Pan Pacific Championships: Cate Campbell Clears Australian All Comers, Pan Pacs Record in 100 Free Prelims

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GOLD COAST, Australia, August 21. THERE’s little doubt that Cate Campbell is going to take a run at her Commonwealth and Australian record tonight as she dropped an amazing time of 52.62 this morning in 100-meter freestyle qualifying at the Pan Pacific Championships. That swim not only smashed Natalie Coughlin’s 2010 Pan Pacific Championships record of 53.67, it also clipped Campbell’s Australian All Comers mark of 52.68 from the Australian Nationals this year. It also moved her to the top of the world, ahead of Sarah Sjostrom’s world-leading 52.67 from the European Championships.

Cate’s sister Bronte made her way into the championship heat as well with a pretty strong 53.50, although she has a third-ranked 52.86 to her credit from the Commonwealth Games. Australia actually went 1-2-3 in prelims with Melanie Schlanger posting a 53.65 as Coughlin’s Pan Pacs record actually went down in three straight heats with Schlanger, Bronte and Cate all taking out the mark. Schlanger, however, will be relegated to the B final.

USA’s Missy Franklin (53.75) and Simone Manuel (53.91) finished fourth and fifth to move on to the A final, while Canada’s Chantal Van Landeghem (9th, 54.73), Japan’s Miki Uchida (10th, 54.86), and Canada’s Victoria Poon (12th, 55.06) were the beneficiaries of the two-per-country rule as a host of swimmers from Australia and the U.S. were bumped out of the big final.

Results

                     === Preliminaries ===                       
 
  1 CAMPBELL, CATE   22 AUSTRALIA           52.33      52.62!  968  
    r:+0.77  25.43        52.62 (27.19)
  2 CAMPBELL, BRONT  20 AUSTRALIA           52.86      53.50P  921  
    r:+0.71  25.83        53.50 (27.67)
  3 SCHLANGER, MELA  27 AUSTRALIA           53.78      53.65P  914  
    r:+0.70  26.22        53.65 (27.43)
  4 FRANKLIN, MISSY  19 UNITED STATES       53.36      53.75   909  
    r:+0.75  26.07        53.75 (27.68)
  5 MANUEL, SIMONE   18 UNITED STATES       53.60      53.91   901  
    r:+0.68  25.88        53.91 (28.03)
  6 ELMSLIE, BRITTA  20 AUSTRALIA           54.06      54.29   882  
    r:+0.67  26.39        54.29 (27.90)
  7 WEITZEIL, ABBEY  17 UNITED STATES       54.38      54.50   872  
    r:+0.72  26.42        54.50 (28.08)
  8 VREELAND, SHANN  22 UNITED STATES       53.83      54.55   869  
    r:+0.72  26.55        54.55 (28.00)
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  9 VAN LANDEGHEM,   20 CANADA              55.15      54.73   861  
    r:+0.70  26.24        54.73 (28.49)
 10 UCHIDA, MIKI     19 JAPAN               54.28      54.86   855  
    r:+0.71  26.31        54.86 (28.55)
 11 MCKEON, EMMA     20 AUSTRALIA           53.43      54.96   850  
    r:+0.73  26.80        54.96 (28.16)
 12 POON, VICTORIA   29 CANADA              54.56      55.06   845  
    r:+0.74  26.73        55.06 (28.33)
 13 LEDECKY, KATIE   17 UNITED STATES       54.96      55.25   837  
    r:+0.68  26.85        55.25 (28.40)
 14 BARRATT, BRONTE  25 AUSTRALIA           54.56      55.28   835  
    r:+0.66  26.94        55.28 (28.34)
 15 MCLAUGHLIN, KAT  17 UNITED STATES       55.92      55.33   833  
    r:+0.76  27.01        55.33 (28.32)
 16 CHENG, CAMILLE   21 HONG KONG           56.31      55.45   828  
    r:+0.69  26.75        55.45 (28.70)
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 17 HERRMANN, GRACI  22 BRAZIL              55.04      55.47   827  
    r:+0.69  27.12        55.47 (28.35)
 18 LOCUS, MADELINE  21 UNITED STATES       56.04      55.54   824  
    r:+0.75  26.46        55.54 (29.08)
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 19 LEE, FELICIA     22 UNITED STATES       55.10      55.63   820  
    r:+0.66  27.15        55.63 (28.48)
 20 YAMAGUCHI, MISA  24 JAPAN               55.37      55.66   818  
    r:+0.61  26.77        55.66 (28.89)
 21 MATSUMOTO, YAYO  24 JAPAN               54.37      55.74   815  
    r:+0.70  26.64        55.74 (29.10)
 21 MARTIN, IVY      21 UNITED STATES       54.92      55.74   815  
    r:+0.21  26.83        55.74 (28.91)
 23 DE PAULA, DAYNA  21 BRAZIL              56.16      55.80   812  
    r:+0.63  26.94        55.80 (28.86)
 24 ACKMAN, ALYSON   21 CANADA              55.34      55.84   810  
    r:+0.63  26.94        55.84 (28.90)
 25 QUILTER, LAURA   22 NEW ZEALAND         55.86      55.87   809  
    r:+0.70  26.55        55.87 (29.32)
 26 WILLIAMS, MICHE  23 CANADA              55.53      55.88   809  
    r:+0.76  27.01        55.88 (28.87)
 27 MAINVILLE, SAND  22 CANADA              54.87      55.92   807  
    r:+0.20  26.76        55.92 (29.16)
 28 PELTON, ELIZABE  20 UNITED STATES       54.65      55.99   804  
    r:+0.72  27.21        55.99 (28.78)
 29 CHEVERTON, SAMA  26 CANADA              55.67      56.03   802  
    r:+0.69  27.47        56.03 (28.56)
 30 GROVES, MADELIN  19 AUSTRALIA           55.63      56.11   799  
    r:+0.70  27.11        56.11 (29.00)
 31 LUCIE-SMITH, SA  22 NEW ZEALAND         55.28      56.25   793  
    r:+0.69  27.33        56.25 (28.92)
 32 MIYAMOTO, YASUK  19 JAPAN               55.76      56.40   786  
    r:+0.75  27.39        56.40 (29.01)
 33 IGARASHI, CHIHI  19 JAPAN               55.61      56.55   780  
    r:+0.64  27.46        56.55 (29.09)
 34 ZHANG, SISHI     20 CHINA               56.66      56.63   777  
    r:+0.66  27.46        56.63 (29.17)
 35 TAKANO, AYA      20 JAPAN               57.28      56.72   773  
    r:+0.79  27.71        56.72 (29.01)
 36 ZHANG, JIAQI     18 CHINA               55.43      56.73   773  
    r:+0.68  27.74        56.73 (28.99)
 37 TAKEMURA, MIYUK  25 JAPAN               56.86      57.00   762  
    r:+0.68  27.60        57.00 (29.40)
 38 WANG, SHIJIA     20 CHINA               56.76      57.43   745  
    r:+0.71  27.65        57.43 (29.78)
 39 LEE, SAMANTHA    22 NEW ZEALAND         56.73      57.52   741  
    r:+0.72  27.85        57.52 (29.67)
 40 SZE, HANG YU     26 HONG KONG           56.32      57.59   739  
    r:+0.69  27.58        57.59 (30.01)
 41 BERGAMASCHI, CA  20 BRAZIL              57.68      57.78   731  
    r:+0.60  27.87        57.78 (29.91)
 42 CHAN, KIN LOK    20 HONG KONG           57.76      58.41   708  
    r:+0.70  28.19        58.41 (30.22)
 43 LAU, CLAUDIA     21 HONG KONG           57.80      58.53   704  
    r:+0.71  28.18        58.53 (30.35)
 44 MOHR, VANESSA    19 SOUTH AFRICA        58.34      59.04   685  
    r:+0.63  28.19        59.04 (30.85)
 45 YIN, FAN         19 CHINA               58.81      59.85   658  
    r:+0.72  28.55        59.85 (31.30)
 46 LOUBSER, MARCE   18 SOUTH AFRICA        59.42    1:00.21   646  
    r:+0.72  28.72      1:00.21 (31.49)

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