Cate turns tables on Bronte as Seebohm and Smith also strike gold in Hong Kong

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Swimming Australia, September 25, 2015: Australia’s 2015 successes in the pool have continued tonight with Queensland trio Cate Campbell, Emily Seebohm and Daniel Smith all scoring wins on the opening night of the World Cup event in Hong Kong.

Campbell clocked 24.69 to turn the tables on world champion sister Bronte (24.84) with Denmark’s Jeanette Ottesen (25.05) third in the 50m freestyle with another Australian Holly Barratt fifth (25.76).

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Australia’s backstroke depth continued to shine through with dual individual world champion Seebohm winning the women’s 50m backstroke in 27.90 from WA’s World University Games winner Barratt (28.22) in another backstroking quinella.

Seebohm was later second to the Hungarian “Iron lady” Katinka Hosszu in the 200 metres backstroke with Olympic champion Missy Franklin (2:11.23) third and Australians, Olympic finalist Belinda Hocking (2:13.25) 4th and Hayley Abood (2:16.85) 6th

Miami’s Smith continued his emergence with a confidence boosting win in the 400m freestyle after his 200m freestyle win in the Paris World Cup

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After finishing third in the 100m freestyle in 49.82 earlier in the program he scored an all-the-way win in the 400m freestyle final in 3:52.68 (55.64 and 1:54.93) from David Brandl (AUT) 3:53.07 and Masato Sakai (JPN) 3:53.15.

The Australians have wasted no time getting back into the swing of some early season competition, taking advantage of a World Cup series now swum over long course.

Most swimmers have only been back in training for two weeks and it was only three weeks ago that Seebohm and Bronte Campbell stood together in Brisbane as joint winners of the 2015 Australian Swimmer of the Year.

In other events tonight:

-       Kenneth To (49.52) finished second in the 100m freestyle before he was second (24.30) and Te Haumi Maxwell (24.33) third in the 50m butterfly.

-       Nic Brown (1:59.02) second in the 200m butterfly and;

-       Ash Delaney (54.78) and Josh Beaver (54.86) were second and third respectively in the men’s 100m backstroke.

-       Matt Treloar 2nd in a NSW record of 27.83 and Tommy Sucipto third in the 50m breaststroke in 28.01;

Meanwhile Shayna Jack, Kaylee McKeown, Leo MacAlister and Braga Verhage were the stars of the opening night of the Short Course State Teams Challenge at the AIS in Canberra.

Here are the full results:

SWIMMING AUSTRALIA SHORT COURSE STATE TEAMS CHALLENGE, AIS, Canberra, Session 1, FINALS :

GIRLS

13-14 years

50m freestyle Eliza King (QLD) 25.76 Madel Falconer (NZL) 25.78 Larah Fedalto (QLD) 25.94

400m freestyle Beth Mounfield (SA) 4:12.52 Latici Transom (QLD) 4:12.53 Molly Bachelor (VIC) 4:12.68

50m butterfly Natasha Ramsden (NSW) 27.62 Kaylee McKeown (QLD) 27.64 Larah Fedalto (QLD) 27.92

200m individual medley Kaylee McKeown (QLD) 2:14.81 Jacinta Essam (NSW) 2:16.57 Brittany Castelluzzo (SA) 2:19.89

15-16 years

50m freestyle Shayna Jack (QLD) 24.86 (State Teams Rec) Gabrielle Fa’Amausili (NZL) 24.92 Gemma Cooney (QLD) 25.30

400m freestyle Laura Taylor (QLD) 4:12.89 Olivia Adams (NSW) 4:14.64 Sophie Caldwell (VIC) 4:16.13

50m butterfly Gemma Cooney (QLD) 26.92 Ga Fa’Amausili (NZL) 27.34 Tanya Stovgard (QLD) 27.47

16&Under 4x200m freestyle Relay QLD (Shayna Jack, Minna Atherton, Eliza King, Gemma Cooney) 7:56.34 (State Teams Rec) VIC (Molly Bachelor, Connie McCelland, Elyse Woods, Julia Hawkins) 8:04.45 NSW (Olivia Adams, Rebecca Sefton, Rachel Wood, Clare Robertson) 8:13.24

BOYS

14-15 years

50m freestyle

 Leo MacAlister (NSW) 23.18 Kaea Bidois (NSW) 23.47 Oliver Nash (VIC) 23.73

400m freestyle Ethan McAleese (WA) 3:53.50 Aaron Mansfield (QLD) 3:58.34 Max Osborn (QLD) 3:58.56

50m butterfly Elijah Winnington (QLD) 25.81 Shaun Champion (NSW) 25.89 Oliver Nash (VIC) 25.94

200m individual medley Leo MacAlister (NSW) 2:03.78 Rory Scott (QLD) 2:03.80 Ryland Brian (VIC) 2:05.45

16-17 years

50m freestyle

Braga Verhage (WA)( 22.18 Matthew Wilson (NSW) 22.42 Caiden Gill (VIC) 22.64

400m freestyle

Jacob Vincent (QLD) 3:51.25 Caleb Hansford (NSW) 3:52.49 Koene Smit (NZL) 3:53.30

50m butterfly Braga Verhage (WA) 23.47 (State Teams Rec) Andrew Hemsworth (NSW) 24.58 William Yang (NSW) 24.85

17years&Under 4x200m freestyle relay NSW (Zacary Attard Caleb Hansford, Jackson Savage, Matthew Wilson) 7:20.89 QLD Jyah Seymour-Poad, Louis Townsend, Elijah Winnington, Bryan Poon) 7:26.34 NZL (Koene Smit, Sam McKenzie, Tom Mouder, Zac Reid) 7:31.38

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