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2025 World Championships
July 27 – August 3, 2025 (pool swimming) Singapore, Singapore World Aquatics Championships Arena LCM (50m) Meet Central How To Watch SwimSwam Preview Index Entry Book Live Results Live Recaps Prelims: Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 Finals: Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5Oceania had a strong start to the meet last night and then a strong finish, with not many swims in the middle of the finals session. The story of the night, though, was Elizabeth Dekkers earning the bronze medal in the women’s 200 butterfly after she originally did not make the Australian Worlds team, finishing 3rd in the event at Trials in June.
After winning the event at the 2024 Olympic Trials Dekkers finished 4th at the Paris Olympics, one spot out of the medal positions. She also swam at the 2024 SC World Championships, where she won the bronze.
Despite being one of the best, if not the best, 200 butterflyers in the country, she had a difficult Trials in the event, touching in 3rd behind Brittany Castelluzzo (2:06.91) and Abbey Connor (2:07.14) and missing the Worlds team by one spot with her 2:07.36.
In July, Dekkers appeared on the World Aquatics testing statistics list in lieu of Abbey Connor, who Swimming Australia later reported declined her spot on the team for “personal reasons.”
Dekkers rose to the occasion, qualifying fourth out of the prelims in 2:08.45, behind Summer McIntosh, teammate Castelluzzo, and Regan Smith.
She had an even stronger performance in the semifinal, swimming 2:06.13 to lock up the top qualifying spot going into last night’s final. Castelluzzo finished just one pot out of the final, touching 9th in 2:08.04 leaving Dekkers as Australia’s only chance to end up on the podium.
She had a very strong swim in the final, touching in 2:06.12 to take a hundredth off her semifinals time and pick up the bronze medal for the Aussies, one of two individual medals in the session.
After the race she said “I just think I love racing, and that’s why we all do this, because there’s something about standing behind the blocks that we all love. So I just tried to channel that and just do it.”
She was the only individual finalist in Oceania on the women’s side. On the men’s side there were two finals swimmers, Lewis Clareburt from New Zealand, who finished 5th in the men’s 200 IM and Kyle Chalmers from Australia, who picked up the bronze in the men’s 100 freestyle.
The Australian women also won the gold in the women’s 4×200 freestyle relay with the team of Lani Pallister (1:54.77), Jamie Perkins (1:55.13), Brittany Castelluzzo (1:56.01), and Mollie O’Callaghan (1:53.71).
Semifinals Swims
Mollie O’Callaghan (AUS) qualified 2nd in the women’s 100 freestyle for tomorrow’s final, touching in 52.82 to finish just one-hundredth behind top seed Marrit Steenbergen. Ella Ramsay (AUS) finished 9th in the women’s 200 breaststroke semifinal, touching in 2:24.24, just off her lifetime best of 2:22.87. Joshua Edwards-Smith (AUS) was 13th in the men’s 200 backstroke semifinal, swimming 1:56.28, faster than the 1:56.94 he swam at the Australian Trials and his 2nd best time ever after the 1;55.42 he set in 2022.National Records
Loane Russet (Vanuatu): Women’s 100 Freestyle National Record– 1:03.13 Kestra Kihleng (Micronesia): Women’s 100 Freestyle National Record– 1:03.30 Lanihei Connolly (Cook Islands): Women’s 200 Breaststroke National Record– 2:29.87 Jacob Story (Cook Islands): Men’s 200 Breaststroke National Record– 2:17.91Read the full story on SwimSwam: 2025 Worlds, Day 5 Oceania Recap: Elizabeth Dekkers Misses Team, Then Wins Bronze
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