Centrebet.com.au – Swimming Championships
April 25, 2009 11:00 am SwimmingCentrebet.com.au – The weekend’s national swimming championships heralded a changing of the guard for the seemingly invincible women’s swimming team after long time champion and multiple gold medallist Libby Trickett failed to so much as make the podium in the women’s premier event – the one hundred metres butterfly.
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The one hundred metres butterfly has become the star studded event of Australian swimming following the men’s recent slide into international anonimity while the girls have been flying the flag.
In total, their were seven Olympic gold medals spread between the field but it was Jess Schipper who nudged out Australia’s swimming golden girl Stephanie Rice to claim victory and ultimately end Trickett’s dominance in the event.
Trickett managed a relatively distant fourth and will not represent Australia at the World Championships for the first time in nearly five years.
Rice continue to go from strength to strength as she gives up for a fully loaded til at the world championships, hoping to sport a Michael Phelps like meeting card to stamp her authority as the queen of international swimming.
Schipper was extremely emotional following the event given that a swimsuit malfunction just prior to her attempt to take the individual gold at Beijing left her clutching a bronze behind two Chinese swimmers.
To add insult to injury, she later found out that her the Coach Ken Wood had assisted the two Chinese swimmers in their respective regimes leading up to the Olympics.
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Despite what may single the end of a stellar career, the future looks extremely bright for Australian women’s swimming.