It was a night to savour when Queensland born and bred Mollie O’Callaghan (St Peters Western; Dean Boxall) shocked the world and herself to set her first world record on night four of the World Championships in Fukuoka.
Mollie became only the second swimmer in history to break the 1:53 barrier for the 200m freestyle, clocking 1:52.85 to sneak under Italy’s Federica Pellegrini’s 2009 world mark.
And in one of the most remarkable of victories, “Mollie O” swam past her St Peters Western club mate and Olympic champion Ariarne Titmus who touched second in a Queensland 1-2 finish, clocking a personal best of 1:53.01.
It was a stellar night for Queensland swimmers with Sam Short fighting on strongly to add silver (to his 400m freestyle gold) in the men’s 800m and breaking Grant Hackett’s Australian 800m record in a time of 7:37.76 along the way - clocking the fourth fastest time in history.
Hackett is in sixth and Ian Thorpe eighth in an impressive All-Time World List (see below).
While three Queenslanders Kaylee McKeown (58.03 -backstroke); Zac Stubblety-Cook (58.84 – breaststroke), and Shayna Jack (51.53) were joined by SA’s Matt Temple (50.63 – butterfly) to take silver for Australia in the Mixed 4x100m medley relay.
Jack’s freestyle split was her third fastest time from three relay swims that have all been inside the Top Ten Fastest 100m freestyle Times in history.
MOLLIE O DELIVERS WOW FACTOR and A NEW WORLD RECORD
SAM SHORT’S STERLING SILVER IN 800m
Queensland medallists in Fukuoka after four days of competition:
GOLD
Ariarne Titmus (St Peters Western; Dean Boxall) W 400m freestyle 3:55.88 (WR)
Kaylee McKeown (Griffith University; Michael Bohl) W 100m backstroke 57.53 (CR)
Mollie O’Callaghan (St Peters Western; Dean Boxall) W 200m freestyle 1:52.85 (WR)
Sam Short (Rackley Swim Team; Damien Jones) 3:40.68 M 400m freestyle
Mollie O’Callaghan (St Peters Western; Dean Boxall) W 4x100m freestyle relay (WR)
Shayna Jack (St Peters Western; Dean Boxall) W 4x100m freestyle relay (WR)
Emma McKeon (Griffith University; Michael Bohl) W 4x100m freestyle relay (WR)
Brianna Throssell (St Peters Western; Dean Boxall) W 4x100m freestyle relay (WR) heat
Jack Cartwright (St Peters Western; Dean Boxall) M 4x100m freestyle relay
Kai Taylor (St Peters Western; Dean Boxall) M 4x100m freestyle relay
Flynn Southam (Bond Swimming; Chris Mooney) M 4x100m freestyle relay
SILVER
Sam Short (Rackley Swim Team; Damien Jones) M 800m freestyle 7:37.76 (AR)
Ariarne Titmus (St Peters Western; Dean Boxall) W 200m freestyle 1:53.01
Shayna Jack (St Peters Western; Dean Boxall) Mixed 4x100m Medley Relay
Emma McKeon (Griffith University; Michael Bohl) Mixed 4x100m Medley Relay (heat)
Zac Stubblety-Cook (Chandler; Vince Raleigh) Mixed 4x100m Medley Relay
Kaylee McKeown (Griffith University; Michael Bohl) 4x100m Medley Relay
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Fastest All-Time Top 12 in the women’s 200m freestyle times
*1:52.85 Mollie O’Callaghan (AUS) 1:52.98 Federica Pellegrini (ITA) *1:53.01 Ariarne Titmus (AUS) 1:53.09 Ariarne Titmus 1:53.31 Ariarne Titmus 1:53.50 Ariarne Titmus 1:53.61 Allison Schmitt (USA) *1:53.65 Summer McIntosh (CAN) 1:53.67 Federica Pellegrini 1:53.73 Katie Ledecky (USA) 1:53.83 Mollie O’Callaghan 1:53.89 Ariarne Titmus
*Times swum in the 2023 World Championship final
Fastest All-Time Top 12 in the men’s 800m freestylers
7:32.12 Lin Zhang (CHN) 7:35.27 Ous Mellouli (TUN) *7:37.00 Ahmed Hafnaoui (TUN) *7:37.76 Sam Short (AUS) 7:38.57 Sun Yang (CHN) 7:38.65 Grant Hackett (AUS) *7:38.67 Bobby Finke (USA) 7:39.16 Ian Thorpe (AUS) *7:39.19 Daniel Wiffen (IRL) 7:39.27 Gregorio Paltrinieri (ITA) 7:39.36 Bobby Finke *7:39.49 Lukas Martens (GER)
*Times swum in the 2023 World Championship final
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