Ariarne Titmus
At the Australian trials in Adelaide, Ariarne Titmus canceled Katie Ledecky’s world championship held at the Rio Games on August 12, 2016. She succeeded after shaking Federica Pellegrini’s supremacy in the 200 sl. She was 3’56 ″ 69 on July 26, 2021 in Tokyo, where she won Olympic gold on the American. The twenty-one year old student of Dean Boxall swam in 3’56 “40, six hundredths less than the American’s time trial with these steps: 57” 13 to 100, 1’56 “99 to 200, 2’57” 37 to 300 and with the last 50 meters faster than all the other pools, in 29 ″ 28, necessary to cancel the limit of a very difficult specialty to interpret and which in Australaia they know very well having been the male one of Ian Thorpe, the last Aussie to have long held the record in addition to the Olympic and world titles. A sensational closure of the free style for the third world record improved in this 2022 after those of the American Armstrong in the 50 backstroke and the Australian Stubbley Cook in the 200 breaststroke. World champion in 2019, curiously the 200-400 sl Olympic two-legged champion she will not participate in the June World Cup in Budapest. She certainly removed everything in the American specialty: world title, Olympic title and world record, which she had swum in Brazil with these steps: 57 ″ 05, 1’57 ″ 11, 2’57 ″ 62/27 ″ 54.
Lani Pallister
Molly O’Callaghan still improves her staff in the 50 freestyle from 24 “80 to 24” 52 but this time she is third for 2 cents and does not stamp the fifth world pass, while Shayna Jack drops by 3 tenths to 24 “14 and remains third in the world in pure sprint. For Jack, a veteran of the doping years Mitch Larkin instead is second but without time limit in the 100 backstroke in 54 “30 (54” 03 required, squeezed between the two emerging Isaac Cooper and Edwards Smith.
The Titmus after the record
New wave also in the 200 butterfly with Brianna Throssell, 26, only third (after a risky pass in the lead at 1’01 “12), behind Elisabeth Lizzy Dekkers, 18 and author of 2’07” 62, seventh time in 2022 , and behind 17-year-old Abbey Connor. The time trial required was 2’09 ″ 21. Samuel Williamson qualifies but not Jake Packard in the 50 breaststroke: 27 ″ 05 under the required 27 ″ 33, and 27 ″ 67 respectively for the two protagonists. For Williamson, in his first world championship, this is the fourth Australian time trial ever.
The embrace of Titmus with coach Boxall
Elisabeth Dekkers, 18, first in the 200 butterfly
Kaylee McKeown completes her masterpiece trials by also dominating the 200 medley in 2’09 ″ 15 (28 ″ 42, 1’00 ″ 73, 1’38 ″ 12): for the twenty-year-old triolympic it is the second world time trial, worse only than 2 ’07 ″ 84 of the American Alex Walsh with whom he will compete in Budapest. Another seventeen year old stamps the world pass: Ella Ramsay in 2’12 ″ 12 mock the more experienced Jarkin and the other teenager, the eighteen year old Forrester, who had closed the batteries in the head. There really is depth in Australia, not just in the freestyle it is historically home to. Emma McKeon reappeared at the poolside, after the 7 medals in Tokyo, who has been training for 3 months “more motivated than ever, the Olympic emotions were too strong, but I’ll be back too”. She is now linked to pop star Cody Simpson who seeks the Paris Olympics with her.
Finals Sunday – Men, 100 backstroke Cooper (18) 54 ″ 02, Larkin 54 ″ 30, Edwards-Smith (19) 54 ″ 33.
50 frog Williamson 27 ″ 05, Packard 27 ″ 67, Wilkes 27 ″ 75.
Abbey Connor, 17, second in the 200 butterfly: first time in the Trials and first world pass
Women – 400 sl: Titmus 3’56 ″ 40, Pallister 4’02 ″ 21, Melverton 4’04 ″ 49, Neale 4’04 ″ 97.
50 sl Jack 24 ″ 14, Harris 24 ″ 50, O’Callaghan (18) 24 ″ 52, Mad. Wilson 24 ″ 14.
200 butterfly Dekkers (18) 2’07 ″ 62 (1’01 ″ 44), Connor (17) 2’08 ″ 58 (1’01 ″ 42), Throssell 2’08 ″ 71 (1’01 ″ 12), Castelluzzo 2’08 ″ 79.
200 mx K. McKeown 2’09 ″ 15 (28 ″ 42, 1’00 ″ 73, 1’38 ″ 12), Ramsay (17) 2’12 ″ 12, Harkin 2’12 ″ 74, Forrester (18) 2 ’13 ″ 80.
Ella Ramsay, second in the 200 medley
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