{"id":641067,"date":"2026-04-06T07:20:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T14:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=641067"},"modified":"2026-04-06T14:21:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T21:21:43","slug":"brisbane-lifeguard-bailey-lello-sinks-zac-stubblety-cooks-200-breaststroke-reign-at-australian-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/brisbane-lifeguard-bailey-lello-sinks-zac-stubblety-cooks-200-breaststroke-reign-at-australian-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Brisbane Lifeguard Bailey Lello Sinks Zac Stubblety-Cook\u2019s 200 Breaststroke Reign at Australian Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Brisbane Lifeguard Bailey Lello Sinks Zac Stubblety-Cook\u2019s 200 Breaststroke Reign at Australian Open<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Former Olympic and world champion <strong>Zac Stubblety-Cook<\/strong> has suffered his first defeat in the 200m breaststroke in an Australian pool in eight years \u2013 his reign coming to an end at the hands of his former training partner <strong>Bailey Lello,<\/strong> now training at St Peters Western, under <strong>Dean Boxall.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A brave Lello , led the entire race, staving off Stubblety-Cook\u2019s trademark finishing burst which has seen him overpower almost every field he has taken on at home and abroad, since bursting onto the world stage after the 2018 Commonwealth Games &#8211; in the first major upset of the three-day meet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 22-year-old lifeguard at Chandler\u2019s Brisbane Aquatic Centre, valiantly hanging on over the closing stages to clock his personal best time of 2:09.79 (the seventh fastest by and Australian) and under 2.10.00 for the first time; Stubblety-Cook, who holds the Australian record at 2:05.95 touching \u00a0second n 2:10.03 and IM specialist Will Petric (Nunawading, VIC) an encouraging third in 2:11.37 \u2013 a swim that will continue to pay dividends in his IM pursuits.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_641097\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-641097\" data-attachment-id=\"641097\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/brisbane-lifeguard-bailey-lello-sinks-zac-stubblety-cooks-200-breaststroke-reign-at-australian-open\/boxall_1719\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/BOXALL_1719-scaled.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1707\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON Z 9&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1775455578&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;6400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00125&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"BOXALL_1719 2026 Australian Open\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;WORDS OF WISDOM: Dean Boxall&#8217;s winning moves. Photo Courtesy Delly Carr(Swimming ng Australia).&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/BOXALL_1719-700x500.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/BOXALL_1719-1024x683.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-641097\" src=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/BOXALL_1719-700x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"500\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-641097\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">WORDS OF WISDOM: Dean Boxall&#8217;s winning moves. Photo Courtesy Delly Carr(Swimming ng Australia).<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Over the past few weeks coach Boxall, who Lello joined at St Peters Western in 2025 has been \u201cworking on some new things\u201d, the 22-year-old admitting: \u201cI think they seem to be working out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI went into this morning with the goal of having a good heat swim and I didn\u2019t really think much past that so hitting (2:10.83) I didn\u2019t really have much pressure on myself coming into tonight\u2019s final. I was able to swim nice and free,\u201d said Lello.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI had (actually) trained with Zac through 2023 and 2024 (under Vince Raleigh at Chandler) so I spent a lot of time swimming next to him and a lot of time behind him, so it\u2019s nice to get one in front of him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stubblety-Cook has not been beaten in the 200m breaststroke in an Australian pool since\u00a0April 2018.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At those Games\u00a0on the Gold Coast, the boy who would go on to conquer the world, finished sixth in the final.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But since that event, the 2021 Olympic champion, has maintained a spectacular dominant winning streak on home soil in his signature event, including:<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 2021 Australian Olympic Trials: He won the 200m breaststroke in a then-Australian record of 2:06.28.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 2022 Australian Championships, where he broke the\u00a0World Record\u00a0in Adelaide with a time of 2:05.95, becoming the first man to break the 2:06 barrier.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 2024 Australian Championships where he successfully defended his National titles in both the 100m and 200m breaststroke.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And the 2025 Australian Trials when he defeated the Australian Open champion Lello, but later withdrew from the Singapore World Championships.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While he has faced losses internationally\u2014most notably taking silver behind\u00a0China\u2019s <strong>Qin Haiyang<\/strong> at the 2023 World Championships and\u00a0<strong>L\u00e9on Marchand<\/strong>\u00a0at the Paris 2024 Olympics\u2014he had been undefeated in Australia for eight years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/liveresults.swimming.org.au\/sal\/2026AusOpen\/\">https:\/\/liveresults.swimming.org.au\/sal\/2026AusOpen\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brisbane Lifeguard Bailey Lello Sinks Zac Stubblety-Cook\u2019s 200 Breaststroke Reign at Australian Open Former Olympic and world champion Zac Stubblety-Cook has suffered his first defeat in the 200m breaststroke in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7938,"featured_media":641068,"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":[127945,66807,34919,132225,66581],"class_list":["post-641067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-oceania","category-world","tag-bailey-lello","tag-dean-boxall","tag-vince-raleigh","tag-will-petric","tag-zac-stubblety-cook"],"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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