{"id":493232,"date":"2021-12-12T05:42:29","date_gmt":"2021-12-12T12:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=493232"},"modified":"2021-12-12T18:13:43","modified_gmt":"2021-12-13T01:13:43","slug":"zac-stubblety-cook-and-mollie-ocallaghan-star-on-day-two-of-queensland-championships-in-brisbane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/zac-stubblety-cook-and-mollie-ocallaghan-star-on-day-two-of-queensland-championships-in-brisbane\/","title":{"rendered":"Zac Stubblety-Cook and Mollie O’Callaghan Star On Day Two Of Queensland Championships In Brisbane"},"content":{"rendered":"

Olympic Champion Zac Stubblety-Cook\u2019s Record Breaking Night At The Queensland Championships<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chandler Swim Club\u2019s Olympic champion Zac Stubblety-Cook <\/strong>and Tokyo teen sensation Mollie O’Callaghan were the stars of night two of the 2021 McDonald\u2019s Queensland Swimming Championships in Brisbane tonight.<\/p>\n

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LEGS FLY: Zac Stubblety-Cook powers off the Brisbane blocks. Photo Courtesy: Wade J Brennan.<\/p><\/div>\n

Stubblety-Cook left his beloved Aquatic Centre at Chandler excited by what lies ahead in 2022 after setting the his home pool\u00a0 alight on an action-packed first session of individual finals.<\/p>\n

Stubblety-Cook led a host of Tokyo Olympians back into competition and it was “game on” from the opening event with, 17-year-old St Peters Western gold medallist O\u2019Callaghan surprising even herself.<\/p>\n

\u201cMollie O\u201d produced a near-best 200m freestyle time to win the first of her three State titles in an \u201chour of power\u201d and lowering the colours of Olympic champion and her team mate Ariarne Titmus<\/strong> into the bargain.<\/p>\n

But the swim of the night belonged to Stubblety-Cook with the Tokyo 200m breaststroke gold medallist<\/a> setting a new Queensland All-Comers record of 2:07.00 in his pet 200m breaststroke event.<\/p>\n

It was his first swim back after his Tokyo triumph and just 0.88 secs outside the world record he nudged in the Olympic final.<\/p>\n

Russian Anton Chupkov<\/strong> holds the world mark at 2:06.12 \u2013 and Stubblety-Cook was the only swimmer under 2:07.00 in the Olympic final \u2013 clocking a new Olympic record of 2:06.38.<\/p>\n

And that swim came after he set his own Commonwealth record, a faster time of 2:06.28 at the Australian Olympic Trials in June this year.<\/p>\n