27-year-old Thomas Fraser-Holmes won the 400 IM close out the Australian Swimming World titles on Friday in Brisbane with a 4:14.68, picking up a World Championships spot. He was under the qualifying standard of 4:15.69 as he will be swimming in his first Worlds since 2015. He did not swim in 2017 after his ban for missed doping tests. Fraser-Holmes was slower than his season best of 4:14.32 from April but he still sits 11th in the world rankings for 2019.
Fraser-Holmes was also sixth earlier in the week in the 200 free, but guaranteed his spot on the World Championships team by getting under the qualifying standard of 4:15.69. This will be his fourth World Championships team after swimming in 2011, 2013 and 2015.
18-year-old Brendon Smith (4:17.35) had a big push to try to make the team but ultimately came short of the qualifying standard. He was a 4:14.91 earlier in the year at the Australian Championships in April and was certainly a favorite to get the second spot for Gwangju. He will have to wait until 2020 to make his debut at the senior level on the world stage.
24-year-old Jared Gilliland (4:19.46) was third in a season best for him.
Thomas Hauck (4:21.52), Se-Bom Lee (4:21.63), Elliott Rogerson (4:27.09), David Schlicht (4:27.68) and Lucas Humeniuk (4:34.00) also swam in the final.
Event 28 Men 400 LC Metre IM
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World: W 4:03.84 10/08/2008Michael Phelps, USA
Commonwealth: C 4:09.62 30/07/2017Max Litchfield, Great Britain
Australian: A 4:10.14 3/05/2013 Thomas Fraser-Holmes, Miami
All Comers: R 4:06.22 1/04/2007 Michael Phelps, USA
WCQT: Q 4:15.69
Meet Qualifying: 4:38.46
Name Age Team Prelims Finals FINA
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=== Finals ===
1 FRASER-HOLMES, 27 GUSC 4:23.79 4:14.68Q 877
r:+0.71 26.25 56.74 (30.49)
1:29.49 (32.75) 2:01.44 (31.95)
2:36.98 (35.54) 3:13.96 (36.98)
3:45.04 (31.08) 4:14.68 (29.64)
2 SMITH, BRENDON 18 NUN 4:23.02 4:17.35 850
r:+0.71 26.56 57.50 (30.94)
1:31.16 (33.66) 2:03.48 (32.32)
2:41.07 (37.59) 3:19.12 (38.05)
3:48.67 (29.55) 4:17.35 (28.68)
3 GILLILAND, JARE 24 BGRAM 4:24.61 4:19.46 830
r:+0.70 26.52 58.22 (31.70)
1:31.62 (33.40) 2:04.20 (32.58)
2:41.03 (36.83) 3:18.30 (37.27)
3:49.55 (31.25) 4:19.46 (29.91)
4 HAUCK, THOMAS 16 ALLSA 4:26.25 4:21.52 810
r:+0.76 27.41 58.96 (31.55)
1:31.20 (32.24) 2:03.49 (32.29)
2:42.53 (39.04) 3:21.77 (39.24)
3:52.55 (30.78) 4:21.52 (28.97)
5 LEE, SE-BOM 17 CARL 4:23.63 4:21.63 809
r:+0.68 27.16 58.27 (31.11)
1:30.52 (32.25) 2:02.99 (32.47)
2:39.86 (36.87) 3:18.21 (38.35)
3:50.21 (32.00) 4:21.63 (31.42)
6 ROGERSON, ELLIO 19 NUN 4:28.54 4:27.09 760
r:+0.71 28.13 59.77 (31.64)
1:34.70 (34.93) 2:08.59 (33.89)
2:47.57 (38.98) 3:26.71 (39.14)
3:57.84 (31.13) 4:27.09 (29.25)
7 SCHLICHT, DAVID 19 MLC 4:30.20 4:27.68 755
r:+0.65 27.45 59.32 (31.87)
1:35.16 (35.84) 2:10.38 (35.22)
2:48.07 (37.69) 3:26.30 (38.23)
3:57.29 (30.99) 4:27.68 (30.39)
8 HUMENIUK, LUCAS 17 CHAND 4:35.52 4:34.00 704
r:+0.67 27.45 59.43 (31.98)
1:34.94 (35.51) 2:09.67 (34.73)
2:50.37 (40.70) 3:30.34 (39.97)
4:02.88 (32.54) 4:34.00 (31.12)
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