Lincoln Wearing Breaks Australian Age Record in 800 Freestyle

Rising Queensland Star Lincoln Wearing Breaks Sam Short’s Australian Age Short Course Record in 800 Freestyle

Queensland’s newest rising teenage distance prodigy Lincoln Wearing has continued his record-breaking demolition of Australian swimming’s greatest names, breaking one other Sam Short Australian Age file. It was the newest in an all-star checklist of scalps that features Olympic champions Grant Hackett and Mack Horton.

Wearing has now swum sooner than the large three over 800 and 1500 in each lengthy course and brief course, breaking world champion Short’s Queensland and Australian 15 years Age and All-Comers 800m freestyle file of 8:55.08 (set in 2019) by 4 seconds on the 2025 Hancock Prospecting Queensland Short Course Championships.

Brisbane’s Chandler Swim Club native, coached by longstanding head coach Tsuyoshi Kimura, clocked a time of seven:50.88 (3:55.05 and three:55.83) in a powerful show of even splitting swimming. Wearing was out in 26.99 and 56.68 on the 100m flip and thru the 200m and 400m in 1:56.37 and three:55.05 respectively – earlier than blasting by means of his remaining 50m in 28.33 to nearly damaging break up the race.

DOUBLE TROUBLE: Lincoln and Isaac Wearing  had been a dominant pressure on the 2025 Age Championships. Photo courtesy:  Bec Ohlwein/Swimming Australia

Second dwelling was Mackenzie Crocker (A.B Patterson College, Gold Coast; Head Coach Liam Du Feu) in 8:06.42, with Lincoln’s twin-brother Isaac Weaaring (Chandler) third in 8:09.12.

WEARING’S REDORD RAMPAGE started 12 months in the past on the 2024 New Zealand Short Course Championships in Auckland, the place he emerged because the standout male swimmer, bringing dwelling 9 medals – seven gold, one silver and one bronze medal at 14.

His 800m freestyle efficiency was additionally excellent, with a powerful second place in open firm, setting a brand new Australian 14 years file of 8:04.72 – 2.71 seconds sooner than Short’s then Australian 14 years age file of 8:07.4, set in 2018.

The information continued to fall on the 2024 Hancock Prospecting Queensland Long Course Championships final December, the place the teen smashed a 28-year-old file held by two-time Olympic champion Hackett since 1996.

Wearing clocked a time of 15:28.90, taking 1.73 seconds off Hackett’s Queensland 15 years Age file of 15:30.63 – swum on the 1996 Olympic Trials in Sydney, when Hackett completed fifth to Kieren Perkins in one of the crucial memorable 1500m in Australian Championship historical past.

For Wearing, his successful time of 15.28.90 (2:00.73;4:05.65; 8:15.84) noticed him drop a outstanding 52.71 seconds from the time he clocked in April this 12 months when he received the 14 years Australian Age Championship.

Then on the 2025 Australian Age Championships in April, the Brisbane schoolboy received the 15 years’ 800m freestyle in a brand new nationwide file time of 8:03.73 (57.44, 1:59.05, 3:00.34, 4:01.795:02.77, 6:15.87, 7:19.95;), bettering 2016 Olympic champion Horton’s earlier mark of 8:04.74, set again in 2011.

The meet that noticed Lincoln and twin brother Isaac acquire gold (Lincoln) and silver (Isaac) within the males’s 200m freestyle, Lincoln (1:51.51) touching forward of Isaac (1:54.33), the finale coming when Lincoln received his fifth gold medal of the championships within the 1500m, in a time of 15:26.14, forward of brother Isaac (16:03.07).

2025 Hancock Prospecting Queensland Short Course Championships

Men’s 15 Years

 800m SC Metre Freestyle

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          QLD RECORD: # 7:55.08 25/08/2019 Samuel Short, ALBANY CREEK

 Meet Qualifying 15:  8:40.19

    Name            Age Team                          Finals

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  1 LINCOLN WEARING, 15 Chandler                       7:50.88#      

                 12.72    26.99 (14.27)

          41.78 (14.79)       56.68 (14.90)

        1:41.42 (14.96)     1:56.37 (14.95)

        2:40.91 (14.85)     2:55.73 (14.82)

        3:40.27 (14.84)     3:55.05 (14.78)

        4:39.60 (14.83)     4:54.40 (14.80)

        5:38.93 (14.75)     5:53.79 (14.86)

        6:38.26 (14.86)     6:53.21 (14.95)

        7:37.35 (14.51)     7:50.88 (13.53)

  2 CROCKER, MACKENZIE  15 AB Paterson College 8:06.42

               12.88        27.79 (14.91)

          42.76 (14.97)       58.01 (15.25)

        1:44.04 (15.30)     1:59.43 (15.39)

        2:45.27 (15.35)     3:00.84 (15.57)

        3:46.86 (15.36)     4:02.17 (15.31)

        4:48.00 (15.33)     5:03.16 (15.16)

        5:49.23 (15.40)     6:04.58 (15.35)

        6:51.03 (15.67)     7:06.62 (15.59)

        7:51.82 (15.06)     8:06.42 (14.60)

  3 WEARING, ISAAC   Chandler                               8:09.12

                12.95        27.67 (14.72)

          43.08 (15.41)       58.35 (15.27)

        1:44.46 (15.48)     1:59.74 (15.28)

        2:45.99 (15.42)     3:01.38 (15.39)

        3:47.85 (15.51)     4:03.39 (15.54)

        4:49.68 (15.36)     5:05.06 (15.38)

        5:51.35 (15.42)     6:06.84 (15.49)

        6:53.01 (15.39)     7:08.59 (15.58)

        7:54.70 (14.86)     8:09.12 (14.42)

Meanwhile one other teen persevering with to climb the information ladder is 16 year-old Gold Coaster, Leny Grigor (Somerset College; Coach Chris Urquhart), who smashed Olympic champion Zac Stubblety-Cook’s 2015 Queensland 16 years Age and All-Comers file within the boys 100m breaststroke.

Grigor, the Swimmer of the Meet on the 2024 Queensland Long Course Championships, clocked 1:00.49, to take 0.62 off Stubblety-Cook’s time of 1:01.11 and 0.90 off Jake Goldsworthy’s 2016 All-Comers mark.

At final 12 months’s Queensland States  Grigor set a brand new 15 years  Queensland and Queensland All Comers Record of 100m breaststroke file of 1:03.59, the earlier mark additionally held by Stubblety Cook (1:04.25) set in 2017 and the Queensland All-Comers Record (1:03.97) by Bryce Skea in 2015.

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