Queensland Championships, Night 4: Shayna Jack and brother Jamie Set Their Sights on LA28 After Impressive 50m Freestyle Double Act
Paris golden girl Shayna Jack and her exciting little brother Jamie Jack have taken their first steps towards delivering a “sister-brother” act for the LA28 Olympic Games.
Team Jack created a little slice of family history tonight at the Brisbane Aquatic Centre winning the men’s and women’s 50m freestyle titles at the Hancock Prospecting Queensland Championships – a rare feat in the premier swimming State’s proud history.
INSPIRATIOIN: Shayna Jack at the 2024 QLD Championships ships.s Photo Courtesy Wade Brennan (Swimming QLD).
Hoping to follow in the footsteps of the famous Aussie brother and sister “Konrads kids” who took the swimming world by storm in the 60s – both representing g at the 1960 Rome Olympics where John Konrads won gold in the 1500m and Ilsa Konrads silver in the 4x100m freestyle relay.
Shayna, barely back in the water after her golden Olympic campaign, opened proceedings with a comfortable victory in the women’s final in a solid 24.96 before a very much in form 22-year-old Jamie swam his third personal best time of the meet, winning the corresponding men’s final in a slick the sixth fastest time by an Australian.
Only the cream of Australian freestyle sprinters, Olympic champion Cam McEvoy (21.06), Ashley Callus(21.19), Eamon Sullivan (21.38), James Magnussen (21.52) and Isaac Cooper (21.65) have been faster.
Shayna, a member of Australia’s premier 4x100m freestyle relay team, saying she decided to swim the meet, with many of her Olympic team mates yet to return to the pool, to stake a mark in the sand as her start to the next Games in LA and to inspire the swarms of youngsters, among the 9000 nominations for the week-long Queensland Championships.
JACK OUT OF THE BOX: Jamie Jack one ion the stars of the 2024 QLD Championships.Photo Courtesy Wade Brennan (Swimming Queensland)
While Jamie, who missed the team for Paris, declaring he wants “in” for LA too.
“That is the goal, to make it to LA and to be there with Shayna would be amazing,” said Jamie, who added the 50m title to his win in the 100m final last night (in a pb of 48.27) after two sub 22 second swims in the lead offs for the St Peters Western Relays in 21.74 and 21.94.
Jack revealing his self coaching plan to Swimming World yesterday.
Notable swims:
Lincoln Wearing (Chandler) 1st 15 years 800m freestyle 8:05.58 (4:04.86/4:00.72) who produced an amazing negative split to set a new QLD and QLD All-Comers Rec (Breaking Olympian and world champion Sam Short’s record of 8:10.55, set in 2017 (Short became world champion over 400m in 2023) and remarkably just 0.84 outside Olympic gold medallist Mack Horton’s Australian record of 8:04.74 set back n 2012 – four years before he won Olympic gold in Rio in 2016.
Leny Grigor (Somerset) 1st 15 years 100m breaststroke 1:03.59 (New QLD and QLD All Comers Record) The QLD REC set by Olympic gold medallist Zac Stubblety Cook (1:04.25) set in 2017 and the QLD ALL-COMERS REC (1:03.97) by Bryce Skea in 2015.
JUST FOR THE RECORD: Leny Grigor Breaks Mitch Larkin’s 15 years 400IM Australian Record. Photo Courtesy Medal Shots (Swimming QLD)
Zhao Yi Pu (China) 1st 17-18 years 200m freestyle: 1:47.39
Grayson Coulter (NZL) 1st 12 Years 50m freestyle 24.53 (New QLD 12 Years All-Comers record)
WOMEN
OPEN
50m freestyle
- Shayna Jack (St Peters Western) 24.96
- Rikako Ikee (Japan) 25.21
- Chloe Rowe-Hagans (St Andrews) 25.70
200m backstroke
- Hannah Fredericks (St Peters Western) 2:12.18
- Isabelle Gibson (NZL) 2:14.12
- Emily Kearns (Melbourne SC) 2:19.80
200m butterfly
- Brittany Castelluzzo (Tea Tree Gully, SA) 2:0776
- Abbey Connor (USC Spartans) 2:10.01
- Lucy Dring (USC Spartans) 2:14.50
50m freestyle Multi-Class
- Madeleine McTernan (Runaway Bay) 28.14
- Paige Leonhardt (Runaway Bay) 29.37
- Airlie Davis (Nudgee) 30.70
100m butterfly Multi-Class
- Montana Atkinson (Helensvale) 1:08.59
- Jasmin Fullgrabe (Marion, SA) 1:13.76
- Ema Maeda (JPN) 1:19.96
100m breaststroke Multi Class
- Montana Atkinson (Helensvale) 1:26.89
- Mia Geise (Fairholme ASC) 1:41.08
- Rylee Sayer (NZL) 1:52.65
MEN
OPEN
50m freestyle
- Jamie Jack (St Peters Western) 21.66
- Thomas Nowakowski (USC Spartans) 22.22
- Jezze Gorman (St Andrews) 22.26
200m backstroke
- Jack Morrow (St Andrews SC) 2:00.19
- Thomas Hauck (All Saints, Gold Coast) 2:00.50
- Thomas Henderson (Brisbane Grammar) 2:00.73
200m butterfly
- Xu Fang (China) 1:56.80
- Lucas Humeniuk (1:59.51)
- Alex Fahey (Iona) 1:59.96
50m freestyle Multi-Class
- Tayayuki Suzuki (JPN) 38.82
- Jack Ireland (UQ) 24.76
- Nicholas Leyton (Caulfield, VIC) 23.88
100m butterfly Multi-Class
- Anku Matsuda (JPN) 58.35
- Shunya Murakami (JPN) 58.58
- Lewis Bishop (Rackley) 1:03.84
100m breaststroke Multi Class
- Samuel Gould (Runaway Bay) 1:14.91
- Siddhant Sachdeva (Carina Leagues) 1:34.39
- Andrew Callum (Logan Vikings) 1:16.13
PARTING PIC……..
ARMS UP: Backstrokers raising the bar the QLD Championships.Photo Courtesy Wade Brennn (Swimming Queensland)