus snagged silver and Worlds qualification with a runner-up clocking of 1:54.14, a season-best.
It was the Sam Short show in the men’s 800m free with the 19-year-old racking up the victory in a decisive manner. Short powered his way to a time of 7:40.39 to not only overtake Olympic icon Ian Thorpe‘s over-decade-old All Comers Record but also check in as the world’s 10th fastest performer in history.
Elijah Winnington was well back in 7:45.75 but that outing represented the 2nd best time of his career and adds the 8free to the 4free in which he’s already qualified for Worlds.
Australian World Championships Individual Event Qualifiers Through Day 3
- Kaylee McKeown – women’s 200m IM (2:07.60), 100m back (57.50)
- Jenna Forrester – women’s 200m IM (2:09.29)
- Emma McKeon – women’s 100m fly (56.74)
- Brianna Throssell – women’s 100m fly (57.66)
- Sam Short – men’s 400m free (3:43.38), 800m free (7:40.39)
- Elijah Winnington – men’s 400m free (3:43.48), 800m free (7:45.75)
- Ariarne Titmus – women’s 400m free (3:58.47), 200m free (1:54.14)
- Lani Pallister – women’s 400m free (4:02.43)
- Mollie O’Callaghan – women’s 100m back (58.42), 200m free (1:53.83)
Was it expected for the men to have such a low amount of qualifiers through the first 3 days? Only having 2 and them both being in the same events seems very underwhelming
Basically yes. There have been 8 men’s events so far and 2 of them aren’t selection events.
So out of 6 selection events, 2 have had 2/2 hit the QT. The remaining 4 events have had an A cut in every final, but 200 Fly and 100 breast are Australia’s worst events, and the 100 Back and 200 Free had very strict QTs.
In essence, Cooper, Woodward, Taylor, Graham, Chalmers and Neill have already been selected, but just didn’t hit the strict QTs.