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He is an up and comer, having swum personal bests in all his swims at Trials\u2026.Harry is on track to become the top 200m butterflier in Australia.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The youngster who is coached by the wily master <strong>Shaun Crow<\/strong> was called in to the Australian Short Course World Championships Team last year when <strong>Kaylee McKeown<\/strong> withdrew. He finished 17<sup>th<\/sup> in his pet event in Budapest.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now he has gatecrashed his way to a massive long course personal best \u2013 having come into the meet on a 1:57.07 \u2013 knowing he had to drop to 1:56.03 to make his first Long Course team for the 2025 World Championships and not in his wildest dreams did he expect a 1:54.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And Harry certainly wasn\u2019t going to die wondering \u2013 splitting 53.83 (25.20;28.63) at the 100m turn and coming home in 1:01.07 (29.89; 31.18) \u2013 chasing the QT line on the television screens \u2013 and buoyed by the screams.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI can\u2019t believe it; I wasn&#8217;t expecting a time like that. 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