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Japan&#8217;s Yumi Kida, who was well placed for the entire race, claimed a fast finishing third.<\/p>\n<p>While the USA\u2019s <strong>Jordan Wilimovsky<\/strong>, showed why he will be the boy to beat in Rio, swimming away from the best field ever assembled in an Australian Championship, to win gold in the men\u2019s race.<\/p>\n<p>Wilimovsky, from Santa Monica, cleared away from <strong>Jack Burnell<\/strong> (Great Britain) while Australia\u2019s London Olympian <strong>Jarrod Poort<\/strong> (Wests Illawarra) kept his Rio chances alive, finishing third, ahead of fellow Australians <strong>Rhys Mainstone<\/strong> (fourth), <strong>Simon Huitenga<\/strong> (eighth), <strong>Sam Sheppard<\/strong> (11<sup>th<\/sup>) and <strong>George O\u2019Brien<\/strong> (12<sup>th<\/sup>). <em>(Editor&#8217;s note: Kane Radford of New Zealand also qualified for the Portugal World Cup for a chance at representing New Zealand at the Rio Olympics)\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Sunshine Coast girls, along with Poort and WA\u2019s <strong>Simon Huitenga<\/strong> will all represent the Australian Dolphins team in Portugal.<\/p>\n<p>Gubecka and Huitenga had already booked their places, courtesy of their performances at last year\u2019s World Championships while Lee and Poort will join their good friends in the two-pronged attack for a place on the Olympic team.<\/p>\n<p>The first Australian male and female to finish in the top 9 or the first Oceania qualifier will take the nomination.<\/p>\n<p>Gubecka said she wanted to make sure she ticked every box before Portugal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was my first 10km race for the year and wanted to make sure I started out on the right foot,\u201d said Gubecka.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy training has been going really well and we\u2019ve been working on changing my pace, my drop dead speed, not flat out but enough to perhaps break the pack and I knew here in Australia that\u2019s probably a better tactic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInternationally I won\u2019t be able to do that but it\u2019s certainly a very good confidence booster leading in to the next races.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConfidence is a huge thing. It\u2019s important to feel confident and to do everything you can to try and make the team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gubecka said swimming in her own backyard made it a special occasion all round.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve got a lot of my friends and family here so it\u2019s very humbling to have them all here. This is my playground and no one is supposed to stop me on my turf, right\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And on having good friend Katrina Lee alongside her in the race to Rio?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKareena is fantastic and I\u2019ve been on the team with her for a couple of years now; we are room mates and we used to train together and we are 10 minutes down the road from each other so it\u2019s just fantastic to have two local girls on the team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lee was excited to get through the race, knowing she had to put on a solid showing for the selectors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted to make sure I put together the best possible race to give myself a real chance but Chelsea just had too much today,\u201d said Lee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut to get the opportunity to join Chelsea in Portugal and to have two Australians in with a shot is very exciting, I can\u2019t wait.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Poort knew he had to keep one eye on the likes of Wilimovsky and Canadian London Olympic bronze medallist Richard Weinberger and another on his Australian team mates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was so good having all the internationals here, adding a touch of class to this race and with the Australians providing a race within the race,\u201dsaid Poort.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI knew I had to keep an eye on the Australian boys and have something in the tank for that final burst.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI felt good with two laps to remaining and was confident I had plenty let to be able to dig deep in the final stages.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been a long process and now I\u2019ll get the chance to race Simon in Portugal. We are room mates and best mates but there can only be one winner and one spot up for grabs for Rio.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The three-day Championships will conclude at Mooloolaba Beach today (<span data-term=\"goog_1818776317\">Sunday<\/span>) with the Open Men\u2019s and Women\u2019s 5km and Age Group 5km starting from <span data-term=\"goog_1818776318\">8am<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/2016-australian-open-water-swimming-saturday.pdf\" rel=\"\">FULL SATURDAY RESULTS<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Swimming Australia contributed this report.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea Gubecka and Kareena Lee have scored a Queensland Sunshine Coast quinella in the women\u2019s 10km Open Water Australian Swimming Championships in Mooloolaba today in their next step towards the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":185007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[50558],"class_list":["post-185005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-open-water","tag-2016-rio-olympic-games"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - 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