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Dual Tokyo Olympic champion Ariarne Titmus <\/strong>has revealed she wants to be at her peak for this year\u2019s Commonwealth Games in Birmingham and that may mean she won\u2019t defend her world 400m freestyle crown three months earlier.<\/p>\n

A decision that could also mean that the next big showdown between swimming\u2019s female freestyle heavyweights – Titmus and her US nemesis Katie Ledecky<\/strong> may have to wait until the 2023 Fina World Championships in Doha or 2024 Olympics in Paris.<\/p>\n

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SISTERS IN ARMS: Ariarne Titmus and Katie Ledecky locked together on pool deck after their epic 400m in Tokyo. Photo Courtesy: Delly Carr (Swimming Australia).<\/p><\/div>\n

The 2022 Fina World Championships will be swum in Fukuoka before the 2022 Birmingham Games but Titmus is adamant she wants to defend her Commonwealth Games titles over 400, 800 and 4x200m freestyle relay, and add the 200 she just missed in 2018 on the Gold Coast.<\/p>\n

To target the Commonwealth Games could well mean she will by-pass the World\u2019s and not defend her world 400m title which she snatched from Ledecky in Gwangju in 2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to be at my peak for Commonwealth Games; I want to be swimming very well there,\u201d said Titmus<\/p>\n

\u201cI loved the Gold Coast Games in 2018. Those Commonwealth Games for me felt like a mini Olympics and I want to really be swimming my best that I can there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Titmus has a record second to none against Ledecky \u2013 beating the greatest ever women\u2019s freestyler twice on the world\u2019s biggest stages.<\/p>\n

And the build up to Paris 2024 with Ledecky primed to win an unprecedented fourth 800m freestyle gold and Titmus out to defend her 200 and 400 crowns<\/a> and determined to also spoil Ledecky\u2019s historic party in the 800m will be mouth-watering stuff.<\/p>\n

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TOKYO TRIUMPH: Ariarne Titmus raised the bar in Tokyo. Photo Courtesy: Delly Carr (Swimming Australia).<\/p><\/div>\n

In an already glittering career the 21-year-old Titmus has won 200 and 400 Olympic gold; 400 and 800m Commonwealth Games gold and she has won the 400m freestyle, both long course and short course.<\/p>\n

The 400m showdown in Tokyo was the most highly anticipated of all swimming events and one of the most anticipated races in any sport \u2013 a TV ratings showstopper in Australia and in the US.<\/p>\n

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And it was Titmus who delivered one of the real golden moments of the Games for Australia when she rained on Ledecky\u2019s parade in the 400m and then added the 200m for good measure.<\/p>\n

Ledecky beat Titmus to defend her 800m freestyle gold medals, adding Toyko gold to her London and Rio wins, also adding the inaugural 1500m gold.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a busy year for Australia\u2019s Dolphins in 2022, with the FINA World Championships in Fukuoka in May followed by the Birmingham Games in July-August \u2013 a meet that has always loomed large on the Australian sporting calendar.<\/p>\n

But for Titmus, who returned to competition at the Queensland State Championships last month, winning both the 400 and 800 metres, the World\u2019s are not definite.<\/p>\n

The Commonwealth Games is certainly part of the grand plan for Titmus and coach Dean Boxall<\/strong> and she has made her intentions quite clear.<\/p>\n

Together with coach Boxall, Titmus is still trying to figure out what the lead up to Birmingham will look like and whether or not World\u2019s is on the cards or if it\u2019s a meet they miss to focus on training for the Commonwealth Games.<\/p>\n

\u201cEither way it\u2019s going to be a very busy year…I feel like it could potentially be as busy if not busier than 2021,\u201d said Titmus.<\/p>\n

\u201cI still have to figure out a few details but I can definitely say that it\u2019s at the Commonwealth Games where I definitely want to be at my best.\u201d<\/p>\n

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TOUCHING MOMENT: Ariarne Titmus and coach Dean Boxall after the epic 400m freestyle gold. Photo Courtesy: Delly Carr (Swimming Australia)<\/p><\/div>\n

The Australian World Championship Trials are in April and those swimmers who make the World\u2019s team (two per event) will automatically qualify for the Commonwealth Games team.<\/p>\n

Commonwealth Games allows for three individual spots but those that don\u2019t make the World\u2019s team will have the opportunity to qualify at either the Sydney Open Meet at the Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre or the Monte Carlo (Monaco) Mare Nostrum meet to qualify for that third spot (if swimmers) are overseas after Worlds.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s \u00a0good to know you (still) have that opportunity to make that team for Birmingham,\u201d Titmus said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt means even if you don\u2019t make World\u2019s and most of your squad does and they are training overseas you could potentially tag along and then just race in Monaco to try and make the Commonwealth Games team and go straight to the (scheduled) Staging Camp in France.<\/p>\n

\u201cOr you stay home, swim the Sydney Open and fly straight to Staging Camp – either way I think they are good options.\u201d<\/p>\n

And a slice of Commonwealth Games history awaits Titmus, who will target the 200, 400 and 800m \u2013 a triple only ever achieved once before \u2013 by Australian Karen Moras<\/strong> in Edinburgh in 1970 and the 4x200m freestyle relay.<\/p>\n

Canada\u2019s teen sensation Taylor Ruck<\/strong> stopped Titmus in 2018, edging the Australian out by just 0.04 in a gripping 200m on the Gold Coast and robbing her of a fourth gold.<\/p>\n

And only one swimmer, the great Australian Tracey Wickham<\/strong> has ever defended the 400 and 800m freestyle double and she did that in Edmonton in 1978 and Brisbane in 1982.<\/p>\n

And no Australian woman has even won the 200, 400, 800 and the 4x200m freestyle relay at one Games \u2013 a team Titmus was also part of in 2018.<\/p>\n

Such is the depth of the Dolphins, Birmingham seems like the perfect place for history to be made and to set the records straight.<\/p>\n

Australian Swimming Trials:<\/strong>\u00a0SA Aquatic And Leisure Centre, Adelaide (April 4-9). Television –\u00a0Amazon Prim<\/em><\/p>\n

19th<\/sup>\u00a0Fina World Swimming Championships:<\/strong>\u00a0Marine Messe, Fukuoka (May 13-29) Television \u2013 TBD<\/p>\n

XXII Commonwealth Games:\u00a0<\/strong>Birmingham (July 28-August 8) Television \u2013\u00a0Seven Network<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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