{"id":612054,"date":"2025-05-17T13:48:02","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T20:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=612054"},"modified":"2025-05-17T14:56:21","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T21:56:21","slug":"para-golden-girl-alexa-learys-50m-freestyle-world-record-lights-up-sydney-olympic-park-aquatic-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/para-golden-girl-alexa-learys-50m-freestyle-world-record-lights-up-sydney-olympic-park-aquatic-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Para Golden Girl Alexa Leary\u2019s 50m Freestyle World Record Lights Up Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Para Golden Girl Alexa Leary\u2019s 50m Freestyle World Record Lights Up Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Paralympic gold medallist\u00a0<strong>Alexa Leary<\/strong>\u00a0has surprised even herself at the Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre overnight, breaking the S9 50m freestyle world record on the second day of the 2025 Sydney Open and Uni Nationals Meet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Leary\u2019s blistering 27.23 eclipsed the previous mark of 27.25 set by the USA\u2019s <strong>Christie Raleigh Crossley<\/strong> during the heats of the S9 50m freestyle at last year\u2019s Paris Paralympic Games.<\/p>\n<div class=\"oembed-wrap\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"VZVsUgcUJK\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/australias-alexa-leary-rocks-paris-paralympics-with-golden-swim-and-second-world-record\/\">Australia\u2019s Alexa Leary Rocks Paris Paralympics With Golden Swim and Second World Record<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Australia\u2019s Alexa Leary Rocks Paris Paralympics With Golden Swim and Second World Record&#8221; &#8212; Swimming World\" src=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/australias-alexa-leary-rocks-paris-paralympics-with-golden-swim-and-second-world-record\/embed\/#?secret=P81xqYHbzm#?secret=VZVsUgcUJK\" data-secret=\"VZVsUgcUJK\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0It follows a golden Paris campaign which saw her claim two gold medals and her recent world record in the 100m freestyle at last month\u2019s Australian Open in Brisbane, even if it took a moment to register.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u201cPersonally, once again, I didn&#8217;t really realise I did it, and it&#8217;s like, this takes me a bit of time to know that I broke it, but I&#8217;m proud of myself. I can&#8217;t believe I actually did it again\u201d she said with a post-race grin.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cTraining&#8217;s on fire. I&#8217;m giving so much dedication to what I want this year\u2026and the 100m freestyle is my number one (event), my passion, my dedication is there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Leary (Bond, Gold Coast, QLD) will contest next month\u2019s World Championship Trials in Adelaide with her sights set on the World Para Championships in Singapore in September.<\/p>\n<div class=\"oembed-wrap\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"h8xenxgodc\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/australian-champs-day-2-prelims-aussie-paralympic-wonder-woman-alexa-leary-breaks-her-own-wr-in-the-100m-freestyle\/\">Australian Champs, Day 2, Prelims: Aussie Paralympic \u201cWonder Woman\u201d Alexa Leary Breaks Her Own WR In The 100m Freestyle<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Australian Champs, Day 2, Prelims: Aussie Paralympic \u201cWonder Woman\u201d Alexa Leary Breaks Her Own WR In The 100m Freestyle&#8221; &#8212; Swimming World\" src=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/australian-champs-day-2-prelims-aussie-paralympic-wonder-woman-alexa-leary-breaks-her-own-wr-in-the-100m-freestyle\/embed\/#?secret=F85lxsJNTG#?secret=h8xenxgodc\" data-secret=\"h8xenxgodc\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Coach <strong>Jon Bell<\/strong>, who has worked closely with Leary through her journey to the top of international competition, praised Leary\u2019s consistency and unique training approach.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u201cIn order to race fast, you need to practice (swimming at) speed multiple times. So that&#8217;s essentially what we do,\u201d said Bell.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe try and come into these meets, try and be ready to go with minimal taper, and it&#8217;s what basically keeps Lexi within a band of speed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cSo that she doesn&#8217;t have big workout loads and big drop offs because her nervous system can&#8217;t handle massive loads.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0Looking ahead, Bell confirmed that while Trials are the next major focus, a short course event may serve as a fine-tuning meet before Singapore.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u201cWhat an incredible young lady,\u201d Bell said. \u201cIt\u2019s been an honour and a privilege to be part of her journey.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0Leary\u2019s record-breaking performance lit up the\u00a0Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre, with three-day meet to conclude today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In other highlights:<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Paris Olympian <strong>Will Yang<\/strong> (Sydney University, NSW; Coach <strong>Adam Kable<\/strong>) won the men\u2019s 100m freestyle in 48.72 from <strong>Ed Sommerville<\/strong> (QLD Uni of Technology) 49.33 and <strong>Marcus Da Silva <\/strong>(University of Technology Sydney, NSW) 50.22.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Milla Jansen<\/strong> (Bond, QLD; Coach <strong>Chris Mooney<\/strong>) added the 200m freestyle to her 50m freestyle win, in 1:59.18 in a nail-biter of a finish from Bond teammate <strong>Hannah Casey<\/strong> (1:59.20)\u00a0 with <strong>Phoebe Bentley<\/strong> (Griffith University, QLD) a touch away third in 1:59.26.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While Australian Open champion <strong>Harrison Turner<\/strong> (Nudgee College; coach <strong>Shaun Crow<\/strong>) continued his good form in the buildup to next month\u2019s World Championship Trials, with a comfortable win in the 200m butterfly in 1:58.19 from <strong>Joseph Hamson<\/strong> (Macquarie University, NSW) 2:04.29 and <strong>Charlie Luton<\/strong> (University of QLD) 2:04.80.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/liveresults.swimming.org.au\/nsw\/SydneyOpen25\/\">\u00a0LIVE RESULTS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Para Golden Girl Alexa Leary\u2019s 50m Freestyle World Record Lights Up Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre Paralympic gold medallist\u00a0Alexa Leary\u00a0has surprised even herself at the Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7938,"featured_media":612056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,122075,10],"tags":[131268,123418],"class_list":["post-612054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-oceania","category-world","tag-alexa-leary","tag-jon-bell"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - 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