McEvoy, O’Callaghan, Chalmers Amongst Names Not Entered In Australian SC National Championships

2026 Australian Short Course Championships

• September 29 – October 2, 2026
• Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Center, New South Wales, Australia
• SCM (25 meters)
• Entries

With the Australian Short Course National Championships slightly below two weeks away, it’s time to check out some notable absences from the meet.

One of the largest non-entries is Cam McEvoy, who delivered one of many high performances of the Long Course season on the China Open, blasting a 20.88 within the 50 freestyle and breaking the long-standing World Record held by Cesar Cielo, however was not listed on the entry lists for these championships.

Many of his lifetime bests briefly course got here greater than a decade in the past, although he has rapidly change into one of many world’s high dash freestylers.

In May, McEvoy dipped his toes again into the short-course pool, racing on the Australian Masters National Championships, the place he blasted an anchor cut up of 20.33 to assist his workforce break the World file for the 120-159 age group. He additionally delivered a brand new lifetime greatest within the 25 free at that meet, stopping the clock in 9.26.

A pair of short-course world record-holders additionally gained’t be racing at these championships: Mollie O’Callaghan and Kyle Chalmers.

Chalmers, the world file holder within the brief course 100 freestyle along with his 44.84 World Cup in 2021 in Kazan, didn’t race on the Pan Pacific Championships, having handed Ian Thorpe because the nation’s most profitable male on the Commonwealth Games just a few weeks earlier.

Chalmers did plant the concept he might not compete on the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles, which he stated remains to be a purpose, although his household comes first.

O’Callaghan is the World Record holder within the ladies’s short-course 200 free in 1:49.36 ultimately years World Cup in Toronto.

Over the previous couple of months, O’Callaghan has been coping with lingering  again points, together with a stress fracture and bone oedema in her lumbar backbone, which she was planning on swimming with all through the Commonwealth Games and Pan Pacific Championships.

O’Callaghan later withdrew from Pan Pacs, which will be the purpose for her absence on the entry lists right here.

Another identify that was fairly anticipated to be off the entry listing is Kaylee McKeown, who confirmed again in August that she can be racing internationally for the rest of the calendar 12 months, which incorporates the World Cup and World Championships after withdrawing from each the Commonwealth Games and Pan Pacs after contracting mononucleosis, or glandular fever.

Notable Athletes Entered:

• Iona Anderson — 50/100/200 BK, 100 IM
• Ben Armbruster — 50 FR, 100/200 FL, 100 IM
• Abbey Connor — 100/200 FR, 100/200 FL
• Isaac Cooper — 50 FR, 50/100 BK, 50 FL
• Marcus Da Silva — 50/100/200 FR
• Elizabeth Dekkers — 200 FR, 100/200 FL
• Joshua Edwards-Smith — 50/100/200 BK
• Jenna Forrester — 200/400/800 FR, 200 BK, 200/400 IM
• Maximilian Giuliani — 100/200 FR
• Ollie Moclair — 50 FR
• Lani Pallister — 100/200/400/800/1500 FR
• Alexandria Perkins — 100 FR, 50/100 FL
• William Petric — 200/400 IM
• Samuel Short — 400/800/1500 FR
• Edward Sommerville — 100/200 FR, 200 IM
• Flynn Southam — 50/100/200 FR
• Matthew Temple — 50/100 FR, 50/100 FL
• Elijah Winnington — 100/400/800 FR
• Olivia Wunsch — 50/100 FR, 50/100 FL
• William Yang — 50/100 FR
• Joshua Yong — 50/100/200 BR