{"id":505585,"date":"2022-05-21T06:55:46","date_gmt":"2022-05-21T13:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=505585"},"modified":"2022-05-21T06:55:46","modified_gmt":"2022-05-21T13:55:46","slug":"even-with-stars-absent-australian-women-are-world-title-favorites-in-freestyle-relays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/even-with-stars-absent-australian-women-are-world-title-favorites-in-freestyle-relays\/","title":{"rendered":"Even With Stars Absent, Australian Women Are World Title Favorites in Freestyle Relays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Even With Stars Absent, Australian Women Are World Title Favorites in Freestyle Relays<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When the women\u2019s 400 freestyle relay lines up at this summer\u2019s World Championships, the Australian team will be missing three of the four swimmers who guided that nation to a third consecutive Olympic gold medal last year. That trio includes the dominant female swimmer at the Olympics after winning seven total medals (<strong>Emma<\/strong> <strong>McKeon<\/strong>), a veteran who is arguably the finest female relay swimmer in history (<strong>Cate Campbell<\/strong>) and another veteran who has a previously won an individual world title in the 100 free (<strong>Bronte<\/strong> <strong>Campbell<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p>And the Australian team will still be strong favorites to win a world title without them.<\/p>\n<p>At Australia\u2019s national championships this week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/mollie-ocallaghan-shayna-jack-blast-big-times-at-australian-championships-cody-simpson-pops-in-100-fly\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the national champion in the 100 free<\/a> was 18-year-old <strong>Mollie O\u2019Callaghan,<\/strong> whose time of 52.49 edged out the returning <strong>Shayna<\/strong> <strong>Jack<\/strong>\u00a0(52.60). <strong>Meg Harris,<\/strong> the only returning member of the finals squad from gold-medal-winning relay in Tokyo, placed third in 53.09, and veteran <strong>Madison Wilson<\/strong> was fourth in 53.19.<\/p>\n<p>All four of those times were faster than <strong>Torri Huske\u2019s<\/strong> winning time in the 100 free from the U.S. International Team Trials last month. It\u2019s early in the year, but the four Australians rank first, second, third and fifth in the world, respectively, with only world-record holder <strong>Sarah Sjostrom<\/strong> joining the Aussies in that mix. Those four times add up to 3:31.37, 1.4 seconds faster than Canada\u2019s silver-medal winning time from Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p>To reiterate, that is without three of the best sprinters in Australian history, including the Olympic gold and bronze medalists one year ago.<\/p>\n<p>Two days after that remarkable national-level performance, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/ariarne-titmus-attacks-world-record-en-route-to-no-3-in-history-in-200-freestyle-at-australian-championships\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the women\u2019s 200 free final<\/a> brought more of the same, another performance that set up Australia as 800 free relay world-title favorites despite a lot of firepower missing. The win in this race went to <strong>Ariarne<\/strong> <strong>Titmus<\/strong>, the Olympic gold medalist and second-fastest performer in history in the 200 free, her time of 1:53.31 falling marginally short of her best time of 1:53.09.<\/p>\n<p>But Titmus will be another Aussie star absent from Budapest. McKeon, meanwhile, has focused less on the 200 free in recent years, but she has been a mainstay for the Aussies on this relay since 2013. And still, this team will enter the World Championships favored for gold.<\/p>\n<p>Leading the way will be O\u2019Callaghan, who swam a lifetime-best mark of 1:54.94 Friday to surpass <strong>Katie<\/strong> <strong>Ledecky\u2019s<\/strong> winning mark of 1:55.15 from U.S. Trials. Wilson and <strong>Kiah Melverton<\/strong> both swam in the 1:55-high range, while Leah Neale placed fourth in 1:56.10.<\/p>\n<p>All eight swimmers in the field were faster than the second-place American swimmer at Trials. Harris was the last swimmer home in the final at 1:56.82, ahead of the 1:57.08 that 15-year-old Claire Weinstein swam to finish second behind Ledecky in Greensboro, N.C., three weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>The composite time for Aussies O\u2019Callaghan, Wilson, Melverton and Neale is 7:42.84, while the time based on the top four Americans (Ledecky, Weinstein, <strong>Leah<\/strong> <strong>Smith<\/strong> and <strong>Hali<\/strong> <strong>Flickinger<\/strong>) is 7:47.20 \u2014 more than four seconds behind.<\/p>\n<p>There is an important caveat when it comes to Australia and the 800 free relay: the Titmus-led squad was heavily favored to win Olympic gold in Tokyo, but the Aussies ended up third in that race behind China and the Americans. O\u2019Callaghan had led off for the Australians in prelims in 1:55.11, but she was left off the finals quartet in favor of an entirely new squad of four swimmers. That move backfired Titmus and McKeon, both exhausted from a long week of racing, could not build an early lead, and the team ended up with a bronze medal, albeit under the existing world record.<\/p>\n<p>The Aussies lack the unblemished recent record in the 800 free relay, but this year\u2019s narrative is the same as in the 400 free relay that they have thoroughly dominated over the past decade: no stars, no problem.<\/p>\n<p>We highlighted the comparison between the Australians and Americans here mostly because no other country has shown most of their cards in long course competition since Tokyo. Canada\u2019s veterans did not need to light the world on fire at their Trials in mid-April, but it\u2019s reasonable to expect <strong>Penny Oleksiak<\/strong> and <strong>Kayla Sanchez<\/strong> to be hitting their stride in Budapest. Canada\u2019s 400 free relay edged out the U.S. for silver in Tokyo. The 800 free relay placed fourth, but 15-year-old <strong>Summer McIntosh<\/strong> remains on her track of rapid improvement.<\/p>\n<p>That Chinese gold medal in the 800 free relay was a totally unexpected performance fueled by <strong>Yang Junxuan<\/strong> and <strong>Zhang<\/strong> <strong>Yufei<\/strong>, and it\u2019s plausible that duo could lead China to a World Championships medal in the 400 free relay as well.<\/p>\n<p>But as the weeks tick by until the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fina.org\/competitions\/2902\/19th-fina-world-championships-budapest-2022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">World Championships<\/a> swimming competition gets underway on June 18, the talk in the women\u2019s freestyle relays will rightfully center on the swimmers from Down Under, favored in both events not because of the established stars but in spite of their absence. 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