They’re good friends and training partners, but there can only be one winner at the Australian Olympic trials
he 200m freestyle discipline holds a distinct, curious place on the swimming roster. Swimmers with pure speed focus on the one-lap 50m dash, or the two-lap 100m race. Middle distance swimmers prefer the 400m, the 800m or even the endurance epic, the 1500m. The 200m is too long for unbridled sprinting, and too short for a more measured show of stamina.
The 200m freestyle has wider significance, too. It doubles up with the 4x200m freestyle relay, meaning Australia’s depth takes them a long way towards gold . It is also an event with a distinct Australian pedigree. Susie O’Neill won gold at the 1996 Olympics, while swimming legend Shane Gould swum to victory at the Munich Games in 1972.
Following the Tokyo Olympics, Titmus was the benchmark – she followed up her statement 400m win over American star Katie Ledecky with gold in the 200m barely 48 hours later. But no longer. At the 2022 world championships, with Titmus missing, O’Callaghan finished second in the 200m – behind China’s Yang Junxuan. At the Commonwealth Games a month later, Titmus beat O’Callaghan to gold by a mere 12 one-hundredths of a second.
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