Day one preliminary rounds of 2011 Australian Age Championship- Women’s events: Swimming News
2011 Australian Age Championship is taking place at the Swimming Australia Aquatic and Leisure Club in Adelaide. The championship witnessed dynamic swims of Age-Group female swimmers, trying to earn the fastest qualification spot in their respective events.
The championship will conclude on 23 April after the completion of all swimming events in the Age-Group Women category. Furthermore, the session included the preliminary rounds of 200m butterfly, 50m freestyle, 200m Individual Medley (IM), 100m freestyle
and 100 breast-stroke in the junior women categories.
The session started with the preliminary rounds of the 200m butterfly in the 16-year-old category, where Mikkayla Sheridan of Chandler earned the fastest qualification spot with a glazing effort of 2:17.73 minutes. She was followed by Brothers’ Kaelyn Hann
and Firbank Aquastar’s Emma Niere, who touched the wall for the second and third fastest qualification in a time of 2:18.40 and 2:18.47 minutes.
Next were the 50m freestyle heats of 17 to 18-year-old, where Indooroopilly’s Cate Campbell met the crowd’s expectations by demonstrating aggressive swimming skills. Campbell, who earned the title last year in a time of 25.44 seconds, clocked a stunning
25.45 seconds to make her way into the finals. Melbourne’s Jessica Morrison and Pelican Waters’ Tessa Wallace followed her into the finals in 25.72 and 25.91 seconds.
In the 14-year-olds category, Elise Pidutti of Hunter proved her fastest qualification in the 200m IM by touching the wall first in 2:23.61 minutes. Her time was comfortably ahead of her closest competitors, Megan Gianotti and George Tsebelis, who qualified
second and third fastest in a time of 2:24.04 and 2:24.75 minutes.
Later, 16-year-old Bronte Campbell of Indooroopilly dominated the 100m freestyle preliminary rounds, clocking a time of 56.19 seconds. Campbell’s time paced her slightly ahead of the Melbourne’s Kotuku Ngawati, who touched home second in 56.47 seconds. Unaq’s
Brittany Elmslie followed them into the finals as the third fastest swimmer, reporting in 56.66 seconds.
Then, Brothers’s Aisling Scott exhibited a stupendous effort of 1:10.08 minutes in the preliminary rounds of the 100 breast-stroke. With the help of her fastest kicks in the last 15 metres, she out-touched Pelican’s Tessa Wallace, who touched the wall in
a time of 1:10.36 minutes. They were followed by Samantha Marshall of Cranbrook, who ended her swim in 1:10.72 minutes for the third fastest spot.
These swimmers will once again face each other in the today’s finals, where they will be only a step away to claim the Australian crown in their respective events.
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