South Australian State Championships: Bronte Campbell Kick Starts 2024 Paris Bid With A Slick 24.61 To Claim 50m Freestyle
Triple Olympian and two-time Olympic relay gold medallist Bronte Campbell has kick started her 2024 Paris selection bid with another convincing 50m freestyle win in the South Australian State Championships tonight.
The 29-year-old, bidding for a fourth Games team, clocked a solid 24.61 – a time only bettered recently by her World Aquatics bronze medal swim of 24.42 in Budapest last October.
KICK START: Bronte Campbell has launched her 2024 Olympic alongside her PB Bronte range. Photo: Bronte Campbell Instagram.
And quicker than her fourth placed times of 24.67 in Berlin and her 24.70 from Athens and also a touch faster than her NSW State Senior win in 24.66 in December after her win in the Australian Short Course Championships when she clocked 24.09.
Campbell (Cruiz, NSW) proved too slick for ACT-based training partner Abbey Webb (25,12) and local South Australian Brittany Castelluzzo (Tea Tree Gully, SA) 25.40.
Meanwhile the all-star international men’s 50m freestyle final saw Australia’s 2022 Commonwealth Games finalist Grayson Bell (TSS Aquatic, QLD) 22.33 upset Marion, SA training partners – Rio Olympic gold medallist and world champion Kyle Chalmers and Tokyo bronze medallist Matt Temple who dead-heated for second in 22.66.
Then followed Australia’s Dylan Andrea (22.77), Sweden’s Isak Eliasson (22.75) and 43-year-old former world champion and Olympic gold medallist Roland Schoeman (South Africa) 22.82.
It came after Chalmers (3:59.04) had earlier in the night finished second to Thomas Hauck (All Saints, QLD) 3:57.93 in the 400m freestyle with NSW’s Marcus Da Silva (Cranbrook) third in 3:59.77.
Meanwhile Norwegian Olympic Ingeborg Loeyning (29.29) finished second to Olivia Lefoe (Nunawading, VIC) 29.19 with Isabel McLachlan (Marion, SA) 29.79 third.
2004 South Australian Open Swimming Championship
Day One:
Men
50m freestyle
- Grayson Bell (TSS Aquatic, QLD) 22.33
- Kyle Chalmers (Marion, SA) 22.66
- Matthew Temple (Marion, SA) 22.66
400m freestyle
- Thomas Hauck (All Saints, QLD) 3:57.93
- Kyle Chalmers (Marion, SA) 3:59.04)
- Marcus Da Silva (Cranbrook, NSW) 3:59.77
50m backstroke
- Will Sharp (Nunawading, VIC) 26.35
- Tane Bidios (Knox-Pymble, NSW) 26.48
- Noah Pronk (Immanuel College Piranhas, SA) ) 27.53
100m breaststroke
- Sam Williamson (Melbourne Vicentre, VIC) 1:01.47
- Will Petric (Nunawading, VIC) 1:02.36
- James McKechnie (Starplex, SA) 1:03.61
Women
50m freestyle
- Bronte Campbell (Cruiz, NSW) 24.61
- Abbey Webb (Cruiz, NSW) 25.12
- Brittany Castelluzzo (Tea Tree Gully, SA) 25.40
BRONTE’S PB CREW: Bronte Campbell and her PB crew. Photo Courtesy Bronte Campbell Instagram.
400m freestyle
- Molly Walker (Southern Performance, SA) 4:15.19
- Emily White (Marion, SA) 4:24.73
- Clara Carrocci (Norwood, SA) 4:26.97
50m backstroke
- Olivia Lefoe (Nunawading, VIC) 29.19
- Ingeborg Loeyning (Norway) 29.29
- Isabel McLachlan (Marion, SA) 29.79
200m breaststroke
- Tara Kinder (Melbourne Vicentre, VIC) 2:29.41
- Zoe Deakin (Nunawading, VIC) 2:32.56
- Reidel Smith (Nunawading, VIC) 2:33.78
200m butterfly
- Kayla Hardy (Cruiz, NSW) 2:11.65)
- Brittany Castelluzzo (Tea Tree Gully, SA) 2:13.35
- Bella Grant (Trinity Grammar, NSW) 2:13.43
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