Australia’s Grant Hackett Continues Comeback at Gold Coast Regional Championships

Grant Hackett
Photo Courtesy: Bob Donnan - USA Today Sports

MIAMI – Australian Olympic champion Grant Hackett continued his comeback in competitive swimming this weekend with a couple of strong swims at the long course McDonald’s Swimming Gold Coast Regional Championships in his home pool at Miami Swimming Club.

Hackett, 34, won the men’s 17-and-over 200m free in 1:49.79, breaking his own Gold Coast record of 1:51.55, set way back in 2003. He cut nearly a second off his time of 1:50.68 from his return to racing last weekend.

He then established a second Gold Coast mark in the 17-and-over 400m free, cruising to a 3:54.67, well under Wally Eggleton’s 2007 record of 3:56.79 and a second under his 3:55.68 from last weekend.

Hackett also touched first in the 100m free with a 51.73, just missing Nicholas Ffrost’s 2011 Gold Coast record of 51.52.

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Niles Keeran
9 years ago

Unlike Thorpe, he is not retired.

Chris Cheng
9 years ago

A few months bk and he already got 2 Olympic consideration times

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