2021 Australian Olympic Trials: Day 3 Finals Live Recap | SwimSwam

By Mark Dziak on SwimSwam

SWIMMING AUSTRALIA OLYMPIC TRIALS

• Saturday, June 12th – Thursday, June 17th
• South Australia Aquatic & Leisure Centre, Adelaide, Australia
• Sole Olympic-Qualifying Opportunity
• 2021 Swimming Australia Olympic Nomination Criteria
• Meet Site
• Final Start List
• Live results
• Qualifying Criteria
• Day 3 Finals Live Stream (Amazon Prime required)

The third day of competition is underway at the Swimming Australia Olympic and Paralympic trials. Yesterday saw Kaylee McKeown break the world record in the 100 backstroke and Ariarne Titmus coming with .50 seconds of Katie Ledecky‘s world record in the 400 freestyle.

Both swimmers will be competing tonight and earned top seeds at this morning’s preliminary session. McKeown cruised to a 2:13.19 in the 200 IM to lead the field by over a second. With a 2:08.23 from December, she should have a lot more left in the tank tonight. Titmus swam a 1:55.72 in the 200 freestyle to lead all swimmers. The Australian women hold the world record in the 800 freestyle relay and their depth in this event is on full display. It took 1:58.05 to make the finals heat tonight and the top six swimmers were all under 1:57.00 this morning. Emma McKeon, who broke the Australian record in the 100 butterfly on night one, is the third seed at 1:56.52.

If the men’s 400 freestyle from the first day is any indication, the 800 freestyle tonight should be a great race. Jack McLoughlin, the runner up in the 400, is the top seed in the event at 7:42.64. The winner of the 400, Elijah Winnington is seeded third at 7:51.44. Between those two is Thomas Neill at 7:48.65. Olympic veteran Mack Horton is the fifth seed at 7:52.65. McLoughlin is seeded within four seconds of Grant Hackett‘s Australian record.

Women 200 Meter IM – Finals

• World Record: 2:06.12 – Katinka Hosszu (HUN), 2015
• Australian Record: 2:07.03 – Stephanie Rice, 2009
• Commonwealth Record: 2:06.88 – Siobhan-Marie O’Connor (GBR), 2016
• World Junior Record: 2:09.64 – Yu Yiting (CHN), 2021
• 2016 Olympic Champion: Katinka Hosszu (HUN) – 2:06.58
• Olympic Qualifying Time: 2:10.49

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Men 12&O 150 Meter IM MC, SM2-SM4 Finals

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Women 12&O 200 Meter IM MC, SM5-SM14 – Finals

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Men 200 Meter Butterfly – Finals

• World Record: 1:50.73 – Kristof Milak (HUN), 2019
• Australian Record: 1:54.46 – Nick D’Arcy, 2009
• Commonwealth Record: 1:52.96 – Chad le Clos (RSA), 2012
• World Junior Record: 2:06.29 – Suzuka Hasegawa (JPN), 2017
• 2016 Olympic Champion: Mireia Belmonte Garcia (ESP) – 2:04.85
• Olympic Qualifying Time: 1:56.25

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Women 200 Meter Freestyle – Finals

• World Record: 1:52.98 – Federica Pellegrini (ITA), 2009
• Australian Record: 1:54.27 – Ariarne Titmus, 2019
• Commonwealth Record: 1:54.27 – Ariarne Titmus, 2019
• World Junior Record: 1:55.43 – Junxuan Yang (CHN), 2019
• 2016 Olympic Champion: Katie Ledecky (USA) – 1:53.73
• Olympic Qualifying Time: 1:56.82

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Men 12&O 50 Back MC, S1-S5 – Finals

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Men 800 Meter Freestyle – Finals

• World Record: 7:32.12 – Lin Zhang (CHN), 2009
• Australian Record: 7:38.65 – Grant Hackett, 2005
• Commonwealth Record: 7:38.65 – Grant Hackett, 2005
• World Junior Record: 7:45.67 – Mack Horton (AUS), 2013
• 2016 Olympic Champion: N/A (New Olympic event in 2021)
• Olympic Qualifying Time: 7:48.12

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