2026 Australian Swimming Trials: Day 6 Prelims Dwell Recap

2026 AUSTRALIAN SWIMMING TRIALS

Welcome to the final prelims session of the 2026 Australian Swimming Trials! There are simply two classes remaining, with swimmers trying to earn their manner into tonight’s finals session because the final likelihood to earn a spot on the Commonwealth Games and Pan-Pacs rosters for this summer season.

There have been some quick swims over the past 5 days, although most have come from finals classes. This morning must be a comparatively quick session with two 50s, however we even have just a few longer occasions forward with the 400 IMs and the ladies’s 1500 early warmth.

Day 5 Schedule

• Women’s 50 Freestyle
• Women’s MC 100 Freestyle
• Men’s MC 100 Freestyle
• Men’s 400 IM
• Women’s 400 IM
• Men’s 50 Butterfly
• Women’s 1500 Freestyle — Early Heat

The girls’s 50 freestyle can be led by Meg Harris and Shayna Jack, who each had sturdy swims throughout the 100 freestyle yesterday, and can be trying to carry that momentum into at present’s session.

S14 swimmer Madeleine McTernan has the quickest seed time within the Multi-Class 100 freestyle whereas S10 athlete Rowan Crothers has the quickest seed time within the males’s MC occasion.

The males’s 400 IM can be led by 200 IM champion William Petric, who has not earned a precedence one spot for this summer season, and can be trying to change that together with his swim on this occasion. In the ladies’s 400 IM, Jenna Forrester, who has been having a really sturdy meet, is the highest seed by about three seconds over Ella Ramsay.

The last males’s occasion of the meet would be the 50 fly the place Kyle Chalmers and Cameron McEvoy will meet as the first and third seeds respectively. Ben Armbruster is available in between them because the 2nd seed, only a 9 hundredths forward of McEvoy.

The session will wrap up with the early timed-finals warmth of the ladies’s 1500. Brazil’s Maria Fernanda Costa would be the prime seed within the early heats, and can probably set a time that will end within the prime eight, however she can be capped at ninth since she is a global swimmer.

Women’s 50 Free — Prelims

• World Record: 23.61, Sarah Sjostrom (SWE) — 2023
• Commonwealth Record: 23.78, Cate Campbell (AUS) — 2018
• Australian Record: 23.78, Cate Campbell — 2018
• All Comers Record: 23.78, Cate Campbell (AUS) — 2018
• SA Qualifying Time: 24.45

Top 8 Qualifiers

1. Shayna Jack (STPET) — 24.45
2. Meg Harris (RACKL) — 24.61
3. Alexandria Perkins (USCS) — 24.85
4. Hannah Casey (BOND) — 24.94
5. Olivia Wunsch (CARL) — 24.95
6. Milla Jansen (STPET) — 25.14
7. Chloe Rowe-Hagans (STAND) — 25.24
8. Sienna Walo (STHPT) — 25.25

Shayna Jack got here out on prime of the ladies’s 50 freestyle prelims, touching in 24.45 to complete just a little underneath two tenths forward of Meg Harris‘ 24.61 in 2nd place.

Jack’s swim was solely 5 hundredths off her her season finest time of 24.40. Her lifetime finest is 2.99 from the 2024 Australian Trials.

Harris completed six tenths off her season finest 24.02 and her lifetime better of 23.97 from the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Alexandria Perkins (24.85), Hannah Casey (24.94), and Olivia Wunsch (24.95) additionally got here in underneath 25 seconds to qualify third, 4th, and fifth respectively.

Women’s MC 100 Free — Prelims

S7 swimmer Chloe Osborn scored probably the most factors within the girls’s 100 free Multi-Class prelims. She touched in 1:11.64 to select up 856 factors to be the one swimmer above 800 factors.

Lakeisha Patterson (S9) completed 2nd, swimming 1:03.49 to rack up 798 factors, 30 greater than fellow S9 swimmer Victoria Belando Nicholson, who swam 1:04.44 to select up 763 factors.

Madeleine McTernan, who had the quickest seed time and gained the ladies’s 100 backstroke final night time, completed sixth within the prelims, touching in 1:00.05.

Men’s MC 100 Free — Prelims

Rowan Crothers (S10), an set the highest time and scored probably the most factors within the males’s 100 freestyle Mutli-Class prelims, stopping the clock in 52.16 to select up 915 factors for the win.

Callum Simpson (S8) completed 2nd with 843 factors after touching in 59.12. He completed simply three factors forward of Tom Gallagher (S10), who scored 840 factors together with his swim of 53.68. Just one factors behind Gallagher was Alexander Tuckfield (S10), who swam 53.70 to select up 839 factors.

Men’s 400 IM — Prelims

• World Record: 4:02.50, Leon Marchand (FRA) — 2023
• Commonwealth Record: 4:08.70, Lewis Clareburt (NZL) — 2022
• Australian Record: 4:09.27, Brendon Smith (AUS) — 2021
• All Comers Record: 4:06.22, Michael Phelps (USA) — 2007
• SA Qualifying Time: 4:13.59

Top 8 Qualifiers

1. William Petric (NUN) — 4:15.14
2. Thomas Neill (RACKL) — 4:18.41
3. Se-Bom Lee (SOSC) — 4:20.42
4. Brendon Smith (STPET) — 4:21.45
5. Samuel Higgs (NUN) — 4:21.98
6. Andre Labara (WGAA) — 4:23.59
7. Cameron Ricchini (MIAMI) — 4:26.41
8. Cael Eley (STPET) — 4:26.59

William Petric was certainly one of two males underneath 4:20 throughout the 400 IM prelims, swimming 4:15.14 to select up the highest seed and center lane for tonight’s last by just a little greater than three seconds over Thomas Neill‘s 4:18.41 in 2nd.

Petric received out first, splitting 56.98 on the fly leg to sit down a couple of second forward of Brendon Smith‘s 57.14 in 2nd and Thomas Neill‘s 57.78 in 2nd place.

Petric was 1:06.46 on the backstroke, sustaining his lead over Neill’s 1:06.42 and Smith’s 1:07.71. Se-Bom Lee had the quickest backstroke break up within the subject of 1:05.82.

On the breaststroke, Petric was 1:11.31, extending his lead over the sphere by about 4 seconds going into the ultimate 100. He break up 1:00.39 on the freestyle, a bit slower than Neill’s 59.65 on the freestyle leg to complete 2nd total Petric’s finest is 4:10.20 from April, and Neill’s finest is 4:13.43 from December of 2023.

Lee break up 58.43/1:05.82/1:15.32/1:00.85 to cease the clock in 4:20.42 for third, a 5 second add from his better of 4:15.74 from August of 2025.

Women’s 400 IM — Prelims

• World Record: 4:23.65, Summer McIntosh (CAN) — 2025
• Commonwealth Record: 4:23.65, Summer McIntosh (CAN) — 2025
• Australian Record: 4:28.22, Kaylee McKeown – 2024
• All Comers Record: 4:28.22, Kaylee McKeown (AUS) – 2024
• SA Qualifying Time: 4:38.31

Top 8 Qualifiers

1. Jenna Forrester (STPET) — 4:41.56
2. Tara Kinder (MVC) — 4:47.64
3. Kayla Hardy (CRUIZ) — 4:47.66
4. Julia Eve Spedding (GUSC) — 4:48.27
5. Elizabeth Dekkers (STPET) — 4:49.95
6. Ella Ramsay (NUN) — 4:49.96
7. Amelie Smith (ROCKC) — 4:51.67
8. Lexi Harrison (MNLY) — 4:53.28

The girls’s 400 IM prelims have been dominated by Jenna Forrester in 4:41.56, six seconds quicker than the 2nd place qualifier within the occasion.

Forrester’s swim was about eight seconds of fher seed time of 4:33.26 and 9 seconds off her lifetime finest 4:32.30 from the 2023 World Championships.

She sat in 2nd after the primary 100 fly, splitting 1:02.54 to show solely behind 200 fly champion Elizabeth Dekkers, who was 1:00.48 on the opening 100. Tara Kinders break up 1:02.99 to show in third total

From there, Forrester shortly took over the lead, splitting a large 1:09.20 on the backstroke to show 5 seconds forward of Dekkers (1:16.22) in 2nd and Kinder (1:14.74) in third total.

On the breaststroke leg, Forrester was 1:22.21, two tenths slower than Kinder’s 1:22.04 and greater than a second behind Kayla Hardy, who was 1:20.66.

Forrester was 1:07.61 on the freestyle, gaining two extra thanths on Kinder’s 1:07.87. Hardy had one of many quickest prelims splits within the subject of 1:06.93.

Kinder touched in 4:47.64 to overlook her finest time of 4:37.14 by about 10 seconds. Hardy completed third in 4:47.66, a 5 second add from her 4:42.32, which she swam eventually yr’s Australian Trials.

Men’s 50 Fly — Prelims

• World Record: 22.27, Andrii Govorov (UKR) — 2018
• Commonwealth Record: 22.68, Ilya Kharun (CAN) — 2025
• Australian Record: 22.73, Matt Targett — 2009
• All Comers Record: 22.77, Kyle Chalmers (AUS) — 2026
• SA Qualifying Time: 22.91

Top 8 Qualifiers

1. Ben Armbruster (BOND) — 22.96
2. Kyle Chalmers (MARI) — 23.15
3. Isaac Cooper (STAND) — 23.39
4. Cameron McEvoy (SOMAQ) — 23.48
5. Matthew Temple (MARI) — 23.57
6. Joseph Hamson (KPSC) — 23.87
7. Jack Carr (STAND) — 23.91
8. Thomas Nankervis (GUSC) — 24.01

Ben Armbruster was the lone man underneath 23 seconds on this morning’s 50 fly prelims, incomes the highest seed for tonight’s last. This was a brand new private finest for him, marking his first time underneath 23 seconds as he dropped from the 23.00 he set final August.

This swim will transfer him as much as tie for sixth on this planet this season with Egor Yurchenko and Noe Ponti.

Kyle Chalmers took 2nd in 23.15, 4 tenths off his season and lifelong finest of twenty-two.77 from the Australian Open in April.

The third spot went to Isaac Cooper in 23.39, a two tenth add from his lifetime finest 23.19, which he swam in October of 2023.

Cameron McEvoy certified 45h after touching in 23.48, a 4 tenth add from his better of 23.07, which he set on the 2023 Australian Trials.

Women’s 1500 Free — Timed Final (Early Heat)

• World Record: 15:20.48, Katie Ledecky (USA) — 2018
• Commonwealth Record: 15:39.14, Lani Pallister (AUS) — 2025
• Australian Record: 15:39.14, Lani Pallister — 2025
• All Comers Record: 15:28.36, Katie Ledecky (USA) — 2014
• SA Qualifying Time: 16:08.19

Early Heat Results

1. Molly Young (CARL)– 17:05.47
2. Dakoda Mathers (NUN) — 17:07.22
3. Felicity Walker (ALST) — 17:08.73
4. Charlotte Bowmer (SYDU) — 17:16.67
5. Emily Broun (KAWTR) — 17:26.51
6. Lucy Doyle (NUN) — 17:29.48

Molly Young, a 13-year-old, swam the highest time within the early warmth of the ladies’s 1500 freestyle, touching in a brand new lifetime finest 17:05.47.

She took nearly 4 seconds off her lifetime better of 17:09.16 from the 2026 Australian Age Championships in April. She break up 5:39.34/5:43.91/5:42.22 to complete two seconds forward of 2nd place finisher Dakoda Mathers, who swam 17:07.22 to complete 2nd.

Mathers dropped two seconds off her better of 12:12.57, which she swam in April on the Australian Open. She break up 5:39.49/5:44.58/5:43.15 on her 500s, touching a couple of second forward of Felicity Walker in third.

Walker break up 5:40.25/5:47.80/5:40.68 to cease the clock in 17:08.73, a seven second add from her lifetime better of 17:01.64, which she swam in April on the Australian Open.

Maria Fernanda Costa, who was presupposed to be the highest seed in prelims, scratched the occasion this morning.