Every record broken at the QLD Swimming Championships

Records have tumbled at the Queensland Swimming Championships – see the full list of broken records.

Australia’s best junior swimmers struggled to get past their international rivals on Day 4 of the Queensland Swimming Championships held in Brisbane this week.

Japan’s Ior Takeno broke the boys 12 years 50m freestyle Queensland All Comers record with a time of 25.16, while his Japanese teammate Iku Matusyama broke the boys 14 years 50m freestyle QLD All Comers record with a time of 23.93.

Singaporean swimmer Nicholas Mahabir broke the boys 17 years 200m breaststroke QLD All Comers record with a time of 2:12.97.

See the records broken below and follow along with all the action from the FINA World Championships here.

Friday December 16

Girls 15 years 50m breaststroke

Previous QLD Record: 31.79 (set by former Commonwealth Games silver medalist Tessa Wallace in 2009)

New Record: 31.69, Wieruszowski (New Zealand)

Boys 12 years 50m breaststroke

Previous QLD All Record: 32.32 (2022)

New Record: 31.29, Jin Tamura (Japan)

Boys 13 years 100m breastroke

Previous QLD Record: 1:05.88 (set by Zac Stubblety-Cook in 2012)

New Record: 1:05.64, Shri Ohashi

Boys 12 years 100m backstroke

Japan’s Kei Hamguchi broke a record he already set at this championships. Having already swum the event in 1:00.68 he bettered it again in 59.78.

Thursday, December 15

Boys 12 years 50m butterfly (heat)

Previous QLD Record: 27.81 (2016)

New Record: 26.66, Ior Takeno (Japan)

Takeno would go on to break this record again in the final, finish in 26.48 seconds.

Boys 15 years 1500m freestyle

Previous QLD All Record: 15:25.87 (set by Mack Horton in 2012)

New Record: 15:25.68, Ka Imafuku (Japan)

Boys 12 years 100m backstroke

Previous QLD record: 1:09.39 (set by Zac Stubblety-Cook in 2011)

New QLD record: 1:08.77, Jin Tamura (Japan)

Wednesday December 14

Boys 12 years 50m backstroke (heat)

— Previous QLD All Record: 28.76 (2016)

— New Record: 28.04, Hamaguchi (Japan)

Boys 12 years 50m backstroke (final)

— Hamaguchi (Japan) broke his now record heat time with 27.86

Boys 12 years 100m freestyle (finals)

— Previous QLD All Record: 55.08 (2015)

— New record: 54.81, Ior Takeno (Japan)

Tuesday, December 13

Boys 12yrs 50m Freestyle finals

— Previous QLD record: 25.52, Saxon Scheffler, 17/12/2019

— New QLD All record: 25.16, Ior Takeno (Japan)

Boys 14yrs 50m Freestyle finals

— Previous QLD All record: 23.96, Michael Pickett, 19/04/2017

— New record: 23.93, Iku Matsuyama (Japan)

Men 17yrs 200m Breaststroke finals

— Previous QLD record: 2:13.46, Zac Stubblety-Cook, 15/12/2016

— New QLD All record: 2:12.97, Nicholas Mahabir (Singapore)

Saturday, Dec 10 — Tuesday, Dec 12

Could this be the next golden era of champion swimmers to come out of the nation?

Records have already tumbled across the opening days of the Queensland Swimming Championships held on the Gold Coast, as honours attained by some of Australia’s finest were cast to the wayside.

However some blossoming guns out of Japan and Singapore also sought to make a telling impression.

Some records were threatened but not broken throughout the action, with the St Peters Western Open Women’s 200m medley relay side consisting of 15-year-old Jaclyn Barclay, Abbey Harkin, Brianna Throssell and Shayna Jack falling just 0.24 seconds behind.

Shayna Jack and her team fell agonisingly short of breaking a record she herself was a part of. Picture David Clark

The fastest time at the championships was set at 1:51.47 in a team which included Jack, and Australia’s golden sister duo of Cate and Bronte Campbell.

Olympic swimmer Zac Stubblety-Cook also had his Australian record of 2:24.83 beaten in the Boys 13 years 200m backstroke by Shin Ohashi of Japan (2:24.32), however the young gun was unable to beat his compatriot Haruki Nakagawa’s all time record on Aussie shores (2:22.60).

See all the records of the action as it happens below.

Mixed 12 years and under 200m freestyle relay

— Previous QLD record: 1:53.11 (2017)

— New QLD record: 1:52.40, Jacob Smith, Zahra Olowoniyi, Kasey Guthrie, Chelsea George (St Peters Western)

Boys 16 years and under 200m freestyle relay

— Previous QLD record: 1:35.98 (2014 — featuring Australian swimmer Jack Cartwright)

— New QLD record: 1:35.39, Thomas Pattison, Tyler Clelland, Tom Wehl, Liam Shepherd-Smith (Churchie)

Australian swimmer Jack Cartwright was part of the original record team for the Boys 16 years and under 200m freestyle relay, however their record standing eight years was at last broken. (Photo by Maddie Meyer/Getty Images)

Mixed 14 years and under 200m freestyle relay

— Previous QLD record: 1:45.35 (2021)

— New QLD record: 1:45.14, Max Ford, Ruby Crowther, Cosette Cooke, Isaac Bressington (Racklet ST)

Mixed 16 years and under 200m freestyle relay

— Previous QLD record: 1:41:31 (2021)

— New QLD record: 1:40.19, Noah Coco, Thomas Hicks, Emily Draper, Hannah Casey (MCA)

Boys 10 years 200m freestyle relay (regional)

— Previous QLD record: 2:05.18 (2007)

— New QLD record: 2:05.08, Levi Thornley, Josh McDonald, Hugo Wheeler, Lucas Pollock (Brisbane White)

Girls 15 years and over 200m freestyle relay (regional)

— Previous QLD record: 1:47.92 (2009)

— New QLD record: 1:44.23, Jing Wen Quah, Ting Wen Quah, Zi Yi Chan, Shi Mirina Chan (Singapore)

Boys 15 years and over 200m freestyle relay (regional)

— Previous QLD record: 1:35.56 (2020)

— New QLD record: 1:30.17, Carter Swift, Michael Pickett, Zachary Dell, Andrew Jeffcoat (New Zealand)

Boys 14 years and under 200m medley relay (regional)

— Previous QLD record: 1:52.60 (2014)

— New QLD record: 1:48.97, Kei Hamaguchi, Shin Ohashi, Iori Takeno, Iku Matsuyama (Japan)

Girls 15 years and over 200m medley relay (regional)

— Previous QLD record: 2:01.84 (2020)

— New QLD record: 1:58.32, Pippa Mihaka, Mackenzie Brears, Kate Wheeler, Recca Moynihan (New Zealand)

Boys 12 years 100m butterfly (heat)

— Previous All QLD record: 59.72 (Royoi Wesugi of Japan in 2017)

— New All QLD record: 59.50, Iori Takeno (Japan)

Boys 12 years 200m backstroke (heat)

— Previous All QLD record: 2:14.24 (Toshiki Fukuara of Japan in 2007)

— New All QLD record: 2:12.23, Kei Hamaguchi (Japan)

Originally published as Every record broken at the QLD Swimming Championships