Australia’s new wave of swimmers faces resilience check at world championships in Singapore

The new wave of Australian swimmers faces a direct resilience check on the world titles, head coach Rohan Taylor says.

Taylor is overseeing a Dolphins group with a near-quarter of debutants, plus 5 new coaches, on the championships beginning on Sunday in Singapore.

“We don’t have a footy game every week, we go once this year,” Taylor stated.

“So we have got to make sure that they get the experience.

“Next yr we may have a a number of competitions that they are going to be uncovered to.

“But the first one is the one that will test their resilience.”

Proven performers and gold-medal winners together with Kaylee McKeown, Kyle Chalmers, Cam McEvoy and Mollie O’Callaghan kind a core of a group together with 10 world championship rookies together with 16-year-old breaststroker Sienna Toohey.

And the 10-strong teaching group beneath Swimming Australia’s head coach Taylor has been revamped after final yr’s Paris Olympics with 5 contemporary faces.

Taylor was impressed with integration of the newcomers on the Dolphins’ camp in Darwin earlier than arriving in Singapore.

“Having new people come in — a quarter of the team, half the coaching staff — they slotted in really well, it was really nice to see. That is the first step,” he stated.

“The second step will be when they get into competition, obviously anything can happen.

“It’s going to be how they handle themselves, handle the ups and downs that include it.

“We have had a pretty consistent group of coaches and athletes over the last cycle that we worked with. This is just a new test for us as a leadership.”

The titles have been very important for Taylor’s plans for the final word aim, the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles.

“I want to be able to look at the next three years to ensure we’re working on all the key things for LA,” he stated.

“I just want to know where are our gaps, where are our strengths … and what do we need to be doing about it as an organisation.”

Australia will unveil a revamped girls’s 4x100m freestyle relay group on night time one on the Singapore Sports Hub.

The retired Emma McKeon, and Shayna Jack, who missed choice, are lacking from the relay group that gained Olympic gold final yr.

Also on night time one, Paris silver medallist Elijah Winnington and a rejuvenated Sam Short renew rivalry with Germany’s Olympic champion Lukas Martens within the males’s 400m freestyle.

And with Ariarne Titmus but to return post-Olympics, Lani Pallister will fly the Australian flag in a highly-anticipated girls’s 400m freestyle boasting Canadian Summer McIntosh and American legend Katie Ledecky.

McIntosh, at Canada’s trials final month, regained the 400m free world report from Titmus and likewise set world information within the 200m particular person medley and 400m particular person medley.

AAP