Hauck Claims All Comers Record For 17-Yr-Olds In 200 Back

2020 QUEENSLAND CHAMPIONSHIPS

• Saturday, December 12th – Friday, December 18th (Day 1 relays only; Days 5-8 are age group)
• Brisbane Aquatic Center
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The 2020 Queensland Championships is nearing its final day but the younger set of swimmers aren’t going out quietly in Brisbane.

For instance, 17-year-old Australian age group record slayer Thomas Hauck took down the Queensland All Comers Record en route to reaping his age category’s 200m back bold. Touching in a time of 1:59.68, Hauck’s outing dipped under the previous All Comers age standard of 2:00.24 Ty Hartwell put on the books in 2018.

Splitting 57.43/1:02.25, Hauck’s 1:59.68 produced a near-lifetime best, falling just .38 outside of the 1:59.30 he clocked at last year’s Australian Championships. He was 16 during that swim, which means his performance tonight now ranks him among the top 3 Aussie 17-year-old male performers of all-time.

All-Time Aussie 17-Yr-Old Men in 200m Backstroke

1. Mitch Larkin – 1:59.09, 2011
2. Se-Bom Lee – 1:59.53, 2019
3. Thomas Hauck – 1:59.68, 2020

15-year-old Flynn Southam already broke Kyle Chalmers’ 100m free age record earlier in the meet, but tonight the Bond swimmer took on the 20om free. Southam earned a time of 1:50.90 to comfortably beat his age group in Brisbane, splitting 54.06/56.84.

Entering this meet, Southam’s personal best in this 2free rested at the 1:52.66 he established at its same meet last year. As such, within a year the teen has hacked nearly 2 seconds off his career-quickest to become Australia’s 3rd fastest 15-year-old 200m freestyle of all-time.

All-Time Aussie 15-Yr-Old Men in 200m Freestyle

1. Ian Thorpe – 1:46.70, 1998
2. Elijah Winnington – 1:49.35, 2016
3. Flynn Southam – 1:50.90, 2020

Additional swims that turned some heads included 200m fly open champion here Elizabeth Dekkers getting it done for gold in the 16-year-old 100m fly. She hit a time of 1:00.10, dropping her 2019 QLD C’ships outing down .60.

Mollie O’Callaghan snagged 50 fly gold in a time of 27.86, hacking her previous PB of 30.18 to bits. That previous career-quickest was set just this past October at the SPW Prep Meet.

Her SPW teammate and multiple gold medal-winner already here, Mitch Larkin, won the men’s open 50m fly in a time of 24.26, a new personal best.