Mollie O’Callaghan ‘disappointed’ despite defeating Emma McKeon in 100m freestyle at world championship trials

A win over an Olympic champion is often one thing to savour however not for Mollie O’Callaghan. 

The Queensland teenager pipped Olympic gold medallist Emma McKeon within the 100 metres freestyle on the world championship trials in Melbourne on Saturday evening.

O’Callaghan swam a private finest time of 52.48 seconds to pip McKeon’s 52.52, whereas Shayna Jack was third in 52.64.

The 19-year-old is not any slouch within the occasion, profitable the world title in Budapest final yr with McKeon sitting out.

There O’Callaghan swam 52.67 to win gold and regardless of eclipsing the mark, was disenchanted to not go sooner forward of subsequent month’s world championships in Fukuoka, Japan.

The time was 0.01 seconds sooner than her earlier finest, set eventually yr’s nationals however a approach off the world file of 51.71 held by tremendous Swede Sarah Sjostrom.

“I am fairly a bit disenchanted that I did not go sooner,” the Queenslander mentioned.

“I am very blissful I am on the staff for 100 free however I put quite a lot of stress on myself.

“There’s quite a lot of issues I started working on … I believe subsequent few weeks, I am going to have to essentially work on these issues and sharpen them up.”

McKeon mentioned it was the quickest she had swum since her Tokyo triumph so felt she was monitoring nicely for the titles and in addition subsequent yr’s Olympics in Paris.

“I am actually pleased with that,” the 29-year-old mentioned.

“I’ve acquired my eye set on Paris understanding it was that three-year turnaround so wanting in the direction of that I really feel like every part’s on observe.

“I undoubtedly nonetheless wish to do nicely at worlds and that is like one of many steps to Paris and I actually wish to do nicely there.”

Olympic champion Zac Stubblety-Prepare dinner blitzed the sector within the males’s 200m breaststroke, backing up his 100m victory.

With no severe rivals within the occasion, the 24-year-old swam 2:07.86, which was a good distance from his world file time of two:05.95.

“Being my pet occasion, I believe there is a completely different stress now and I believe I am wanting ahead to world champs and having extra guys push me there.

“Tonight was just a little harder to push myself.”

Within the girls’s equal, winner Abbey Harkin missed Swimming Australia’s powerful qualification mark by 0.02 of a second.

However after additionally profitable the 100m, though exterior the time, she’s going to nonetheless make the aircraft to swim within the medley relay and sure contest the person occasions.

Within the males’s 200m backstroke, Brad Woodward relegated world No.1-ranked Joshua Edwards-Smith to second.

Woodward was the one swimmer beneath the qualification time to earn a ticket to Japan.

Queensland teen Sam Brief capped the evening when he accomplished a freestyle treble, including the 1500m to the 800m and 400m races gained by means of the week.

Brief, who set an Australian file within the 800 which was the quickest time on the earth this yr, completed nicely away from the sector in 14:46.67.

It leaves him loads of work to do to catch German pacesetter Florian Wellbrock’s latest mark of 14:34.89.

AAP

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