2019 Aussie Trials: World Rankings Impact, Elite Women Edition

2019 AUSTRALIAN WORLD SWIMMING TRIALS

• Sunday, June 9th – Friday, June 14th
• Brisbane Aquatic Centre
• LCM
• Live Results

As with the men, we’re delving into the results a little more in the aftermath of the 2019 Australian World Swimming Trials by looking at the elite women from the competition who made an impact in the top 10 placements among the season’s world rankings in their respective events.

The women’s 100m free event alone saw 4 women enter the top 10 world rankings, led by new #1 queen of the world Cate Campbell in her 52.12. Emma McKeon hit a personal best to check-in as the world’s #2 fastest swimmer in the world, while Bronte Campbell and Shayna Jack also now appear in the top 10 of the season.

McKeon rocketed up to #2 in the world in the 200m free, while Ariarne Titmus did the same in the 400m free. Kiah Melverton, another Aussie freestyle ace, now appears in the 400m free and 1500m free rankings, with the latter event now seeing 4 Australians among the world’s top 10.

17-year-old Kaylee McKeown had a breakthrough domestic meet, qualifying for Gwangju in 3 separate events, the 200m IM, 100m back and 200m back. She entered the top 10 list in each event with her highest ranking coming in the 200m back at #3.

The women’s breaststroke events appear to be the nation’s weakest in terms of world ranking impact from Trials, as does the 400m IM.

Here are the current world rankings for each event in which an Aussie made an impact at the Aussie World Trials. You may notice other Australians already on the rankings board and not specifically pointed out, such as Titmus’ time from Nationals in the women’s 200m free, but those non-mentioned performances took place outside of the World Trials meet.

• Women’s 50 Free – #4 Bronte Campbell, 24.17; #5 Emma McKeon, 24.25

• Women’s 100 Free – #1 Cate Campbell, 52.12; #2 Emma McKeon, 52.41; #5 Bronte Campbell 52.84; #6 Shayna Jack, 53.18

• Women’s 200 Free – #2 Emma McKeon, 1:54.55; #6 Shayna Jack, 53.18

• Women’s 400 Free – #2 Ariarne Titmus, 3:59.35; #9 Kiah Melverton, 4:05.30

• Women’s 1500 Free – #4 Maddie Gough, 15:56.39; #5 Kiah Melverton 15:56.46; #7 Lani Pallister, 16:06.84; Kareena Lee, 16:08.21

• Women’s 200 Fly – #10 Brianna Throssell, 2:07.39

• Women’s 100 Back – #7 Minna Atherton, 59.20; #8 Kaylee McKeown, 59.28

• Women’s 200 Back – #3 Kaylee McKeown, 2:06.35; #8 Minna Atherton 2:06.82

• Women’s 200 IM – #6 Kaylee McKeown, 2:09.94