All Star Cast of Olympic Gold Medallists and World Champions On Deck For 2025 Hancock Prospecting Queensland Championships

All Star Cast of Olympic Gold Medallists and World Champions On Deck For 2025 Hancock Prospecting Queensland Championships

Over 30 Olympians, together with gold medallists, world champions, world report holders and even two British large weapons will line up within the 2025 Hancock Prospecting Queensland Championships on the Brisbane Aquatic Centre from December 13-19.

The six-day meet attracting 2,642 swimmers, led by Australian Olympic gold medallists, Cam McEvoy, Kaylee McKeown, Mollie O’Callaghan, Zac Stubblety-Cook, Lani Pallister, Meg Harris and Jamie Perkins who will likely be joined by Great Britain golden boys Tom Dean and Duncan Scott.

The males’s and girls’s 200m freestyles will kick-start the open occasions on Sunday, December 14 with all-star casts.

The males’s occasion taking up an entire new worldwide dimension with visiting GB Olympic gold medal duo Dean and Scott up towards an Aussie contingent led by LA28 Olympic hopeful Ed Somerville who fired off a slick season starter of 1:45.34 (24.13; 50.29;1:17.66) on the opening night time of the Japan Open in Tokyo final night time.

Somerville and his Brisbane Grammar coach Bobby Jovanovich signalling their intentions to take the 200m freestyle to the following stage as they plot and plan their method to LA28.

Dean the 2021 Tokyo Olympic champion who with freestyling-IM star Scott have shaped the engine room of the final two British Olympic victories within the 4x200m freestyles in Tokyo and Paris.

Add in new technology Korean pair Hojoon Lee and 2024 World 400m freestyle champion Woomin Kim and it’s the deepest subject on this system.

A begin listing that options Paris 200m finalist Max Giuliani (Sydney University), the Rackley trio of Olympic and World championship notables Sam Short and Thomas Neill together with coach Damien Jones’ newest recruit, Newcastle’s former University of Alabama All-Star Charlie Hawke.

Giuliani, the previous Tasmanian star, who holds the Queensland report at 1:44.79, has now begun swimming at his new coaching base underneath coach Richard Scarce at Sydney University after a three-year stint with Scarce at Miami and TSS Aquatic on the Gold Coast.

Throw in St Peters Western, QLD, Olympic foursome Elijah Winnington, Kai Taylor, Jack Cartwright and Brendon Smith in addition to New Zealand IM specialist Lewis Clareburt and there will likely be a battle royal to e-book a spot for the highest 10 lanes within the last .

Kim (2024), Winnington (2022) and Short (2023) in fact all World Champions over 400 freestyle and they are going to be function of their most important occasion as properly.

While within the ladies’s 200m freestyle, World and Olympic champion O’Callaghan, will line up towards St Peters Western coaching companions Pallister and Perkins and they are going to be joined by Rackley’s 50m freestyle world champion Harris and Brazilian star Maria Fernanda Costa.

Pallister, the lately topped world report holder for 800m quick course, can have one of many busiest packages of the Queensland Championships.

The 23-year-old has entered in 9 particular person occasions, the 50,100,200, 400 and 800m freestyle, the 100 and 200m butterfly and the 200 and 400m IMs – a frightening job even for Pallister who thrives on racing – throwing in two relays as properly.

Meanwhile Paris Olympian and one other of the St Peters Western connection, Jaclyn Barclay can even race 9 occasions however she is going to add at least six relays – for a complete of 15 age and open occasions throughout backstroke, butterfly and freestyle.

In distinction each McEvoy (Somerville Aquatic) and McKeown (USC Spartans) will restrict their packages to membership relays, as will fellow Paris Olympian Alex Perkins (USC Spartans).

Many of the Queensland and worldwide stars will likely be backing up the day after the Australia v The World Duel Meet at The Valley pool on December 12.

The Queensland Championships will function Stubblety-Cook’s return to racing after he was pressured out of this 12 months’s World Championships by means of a again harm.

The Mel Marshall skilled 2021 Olympic champion and former world report holder will return to his specialty 100 and 200m breaststrokes as he eyes off this 12 months’s Glasgow Commonwealth Games and Pan Pacs in LA.

O’Callaghan is one other with a busy program – a standard theme for Dean Boxall’s SPW crew come Queensland Championship time – with Mollie O lining up in 50 and 200m freestyle, 100m and 200m backstroke, the 200IM and the 200m butterfly and three relays.

Jamie Perkins, who pressured her manner into the world championship successful 4x200m freestyle relay beginning staff in Singapore alongside her teammates O’Callaghan and Pallister, can even contest the 50, 100, 200, 400 and 800m freestyles.

Even dash ace Harris will likely be lapping it up within the 50,100, 200 and 400m freestyles in addition to the 50m butterfly – the headliner in a Rackley staff of over 270 swimmers.

And whereas Albany Creek pair Cameron Reeves and Andrea Carwright are among the many youngest swimmers entered within the meet at simply 11 years of age, they are able to get just a few ideas from one of many oldest – 39-year-old St Andrews head coach and 2008 Beijing Olympian Ashley Delaney, who will make a re-appearance  in his specialist occasion the 50m backstroke.

Delaney will likely be racing a number of of his college students – led by Tokyo and Paris Olympian and 2024 world champion for 50m backstroke Isaac Cooper.

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