Australian Swimming Championships
The Australian Swimming Championships is the national Swimming (sport), Swimming championships for Australia. They are organised by Swimming Australia and separate championships are held annually in both long course (50m) and Short course (swimmin ...
were held at the
Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre
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in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia from 22–29 March 2008. The championships were used as the Australian trials for the 2008 Olympic Games squad.
Like all previous Australian swimming trials, the championships program mirrored the 2008 Olympic swimming program with the addition of the non-Olympic events – 50 m backstroke, breaststroke and butterfly; 800 m freestyle (men) and 1500 m freestyle (women).
Results
Highlighted swimmers achieved the qualification conditions to be included in the Olympic team in that respective event.
Men's events
Women's events
Olympic team news
Due to strong performances, two additional members were added to the Australian Olympic swim team: Nick Ffrost and
Felicity Galvez
Felicity Madeline Galvez, OAM (born 4 March 1985) is an Australian swimmer and two-time Olympic gold medalist. She was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder.Andrew Mewing appealing his non-selection after finishing 8th with an A qualifying time, whilst Galvez was selected via a B qualifying time, that ranked her 9th in the 200 m freestyle. Mewing lost his appeal with the
Court of Arbitration for Sport
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(CAS). Adam Lucas finished second in both the 200 m and 400 m individual medley events, but was not selected because he swam a B qualifying time, rather than an A qualifying time. These are the only events on the Australian roster that remained without a second qualifier.
Melissa Gorman
Melissa Anne Gorman (born 11 December 1985) is an Australian long-distance swimmer who specialises in long-distance freestyle and open-water events.
Career
At the 2006 Commonwealth Games, Gorman won a silver medal in the 800 m freestyle.
At ...
failed to meet the qualification time for the 800 m freestyle at the championships themselves, however was included in the team to swim this event after qualifying for the 10 km marathon swimming event.
During the early hours of 30 March 2008, Nick D'Arcy was involved in an altercation with a fellow
Australia
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swimmer,
Simon Cowley
Simon Cowley (born 4 October 1980) is a former Australian breaststroke swimmer. In March 2008, he was assaulted by Nick D'Arcy at a pub in Sydney
Sydney is the capital city of the States and territories of Australia, state of New South ...
. He was subsequently charged with assault occasioning grievous bodily harm.
On 18 April, the
Australian Olympic Committee
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(AOC) dropped D'Arcy from its 2008 Olympic team, claiming that the swimmer had brought the team into disrepute. D'Arcy subsequently appealed to CAS, which confirmed the AOC's decision. However, CAS also found that the decision to expel D'Arcy should not have been made solely by AOC president John Coates, but rather by the entire AOC Board. The AOC Board subsequently unanimously decided to withdraw D'Arcy's membership from the team on 11 June 2008. D'Arcy appealed the AOC Board's decision to CAS, which rejected this appeal on 16 June 2008. In March 2009, D'Arcy received a jail sentence of 14 months and 12 days, suspended on condition of good behavior.Nick D'Arcy handed 14 month suspended sentence for assault by Margaret Scheikowski, ''The Daily Telegraph''. Posted by FOX Sports on 2009-03-27, retrieved 2010-07-10.
See also
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2008 in swimming
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*9–13 April: 2008 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) in Manchester, United Kingdom
*3–8 May: 2008 FINA World Open Water Swimm ...
Australian
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