Swimming Twelve AIS swimmers named in world championship squad
23 Mar 2009
Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) swimmers competed fiercely at the 2009 Telstra Australian Swimming Championships which ran 17–22 March.
Swimmers from the AIS won nine gold medals and 12 scholarship holders gained selection to compete in the Australian team at this year’s FINA World Swimming Championships in Rome.
Ashley Delaney was a big winner, collecting three gold medals and setting an Australian record in the men’s 50-metre backstroke final and an Australian and Commonwealth record in the men’s 200-metre backstroke final.
20-year-old Robert Hurley claimed his first national crown at the open level, winning the men’s 400-metre freestyle final in a personal best time of 3:46.64.
In the men’s 200-metre freestyle final, five of the top six finishers were AIS athletes. Patrick Murphy won gold with a time of 1:46.85 and Tommaso D’Orsogna swam a personal best time to claim bronze.
The AIS’s Brenton Rickard and fellow Queenslander Christian Sprenger (Commercial Swimming Club) competed in an entertaining dual across all three breaststroke events. The pair could not be separated in the men’s 100-metre final, both swimming 1:00.64 to finish equal first. Rickard hit the wall first in the 50-metre final but Sprenger produced a momentous finish in the 200-metre final to beat Rickard by a mere 0.06 of a second.
The AIS women also showed their strength at the trials. Belinda Hocking produced two gold medal performances to win the women’s 100-metre and 200-metre backstroke finals and team mate Sally Foster swam strongly to take out the women’s 200-metre breaststroke final in a time of 2:25.88.
AIS athletes named in Telstra Dolphins Australian swim team
Ashley Delaney
Tommaso D’Orsogna
Nicholas Ffrost
Robert Hurley
Patrick Murphy
Kirk Palmer
Brenton Rickard
Merindah Dingjan
Sally Foster
Felicity Galvez
Belinda Hocking
Tarnee White
AIS results in the 2009 Telstra Australian Swimming Championships
Day 1:
Women’s 200-metre freestyle final
6th Felicity Galvez — 1:58.98
Men’s 50-metre backstroke semi final
1st Ben Treffers — 25.10*
2nd Ashley Delaney — 25.15
Women’s 50-metre butterfly semi final
4th Felicity Galvez — 26.58
6th Alice Mills — 27.28
7th Nadine Jones — 27.36*
Men’s 400-metre freestyle final
1st Robert Hurley — 3:46.64*
6th Thomas Fraser-Holmes — 3:52.80*
Women’s 200-metre individual medley final
5th Sally Foster — 2:15.66
Women’s 50-metre breaststroke semi final
1st Tarnee White — 30.85
9th Sally Foster — 32.34
Day 2:
Women’s 50-metre butterfly final
4th Felicity Galvez — 26.24
6th Alice Mills — 27.33
7th Nadine Jones — 27.38
Men’s 50-metre backstroke final
1st Ashley Delaney — 24.81* (Australian Record)
2nd Ben Treffers — 25.15
Women’s 50-metre breaststroke final
2nd Tarnee White — 30.75
Men’s 50-metre butterfly semi final
13th Ben Treffers — 24.76*
Women’s 100-metre backstroke semi finals
1st Belinda Hocking — 59.95*
Men’s 100-metre breaststroke semi finals
Brenton Rickard 2nd — 1:02.03
Craig Calder 4th — 1:03.12
Women’s 100-metre freestyle semi finals
3rd Sally Foster — 54.56*
4th Felicity Galvez — 54.99
7th Merindah Dingjan — 55.28*
10th Alice Mills — 55.71
19th Nadine Jones — 56.55*
Men’s 200-metre freestyle final
1st Patrick Murphy — 1:46.85
3rd Tommaso D’Orsogna — 1:48.10*
4th Robert Hurley — 1:48.17*
5th Nick Ffrost — 1:48.20
6th Kirk Palmer — 1:48.22*
Women’s 100-metre backstroke semi final
1st Belinda Hocking — 1:00.42
Day 3:
Men’s 200-metre backstroke final
1st Ashley Delaney — 1:55.82* (Commonwealth Record)
3rd Robert Hurley — 2:00.04*
Women’s 100-metre freestyle semi final
3rd Felicity Galvez — 54.50*
5th Sally Foster — 55.20*
7th Merindah Dingjan — 55.42
Men’s 100-metre semi final
5th Tommaso D’Orsogna — 49.32*
9th Nick Ffrost — 49.79*
10th Patrick Murphy — 49.96
11th Cameron Prosser — 50.00
15th Kirk Palmer — 50.39
Women’s 200-metre breaststroke final
1st Sally Foster — 2:25.88
Women’s 100-metre backstroke final
2nd Belinda Hocking — 1:00.01
Men’s 100-metre breaststroke final
Equal 1st Brenton Rickard — 1:00.64
3rd Craig Calder — 1:02.33
Women’s 100-metre butterfly semi final
4th Felicity Galvez — 58.56
Day 4:
Women’s 100-metre butterfly final
3rd Felicity Galvez — 57.79
Men’s 50-metre breaststroke semi final
2nd Brenton Rickard — 28.25
7th Craig Calder — 29.42*
Women’s 50-metre backstroke semi final
3rd Belinda Hocking — 28.56
Men’s 100-metre freestyle final
5th Tommaso D’Orsogna — 49.26*
Women’s 100-metre breaststroke semi final
2nd Tarnee White — 1:08.31
3rd Sally Foster — 1:08.41
Men’s 100-metre backstroke semi final
1st Ashley Delaney — 53.92
3rd Robert Hurley — 54.87
Women’s 50-metre freestyle semi final
4th Sally Foster — 25.20
5th Alice Mills — 25.27
Men’s 400-metre individual medley final
2nd Thomas Fraser-Holmes — 4:22.07*
Day 5:
Women’s 50-metre backstroke final
3rd Belinda Hocking — 28.30*
Women’s 50-metre freestyle final
4th Sally Foster — 25.19*
5th Alice Mills — 25.41
6th Merindah Dingjan — 25.57*
Men’s 50-metre breaststroke final
1st Brenton Rickard — 27.68
4th Craig Calder — 29.08*
Men’s 50-metre freestyle semi final
4th Cameron Prosser — 22.22*
Women’s 100-metre breaststroke final
2nd Tarnee White — 1:06.99
4th Sally Foster — 1:07.48*
Men’s 100-metre backstroke final
1st Ashley Delaney — 53.28*
3rd Robert Hurley — 54.56*
Men’s 200-metre individual medley final
2nd Tommaso D’Orsogna — 2:01.43*
Women’s 200-metre backstroke final
1st Belinda Hocking — 2:08.85
Day 6:
Men’s 50-metre freestyle final
5th Cameron Prosser — 22.31
Men’s 200-metre breaststroke final
2nd Brenton Rickard — 2:12.10
3rd Craig Calder — 2:12.97
Men’s 1500-metre freestyle final
2nd Robert Hurley — 15:18.53
*Personal best time
