2024 Australian Olympic Trials: Day 5 Finals Live Recap
By Retta Race on SwimSwam
2024 AUSTRALIAN OLYMPIC TRIALS
Monday, June 10th – Saturday, June 15th
Brisbane Aquatic Center – Brisbane, Australia
Prelims at 11am local/9pm previous day ET; Finals at 7:30pm local/5:30am ET
LCM (50 meters)
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Updated Psych Sheet
Heat Sheets
Day 1 Prelims Recap | Day 1 Finals Recap
Day 2 Prelims Recap | Day 2 Finals Recap
Day 3 Prelims Recap | Day 3 Finals Recap
Day 4 Prelims Recap | Day 4 Finals Recap
Day 5 Prelims Recap
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We’re about to enter the penultimate night of action at the 2024 Australian Olympic Trials. Already we’ve seen a world record and big lifetime bests put up by the nation’s biggest players in their fight to make the squad for Paris 2024.
This morning’s biggest takeaways included the fact that 4-time Olympian Cate Campbell missed the A-final of the women’s 100m free, meaning that the 32-year-old veteran may not be on the women’s 4x100m freestyle relay.
Additionally, Sam Short, runner-up in both the men’s 400m and 800m free already here, scratched the 1500m free due to an ongoing stomach illness.
Of those who will be diving in for the A-finals, we’ll see former world record holder Zac Stubblety-Cook start us off in the men’s 200m breast, followed by Jenna Strauch in the women’s edition.
Bradley Woodward and Joshua Edwards-Smith are set to duel in the men’s 200m back followed by a monster cache of talent appearing in the women’s 100m free.
This morning the heats of the 1free brought us 4 women under the 53-second threshold, including leader Meg Harris (52.52), Mollie O’Callaghan (52.57), Shayna Jack (52.65) and Bronte Campbell (52.95).
Campbell’s appearance is a good sign that the calf injury which rendered her out of most of April’s Open Championships has healed and the mainstay is back to form.
MEN’S 200 BREAST – FINAL
World Record – 2:05.48, Qin Haiyang (CHN), 2023
Australian Record – 2:05.95, Zac Stubblety-Cook, 2022
Oceanic Record – 2:05.95, Zac Stubblety-Cook, 2022
Commonwealth Record – 2:05.95, Zac Stubblety-Cook, 2022
All Comers Record – 2:05.95, Zac Stubblety-Cook, 2022
Swim Australia OQT – 2:09.50
GOLD – Zac Stubblety-Cook, 2:07.40 * OLY Qualifier
SILVER – Joshua Yong, 2:08.08 *OLY Qualifier
BRONZE –Bailey Lello, 2:10.85
Former world record holder Zac Stubblety-Cook has booked his ticket to Paris in his attempt to defend his gold medal in this men’s 200m breast event.
The 25-year-old punched a winning time of 2:07.40, over 2 seconds under the Swimming Australia-mandated Olympic Qualification Time of 2:09.50.
His time this evening checks in as a season-best overtaking the 2:07.50 he produced for gold at April’s Australian Open Championships. ZSC’s personal best remains at the 2:05.95 produced at the 2022 Aussie National Championships.
In another impressive performance, 22-year-old Joshua Yong stopped the clock at 2:08.08 to reap silver and add this event to the 100m breast for which he already qualified.
Yong’s 2:08.08 slashed nearly half a second off his previous PB of 2:08.54 from April and remains Australia’s #5 performer in history.
Top 5 Australian Men’s LCM 200 Breaststroke Performers All-Time
Zac Stubblety-Cook – 2:05.95, 2022
Matt Wilson – 2:06.67, 2019
Christian Sprenger – 2:07.31, 2009
Brenton Rickard – 2:07.89, 2009
Joshua Yong – 2:08.08, 2024
WOMEN’S 200 BREAST – FINAL
World Record – 2:17.55, Evgenia Chikunova (RUS), 2023
Australian Record – 2:20.54, Leisel Jones, 2006
Oceanic Record – 2:20.54, Leisel Jones, 2006
Commonwealth Record – 2:18.95, Tatjana Schoenmaker (RSA), 2021
All Comers Record – 2:20.04, Rie Kaneto (JPN), 2016
Swim Australia OQT – 2:23.91
GOLD – Ella Ramsay, 2:22.87 *OLY Qualifier
SILVER – Jenna Strauch, 2:24.04
BRONZE – Matilda Smith, 2:25.84
In a stroke-for-stroke battle to the wall, it was 19-year-old Ella Ramsay who got to there first, ripping a new lifetime best of 2:22.87.
It was Miami’s 27-year-old Jenna Strauch who posted a 3rd leg of 36.44 to slightly get the edge but Ramsay closed in 27.26 to seal the deal.
Strauch settled for silver in 2:24.04, missing the Swimming Australia-mandated Olympic Qualification Time of 2:23.91. However, as she won the 100m breast earlier to make the medley relay, she may be able to swim this 2breast in Paris.
Matilda Smith, the 19-year-old Miami teammate of Strauch, rounded out the top 3 in 2:25.84. World Championships medalist Abbey Harkin wrangled up 4th in 2:26.01.
Going back to Ramsay, her 2:22.87 performance in this final is a personal best by over a second, blasting her previous PB of 2:24.28 from last December’s Queensland Championships. She now becomes Australia’s 4th-quickest performer in history and just the 4th Aussie to have ever delved under the 2:23 barrier.
Australian Women’s LCM Top 200 Breaststroke Performers All-Time
Leisel Jones – 2:20.54, 2006
Taylor McKeown – 2:21.45, 2016
Jenna Strauch – 2:22.22, 2022
Ella Ramsay – 2:22.87, 2024
Tessa Wallace – 2:23.34, 2015
MEN’S 200 BACK – FINAL
World Record – 1:51.92, Aaron Peirsol (USA), 2009
Australian Record – 1:53.17, Mitch Larkin, 2015
Oceanic Record – 1:53.17, Mitch Larkin 2015
Commonwealth Record – 1:53.17, Mitch Larkin, 2015
All Comers Record – 1:53.72, Mitch Larkin, 2015
Swim Australia OQT – 1:57.28
GOLD – Bradley Woodward, 1:56.22 *OLY Qualifier
SILVER – Se-Bom Lee, 1:57.02 *OLY Qualifier
BRONZE – Joshua Edwards-Smith, 1:57.10
Leading the field wire-to-wire, 25-year-old Bradley Woodward fired off a time of 1:56.22 to make his first Olympic team.
Woodward split 27.16/29.29/29.74/30.03 to clock the sole outing of the field under the 1:57 barrier, beating the Swimming Australia OQT of 1:57.28 after missing the mark in the 100m back.
Woodward’s personal best remains at the 1:55.56 punched at last year’s Japan Open as the 3rd-best Aussie in history.
22-year-old Se-Bom Lee ripped a time of 1:57.02 out of lane 2 to take the 2nd Olympic slot. It looked as though Griffith’s Joshua Edwards-Smith was going to clinch the silver but Lee closed in 29.93 to Edwards-Smith’s 30.26 to get the job done.
Entering this competition, Lee’s lifetime best checked in at the 1:58.28 from last December’s NSW State Open Championships, so the 2020 Olympian blew that to bits en route to qualification.
Lee missed qualifying in the 200m IM but still has the chance to add the 400m IM to his event lineup tomorrow.
WOMEN’S 100 FREE – FINAL
World Record – 51.71, Sarah Sjostrom (SWE), 2017
Australian Record – 51.96, Emma McKeon, 2021
Oceanic Record – 51.96, Emma McKeon, 2021
Commonwealth Record – 51.96, Emma McKeon, 2021
All Comers Record –
Swim Australia OQT – 53.61
GOLD –
SILVER –
BRONZE –
MEN’S 1500 FREE– FINAL
World Record – 14:31.02, Sun Yang (CHN), 2012
Australian Record – 14:34.56, Grant Hackett, 2001
Oceanic Record – 14:34.56, Grant Hackett, 2001
Commonwealth Record – 14:34.56, Grant Hackett, 2001
All Comers Record –
Swim Australia OQT – 14:54.29
GOLD –
SILVER –
BRONZE –
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