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Cate & Bronte top 50 free, Herzog leads tough 200 free field at Victorian Open Day 2 prelims

Cate Campbell‘s comeback from shoulder surgery keeps trucking along at the Victorian Open Championships in Melbourne, Australia.

Campbell nabbed the top qualifying spot in the 50 free with a 25.14. Her younger sister Bronte sits second in 25.31 as the Campbell sisters look to sweep the event Saturday night.

The men’s 200 free saw 22-year-old Kurt Herzog top his better-known teammates James Magnussen and Mack Horton. Herzog was 1:52.04 to grab an inside lane for tonight’s final. The 18-year-old Horton went 1:52.06 with Magnussen third in 1:52.14.

Day 1’s 50 breaststroke winner Matthew Treloar is in good shape to add another win after taking the top 100 breast seed in 1:02.13.

Also looking to double up is Brittany Elmslie, who was the top 100 fly qualifier in 59.56 a day after winning the 50 fly.

A couple potential battles in finals: the men’s 200 back saw Joshua Beaver (2:00.87) and Mitchell Larkin (2:01.68) easily top the rest of the field, and in the women’s 400 free, Bronte Barratt (4:13.99) will face off with 800 free winner Katie Goldman (4:15.54).

Live results available here

Last night’s recap here

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Jared Anderson swam for nearly twenty years. Then, Jared Anderson stopped swimming and started writing about swimming. He's not sick of swimming yet. Swimming might be sick of him, though. Jared was a YMCA and high school swimmer in northern Minnesota, and spent his college years swimming breaststroke and occasionally pretending …

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