Super Week for Olivia Wunsch and Ollie Moclair at NSW Senior State Championships
Freestyle sprint stars Olivia Wunsch and Ollie Moclair have led a week of exciting “Super Finals” introduced for the 2025 Senior State Championships at the famed Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre.
The “Super Finals” featured the 10 fastest swimmers from 15 years to Opens for 50s, 100s and the 200m.
By the end of the meet, Olympic gold medalist and 2025 World Champion Wunsch (Carlile) was three from three – with “Super” wins in the 50 and 100m freestyle and 50m butterfly.
Wunsch won the 50m freestyle 25.08 from 17-year-old Heli Childs (PLC) in 25.58, followed by Elizabeth Gan (Sydney University) in 26.01 and then went back-to-back to claim a Super Finals double – the 50m butterfly in 26.78 and the 100m freestyle in 53.91.
GOGGLE WATCH: Olivia Wunsch has a super focus. Photo Courtesy Mia Burdack (Swimming NSW).
A spectacular swim from Ollie Moclair (Cranbrook) in the heats of the 50m freestyle, resulted in a new 18 Years Australian Age Record of 22.04 before winning the Super Final in 22.11.
Moclair is now the fourth fastest current Australian for 50m freestyle in the 2025-26 rankings as Australian men continue to make their mark in the event now owned by Olympic and two-time world champion Cam McEvoy.
McEvoy leads the world rankings for the current season with his 21.38, clocked in the Japan Open earlier this month.
His fellow Queenslanders Jamie Jack (St Peters) with his 21.74 at the 2025 Hancock Prospecting Queensland Championships sits him in sixth, followed by Flynn Southam (Bond) 21.85 when second to McEvoy in Japan with Moclair (Cranbrook) 17th with his 22.04 while Isaac Cooper (St Andrews) rounds out the top 25 in 22.22
Carlile’s latest recruit, Jess Cole, joined in the record feast, setting a new NSW record of 2:10.36 in the 200m butterfly.
The records kept falling, with Luke Higgs (Warringah Aquatic) winning the 800m freestyle, setting a new NSW Record of 8:04.45, a two- second personal best
With brother Samuel, the Higgs brothers again produced stand-out meets
The boys stole the show in the men’s 400m freestyle with 17-year-old Luke winning in 3:54.33, out touching 19-year-old Samuel in 3:56.52, with Samuel also winning the 200 IM in 2:01.09.
SUPER SWIMS: Heidi Shumack (SOPAC) notched an impressive treble. Photo Courtesy Mia Burdack (Swimming NSW).
SOPAC 16-year-old Heidi Shumack continued to shine, winning the 100m backstroke in 1.01.72 against mature competitors as well as in the 200IM (2:16.29), five seconds ahead of the rest of the field and an impressive 400IM in 4:50.56, 9 seconds ahead of the field. Shumack’s butterfly prowess allowed her to take it out strong, leading from the get go and pulling away to secure yet another gold medal.
Shumack is a star in the making as a competitive all-rounder. Shumack’s six individual medals at the 2025 Australian Age Championships earned her selection for the Australian Junior Dolphins Team where she finished eighth in the final.The girl from SPOAC claimed eight golds and one silver at the 2024/25 NSW Senior State Age Championships last year.
Meanwhile Raphael Taewoo Oh (Knox Pymble) produced an outstanding 14 years 200m breaststroke win in 2:25.08, with Christopher Montana breaking the Australian Age Record in the 50m breaststroke, not once but twice, 28.48 in the preliminaries before his Super Final time of 28.38.
STAND OUT: Raphael Taewoo Oh (Knox Pymble) is the 14 years 200m breaststroke. Photo Courtesy Maria Burdack (Swimming NSW).
On the final night of racing, more records were broken with Sydney University’s young gun, Thomas Penny, clocking a NSW 13 years record time of 1:56.90 in the 200m freestyle, the second fastest time swum by a 13-year-old Australian