Seebohm not short on gold with 10th win in Brisbane

  

Swimming Australia, November 4, 2016: Dual Olympian Emily Seebohm took her gold medal tally to 10; her Rio team mate David Morgan won his fourth and Paralympic golden girl Lakeisha Patterson set a new world record in the third session of the Hancock Prospecting Australian Short Course Championships in Brisbane today.

Seebohm added the 100m individual medley in the tined final, taking her career tally to 10 National Short Course titles after her 50m butterfly and 200m backstroke wins on day one.

The dual Olympian will be chasing titles number 11 and 12 at the Brisbane Aquatic Centre tonight when she swims from lane four in both the 100m backstroke and 50m freestyle finals.

Backstroke challengers will come from either side in fellow Olympian Madi Wilson and world junior record holder and training partner Minna Atherton and from Rio relay golden girls Brittany Elmslie and Bronte Campbell in the 50m freestyle.

TSS Aquatics’ Rio Olympic relay bronze medallist Morgan, the defending champion was a clear cut winner in the men’s 50m butterfly timed final in 22.57 from Cameron Jones (SPW) and Tommaso D’Orsogna (Somerset) who dead-heated for silver in 23.29.

Patterson, one of Australia’s golden girls from the Rio Paralympics continued her domination of the 400m freestyle – her gold medal event – setting a new short course world mark in her S8 category of 4:42.98.

She took a whopping 3.58seconds off the previous world’s best of 4:46.56, set by her British hero, Paralympic legend Jessica Long back in 2009.

 

 

It comes hot on the heals of her Rio world record of 4:40.33 (by 0.11) when she powered to the wall seven seconds ahead of Long, the previous world record holder, who took silver.

There were also encouraging signs for Olympic champion Kyle Chalmers who has returned to the pool today to qualify sixth fastest for tonight’s 200m freestyle final after missing last night’s 100m freestyle final with Supraventricular Tachycardia (SVT).

He will be one of five Rio Olympians, who have qualified for an all-star final, including last night’s 100m winner Cam McEvoy who set a new Australian All-Comers record of 46.19.

But it will be last night’s 400m freestyle winner from St Peters Western Daniel Smith (1:45.02) who heads the qualifiers for the 200m shoot out ahead of Southport Olympic’s  Alexander Graham (1:45.09), Bond’s defending McEvoy (1:45.20), Melbourne Vic Centre’s Jack Gerard (1:45.28), Rio Olympian Thomas Fraser-Holmes (1:46.09), Marion SA’s Chalmers (1:46.160, St Peters Western’s Cade Fasala (1:46.80) and a fifth Rio Olympian Sydney Olympic’s Jacob Hansford (1:46.82).

 

In other events:

-       Miami’s Jacob Vincent won gold in the men’s 800m freestyle in 7:53.46 from Helensvale’s Brodie Cook (7:54.54) and Sydney Olympic’s Joshua Hertz (7:56.25).

-       TSS Aquatics Kiah Melverton (4:07.98) is the fastest qualifier in he 400om freestyle after her 800m freestyle win last night.

-       Olympic silver medallist Maddie Groves (SPW) heads the qualifiers in the 100m butterfly in 57.84.

-       World record holder Mitch Larkin (1:54.28) was a comfortable top qualifier in the 200m backstroke after his win in yesterday’s 50m backstroke final.

-       Sydney Olympic’s schoolboy Matthew Wilson looked good in the 100m breaststroke in 58.33 ahead of TSS Aquatics Grayson Bell (58.89)_ and USC Spartans Rio relay bronze medallist Jake Packard (59.01).

-       Brisbane Grammar’s Aisling Scott’s 2:25.83 earns her top billing in the women’s 200m breaststroke final ahead of team mate and 400IM winner Calypso Sheridan and Bond’s Jenna Strauch (2:28.02).

-       SPW’s emerging talent Clyde Lewis (1:58.46) is showing the recent racing benefits from the Fina World Cup series to head the top 10 into the 200Im final while;

-       SLC Aquadot’s Mitchell Kilduff and MLC Marlins Taylor Corry (100m butterfly); SC Spartans Michael Anderson and UQ’s Katja Dedekind (100m backstroke) head the Multi-Class finals.