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Queensland wins sixth straight short course title
- Updated: September 29, 2014
IT MAY be the State Teams Age Short Course Championships, but Queensland’s dominance of the tournament has been anything but short.
The Sunshine State has now claimed overall honours at the meet for a six straight time after the 2014 installment at the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra.
Queensland won eight of the 11 relays, and had three of the four individual swimmers of the meet, in Samuel Young (boys 16-17 years), Minna Atherton (girls’ 13-14 years) and Alanna Bowles (girls’ 15-16 years). New South Wales’ Matthew Wilson (boys 14-15 years) was the other.
The champs finished with 2108 points, from New South Wales (1756), followed by Victoria (1529.5), Western Australia (1291.5), South Australia (1033), Tasmania (266) and the Northern Territory (127).
Young blitzed the field in the boys’ 16/17 years 200m freestyle, touching the wall almost two seconds clear of his closest competitor in a time of 1min 47.69sec.
Atherton led a Queensland clean sweep of placings in the girls’ 13/14 years 200m freestyle, with Mikayla Messer and Krily Siebenhausen. Atherton was first in a time of 2min 02.23sec, followed by Messer in 2:03.04 and Siebenhausen in 2:03.26.
Bowles broke her own record by almost a second when she won the girls’ 15/16 years 200m butterfly in a time of 2min 10.34 sec, from teammate Lucia Lassman (2:13.26).
