{"id":521594,"date":"2023-01-23T19:33:43","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T02:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=521594"},"modified":"2023-01-24T06:10:03","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T13:10:03","slug":"its-a-busselton-beginning-for-australias-open-water-warriors-with-paris-on-their-minds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/its-a-busselton-beginning-for-australias-open-water-warriors-with-paris-on-their-minds\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s A Busselton Beginning For Australia’s Open Water Warriors With Paris On Their Minds"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0Busselton Beginning For Australia’s Open Water Warriors With Paris On Their Minds<\/strong><\/p>\n

Australia\u2019s potential 2024 Paris marathon swimmers will take to the waters of Western Australia tomorrow (Wednesday, AEDT) with their first strokes towards chasing Olympic dreams.<\/p>\n

The bustling beach town of Busselton, some 220km south west of Perth, will play host to a three-day Ocean Swim Festival and the Australian Open Water Championships.<\/p>\n

And there is a real buzz in the town with thousands of swimmers heading to the beachside mecca for the National Australia Day Holiday, Thursday (January 26) for a day of celebration in and around the water.<\/p>\n

The Championships will kick start tomorrow with almost 100 of Australia\u2019s finest and emerging marathon swimmers lining up under the 1.8km heritage listed Busselton Jetty \u2013 the focal point for the racing with spectators able to watch the fields swim through the Jetty.<\/p>\n

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CHELSEA GUBECKA Photo Courtesy: Delly Carer (Swimming Australia).<\/p><\/div>\n

The lineups will include Olympians Chelsea Gubecka<\/strong> (Yeronga Park, QLD) and Kai Edwards<\/strong> (Carlile, NSW), defending champions Moesha Johnson<\/strong> (Griffith University, QLD) and Nick Sloman<\/strong> (Noosa, QLD) along with the likes of Maddy Gough<\/strong> (Carlile, NSW) and Bianca Crisp<\/strong> (Noosa) in the women\u2019s race and Bailey Armstrong<\/strong> (USC Spartans, QLD), Kyle Lee<\/strong> (North Coast, WA) and Tom Raymond<\/strong> (Noosa) in the men.<\/p>\n

Chelsea Gubecka Leaves Olympic Golden Girls Behind<\/a><\/p>\n

At the end of the 10km National titles \u2013Swimming Australia will name a team of eight \u2013 four men and four women for the LEN Cup in Eilat, Israel on March 19 for the second selection race for this year\u2019s World Championships in Fukuoka.<\/p>\n

A four-strong Dolphins team \u2013 two men and two women will then be named for this year\u2019s Fina World Championships in Fukuoka, JPN where a top three podium finish will earn those placegetters automatic Olympic nomination.<\/p>\n

Gubecka, who represented Australia in Rio in 2016, and who missed out in a cut-throat selection process for Tokyo, has re-emerged as one of the real front runners \u2013 beating two Olympic champions in the final World Series race in Eilat last year \u2013 and particularly following the retirement of Noosa\u2019s Toyko bronze medallist Kareena Lee.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gubecka had earlier finished 13th<\/sup> in her fifth Fina World Championships in Hungary in a 10km World Championship race that saw the emergence of Gold Coast rookie Moesha Johnson.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Johnson finished a creditable ninth in her first international race \u2013 an encouraging start in her Olympic quest after winning the Australian 10km title in Brighton, SA.<\/p>\n

Australian Open Water Program Manager Greg Shaw is excited with what is about to unfold.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are in for some nice close racing and with the fields swimming under the Jetty it will certainly pose for a good spectacle,\u201d said Shaw.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere will be combined fields in the open and 18 and 19 age groups of 50 odd in men and 45 for women, so really good numbers and a really good showing.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd there are some real rivalries starting to develop with Moesha and Chelsea in the women\u2019s event especially where it will be good to see them go head-to-head and making sure the other girls are paying attention.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile in the boys we have built up a real strong group of four or five top swimmers and none of them will be able to rest on their laurels.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are going to have to be on their game to qualify for the next selection race in Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m looking forward to the week ahead and I think there is going to be some great racing.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is the first time in a while we have been over in WA; a real foundation State in the sport and we are lucky to be able to leverage that and bring the Australian championships over here.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd for someone like Kyle Lee (8th<\/sup> in last year\u2019s 5km World\u2019s) \u2013 it\u2019s his back yard, having been born and bred in Bunbury, just up the road and he is ready to use that and to take his next step which is a 10km qualification.<\/p>\n

Moesha Johnson Wins 2022 Australian Title<\/a><\/p>\n

Moesha’s Lonely Laps As She Prepares To Go The Olympic Distance\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Moesha Johnson had to endure a lonely, hard-fought training block through November and December as many of her Griffith University Squad members prepared for the Fina World Short Course Championships before taking their Christmas break.<\/p>\n

But Johnson at 26 is like a kid in a candy store \u2013 knowing that she has an Olympic pathway squarely in her sights \u2013 with an addiction for open water swimming.<\/p>\n

After surging towards a career in pool distance swimming, specialising in the 800 and 1500m, the Northern NSW born, Gold Coast-based swimmer is hooked on \u201cdistance swimming\u201d \u2013 making her first World Champion ships team for Budapest last year.<\/p>\n

She trains in the Michael Bohl-Janelle Pallister super squad at the Gold Coast Aquatic Centre with Olympic champions Mack Horton,<\/strong> Emma McKeon<\/strong> and Kaylee McKeown<\/strong> and a host of Olympic and Commonwealth Games swimmers including recently crowned world champion Lani Pallister, Brendon Smith, Cody Simpson, Josh Edwards-Smith, Mikayka Smith and Bowen Gough.<\/strong><\/p>\n

And here she gives a special insight into her world of pool and open water swimming and her lonely laps as she prepares for a busy two years ahead.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt has been somewhat of a lonely preparation; a different preparation and with open water in January each year there\u2019s always a bit of a lonely training block through Christmas,\u201d said Johnson after her first venture into the Busselton waters yesterday.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy squad had been away for the big block of work I\u2019ve done but it\u2019s been a good block of work and I think I\u2019ve built really well through it \u2013 with only another open water swimmer in Lachlan Walker <\/strong>aiming for these Australian Championships.,<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m really excited to get in there and race in Busselton; I haven\u2019t been in the kind of form like this since World\u2019s last year and it\u2019s great to have the feeling that when you step up to the start line that you feel ready and in form.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo get out there and to see how the race unfolds and really just have a bit of fun with the tactics.<\/p>\n

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MOESHA JOHNSON Photo Courtesy: Delly Carr (Swimming Australia).<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cI have become addicted to the challenge of Open Water; there are so many variables to it that putting things from theory into practice is really hard.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo every time I go out there I feel like I haven\u2019t pulled together my perfect open water race yet so I\u2019ve become addicted to perfecting the art of open water after a very steep learning curve at the start.<\/p>\n

\u201cLast year\u2019s World\u2019s campaign was (only) my fourth 10km swim ever and my first ever international 10km race.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was like being thrown in the deep end certainly a steep learning curve that I know there is so much room to grow still.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m really excited to see where all the skills I\u2019m learning and all the areas that I\u2019m racing in and the different situations and seeing how I can pull together the understanding I\u2019ve got of open water swimming.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would not call myself a seasoned open water swimmer yet but I\u2019m definitely starting to feel more comfortable with playing around with tactics and different things when I\u2019m out on the courses now.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn Europe it\u2019s not pool swimming and open water swimming it\u2019s distance swimming which is encompassing 800m up to 25km and for me we haven\u2019t really seen it in Australia yet.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut it is something that all my competitors and even people I\u2019ve swum with overseas for a block for training, they are starting to (move that way).<\/p>\n

\u201cRealistically the transition from pool to open water in training has not changed that much. It crossed over quite nicely and it\u2019s actually more the racing in open water that has really been the big shift.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven like last year when we had our National Event Camp the coaches sat us down as the distance group and said as a culture in swimming in Australia we really want to bring it together as distance swimming.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t want to have pool swimming and open water swimming we just want to bring everyone together as distance swimmers under that one umbrella.<\/p>\n

\u201cOpen Water is a beautiful community, made up of pure work and pure tough ness and with that comes a lot of respect and brings a lot of camaraderie and they are all quite humble achievers in a way.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is a great team to be part of and I believe it has the potential to become such a public event. I\u2019d like to see the sport grow so much with a re-imagination and showing the world how tough we are when it comes to distance racing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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