{"id":510758,"date":"2022-08-06T06:52:15","date_gmt":"2022-08-06T13:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=510758"},"modified":"2022-08-06T06:52:15","modified_gmt":"2022-08-06T13:52:15","slug":"after-commonwealth-games-australian-women-in-command-of-all-three-relays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/after-commonwealth-games-australian-women-in-command-of-all-three-relays\/","title":{"rendered":"After Commonwealth Games, Australian Women in Command of All Three Relays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>After Commonwealth Games, Australian Women in Command of All Three Relays<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One year ago, Australia\u2019s women were dominant at the Olympics. The swimming-obsessed nation had won just a single women\u2019s gold medal in both London and Rio, but <strong>Ariarne<\/strong> <strong>Titmus<\/strong>, <strong>Kaylee<\/strong> <strong>McKeown<\/strong> and <strong>Emma McKeon<\/strong> led an Aussie revival in Tokyo, an effort bookended by gold medals in the 400 freestyle and 400 medley relays. In the aftermath, Titmus and McKeon skipped the 2022 World Championships, but with a nearly-full-strength roster restored, Australia annihilated the field in the women\u2019s races at the Commonwealth Games.<\/p>\n<p>Now, with one year complete in this shortened three-year cycle culminating with the Paris Olympics, the Aussies are the team to beat. That includes individual events, where <strong>Mollie O\u2019Callaghan<\/strong> is a bourgeoning star alongside the golden trio from Tokyo, and also in relays. That\u2019s right: the most prestigious events in women\u2019s swimming are leaning all Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the 400 free relay has been all Australia for many years. The last time Australia did not win a global title in the event was 2017, when the United States beat an Aussie group missing sprint star <strong>Cate Campbell<\/strong> by just three tenths. At this year\u2019s Worlds, Australia was missing three of the four swimmers from last year\u2019s Olympic-gold-medal-winning and world-record-setting squad, and the result was the same: gold by more than a second. And that was without McKeon, who split as fast as 51.88 at the Commonwealth Games.<\/p>\n<p>Simply put, there\u2019s no foreseeable scenario where either of the other medal-winning countries from Budapest can catch up to Australia. A Canadian team of <strong>Penny<\/strong> <strong>Oleksiak<\/strong>, <strong>Taylor<\/strong> <strong>Ruck<\/strong>, <strong>Maggie Mac Neil<\/strong> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/summer-mcintosh-shows-speed-fulfills-promise-with-six-medals-at-commonwealth-games\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Summer<\/strong> <strong>McIntosh<\/strong><\/a>? An American squad led by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/torri-huskes-world-championships-put-her-in-elite-company\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Torri<\/strong> <strong>Huske<\/strong><\/a>, who broke 53 for the first time in the 100 free this year and won bronze at the World Championships, and fellow teenager <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/what-claire-curzan-learned-from-busy-world-championships-debut\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Claire Curzan<\/strong><\/a>? Those are good teams but no match for an Aussie roster led by McKeon and the swimmers ranked first and second in the world in the 100 free this year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/world-championships-mollie-ocallaghan-times-it-to-perfection-to-win-the-100-free-sjostrom-huske-on-podium\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">teenage world champion O\u2019Callaghan<\/a> and the resurgent <strong>Shayna<\/strong> <strong>Jack<\/strong> \u2014 and it\u2019s really tough to imagine that landscape changing in the two short years before Paris.<\/p>\n<p>As for the 800 free relay, Australia entered the Tokyo Games as big favorites for gold with a Titmus-led quartet, but in one of the biggest upsets of the Olympics, China took the win followed by the U.S. and then Australia. At this year\u2019s Worlds, Australia was again favored, even without Titmus, but this time it was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/world-championships-katie-ledecky-bella-sims-propel-u-s-women-to-upset-gold-in-800-free-relay\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Americans, fueled by <strong>Katie Ledecky\u2019s<\/strong> usual excellence and an out-of-body anchor split from <strong>Bella<\/strong> <strong>Sims<\/strong>, who won gold<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Then, at the Commonwealth Games, Australia <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/commonwealth-games-australia-races-to-world-record-in-womens-800-freestyle-relay-titmus-throws-down-152\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">took down the world record, the first-ever relay under 7:40<\/a> \u2014 the swim that the Aussie women were fully capable of one year earlier in Tokyo. This time, <strong>Madison<\/strong> <strong>Wilson<\/strong>, <strong>Kiah<\/strong> <strong>Melverton<\/strong> and O\u2019Callaghan set it up, and Titmus finished with the fastest split in history. The time was two seconds quicker than the Americans\u2019 Budapest performance.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike the 400 free relay, however, this one is not insurmountable, and the nation best-equipped to chase down Australia is once again the U.S., with Ledecky leading the way and a cohort of teenagers showing big improvements in the 200 free. That includes Sims, <strong>Claire<\/strong> <strong>Weinstein<\/strong>, <strong>Katie Grimes<\/strong> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/erin-gemmell-journey-from-halloween-costume-admiration-to-nationals-achievement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Erin Gemmell<\/strong><\/a>, who entered the top-10 in the world in the 200 free at last week\u2019s U.S. Nationals. Canada, led by the quickly-improving McIntosh, and China, with 200 free world champion <strong>Yang<\/strong> <strong>Junxuan<\/strong> on the squad, remain players.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s worth noting that Australia\u2019s track record of consistent performances in the longer free relay is not great (again, think Tokyo), so that leaves a glimmer of hope for the teams in pursuit. But it\u2019s hard to argue with a days-old world record.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, the medley relay, where the U.S. has captured the last three world titles but Australia won Olympic gold by a mere 0.13 last year in Tokyo. This year\u2019s Budapest showdown went to the United States by a half-second, but that was without McKeon holding down her usual butterfly leg. Add in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/commonwealth-games-australian-women-dominate-400-medley-relay-to-cap-off-dominant-week\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">her 56.59 split in a winning effort<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/results.birmingham2022.com\/#\/athletic-sports-schedule\/SWM\/*\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Birmingham<\/a>, and the outcome is different.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the medley relay should be best described as a toss-up, with a lot of qualifications to declare either country the favorite. For instance, the Americans lacked their usual breaststroke pop this year with <strong>Lilly<\/strong> <strong>King<\/strong> struggling at Worlds, but for Australia, McKeown did not come within a second of her 100 back world record at either of the summer\u2019s championship events. Then again, Huske\u2019s butterfly leg of the U.S. medley relay was more than a second slower than her individual 100 fly performance.<\/p>\n<p>That back-and-forth could go on all day. But that\u2019s the Australians\u2019 weakest of the three women\u2019s relays and the best of the American squads.<\/p>\n<p>And sure, all events are important, but relays mean a little extra. A huge relay performance is galvanizing for any team, from an Olympic team or elite college squad to a high school or summer league team, and a relay flop is equally deflating. Accordingly, the highest-priority focus for the U.S. in the leadup to Paris? \u201cWe\u2019re going to try to focus on how we can get our men and our women faster in these relays,\u201d U.S. National Team Managing Director <strong>Lindsay Mintenko<\/strong> said. \u201cIt\u2019s going to be a big focus for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And surely, it did not sit well for the U.S. to be shut out of the gold medals in women\u2019s relays in Tokyo, even with all swimmers in relay finals producing admirable performances. But right now, it\u2019s Australia in the driver\u2019s seat and leaving the Commonwealth Games in an enviable position in the most significant events in women\u2019s swimming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Commonwealth Games, Australian Women in Command of All Three Relays One year ago, Australia\u2019s women were dominant at the Olympics. 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