{"id":628828,"date":"2025-12-11T15:30:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T22:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=628828"},"modified":"2025-12-11T17:26:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T00:26:17","slug":"australia-v-world-duel-meet-will-sprint-king-cam-mcevoy-rule-the-world-for-the-dolphins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/australia-v-world-duel-meet-will-sprint-king-cam-mcevoy-rule-the-world-for-the-dolphins\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia vs. World Meet: Will Sprint King Cam McEvoy Rule World For Dolphins?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australia vs. World Meet: Will Sprint King Cam McEvoy Rule World For Dolphins?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The world\u2019s fastest man Cam McEvoy<\/strong> will be right in his element in Brisbane tonight with the inclusion of a unique 3 x 25m freestyle sprint series when Australia hosts The World in an innovative Duel Meet in the 2032 Olympic city’s historic Valley Pool.<\/p>\n

Th 31-year-old Olympic and two-time world champion over 50m freestyle has been instrumental in the re-emergence of the \u201cSkins style\u201d international meet, first swum in 1996 as The Qantas Skins and was on display yesterday with the array of the sports biggest names were on show for a pre-meet press conference and fan day.<\/p>\n

The original Skins, packing the Sydney Olympic Aquatic Centre, making a huge public and broadcast impact in the lead up to Sydney 2000, with swimming officials turning the clock back as Australia builds up to Brisbane 2032.<\/p>\n

Australia showed it was ahead of its time in an event which captured the imagination of swimmers, administrators and sponsors alike \u2013 putting the sport on the promotional map.<\/p>\n

The 2025 version will be going back-to-the-future almost 30 years on, including the original Skins Series of elimination 50m events across all stokes, the Mystery Medley and 400m freestyle but now including the 25m Series and a host of mystery and power play relays in a pointscore based Duel Meet.<\/p>\n

The Qantas Skins meets that moved into the 2000s featuring the likes of Ian Thorpe, Grant Hackett, Michael Klim, Matt Welsh, Geoff Huegill, Leisel Jones, Giaan Rooney <\/strong>and Libby Trickett<\/strong> up against the sports biggest international names of the time \u2013 Michael Phelps, Pieter van den Hoogenband, Alex Popov, Inge de Bruijn, Jenny Thompson<\/strong> and Aaron Peirsol<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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DOLPHINS TRIPLE TREAT: Lani Pallister Mollie O’Callaghan and Kaylee McKeown. Photo Courtesy Delly Carr (Swimming Australia).<\/p><\/div>\n

Tonight, Australia will be led by McEvoy, fellow world 50m sprint champion Meg Harris<\/strong> and Olympic and world champions, Kaylee McKeown, Mollie O\u2019Callaghan, Lani Pallister <\/strong>and Zac Stubblety-Cook<\/strong> up against Netherlands super star Marrit Steenbergen<\/strong> and Olympic champions Thomas Ceccon<\/strong> (ITA), British pair Duncan Scott <\/strong>and Tom Dean<\/strong>, Germany\u2019s Lucas Martens.<\/strong><\/p>\n

McEvoy saying he hopes the format will (again) become a regular part of the Australian swimming calendar as the sport heads towards LA28 and a home Games in Brisbane 32.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s awesome. It\u2019s got the 3x 25m events, so I\u2019m loving that,\u201d said McEvoy.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo get the World Team that they have to come out to Brisbane at this time of year is impressive and I think the calibre of athletes here shows that this format is needed and that people are looking for this within the sport.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would love to see a full series made out of this and to compete in venues all over Australia.<\/p>\n

\u201cSwimming has been the same product for some time \u2026 other sports have evolved and absorbed exciting, fast paced, short-form versions of themselves and had success.<\/p>\n

\u201cSwimming needs to continue to test this within our own sport in the hope of finding a niche product that will excite the public.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Cam McEvoy Equals World\u2019s Fastest 25m Freestyle Time With Sizzling 9.36 at Short Course Sprints; Calls For Official Recognition<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n