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2025 AUSTRALIAN SHORT COURSE CHAMPIONSHIPS
Wednesday, October 1st – Friday, October 3rd Melbourne Sports & Aquatic Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia SCM (25m) Meet Central Final Start List SwimSwam Preview Live ResultsThe 2025 Australian Short Course Championships kicked off today, Wednesday, October 1st, from the Melbourne Sports & Aquatic Centre.
Although the entries are on the lighter side than in years past, we’re slated to see Olympians Sam Short, Matt Temple and Cameron McEvoy take to the pool over the course of the three-day competition.
22-year-old Olympian Short took on the 400m free to kick off his campaign, reaping gold in a time of 3:36.12.
That handily defeated the field, as the next-closest competitor was 21-year-old William Petric of St. Peters Western, who touched in 3:43.65, followed by 22-year-old Thomas Hauck, who rounded out the podium in 3:45.59.
As for Short, his previous personal best, according to the Swimming Australia results database, rested at the 3:41.81 put up in 2020
With tonight’s outing, however, Short now ranks 3rd among Australia’s all-time 400m freestyle performers.
Top 5 Australian Men’s SCM 400 Free Performers All-Time
Grant Hackett – 3:34.58, 2002 Ian Thorpe – 3:34.63, 2003 Sam Short – 3:36.12, 2025 Tommy Neil – 3:37.45, 2022 Elijah Winnington – 3:37.45, 2020Visiting Japanese ace Mizuki Hirai made her presence known in the women’s 50m back.
The 18-year-old University of Tennessee commit fired off a time of 26.39 as the top performer and one of two sub-27-second swimmers in the field.
Joining her under the barrier was 18-year-old Mackenzie Burns, hitting 26.68 as the runner-up.
Korean Kim Seungwon, just 15 years of age, posted 27.15, good enough for bronze.
Hirai’s outing was within striking distance of her personal best mark of 26.23 from the 2024 Short Course World Championships, a time that ranked her as Japan’s fourth-best performer in history.
Hirai’s second event of the night came in the women’s 50m free, where she claimed the victory once again.
After a speedy 24.99 morning swim, Hirai clinched gold in 24.84, only .01 ahead of Sienna Walo who settled for silver in 24.85.
Lucy Dring was right in the mix as well, a fingernail out of silver in 24.87.
Marion Olympian Temple was also in the water this evening, showing off his prowess in the men’s 100m butterfly.
The 26-year-old was too quick to catch, ripping a performance of 49.83 as the sole competitor of the pack to delve into sub-50-second territory.
Temple opened in 23.20 and closed in 26.63 to get the job done, coming within range of his lifetime best of 49.32 from nearly 5 years ago. Temple earned the bronze in this event at the 2024 Short Course World Championships, posting a time of 48.71 in Budapest.
Tonight Nunawading swimmer Callum Halloran-Lavelle snagged the silver in 52.18 followed by Lucas Humeniuk‘s effort of 52.256 to land on the podium in third place.
Korea earned another medal this evening, courtesy of 30-year-old Lee Juho in the men’s 200m backstroke.
The national record holder stopped the clock at 1:51.24, splitting 26.31/28.41/28.32/28.20 in the process.
That established a new national record, erasing his own previous Korean benchmark of 1:52.85 logged during the 2024 World Cup.
St. Peters Western’s Matt Magnussen chased Lee to the wall but wound up nearly 2 seconds behind in 1:53.14 as Will Sharp bagged the bronze in 1:55.19.
24-year-old Brittany Castelluzzo earned the top spot in the women’s 100m IM, producing the sole outing of the final under 1:00.
Castelluzzo hit 59.72 to beat Nunawading’s Isabella Boyd by nearly a second. Boyd secured silver in 1:00.65 as Bond’s Emma Doherty collected the bronze in 1:01.09.
According to the Swimming Australia results database, this represents the first time Tea Tree Gully’s Castelluzzo has raced the SCM 100 IM since 2016.
Additional Winners
The women’s 400m free saw 20-year-old Molly Walker touch first in a time of 4:06.92, beating the field by well over 4 seconds. That’s a monster effort from the Southern Performance athlete, whose previous PB rested at the 4:16.17 notched in 2021. Sarah Locke was the silver medalist tonight in 4:11.44 and Adriana Fydler earned the bronze in 4:14.15. Dring posted an effort of 2:06.77 to easily reap the gold in the women’s 200m fly. Amber Clark finished well behind in 2:13.61 to earn silver and Mia Yeo rounded out the podium in 2:14.20. For USC Spartan Dring, tonight’s performance represented her first-ever foray under the 2:10 barrier. She ripped her previous career-swiftest time of 2:10.81 to shreds this evening. 17-year-old Amelie Smith got the job done in the women’s 200m breaststroke, albeit by a narrow margin ahead of runner-up Tilly King. Smith sneaked to the wall first in 2:24.75 as Bond’s King was a hair behind in 2:24.89. Alannah Torrance produced 2:25.79 for bronze. Smith now ranks as Australia’s 7th-quickest 17-year-old in this event. Korea’s Sung Jae Cho hit a result of 58.65 to take the men’s 100m breaststroke, with James McKechnie logging 59.25 for silver. Taking on his second event of the night, Petric earned bronze in 59.46. Ji Yuchan of Korea found success in the men’s 50m free, turning in a time of 21.08. That was just .28 off his national record of 20.80 first registered during the 2024 World Cup, then matched during last year’s Short Course World Championships. That best-ever performance also represents the reigning Asian record in the event. James Ward was tonight’s runner-up in 21.68 and Kai Taylor earned bronze in 21.79. Of note, Olympic champion McEvoy is only racing the exhibition 25m freestyle event at this competition.Read the full story on SwimSwam: 2025 Australian Short Course Championships: Short Notches 400 Free Victory
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