{"id":573279,"date":"2023-11-23T19:12:06","date_gmt":"2023-11-24T02:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=573279"},"modified":"2023-11-24T08:06:06","modified_gmt":"2023-11-24T15:06:06","slug":"golden-girl-mollie-ocallaghan-now-the-pin-up-girl-of-the-2023-hancock-prospecting-queensland-state-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/golden-girl-mollie-ocallaghan-now-the-pin-up-girl-of-the-2023-hancock-prospecting-queensland-state-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Mollie O’Callaghan Now The Poster Girl Of The 2023 Queensland State Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"

Golden Girl Mollie O’Callaghan Now The Pin-Up Girls of the 2023 Hancock Prospecting Queensland State Swimming Championships<\/strong><\/p>\n

Five-time world champion and world record holder Mollie O\u2019Callaghan<\/strong> has been unveiled as the face of the 2023 Hancock Prospecting Queensland State Swimming Championships \u2013 an honour that has been bestowed on the who\u2019s who of swimming in Australia.<\/p>\n

O\u2019Callaghan will contest 10 events over the course of the seven-day meet from December 9-15 at the Brisbane Aquatic Centre, Chandler.<\/p>\n

The Queensland States meet has attracted the sport\u2019s biggest names with O\u2019Callaghan joined by fellow Olympic and or World champions Kaylee McKeown, Emma McKeon, Ariarne Titmus,<\/a> Cameron McEvoy, Zac Stubblety-Cook, Elijah Winnington<\/strong> and Sam Short.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"Every year Swimming Queensland produces a commemorative poster and for 2023 it\u2019s the 19-year-old from St Peters Western, the girl christened in the swimming font as Mollie O, who is front and centre.<\/p>\n

Named Swimming Australia’s Olympic Program Swimmer of the Year, O\u2019Callaghan returned from this year\u2019s Aquatics World Championships in Budapest with five gold medals and five world records in the Women\u2019s 100 and 200m freestyle, 4x100m and 4x200m freestyle relays and the Mixed 4x100m freestyle relay.<\/p>\n

She joins the likes of Olympic champions Jon Sieben, Duncan Armstrong, Kieren Perkins, Grant Hackett, Stephanie Rice, Libby Trickett, Leisel Jones and Emma McKeon and so many more whose images adorn the Wall of Fame inside the pool.<\/p>\n

O\u2019Callaghan will contest seven individual races, the 50, 100, 200 and 400m freestyle, the 50m, 100m and 200m backstroke as well as three club relays with St Peters Western.<\/p>\n

And there will be no shortage of opposition in \u201cMini Olympic or World Championship line-ups\u201d especially the 50m freestyle which will feature McKeon (Griffith University), Shayna Jack (St Peters Western) and Cate Campbell (Chandler).<\/p>\n

McKeon the Tokyo Olympic champion, Campbell the two-time Olympic bronze medallist in 2008 and 2020 in her only event and the 2023 World Championship silver medallist Jack.<\/p>\n

The 100 and 200m freestyle will see world champion O\u2019Callaghan up against Olympic champions McKeon (100), St Peters Western training partner and dual Olympic champion and world champion Titmus (200 and 400) and triple crown World Champion McKeown (Griffith University).<\/p>\n

A relieved Titmus returns 10 weeks after her operation for benign tumours in one of her ovaries as she builds back up for next year\u2019s Olympic title defence \u2013 and swill swim five freestyle events, the 100,200, 400, 800 and 1500m.<\/p>\n

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