{"id":595472,"date":"2024-08-19T19:49:01","date_gmt":"2024-08-20T02:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=595472"},"modified":"2024-08-20T15:28:55","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T22:28:55","slug":"junior-pan-pacific-championships-canberra-aus-milla-jansen-and-marcus-da-silva-to-carry-the-flag-for-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/junior-pan-pacific-championships-canberra-aus-milla-jansen-and-marcus-da-silva-to-carry-the-flag-for-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Junior Pan Pacific Championships: Milla Jansen and Marcus Da Silva To Carry The Flag for Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Junior Pan Pacific Championships, Canberra (AUS): Milla Jansen and Marcus Da Silva To Carry The Flag for Australia<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Australia\u2019s next crop of Olympic hopefuls led by <strong>Milla Jansen and Marcus Da Silva <\/strong>will get the chance to show off their skills when Canberra hosts the four-day Junior Pan Pacs Swim Meet starting tomorrow at the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS)<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It will be the first time the event has been held in Australia since its inception in Hawaii in 2005 with the event only ever hosted by Guam, Fiji and Hawaii.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Charter Nations Australia, the USA, Canada and Japan will be joined this year by teams from Korea, Micronesia, Singapore, Fiji, Cook Islands, Tonga, New Zealand, Argentina and Samoa.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"oembed-wrap\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"gr2PqLCLrq\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/junior-pan-pacific-championships-teagan-odell-leah-shackley-lead-us-full-entry-lists\/\">Junior Pan Pacific Championships: Teagan O&#8217;Dell, Leah Shackley Lead U.S. (Full Entry Lists)<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe 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800m world mark on the way through in the 1500m, before setting the AIS Pool alight, with two more world records in the AIS pool for 400 and 1500m the following year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Perkins said he was delighted to welcome the next generation of swimming talent to campus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvents like the Junior Pan Pacs are often the first opportunity for athletes to compete in a high-performance environment and are critical to developing our young athletes,\u201d said Perkins, who was in Paris to witness the current superstars of swimming.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ability for athletes to train, compete, recover and have their meals and accommodation all within walking distances makes the AIS the perfect venue for an event like this.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFollowing an incredible fortnight of Olympics action, it\u2019s exciting to think there could be some stars of tomorrow taking part in this event as they build towards LA 2028 and beyond.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s Opening Ceremony is among the first events to be held in the new look AIS Arena which only re-opened last month following a $15 million upgrade.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Two of Australia\u2019s rising stars in Queensland freestyle rising star <strong>Milla Jansen<\/strong> and NSW\u2019s budding young freestyle hope, <strong>Marcus Da Silva<\/strong> will carry the flag for the host country at the Opening Ceremony before the opening heats session tomorrow morning.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jansen (Bond, QLD; Coach <strong>Chris Mooney)<\/strong> is one of four gold medalists from Australia\u2019s 2023 World Junior Championship team that competed in Israel, alongside <strong>Amelia Weber<\/strong> (St Peters Western, QLD), <strong>Hannah Casey<\/strong>\u00a0(Bond, QLD), and <strong>Hayley Mackinder<\/strong> \u00a0(Griffith University, QLD).<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The freestyle sprint specialist over 50 and 100m finished eighth in the star-studded 100m 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