MELBOURNE : Australia's swim team head to next month's world championships in Fukuoka with confidence after setting a number of eye-catching times at national trials in Melbourne.The meeting wrapped up on Sunday with veteran sprinter Cameron McEvoy posting a year-best 21.27 seconds in the 50m freestyle he
MELBOURNE : Australia's swim team head to next month's world championships in Fukuoka with confidence after setting a number of eye-catching times at national trials in Melbourne.
"These world championships are such an important stepping stone in what is a big 12 months before the Paris Olympics." Teenage 100m freestyle world champion Mollie O'Callaghan underlined that as she edged five-times Olympic champion McKeon in a thrilling duel to post the year's fastest time in the blue riband event.
McKeown, the 100m and 200m backstroke world record holder and Olympic champion, continued to impress, storming to dominant wins in her preferred events. Chalmers, who won 100m freestyle gold at Rio and silver at Tokyo, cruised to victory in the distance in Melbourne in 47.44 seconds.
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