Mack Horton holds junior world records in the 400, 800 and 1500 freestyle and is the current Australian champion in the 1500. Grant Hackett won Olympic gold in the 1500 freestyle in 2000 and 2004 and collected a silver in 2008 along with holding the world record in the 1500 for a decade.
Today the present met the past in unique set of circumstances. Horton at the age of 19 faced the 35 year old Hackett competing in a broken 900 freestyle which was 3 x 300 on 4:30 at the Australian Grand Prix in Canberra.
Hackett stayed close throughout the event but in the end he did not have enough to take down Horton. Horton finished in a time of 8:56.78 (2:58.65; 3:00.34 and 2:57.79) while Hackett posted a 8:59.32 (2:59.47; 3:01.70 and 2:59.15).
In other men’s events this morning Cam McEvoy continued his sprint domination, winning the broken 200m in 1:38.74 (24.25; 50.24; 24.25) Jayden Hadler (Team Beringen) won the broken 100m butterfly in 48.90 (24.28, 24.62), while Japan’s Ryosuke Irie (Team Beringen) winning the broken 200m backstroke in 1:49.02 (26.60; 55.83; 26.59) from Mitch Larkin (Team Stockwell) 1:49.10 (26.47; 55.83; 26.80).
Japan’s star of last year’s Pan Pacs Kosuke Hagino (Team Fraser) won a closely fought broken 200IM (50m butterfly; 100m backstroke/breaststroke; 50m freestyle) in 1:51.27 from teammate Daiya Seto (Team Stockwell) in 1:52.15 and Australia’s Mitch Larkin (Team Stockwell) third in 1:52.48.
In the women’s 100m Freestyle (2x50m), reigning world champion Cate Campbell (Team Beringen) continued her sprint domination, taking out the broken 100m freestyle (2x50m) in a speedy 49.75. Campbell swam the first 50 in a time of 24.66 followed by a 25.09.
In a replica of the results from the Australian Championships in April, sister Bronte Campbell (Team Fraser) was the next best, clocking a combined time of 50.27 with Emma McKeon (Fraser) rounding out the top three in 51.53.
Team Beringen was on a roll in the women’s events, after taking out the freestyle they also took the maximum points in the women’s broken 100m backstroke (2x50m) with Emily Seebohm winning in a time of 57.23.
Team Fraser’s Madison Wilson secured second spot in 58.12 ahead of youngster Minna Atherton (Stockwell) in 59.52.
The women’s broken 200m butterfly (50, 100, 50) saw Australian Champion Madeline Groves (Team Beringen) come out on top in a time of 1:57.66, relegating team Stockwell’sNatsumi Hoshi to second in 1:58.10 and her teammate Tamsin Cook to third in 1:58.25.
Team Fraser’s Jessica Ashwood proved her potential in the women’s broken 400m freestyle (100, 200, 100) this morning, showing off her speed throughout the intervals to pick up top points in a time of 3:58.91. Ashwood was too strong for the team Stockwell duo of Kylie Palmer who was second in 4:00.54 with Tamsin Cook collecting the points for third with her cumulative time of 4:05.08.
Team Fraser and Team Stockwell battled it out for bragging rights in the women’s 400m individual medley (100fly, 4×50 back/breast, 100free) with Keryn McMaster (Fraser) narrowly out-touching Taylor McKeown (Stockwell) for top spot.
McMaster clocked an overall time of 4:13.01 to McKeown’s 4:13.75 with Chihiro Igarashi taking third spot in 4:16.10.
Japanese swimmer Kanako Watanabe (Fraser) demonstrated her dominance in the breaststroke events with an impressive win in the women’s broken 200m breaststroke (50, 100, 50).
Watanabe finished in 2:13.10, over a second ahead of Tessa Wallace (Beringen) in 2:14.75 and Taylor McKeown (Stockwell) was back in the water following the 400m individual medley, a touch behind in 2:14.98.
At the conclusion of the third session Team Fraser continued their domination to finish on 750 points, ahead of Team Stockwell 689 and Team Beringen 609.
Full results can be found here.
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I love that concept. I’d like to see more of these meets.
Swammer91, I was wondering the same thing! How much time do they get in between each 50/100? It must be so much fun to be able to finish an event and finish 1-3+ seconds under the current world record, such as the case with Campbell’s 100 free, Hagino’s 200 IM, and Irie’s 200 back.
Wait what? Is this a meet with broken swims as events!?
Is this common in Australia? This article is pretty nonchalant about it, but I’ve literally never heard of this. What are the intervals? How do they determine the intervals? How do they enforce them? Are the middle swims to-the-feet? I have so many questions.
swammer91 – Australia is known for having “unique” meets…I remember when I was a kid seeing one on TV where they got to choose what order they did the IM in.
16 year old miami training partner was only 11 secs behind Grant . That is what I call a dream . 15 year old kid from The Antarctic moves to Miami to further his swimmng & Grant turns up also . Now he is racing Grand Prixs. 3×300 on 4.30 & only just over 1 sec per 100 behind .
Must be a magic time in Jacob’s life.