2023 BRISBANE SENIOR METRO CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Friday, March 10th – Sunday, March 12th
- Brisbane Aquatic Center
- LCM (50m)
- Draft Entries
Cate Campbell of Australia is set to compete next weekend in Brisbane, the 30-year-old’s first meet since the 2020 Olympic Games.
Campbell is set to represent Rackley at the Brisbane Senior Metropolitan Championships in Brisbane next weekend, entered in the women’s 50m free, 100m free and 50m fly events.
At the Tokyo Olympics, Campbell earned individual bronze in the women’s 100m freestyle, marking 12 years since her first and only other individual Olympic medal of the same color in the 50m free from the Beijing Games. Campbell was also a critical member of the Australian women’s podium-topping 400m free and 400m medley relays in Tokyo.
After the Games, Campbell took a long break to tend to her mental and physical health, opting out of last year’s Long Course World Championships, Commonwealth Games and Short Course World Championships.
Campbell returned to the water last fall with an at-peace approach to training. “After taking the longest time out of the water in my life, I’m reminding myself that it’s okay to start from where I am – not from where I was, or where I want to be,” she said in September.
Last month she and sister Bronte Campbell both participated in Swimming Australia’s National Event Camps. While there, C1 shared sentiments on Instagram as “Had a real ‘pinch myself’ moment. This week I’ve been on a National Training Camp on the Gold Coast with current and aspiring members of the Dolphins Swim Team.
“The first time I went on one of these camps, I turned 15 on the camp. I am now 30. For half my life I have been fortunate enough to train and compete with and against the best athletes in Australia (who are often amongst the best athletes in the world).
“If I was to go back and tell that shy, 15 year old kid what the next 15 years of her life were going to look like, she would have said “tell her she’s dreaming”. Even though I’m having my ass handed to me by kids who were only just born when I went to my first Olympics, I am loving every second of it. It’s a privilege to be back on pool deck.”
C1 has made her intentions to make a run at Paris 2024 known and, if successful, she would join an exclusive club of 5-time Olympians.
We’ll see what C1 can put together next weekend in Brisbane as she then looks to April’s National Championships as well as June’s World Trials.
Additional Notable Entries for Brisbane Senior Metro Championships
Hannah Casey
Elizabeth Dekkers
Bronte Job
Leah Neale
Ella Ramsay
Sam Short
Zac Stubblety-Cook
Laura Taylor
Is there a link for live results? The Qld Swimming site is useless.
This meet falls under Swimming Brisbane.
https://swimmingbrisbane.org.au/event/2023-vorgee-brisbane-senior-metropolitan-championships/
Thanks!
For anyone interested the entry list for the NSW Open is out: https://nsw.swimming.org.au/sites/default/files/assets/documents/Start%20List%20State%20Open%202023.pdf
I saw that but didn’t know where to post it.
Some spicy entries!
I normally just look for the most recent Australian post.
Tommy Neil entered at neither meet. Hope he’s okay after the messed up year he had last year …
Also no Brendon Smith or Clyde Lewis despite the rest of the club being entered.
And no Chelsea Hodges.
No Mollie in the 100 but will be cool if she can lower her 2back and 4free PBs.
Yeah I just looked through them all and noticed that. No Yong either. But Yong, Hodges, Lewis and Smith all swam in Vic a couple of weeks ago so maybe they just don’t need more racing this soon.
I’m interested to see how seriously MOC takes backstroke this year. She definitely had a breakout in back last year. It’s unfortunate that she’s world class in 4 Olympic but only the second best in each of them (McKeon, Titmus and McKeown, our three golden girls from Tokyo, all holding her down). I am keen to see her give the 50 back a proper crack this year because she seems better than Kaylee at that one and could do some damage.
Notable entries/omissions:
Chalmers swimming 50-100 free, 50-100 fly and 800 free?? I assume he’ll scratch, because he basically always has a WTF entry and then scratches it.
MOC swimming 200 and 400 free but not 100. Swimming all 3 backs.
Titmus swimming 100-800 free.
McKeown swimming 50-200 back, 100 fly, 200IM. Still no 400IM from her. Interested to see what she can do in the 100 fly. Fly is her weakest stroke and her PB is a 60.13 which I assume she could do much better than.
McKeon swimming 50-100 free (no 200) and 50-200 fly. Interesting that she is swimming 200 fly but not 200 free when I thought she completely left the 200 fly… Read more »
And Brontë Campbell is swimming where?
Bronte lives in Sydney and Cate’s been back in training longer than Bronte.
Rackley seems to skip the NSW Open each year so this is no surprise but where’s Tommy Neill?
He doesn’t seem to race much
Excited about Hannah Casey v C1. Kids who were only just born when I went to my first Olympics
When I first saw Casey racing at age champs I thought she looked like a young C1.
Yes that’s definitely the race I’m most looking forward to. Also interested in how ZSC’s 100 breast is looking and if Dekkers can translate her great SCW performance to LCM.
Would be happy to settle with ZSC having his 200 back on track after his international outings of 2022 fell some way below his Trials level.
Dekkers showed in 2022 that she was finals level at 200. The questions remaining are whether she can break through the 2.07 barrier and maybe reach contender level AND whether she can find some more 100 speed and become a legitimate 2 event swimmer.
You a hard task marker, ZSC international outings made him World champion & Commonwealth champion & while time not as fast as trials, he did what he had to.