20 Swimmers Named to Australian Team for FINA World Short Course Champs

by Jason Marsteller

09 November 2014, 08:17am

Photo Courtesy: Delly Carr

ADELAIDE – Three rookies will join 11 members of Australia’s successful Commonwealth Games team and seven Olympians in a 20-strong Australian Swim Team named tonight for next month’s FINA World Short Course Swimming Championships in Doha (December 3-7).

The team was announced tonight after a record-breaking five days of competition at the 2014 Australian Short Course Championships at the SA Aquatic & Leisure Centre in Adelaide.

Australian short course record holders Mitch Larkin and Emily Seebohm will headline the team and be joined by nine of their Commonwealth Games teammates Cameron McEvoy, Bronte Campbell, Matt Abood, Leiston Pickett, Madison Wilson, Travis Mahoney, Sally Hunter, Jordan Harrison and Grant Irvine.

Larkin set the pool alight again tonight, breaking his own Australian record in the 200m backstroke.

Queenslanders David Morgan (TSS Aquatics), Daniel Smith (Miami) and Leah Neale (Indooroopilly) will make their Australian senior team debut while Neale’s training partner, dual Olympian Kylie Palmer will head to her fourth World Short Course Championships after first making the team in 2006.

At 29, Olympian Sally Hunter is the oldest and one of the more experienced swimmers on the team with 18-year-old Brianna Throssell the youngest.

The team will be looking to cap off a successful year in the pool in Doha, following on from their recent performance at the Hancock Prospecting Pan Pacific Championships on the Gold Coast and their record gold medal haul at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.

Harrison, who served notice on the world tonight with his world number one ranking performance of 14:26.21 in the 1500m freestyle is one of seven survivors of the 2012 World Short Course Team that also included Hunter, Mahoney, Ellen Fullerton, Brianna Throssell, Irvine and D’Orsogna.

Seebohm is one of seven Olympians including 100m freestyle gold medallist from tonight, McEvoy, Larkin, Hunter, Campbell, D’Orsogna and Palmer.

Queensland swimmers dominate the team with 16 with one each from NSW, South Australia, Western Australia and Victoria

Please see below for the swimmers selected to represent Australia at the FINA World Short Course Team to compete in Doha this December:

The above article is a press release submitted to Swimming World. To reach our audience, contact us at newsmaster@swimmingworldmagazine.com.

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