Six members of Australia\u2019s Rio Olympic swim team will spearhead a 20-strong Dolphins team for next month\u2019s Fina World Short Course Championships in Windsor, Canada which includes 12 new faces.<\/p>\n
Rio medallists Mitch Larkin, Emily Seebohm, David Morgan, Brittany Elmslie<\/strong> and Jessica Ashwood<\/strong> will be joined by Daniel<\/strong> Smith<\/strong> along with the return of London Olympian Tommaso D\u2019Orsogna<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Four other Rio medallists Kyle Chalmers, Cam McEvoy, Maddi Wilson<\/strong> and Maddie Groves<\/strong> were all unavailable for selection.<\/p>\n The team, 75 percent from Queensland, sees the return of 2012 World Short Course champion Bobby Hurley<\/strong> (Warringah Aquatic, NSW) at 28 who upset world champion Mitch Larkin<\/strong> to swim his way back onto the team\u00a0tonight<\/span>, despite suffering from an infected nerve in his neck which forced him out of the recent Fina World Cup series.<\/p>\n Hurley clocked 50.08 to Larkin\u2019s 50.42 but based on Larkin\u2019s 49.62 swum in the Moscow World Cup he is ranked first in the world while Hurley comes in third with Russian Stanislav Donets second on 50.06.<\/p>\n The meet will also see the introduction of 12 rookies on the team who will make their international debuts – including both 16-year-old Minna Atherton<\/strong> (Brisbane Grammar) and 19-year-old Clyde Lewis<\/strong> (St Peters Western) who clocked individual qualifying times to signal their intentions.<\/p>\n Atherton, the world junior champion and record holder, will join training partner and dual world champion Seebohm in a two pronged backstroke assault.<\/p>\n Lewis, who just missed the team on the 200IM on night two, gate crashed his way onto his first team with a barnstorming win in the 400IM in 4:05.74 on the final night.<\/p>\n \u201cJust missing the team the night before gave me so much drive and I wanted to make it real bad. I knew this was my last chance to get under a qualifying time so I put myself in an international mind space as if I was racing all the big guns,\u201d said Lewis, who is coached by Dean Boxall<\/strong> at St Peters Western.<\/p>\n \u201cI really got myself going and I have never hurt that much in my life. I think I need a new body but it is so worth it and I\u2019m so happy. I knew I had to go out very fast and I knew I was going to hurt a lot. I wanted it enough and it paid off.\u201d<\/p>\n Hurley\u2019s rare injury which has affected the power in his right arm forced him to rest more and in the end the extra rest paid dividends.<\/p>\n \u201cThere was a lot of rest since I kicked my way to that bronze medal in the 50m and obviously with a nerve injury it\u2019s fatiguing a lot for me so just working the legs, a lot of fast kicking and that\u2019s obviously important in short course. It is 60 percent underwater,\u201d said Hurley.<\/p>\n \u201cThen just really light, 100 pace tempo work and we haven\u2019t been able to do much of that in the last two-to-three weeks.<\/p>\n \u201cI knew I would be right for 75 metres\u00a0tonight<\/span>\u00a0and the last lap I wasn\u2019t too sure and I managed to hold it together and a forced taper has paid off and I\u2019m looking forward to World\u2019s now with Mitch and I giving Australia a great one-two.\u201d<\/p>\n The former short course world champion and world record holder for 50m backstroke had won five gold, two silvers and one bronze medal against some of the best swimmers in the world in the World Cups before being forced home after Singapore and Tokyo with the injury.<\/p>\n Meanwhile\u00a0there was a Brisbane Grammar trifecta in the 200m individual medley, led by swimmer of the meet Emily Seebohm<\/strong> who won an unprecedented seventh individual National title and her 14th<\/sup>\u00a0career short course gold.<\/p>\n No other swimmer has ever won seven individual National titles in one meet \u2013 let alone in a three-day meet.<\/p>\n Seebohm, who only decided to swim the 200IM this morning, clocked 2:07.04 to street her rivals, Grammar training partners 200m breaststroke winner Aisling Scott<\/strong> (2:09.44) and 400 IM winner Calypso Sheridan<\/strong> (2:10.77).<\/p>\n Seebohm, who had won the 50, 100 and 200m backstroke, the 50m butterfly and freestyle and 100 and 200IM also added an eighth gold with the Brisbane Grammar 4x100m medley relay with Atherton, Aisling Scott<\/strong> and Brittany Elmslie<\/strong> \u2013 narrowly missing the National record set last year by St Peters Western\u2019s all-Olympic team of Madi Wilson, Georgia Bohl, Maddie Groves<\/strong> and Bronte<\/strong> Barratt<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Champion club TSS Aquatic were led superbly by butterfly star David Morgan<\/strong> who was justly rewarded with his Australian All-Comers record of 49.52 in the 100m butterfly \u2013 adding to his previous wins in the 50 and 200m butterfly events.<\/p>\n His TSS teammate Josh Parrish<\/strong> earned his first National title, taking out the 1500m freestyle in 14:45.49 before anchoring the club\u2019s 4x100m medley relay in 49.26 \u2013 which would be another rare performance.<\/p>\n Meanwhile Bond\u2019s Cam McEvoy<\/strong> wrapped up a successful defence of the 50, 100 and 200m freestyle treble and replicating his log course triple when he won the 50m freestyle in 21.04 ahead of Morgan (21.51) and Marion SA\u2019s Andrew Abood<\/strong> (21.72).<\/p>\n There was further heartache for Blue Mountains boy Matthew Wilson<\/strong>, who narrowly missed the Rio Olympic team and again missed this team by 0.07 \u2013 clocking 2:05.08 in an impressive performance but sees him miss his second team by the narrowest of margins.<\/p>\n Carlile\u2019s 20-year-old world short course rookie Emily Washer<\/strong> turned her 100m silver into gold in the 200m butterfly in a time of 2:06.64 ahead of Lara Taylor<\/strong> (TSS Aquatics) 2:07.07 and Gemma Cooney<\/strong> (Brisbane Grammar) 2:08.71.<\/p>\n The Multi-Class 100m breaststroke to Blake Cochrane<\/strong> (USC Spartans) in 1:15.17 with Paralympic gold medallist Tim Diskin<\/strong> (PLC Aquatic) 1:11.07 and Grant Patterson<\/strong> (Central Cairns) 2:20.49 with the women\u2019s event going to Madeline Scott<\/strong> (Canberra) in 1:18.98 from Paralympian Prue Watt<\/strong> (Cranbrook) 1:20.71 and Jamie-Lee Getson<\/strong> (Melbourne Torpedoes) 1:22.34.<\/p>\n Australian Dolphins Swim Team, Fina World Short Course Swimming Championships, Windsor, Canada\u00a0December 6-13<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n MEN:<\/strong><\/p>\n Tommaso D\u2019Orsogna (Somerset, QLD)<\/p>\n Jack Gerard (Melbourne Vicentre, VIC)<\/p>\n Alexander Graham (Southport Olympic, QLD)<\/p>\n Bobby Hurley (Warringah, NSW)<\/p>\n Mitch Larkin (Unattached, QLD)<\/p>\n Clyde Lewis (St Peters Western, QLD)<\/p>\n Brayden McCarthy (Bond, QLD)<\/p>\n David Morgan (TSS Aquatics, QLD)<\/p>\n Daniel Smith (St Peters Western, QLD)<\/p>\n Tommy Sucipto (Rockingham, WA)<\/p>\n WOMEN:<\/strong><\/p>\n Jessica Ashwood (Chandler, QLD)<\/p>\n Minna Atherton (Brisbane Grammar, QLD)<\/p>\n Carla Buchanan (Acacia Bayside, QLD)<\/p>\n Brittany Elmslie (Brisbane Grammar, QLD)<\/p>\n Jessica Hansen (Nunawading, VIC)<\/p>\n Kiah Melverton (TSS Aquatics QLD)<\/p>\n Jemma Schlicht (USC Spartans, QLD)<\/p>\n Emily Seebohm (Brisbane Grammar, QLD)<\/p>\n Ariarne Titmus (St Peters Western, QLD)<\/p>\n Emily Washer (Carlile, NSW)<\/p>\n Head Coach:<\/strong>\u00a0Jacco Verhaeren<\/p>\n Coaches:\u00a0<\/strong>Dean Boxall (St Peters Western, QLD), Chris Nesbitt (TSS Aquatic, Southport, QLD), David Lush (Brisbane Grammar, QLD), Will Scott (Rockingham, WA), Shaun Crow (Acacia Bayside, QLD)<\/p>\n Press release courtesy of Swimming Australia.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Six members of 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