Ariarne Titmus, Shayna Jack, Mollie O’Callaghan and Tommy Neill In The Winners Circle On Night Four Of The Queensland Championships
Teenage rising star Mollie O’Callaghan kept her winning streak in check, Ariarne Titmus pulled out all-stops in the 800m and Shayna Jack claimed a well deserved win on an action-packed Day Four of the 2021 McDonalds Queensland State Swimming Championships at the Brisbane Aquatic Centre.
IF YOU’RE WITH US CLAP YOUR HANDS: Ariarne Titmus having some podium fun. Photo Courtesy: Wade J Brennan Photography.
Titmus, impressive in the 400m on Night Three, didn’t get things all her own way in the 800m freestyle with a real battle royal with Michael Bohl’s latest recruit 24-year-old Moesha Johnson, clocking a personal best.
The pair were neck-and-neck over the first 400m with Titmus turning at the half-way mark in 4:12.83 to Johnson’s 4:12.98 and it wasn’t until the last the 200m that the Olympic silver medallist and Commonwealth record asserted her authority.
Titmus (St Peters Western) won her second event of these Championships in 8:26.65 with Johnson (Griffith University) clocking her pb in 8.28.79, beating her former TSSA training partners and Tokyo finalists Kiah Melverton ((St Peters Western) 8:33.15 and Madeleine Gough (Chandler) 8:34.80 in third and fourth respectively.
Following the departure of former TSS head coach Chris Nesbit to his new role as head coach of the Carlile Swim Team in Sydney – it forced his Olympians to find new homes.
Johnson has settled in well under noted Olympic gold medal coach Bohl at Griffith University, Melverton has joined Titmus and rising middle distance star Jamie Perkins with Olympic gold medal coach Dean Boxall at St Peters Western.
While Gough has linked with the experienced Olympic gold medal coach Vince Raleigh at Chandler – a squad that included Olympic 400m freestyle silver medallist Jack McLoughlin.
Gough joins fellow new recruit, triple Olympic backstroker Mitch Larkin, who has been in good touch t his new home, adding the 200m backstroke last night in 1:55.97 to his 53.80 in in the 100m backstroke.
A STAR IS BORN: Mollie O certainly making her mark. Photo Courtesy: Wade J Brennan
And after a whirlwind comeback week and a split second silver medal behind Mollie O’Callaghan in the 100m on Night Three, Shayna Jack landed a well deserved win in the 50m freestyle in 24.41 from Alex Perkins (USC Spartans) 25.50 and Mia O’Leary (Bond) 25.67.
O’Callaghan added her fifth and sixth titles of the meet, winning the 17 years 50m freestyle in 25.19 and the 17 years 200m in 1:57.68 from St Peters Western team mate Ella Ramsay (2:00.50) and Lucinda McLeod (Griffith) 2:02.67.
Ramsay also added the 17 years 200m breaststroke in an eye-catching 2:28.73 which would have seen her win the open title.
The men’s 50m freestyle shootouts netted a string of slick times led by Somerset pair, 20-year-old Thomas Nowakowski (22.17) and former TSS Aquatic sprinter Grayson Bell (22.21) and Rackley’s latest recruit Jamie Jack (22.45).
And in the 17 years 50m it was Tokyo Olympic relay bronze medallist Isaac Cooper who continued his good form clocking the same time as Jack with his 22.45.
Not to be out-done was 16-year-old Southam, who has lowered Ian Thorpe and Cam McEvoy’s Queensland 16-years 100m marks this week, set anther Queensland All-Comers record with his 22.67 – erasing New Zealander Michael Pickett’s 2019 time of 22.74.
Others under 23 seconds were Will Stockwell (Rackley) 22.77, USC Spartans former UWA West Coast sprinter Ashton Brinkworth (22;86) with Ben Armbruster (Bond) clocking 22.98.
1500M TOP THREE: Elijah Winnington, Tommy Neill and Mitch Tinsley Photo Courtesy: Wade J Brennan Photography.
While Rackley’s Tommy Neill added the 1500m (15:21.47) to his impressive wins in the 200 and 400m freestyle – only beaten a touch by Southam in the 100m final, with the 800m to come.
RESULTS UPDATE, 2021 McDonalds Queensland State Swimming Championships
After Day 4
WOMEN
50m freestyle
- Shayna Jack (St Peters Western) 24.41
- Alex Perkins (USC Spartans) 25.50
- Mia O’Leary (Bond) 25.67
* Mollie O’Callaghan won the 17 years 50m freestyle in 25.19
100m freestyle
- Mollie O’Callaghan (St Peters Western) 53.62
- Shayna Jack (St Peters Western) 53.80
- Brianna Throssell (USC Spartans) 55.54
200m freestyle
- Mollie O’Callaghan (St Peters Western) 1:56.51
- Ariarne Titmus (St Peters Western) 1:57.36
- Brianna Throssell (USC Spartans) 1:58.16
* Mollie O’Callaghan also won the 17 years 200m freestyle in 1:57.68
400m freestyle
- Ariarne Titmus (St Peters Western) 4:04.64
- Kiah Melverton (St Peters Western) 4:07.63
- Moesha Johnson (Griffith University) 4:08.00
* Jamie Perkins (St Peters Western) won the 16 years 400m freestyle in 4:10.49 (which would have placed her fourth in the Opens)
800m freestyle
- Ariarne Titmus (St Peters Western) 8:26.65
- Moesha Johnson (Griffith) 8:28.79
- Kiah Melverton (St Peters Western) 8:33.15
100m backstroke
- Mollie O’Callaghan (St Peters Western) 1:00.67
- Bronte Job (Rackley Swim Team) 1:0143
- Jaclyn Barclay (St Peters Western) 1:01.94
- Earlier on Night 2, O’Callaghan also won the 17 years 100m backstroke in 1:01.26, and giving her three wins from her first three swims.
200m backstroke
- Tahlia Thornton (USC Spartans) 2:12.95
- Ashley Weill (St Andrews) 2:16.54
- Ava Brickley (Bond 2:20.29
* On night two, Mollie O’Callaghan won the 17 years 200m backstroke in 2:10.97.
100m breaststroke
- Chelsea Hodges (Southport Olympic) 1:07.76
- Abbey Harkin (St Peters Western) 1:08.73
- Matilda Smith (Hobart Aquatic Club) 1:10.75
* On night three Ella Ramsay (St Peters Western) won the 17 years 100m breaststroke in 1:08.92
200m breaststroke
- Abbey Harkin (St Peters Western) 2:29.91
- Tayla Lumley (Rackley Swim Team) 2:32;75
- Madeline Snell (Brisbane Grammar) 2:33.63
* On night two Olympia Pope (Somerset) won the 13 years 200m breaststroke in 2:32.61 – a new Australian 13 years record set by Tess David in 2009.
* On night four Ella Ramsay (St Peters Western) won the 17 years 200m breaststroke in 2:28.73
100m butterfly
- Brianna Throssell (USC Spartans) 58.51
- Alexandria Perkins (USC Spartans) 59.08
- Elizabeth Dekkers (Newmarket Racers) 59.86
200m butterfly
- Elizabeth Dekkers (Newmarket Racers) 2:08.12
- Kiah Melverton (St Peters Western) 2:16.19
- Lucy Dring (SC Grammar) 2;16.41
200m individual medley
- Abbey Harkin (St Peters Western) 2:15.27
- Kiah Melverton (St Peters Western) 2:15.86
- Mya Rasmussen (New Zealand) 2:15.98
400m individual medley
- Mya Rasmussen (New Zealand Federation) 4:44.57
- Ella Ramsay (St Peters Western) 4:45.68
- Elizabeth Dekkers (Newmarket Racers) 4:48.52
MEN
50m freestyle
- Thomas Nowakowski (Somerset SC) 22.17
- Grayson Bell (Somerset SC) 22.21
- Jamie Jack (Rackley) 22.45
*Flynn Southam won the 16 years 50m freestyle in a new 16 years Queensland All-Comers record time of 22.67.
100m freestyle
- Flynn Southam (Bond Swim Club) 49.40 (24.62/24.78)
- Thomas Neill (Rackley Swim Team) 49.43
- Maximillian Giuliani (Hobart Aquatic Club) 49.66
* Flynn Southam erased two of Australia’s biggest names – Ian Thorpe and Cameron McEvoy from the 16 years 100m freestyle record books on Day One. Southam clocked 49.42 (24.08; 25.34) faster than Thorpe’s 1999 Qld All-Comers record of 49.98 and McEvoy’s 2011 QLD record of 49.70.
200m freestyle
- Thomas Neill (Rackley Swim Team) 1:47.28
- Elijah Winnington (St Peters Western) 1:48.22
- Clyde Lewis (Griffith University) 1:48.88
400m freestyle
- Thomas Neill (Rackley Swim Team) 3:50.20
- Brendon Smith (Nunawading, VIC) 3:51.70
- Mitchell Tinsley (Chandler) 3:53.18
1500m freestyle
- Thomas Neill (Rackley Swim Team) 15:21.47
- Elijah Winnington (St Peters Western) 15:25.51
- Mitchell Tinsley (Chandler) 15:34.68
100m breaststroke
- Zac Stubblety-Cook (Chandler) 59.74
- Nash Wilkes (Southport Olympic) 1:02.55
- Jack Dugandzic (Churchie) 1:03.11
200m breaststroke
- Zac Stubblety-Cook (Chandler) 2:07.00 (29.64; 1:01.99/32.35); 1:35.43/33.44; 2:07.00/31.57)
- Yannik Zwolsman (Southport Olympic ) 2:16.27
- Ryan Maskelyne (Papua New Guinea Federation) 2:16.33
100m backstroke
- Mitch Larkin (Chandler 53.80
- Isaac Cooper (Rackley Swim Team) 54.59
- Joshua Edwards-Smith (Griffith Uni) 54.98
* Flynn Southam (Bond) won the 17 years 100m backstroke in 56.01
200m backstroke
- Mitch Larkin (Chandler) 1:55.97
- Joshua Edwards-Smith (Griffith) 1:57.09
- Ty Hartwell (Chandler) 1:59.21
*On night three Thomas Hauck (All Saints Gold Coast) won the 18 years 200m backstroke in a new 18 years Queensland All-Comers record of 1:58.42.
100m butterfly
- Bowen Gough (Griffith University) 52.80
- David Morgan (Miami) 53.40
- Jesse Coleman (Bond Swim Club) 53.48
200m butterfly
- Bowen Gough (Griffith) 1:56.71
- Charles Cox (St Peters Western) 1:59.29
- Lucas Humeniuk (Chandler) 2:00.78
200m individual medley
- Clyde Lewis (Griffith) 1:58.92
- Thomas Neill (Rackley) 1:59.87
- Brendon Smith (Nunawading) 2:01.39
400m individual medley
- Thomas Neill (Rackley Swim Team) 4:19.18
- Joshua Staples (St Peters Western) 4:23.81
- Lucas Humeniuk (Chandler) 4:25.06