Teen sensation fires warning shot ahead of worlds

Teen sensation Mollie O'Callaghan has fired a informing changeable astatine the Australian Swimming World Championship Trials aft taking triumph successful the 200m freestyle last with the fastest clip successful the satellite this season.

O'Callaghan's clip of her 1:53.83 edged reigning Olympic champion Ariarne Titmus (1:54.14), and was quicker than Canadian prima Summer McIntosh and American large Katie Ledecky's efforts truthful acold this year.

Titmus led by fractional a assemblage magnitude astatine the last crook connected Thursday nighttime but aft immoderate dazzling underwater work, O'Callaghan catapulted herself successful beforehand and powered home.

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Lani Pallister (1:56.03) was third, arsenic remarkably 7 swimmers from the A and B finals met oregon bettered Swimming Australia's strict qualifying clip of 1:56.87.

Swimming sub-one infinitesimal and 54 seconds for the archetypal clip successful her career, O'Callaghan was delighted.

"Absolutely amazed by that race," she told Nine's coverage.

"I came into this truthful tense and I was conscionable hoping for a PB oregon to decorativeness apical two.

"I'm conscionable truthful happy, I'm overjoyed."

Asked astir her determination successful clawing backmost Titmus successful the last lap, O'Callaghan voiced her hang-tough mentality.

"I deliberation whether I'm [feeling] dormant oregon not I'm inactive going to spell for it," she said.

"It's what I bid for. That's what [coach] Dean [Boxall] has taught maine and guided maine done truthful nary substance however hard I'm going oregon if I'm hurting, I'm inactive going to propulsion that past 50m nary substance what." 

Now with the fastest qualifying clip for adjacent month's World Championships successful Japan, the 19-year-old expressed her anticipation.

"Oh yeah, truly breathtaking but rather nerve-wracking. But let's spot what I tin do."

Titmus is the Australian grounds holder successful the 200m, mounting a idiosyncratic champion of 1:53.09 successful 2021.

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Her clip astatine the Australian trials contiguous was besides her fastest of the season.

Both O'Callaghan and Titmus volition travel up against McIntosh and Ledecky successful what is acceptable to beryllium a tantalising gathering astatine the World Championships starting connected July 14. 

Later successful the evening, Sam Short besides achieved the quickest planetary clip of the twelvemonth successful the 800m freestyle.

His clip of 7:40.39 was little than 2 seconds disconnected Grant Hackett's Australian record.

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