Pan Pacific Championships: Cate Campbell Clears Australian All Comers, Pan Pacs Record in 100 Free Prelims
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GOLD COAST, Australia, August 21. THERE’s little doubt that Cate Campbell is going to take a run at her Commonwealth and Australian record tonight as she dropped an amazing time of 52.62 this morning in 100-meter freestyle qualifying at the Pan Pacific Championships. That swim not only smashed Natalie Coughlin’s 2010 Pan Pacific Championships record of 53.67, it also clipped Campbell’s Australian All Comers mark of 52.68 from the Australian Nationals this year. It also moved her to the top of the world, ahead of Sarah Sjostrom’s world-leading 52.67 from the European Championships.
Cate’s sister Bronte made her way into the championship heat as well with a pretty strong 53.50, although she has a third-ranked 52.86 to her credit from the Commonwealth Games. Australia actually went 1-2-3 in prelims with Melanie Schlanger posting a 53.65 as Coughlin’s Pan Pacs record actually went down in three straight heats with Schlanger, Bronte and Cate all taking out the mark. Schlanger, however, will be relegated to the B final.
USA’s Missy Franklin (53.75) and Simone Manuel (53.91) finished fourth and fifth to move on to the A final, while Canada’s Chantal Van Landeghem (9th, 54.73), Japan’s Miki Uchida (10th, 54.86), and Canada’s Victoria Poon (12th, 55.06) were the beneficiaries of the two-per-country rule as a host of swimmers from Australia and the U.S. were bumped out of the big final.
Results
=== Preliminaries ===
1 CAMPBELL, CATE 22 AUSTRALIA 52.33 52.62! 968
r:+0.77 25.43 52.62 (27.19)
2 CAMPBELL, BRONT 20 AUSTRALIA 52.86 53.50P 921
r:+0.71 25.83 53.50 (27.67)
3 SCHLANGER, MELA 27 AUSTRALIA 53.78 53.65P 914
r:+0.70 26.22 53.65 (27.43)
4 FRANKLIN, MISSY 19 UNITED STATES 53.36 53.75 909
r:+0.75 26.07 53.75 (27.68)
5 MANUEL, SIMONE 18 UNITED STATES 53.60 53.91 901
r:+0.68 25.88 53.91 (28.03)
6 ELMSLIE, BRITTA 20 AUSTRALIA 54.06 54.29 882
r:+0.67 26.39 54.29 (27.90)
7 WEITZEIL, ABBEY 17 UNITED STATES 54.38 54.50 872
r:+0.72 26.42 54.50 (28.08)
8 VREELAND, SHANN 22 UNITED STATES 53.83 54.55 869
r:+0.72 26.55 54.55 (28.00)
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9 VAN LANDEGHEM, 20 CANADA 55.15 54.73 861
r:+0.70 26.24 54.73 (28.49)
10 UCHIDA, MIKI 19 JAPAN 54.28 54.86 855
r:+0.71 26.31 54.86 (28.55)
11 MCKEON, EMMA 20 AUSTRALIA 53.43 54.96 850
r:+0.73 26.80 54.96 (28.16)
12 POON, VICTORIA 29 CANADA 54.56 55.06 845
r:+0.74 26.73 55.06 (28.33)
13 LEDECKY, KATIE 17 UNITED STATES 54.96 55.25 837
r:+0.68 26.85 55.25 (28.40)
14 BARRATT, BRONTE 25 AUSTRALIA 54.56 55.28 835
r:+0.66 26.94 55.28 (28.34)
15 MCLAUGHLIN, KAT 17 UNITED STATES 55.92 55.33 833
r:+0.76 27.01 55.33 (28.32)
16 CHENG, CAMILLE 21 HONG KONG 56.31 55.45 828
r:+0.69 26.75 55.45 (28.70)
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17 HERRMANN, GRACI 22 BRAZIL 55.04 55.47 827
r:+0.69 27.12 55.47 (28.35)
18 LOCUS, MADELINE 21 UNITED STATES 56.04 55.54 824
r:+0.75 26.46 55.54 (29.08)
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19 LEE, FELICIA 22 UNITED STATES 55.10 55.63 820
r:+0.66 27.15 55.63 (28.48)
20 YAMAGUCHI, MISA 24 JAPAN 55.37 55.66 818
r:+0.61 26.77 55.66 (28.89)
21 MATSUMOTO, YAYO 24 JAPAN 54.37 55.74 815
r:+0.70 26.64 55.74 (29.10)
21 MARTIN, IVY 21 UNITED STATES 54.92 55.74 815
r:+0.21 26.83 55.74 (28.91)
23 DE PAULA, DAYNA 21 BRAZIL 56.16 55.80 812
r:+0.63 26.94 55.80 (28.86)
24 ACKMAN, ALYSON 21 CANADA 55.34 55.84 810
r:+0.63 26.94 55.84 (28.90)
25 QUILTER, LAURA 22 NEW ZEALAND 55.86 55.87 809
r:+0.70 26.55 55.87 (29.32)
26 WILLIAMS, MICHE 23 CANADA 55.53 55.88 809
r:+0.76 27.01 55.88 (28.87)
27 MAINVILLE, SAND 22 CANADA 54.87 55.92 807
r:+0.20 26.76 55.92 (29.16)
28 PELTON, ELIZABE 20 UNITED STATES 54.65 55.99 804
r:+0.72 27.21 55.99 (28.78)
29 CHEVERTON, SAMA 26 CANADA 55.67 56.03 802
r:+0.69 27.47 56.03 (28.56)
30 GROVES, MADELIN 19 AUSTRALIA 55.63 56.11 799
r:+0.70 27.11 56.11 (29.00)
31 LUCIE-SMITH, SA 22 NEW ZEALAND 55.28 56.25 793
r:+0.69 27.33 56.25 (28.92)
32 MIYAMOTO, YASUK 19 JAPAN 55.76 56.40 786
r:+0.75 27.39 56.40 (29.01)
33 IGARASHI, CHIHI 19 JAPAN 55.61 56.55 780
r:+0.64 27.46 56.55 (29.09)
34 ZHANG, SISHI 20 CHINA 56.66 56.63 777
r:+0.66 27.46 56.63 (29.17)
35 TAKANO, AYA 20 JAPAN 57.28 56.72 773
r:+0.79 27.71 56.72 (29.01)
36 ZHANG, JIAQI 18 CHINA 55.43 56.73 773
r:+0.68 27.74 56.73 (28.99)
37 TAKEMURA, MIYUK 25 JAPAN 56.86 57.00 762
r:+0.68 27.60 57.00 (29.40)
38 WANG, SHIJIA 20 CHINA 56.76 57.43 745
r:+0.71 27.65 57.43 (29.78)
39 LEE, SAMANTHA 22 NEW ZEALAND 56.73 57.52 741
r:+0.72 27.85 57.52 (29.67)
40 SZE, HANG YU 26 HONG KONG 56.32 57.59 739
r:+0.69 27.58 57.59 (30.01)
41 BERGAMASCHI, CA 20 BRAZIL 57.68 57.78 731
r:+0.60 27.87 57.78 (29.91)
42 CHAN, KIN LOK 20 HONG KONG 57.76 58.41 708
r:+0.70 28.19 58.41 (30.22)
43 LAU, CLAUDIA 21 HONG KONG 57.80 58.53 704
r:+0.71 28.18 58.53 (30.35)
44 MOHR, VANESSA 19 SOUTH AFRICA 58.34 59.04 685
r:+0.63 28.19 59.04 (30.85)
45 YIN, FAN 19 CHINA 58.81 59.85 658
r:+0.72 28.55 59.85 (31.30)
46 LOUBSER, MARCE 18 SOUTH AFRICA 59.42 1:00.21 646
r:+0.72 28.72 1:00.21 (31.49)