AUSSIE SPRINTERS CONTINUE RECORD ONSLAUGHT IN GUAM

GUAM, January 9, 2009: Australian swimmers have bounced back with a vengeance with a flurry of meet records on day two of the Junior Pan Pacific Swimming Championships at the Leo Palace Resort Aquatic Centre here.

After their six silver and three bronze medals on the first night of finals last night, the emerging Telstra Dolphins will go hunting for their first gold medals when the day two finals begin at 5.30pm (AEDST) tonight. Ian Hanson reports...

Leading the Australian onslaught this morning were the male sprinters with Gold Coaster Daniel Smith setting a new meet record of 49.65 to head the qualifiers for the men's 100m freestyle final, alongside team mate Tomasso D'Orsogna who posted 49.85, the second fastest time of the day.

You had to feel for Smith's former Pro-Ma Miami team mate Hayden McEvoy who broke Olympian Kirk Palmer's 2007 meet record of 50.50 when he clocked a personal best time of 50.39 to win his heat, before Smith and D'Orsogna strutted their stuff.

McEvoy will get another chance tonight to improve his time when he starts in the B final.

Other Australian finalists tonight will be:

Brittany Elmslie (56.50) third and Ellen Fullerton (56.90) sixth into the women's 100m freestyle final.

• Samantha Marshall (1:09.36) and Tessa Wallace (1:09.63) who are the third and fourth fastest qualifiers in the women's 100m breaststroke final. Marshall's time was a new meet record until US girl Kasey Carlson posted a new record of 1:09.20 in the final heat.
• Ellen Fullerton (4:44.76) a personal best to be second and Blair Evans (4:50.69) fourth into the women's 400m individual medley.
• Jeremy Meyer (1:03.89) a personal best and Daniel Crook (1:04.01) also a personal best to be third and fourth into the men's 100m breaststroke final and;
• Thomas Fraser-Holmes (4:23.82) a personal best and Declan Potts (4.24.11) also a personal best, to be equal third and fifth into the men's 400m individual final.