South Australian State Championships: Bronte Storms Home To Catch Cate As Campbell Girls Turn On Classic Sister Act In 100m Freestyle

Cate Campbell and Bronte Campbell Swimming World
AUSTRALIA'S FIRST SISTERS OF SWIMMING: Hard act to follow, Bronte and Cate Campbell chasing further Olympic dreams. Photo Courtesy Delly Carr (Swimming Australia).
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South Australian State Championships: Bronte Storms Home To Catch Cate As Campbell Girls Turn On Classic Sister Act In 100m Freestyle

Bronte Campbell has stormed home to out-touch sister Cate in a classic 100m freestyle shoot-out on the final night of the South Australian State Championships in Adelaide tonight.

It was 29-year-old Bronte in (53.30), who edged out 31-year-old Cate (53.41) as swimming’s “sisters of speed” plot their Olympic pathways to Paris – Bronte chasing a berth on her fourth team and Cate on a record fifth team.

Also leaving their marks at the SA Aquatic and Leisure Centre were defending Tokyo Olympic gold medallist Zac Stubblety-Cook (Chandler, QLD) who returned to competition to take out his specialist 200m breaststroke in 2:09.29 (1:03.25;1:06.04) and his club mate, triple Olympic backstroker Mitch Larkin who is steadily moving in the right direction as he builds towards the June Olympic Trials in Brisbane, winning the 1090m backstroke in 55.71.

The “Sister Act” have been at the forefront of swimming in Australia since Cate first emerged on the scene at the Sydney Youth Olympic Festival in 2007 – going on to win bronze in Beijing in 2008 – and joined by Bronte on the 2012 team to London.

The World Championship-winning Campbell sisters have since cemented their names in the annals of the sport – featuring in countless golden moments as Australia forged its way to the top of world freestyle sprinting – winning Olympic 4x100m freestyle relay gold in 2012 (Cate), 2016 (Bronte and Cate) and 2020 (Bronte and Cate).

Cate, the individual Olympic bronze medallist in the 50m freestyle(2008) and the 100m (2020) opened up what looked to be a commanding lead at the 50m, turning in 25.51 to Bronte’s 26.09- Bronte returning in 27.21 to Cate’s 27.90.

For the first time in their careers the Campbell girls will prepare for an Olympics in different programs – Cate in Brisbane under Dean Boxall’s former assistant Maxine Seear at the Chandler HP Hub while Bronte is under the direction of Olympic gold medal coach Shannon Rollason at the Swimming NSW ACT Performance Hub.

2023-24 Rankings Women’s 100m Freestyle (Dec ’23-Jan 24)

Shayna Jack (St Peters Western, QLD) 52.76 (QLD State)

Meg Harris (Rackley, QLD) 53.03 (QLD State)

Cate Campbell (Chandler, QLD)  53.23 (QLD State)

Mollie O’Callaghan (St Peters Western, QD) 53.27 (QLD State)

Bronte Campbell Cruiz, NSW) 53.30 (SA State)

Milla Jansen (Bond University, QLD) 54.42 (QLD State)

Abbey Webb (Cruiz, NSW) 54.66 (NSW Senior State)

Kaylee McKeown (Griffith University, QLD) 54.72 (QLD State)

2004 South Australian Open Swimming Championships FINALS, after Day 3:

Men

50m freestyle

  1. Grayson Bell (TSS Aquatic, QLD) 22.33
  2. Kyle Chalmers (Marion, SA) 22.66
  3. Matthew Temple (Marion, SA) 22.66

100m freestyle

  1. Kyle Chalmers (Marion, SA) 48.82
  2. Matt Temple (Marion, SA) 48.99
  3. Josha Salchow (Germany) 49.32

200m freestyle 

  1. Matt Temple (Marion, SA) 1:49.42
  2. Jamie Mooney (Wagga Wagga, NSW) 1:50.87
  3. Dylan Andrea (Marion,SA) 1:52.03

400m freestyle

  1. Thomas Hauck (All Saints, QLD) 3:57.93
  2. Kyle Chalmers (Marion, SA) 3:59.04)
  3. Marcus Da Silva (Cranbrook, NSW) 3:59.77

50m backstroke

  1. Will Sharp (Nunawading, VIC) 26.35
  2. Tane Bidios (Knox-Pymble, NSW) 26.48
  3. Noah Pronk (Immanuel College Piranhas, SA)  27.53

100m backstroke

  1. Mitch Larkin (Chandler, QLD) 55.71
  2. Thomas Hauck All Saints, QLD) 56.56
  3. Will Sharp (Nunawading, VIC) 56.75

200m backstroke

  1. Will Sharp (Nunawading, VIC) 2:01.56
  2. Thomas Hauck (All Saints, QLD) 2:04.19
  3. Evan Chee (Nunawading, VIC) 2:04.53

50m breaststroke 

  1. Sam Williamson (Melbourne Vicente,VIC) 27.48
  2. James McKechnike (Starplex, SA) 28.08
  3. Joshua Seignior (Propulsion, VIC) 29.13

100m breaststroke

  1. Sam Williamson (Melbourne Vicentre, VIC) 1:01.47
  2. Will Petric (Nunawading, VIC) 1:02.36
  3. James McKechnie (Starplex, SA) 1:03.61

200m breaststroke

  1. Zac Stubblety-Cook (Chandler, QLD) 2:09.29
  2. Will Petric (Nunawading, VIC) 2:13.89
  3. Fletcher Luscombe (2:26.52)

50m butterfly

  1. Kyle Chalmers (Marion, SA) 23.66
  2. Matthew Temple (Marion, SA) 24.23
  3. Thomas Robinson (Cruiz, NSW) 24.77

100m butterfly

  1. Matt Temple (Marion, SA) 50.60
  2. Kyle Chalmers (Marion, SA) 54.71
  3. Josha Salchow (Germany) 54.78

200m butterfly

  1. Matt Temple (Marion, SA) 1:59.25
  2. Will Petric (Nunawading, VIC) 2:00.26
  3. Evan Chee (Nunawading, VIC) 2:03.68\

200m individual medley

  1. Will Petric (Nunawading, VIC) 1:59.97
  2. Evan Chee (Nunawading, VIC) 2:06.70
  3. Will Sharp (Nunawading, VIC) 2:09.12

400m individual medley

  1. Evan Chee (Nunawading, VIC) 4:28.56
  2. Sam Higgs (Warringah, NSW) 4:30.01
  3. Corben Powell (Marion, SA) 4a:48.70

Women

50m freestyle

  1. Bronte Campbell (Cruiz, NSW) 24.61
  2. Abbey Webb (Cruiz, NSW) 25.12
  3. Brittany Castelluzzo (Tea Tree Gully, SA) 25.40

100m freestyle

  1. Bronte Campbell (Cruiz, NSW) 53.30
  2. Cate Campbell (Chandler, QLD) 53.41
  3. Brittany Castelluzzo (Tea Tree Gully, SA) 55.93

200m freestyle

  1. Abbey Webb (Cruiz, NSW) 1:58.69
  2. Jaimie DeLutiis (Wests Illawarra, NSW) 1:59.85
  3. Brittany Castelluzzo (Tea Tree Gully, SA) 2:00.92

400m freestyle

  1. Molly Walker (Southern Performance, SA) 4:15.19
  2. Emily White (Marion, SA) 4:24.73
  3. Clara Carrocci (Norwood, SA) 4:26.97

50m backstroke

  1. Olivia Lefoe (Nunawading, VIC) 29.19
  2. Ingeborg Loeyning (Norway) 29.29
  3. Isabel McLachlan (Marion, SA) 29.79

100m backstroke

  1. Olivia Lefoe (Nunawading, VIC) 1:02.05
  2. Bella Grant (Trinity Grammar, NSW) 1:03.23
  3. Meg Senior (Cruiz, NSW) 1:03.23

200m backstroke

  1. Bella Grant (Trinity Grammar, NSW) 2:14.41
  2. Olivia Lefoe (Nunawading, VIC) 2:15.60
  3. Clara Carrocci (Norwood, SA) 2:19.22

50m breaststroke

  1. Ava Rollason (Cruiz, NSW) 32.94
  2. Bianca Fuller (Cruiz, NSW) 33.48
  3. Claire Borgmeyer (Immanuel College Pirhanas) 33.76

100m breaststroke

  1. Tara Kinder (Melbourne Vicentre, VIC) 1:09.21
  2. Emily Nobbs (Cruiz, NSW) 1:11.27
  3. Ava Rollason Cruiz, NSW) 1:13.47

200m breaststroke

  1. Tara Kinder (Melbourne Vicentre, VIC) 2:29.41
  2. Zoe Deakin (Nunawading, VIC) 2:32.56
  3. Reidel Smith (Nunawading, VIC) 2:33.78

50m butterfly

  1. Olivia Wunsch (Carlile, NSW) 27.09
  2. Brittany Castelluzzo (Tea Tree Gully, SA) 27.16
  3. Bella Grant (Trinity Grammar, NSW) 27.92

100m butterfly

  1. Brittany Castelluzzo (Tea Tree Gully, SA) 59.42
  2. Olivia Wunsch (Carlile, NSW) 1:00.17
  3. Jessica Cole (Wests,Illawarra, NSW) 1:00.37

200m butterfly

  1. Kayla Hardy (Cruiz, NSW) 2:11.65)
  2. Brittany Castelluzzo (Tea Tree Gully, SA) 2:13.35
  3. Bella Grant (Trinity Grammar, NSW) 2:13.43

200m individual medley

  1. Kayla Hardy (Cruiz, NSW) 2:15.05
  2. Jasmine DeLutiis (Wests Illawarra, NSW) 2:17.00
  3. Allegra Crean (Marion, SA) 2:26.40

400m individual medley

  1. Kayla Hardy (Cruiz, NSW) 4:45.14
  2. Emily White (Marion, SA) 4:57.04
  3. Arabella Bahr (Norwood, SA) 5:01.21 

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