{"id":610678,"date":"2025-04-21T07:21:05","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T14:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=610678"},"modified":"2025-04-21T10:52:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T17:52:49","slug":"thomas-ceccon-sets-italian-200m-backstroke-record-at-australian-open-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/thomas-ceccon-sets-italian-200m-backstroke-record-at-australian-open-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Ceccon Sets Italian 200m Backstroke Record At Australian Open Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thomas Ceccon Sets Italian 200m Backstroke Record At Australian Open Championships<\/h4>\n

Thomas Ceccon<\/strong> set an Italian 200m backstroke record of 1:55.71 at the Australian Open Championships<\/strong> in Brisbane.<\/p>\n

The Olympic champion in the 100 back, Ceccon has been training under\u00a0Dean Boxall<\/strong> at St Peters Western since early January and bypassed last week’s Italian Championships.<\/p>\n

He posted 23.00 to head the 50 fly prelims before bypassing the final and instead focused on the 200 back where he took 0.58 from the previous standard of 1:56.29 held by Matteo Restivo<\/strong> as he secured bronze at the 2018 European Championships<\/strong> in Glasgow.<\/p>\n

Splits:<\/strong><\/p>\n

27.40\/56.90 (29.50)\/1:26.52 (29.62)\/1:55.71 (29.19)<\/p>\n

Ceccon was followed home by\u00a0Josh Edwards-Smith<\/strong>, coached by Mel Marshall<\/strong> at Griffith, who came home in 1:58.23 and\u00a0Kane Follows<\/strong> of New Zealand (1:58.96).<\/p>\n

His time was 0.16 inside Ollie Morgan’s<\/strong> PB of 1:55.55 en-route to the backstroke clean sweep<\/a> at the Aquatics GB Swimming Championships\u00a0<\/strong>with the Briton heading the world rankings ahead of Roman Mityukov<\/strong> who went 1:55.64 at the Swiss Championships with Ceccon third.<\/p>\n

Ceccon will also compete in the 50 and 100 back in which he set the WR of 51.60 at the 2022 World Championships<\/strong> in Budapest plus the 100 fly and 100 free. He’s already secured qualification for the World Championships – which run in Singapore from 27 July to 3 August – in the 100 back with a time of 52.84 at the National Preparation Meet and secured a spot on the 4×100 free relay.<\/p>\n