Flash! Unheralded Aussie Jade Edmistone Equals Short Course World Record in 50 Breaststroke

By Stephen J. Thomas

BRISBANE, Australia, September 25. ANOTHER top-class breastroker has emerged Down Under with an outstanding performance by 22-year-old Queenslander Jade Edmistone in the semifinal of the 50 breaststroke on the first night of the Australian Short Course Champs at the Chandler Aquatic Center in Brisbane.

The meet is also serving as the selection meet for the Short Course World Championships in Indianapolis, October 7-11.

The Canberra-based Australian Institute of Sport swimmer equaled the world record for 50m breaststroke set by Sweden’s Emma Igelstrom at the 2002 World Short Course Championships in Moscow when she clocked 29.96 to head Olympic 100m silver medalist Brooke Hanson into tomorrow night’s final.

Edmistone, who quit the sport when she was eighteen, only returned to swimming 18-months AGO with a move to Canberra, signaled she was in good form in the morning prelims when she broke Hanson’s Aussie and Commonwealth mark to record the second fastest time in history at 30.19.

Brooke Hanson clocked a PR 30.32 to win the other semifinal, setting up an excellent race tomorrow night.

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