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World Championships Qualifiers Through Day 2 Of 2023 Aussie Trials

2023 AUSTRALIAN WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP TRIALS

With a shorter event lineup on day two of the 2023 Australian World Championship Trials, the nation’s roster for Fukuoka grew by only one additional name.

Mollie O’Callaghan snagged the silver behind Kaylee McKeown in the women’s 100m back to add her name to the consideration roster, with the Olympian tying her best of 58.42 tonight.

For McKeown’s part, her 57.50 near-World Record moved this 1back into her event column for Fukuoka, joining her 200m IM qualification from night one.

Although 200m free winner Kai Taylor missed individual qualification in the men’s 200m free in terms of the Swimming Australia-mandated selection standard, his time of 1:46.25 cleared the World Aquatics ‘A’ cut. In fact, the top 4 finishers – Taylor, Alex Graham (1:46.68), Tommy Neill (1:46.82) and Elijah Winnington (1:46.85) – in addition to heats top seed Kyle Chalmers (1:46.97) all dipped under the ‘A’ threshold.

All told, through nine World Championships qualifying events, just five have seen at least one swimmer meet the Swimming Australia-mandated selection standard through day two of this competition.

Australian World Championships Individual Event Qualifiers Through Day 2

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commonwombat
1 year ago

Was always likely that men’s events would prove “patchy” as regards meeting QTs; having said that, this was always looming as the most problematic day on the program.

Given the absence of both Hodges & Strauch; W100BRS always loomed as being problematic however, Harkin is more a 200 swimmer so that QT (2.23.91) is within her range. Otherwise, the only other women’s events where a 2nd qualifier may be “iffy” look to be 400IM (unless Melverton can find 2022 form) and 200BK where the door may be open for a younger swimmer.

Exceedingly unlikely to see anyone making QT in M200FLY and am a little sceptical about M200IM. Neither Smith nor Temple have shown scintillating form since Tokyo but they… Read more »

Personal Best
1 year ago

2 men only, in 1 event have so far qualified per the selection criteria.

Some good talent coming through on the men’s side, and hopefully this will lead to greater effort to bring more of them to meet the faster times needed.

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