{"id":576815,"date":"2024-02-01T20:23:24","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T03:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=576815"},"modified":"2024-02-01T20:23:24","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T03:23:24","slug":"from-perth-to-sardinia-australias-proud-open-water-traditions-continue-at-world-junior-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/from-perth-to-sardinia-australias-proud-open-water-traditions-continue-at-world-junior-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"From Perth To Sardinia, Australia\u2019s Proud Open Water Traditions Continue At World Junior Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>From Perth To Sardinia, Australia\u2019s Proud Open Water Traditions Continue At World Junior Championships <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A team of eight young Australians with their eyes on the Olympics prize will continue a long and proud tradition when they line up in this year\u2019s World Aquatics Junior Open Water Swimming Championships in Italy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Swimming Australia has named a team of four men and four women for the three-day world titles in Alghero, Sardinia from September 6-8.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_576824\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-576824\" data-attachment-id=\"576824\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/from-perth-to-sardinia-australias-proud-open-water-traditions-continue-at-world-junior-championships\/sam-thorpe-rounding-buoy\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Sam-Thorpe-rounding-buoy.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1179,838\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Sam Thorpe rounding buoy\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;BUOYED: Sam Thorpe (St Peters Western) shows the efforts style that saw him win the Australian Age 10km. 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Photo Courtesy: Wade Brennan Photography (Wade&#8217;s Photos)<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The four men <strong>Samuel Thorpe<\/strong> ( St Peters Western, QLD), \u00a0<strong>Xavier Collins<\/strong> (Westside Christchurch, WA) <strong>Lucas Fackerell <\/strong>(Breakers, WA) and <strong>Luke Higgs<\/strong> Warringah, NSW) and four women <strong>Sienna Deurloo <\/strong>(Toowoomba Grammar, QLD), <strong>Daisy Quinn<\/strong> (Sunshine Coast Grammar, QLD),\u00a0 <strong>Emily Broun<\/strong> (Rackley Centenary, QLD) and <strong>Chloe Brodrick<\/strong> (Ginninderra, ACT) will join a field of more than 200 athletes aged between 14-19 years from 35 countries on the road towards the 2028 and 2032 Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>Australia\u2019s success in FINA (World Aquatics) dates back to the first official World Championships over 25km in Perth\u2019s jellyfish infested Swan River in 1991 which saw Shelley Taylor-Smith emerge from a five-hour ordeal to claim the inaugural women\u2019s world title and David O\u2019Brien the hard-fought bronze in the men\u2019s event.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Open Water Marathon has come a long way since with Taylor-Smith proudly leading the charge for its Olympic inclusion in Beijing in 2008.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now some three decades on the 2024 Australian junior team is on its own Olympic pathway, emerging from four States and territories from Toowoomba, the Sunshine Coast and Brisbane in Queensland to Warringah on the northern beaches in NSW, Ginninderra in the Nation\u2019s capital in the ACT and an Taylor-Smith\u2019s open water stronghold in Perth, WA following the record-breaking Australian Championships that concluded last week in Busselton, WA.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Samuel Thorpe follows his older brother onto the international stage, with <strong>Robert Thorpe<\/strong> lining up this week to represent Australia in the World Aquatics 5km event in Doha.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Just 0.31 separated Samuel and Xavier Collins in the 18-19 Years National title after an enthralling 10km battle.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">World Junior head coach <strong>Mel Tantrum<\/strong> was excited to watch future stars of the sport put their hands up for selection.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAt 18, Sam and Xavier are at the younger end of this (18-19 years) age group but they\u2019ll be competitive against the Italian, French, German and US athletes,\u201d Tantrum said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThere was only a narrow margin between these two at Nationals so they\u2019ll be pushing each other and I\u2019m sure Sam would like to get one up on Rob (his brother) who finished eighth at last World Juniors in Seychelles in 2022.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cEmily and Sienna had tougher conditions in Busselton, when the wind and swell picked up, and now they have eight months to perfect their open water skills.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThat said, they\u2019ve both got great backgrounds in pool swimming, and you can expect the water in Italy to be flat and fast.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWith Luke Higgs, Lucas Fackerell, Daisy Quinn and Chloe Brodrick who went 1-2 in the boys\u2019 and girls\u2019 16-17 years 7.5km at Nationals you are definitely looking at the next wave of athletes who will be in the frame for the Brisbane 2032 Olympics.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Australian Swim Team, 2024 Open Water Junior World Championships, Alghero, Sardinia September 6-8, 2024:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>MALE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Samuel Thorpe<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Club: <\/strong>St Peters Western, QLD<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Age: <\/strong>18<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Coach: <\/strong>Cameron Gledhill<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Event: <\/strong>10km<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Xavier Collins<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Club: <\/strong>Westside Christchurch, WA<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Age: <\/strong>18<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Coach: <\/strong>Jon Harrison<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Event: <\/strong>10km<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Luke Higgs <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Club: <\/strong>Warringah, NSW<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Age: <\/strong>16<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Coach:<\/strong> Angelo Basalo<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Event<\/strong>: 7.5km<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Lucas Fackerell <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Club: <\/strong>Breakers, WA<\/p>\n<p 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