Mollie O'Callaghan explained

Mollie O'Callaghan
Full Name:Mollie Grace O'Callaghan
Birth Date:2 April 2004
Birth Place:South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia[1]
Club:St Peters Western Swim Club
Coach:Dean Boxall
Strokes:Freestyle

Mollie Grace O'Callaghan (born 2 April 2004) is an Australian swimmer and the reigning Olympic champion in the 200 m freestyle. She was the 2023 world champion in the women's 100m and 200m freestyle individual events, and part of the world champion and Australian women's relay teams together with mixed relay team. She previously held the world record in the women's individual 200m freestyle.

O'Callaghan also won two gold and one bronze medals at the 2020 Summer Olympics as a heats swimmer in relay events and gold medal in the 200 m freestyle and 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay at the 2024 Summer Olympics.

2020 Tokyo Olympics

O'Callaghan swam for the Australian team in the preliminaries of all three women's relays at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, receiving two gold medals and one bronze for her contribution. Swimming the 1st leg for Australia in the heats of the 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay, she posted a time of 53.08 and received a gold medal after the Australian team won the final.[2]

In the 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay preliminaries, O'Callaghan swam a junior world record of 1:55.11 when swimming the lead off leg. Her time would have placed her fifth in the 200 metre freestyle final.[3] However, because the Australian coaches had previously decided to use four fresh swimmers in the final, O'Callaghan was controversially not selected for the final where Australia finished third.[4]

In a heat of the 4 × 100 metre medley relay, O'Callaghan again posted a competitive time; her anchor leg split was 52.35, only 0.24 seconds slower than the fastest freestyle split in the final by Cate Campbell.

2023 World Aquatics Championships

At the 2023 World Aquatics Championships, O'Callaghan was a world champion in five events.

O'Callaghan won the women's 100m freestyle in 52.16, after qualifying in second place, and the women's 200m freestyle in a world record time of 1:52.85 after qualifying in third place. She was the first woman to win both of these events in a single world championship.[5]

O'Callaghan was also part of three champion relay teams, each of which set a world-record time: the women's freestyle relay;[6] the women's freestyle relay;[7] and the mixed freestyle relay.[8]

Results in major championships

Meet100 free200 free50 back100 back4×50 free4×100 free4×200 free4×50 medley4×100 medley4×100 Mixed free4×100 Mixed medley
4th 4th 4th 5th 5th
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4th

Career best times

Long course metres (50 m pool)

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EventTimeMeetLocationDateNotes
50 m freestyle24.492024 Australian Swimming TrialsBrisbane15 June 2024
100 m freestyle52.08r2023 World Aquatics ChampionshipsFukuoka23 July 2023
200 m freestyle1:52.482024 Australian Swimming TrialsBrisbane26 July 2023
400 m freestyle4:07.212023 NSW State Open ChampionshipsSydney11 March 2023
50 m backstroke27.162024 Australian ChampionshipsSydney19 April 2024
100 m backstroke57.882024 Australian Swimming TrialsBrisbane11 June 2024
200 m backstroke2:08.482022 Australian ChampionshipsAdelaide21 May 2022
50 m butterfly27.72Queensland ChampionshipsBrisbane11 December 2023
100 m butterfly58.98Queensland ChampionshipsBrisbane11 December 2023
200 m butterfly2:13.74Queensland ChampionshipsBrisbane12 December 2023

Short course metres (25 m pool)

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EventTimeMeetLocationDateNotes
50 m freestyle24.40Australian Virtual Short Course ChampionshipsBrisbane26 November 2020
100 m freestyle51.502022 Australian Short Course Swimming ChampionshipsSydney25 August 2022
200 m freestyle1:55.24McDonald's Queensland ChampionshipsBrisbane26 September 2020
50 m backstroke25.49r2022 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)Melbourne17 December 2022OC
100 m backstroke55.622022 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)Melbourne14 December 2022
200 m backstroke2:05.45McDonald's Queensland ChampionshipsBrisbane25 September 2020
50 m butterfly27.87State Teams Championships Canberra4 October 2019

World records

Long course metres

No.EventTimeMeetLocationDateStatusRef
14x100 m mixed freestyle relay3:19.382022 World Aquatics ChampionshipsBudapest, Hungary24 June 2022Former[10]
24x200 m freestyle relay7:39.292022 Commonwealth GamesBirmingham, United Kingdom31 July 2022Former[11]
34×100 m freestyle relay3:27.962023 World Aquatics ChampionshipsFukuoka, Japan23 July 2023Current
4200 m freestyle1:52.852023 World Aquatics ChampionshipsFukuoka, Japan26 July 2023Former[12]
54x200 m freestyle relay7:37.502023 World Aquatics ChampionshipsFukuoka, Japan27 July 2023Current
64x100 m mixed freestyle relay3:18.832023 World Aquatics ChampionshipsFukuoka, Japan29 July 2023Current
split 52.03 (4th leg); with Jack Cartwright (1st leg), Kyle Chalmers (2nd leg), Madison Wilson (3rd leg)
split 1:54.80 (3rd leg); with Madison Wilson (1st leg), Kiah Melverton (2nd leg), Ariarne Titmus (4th leg)
split 52.08 (1st leg); with Shayna Jack (2nd leg), Meg Harris (3rd leg), Emma McKeon (4th leg)
split 1:53.66 (1st leg); with Shayna Jack (2nd leg), Brianna Throssell (3rd leg), Ariarne Titmus (4th leg)
split 51.71 (4th leg); with Jack Cartwright (1st leg), Kyle Chalmers (2nd leg), Shayna Jack (3rd leg)

Short course metres

No.EventTimeMeetLocationDateStatusRef
14x100 m freestyle relay3:25.432022 World Championships (25 m)Melbourne, Australia13 December 2022Current[13]
24x200 m freestyle relay7:30.872022 World Championships (25 m)Melbourne, Australia14 December 2022Current[14]
34x50 m medley relay1:42.352022 World Championships (25 m)Melbourne, Australia17 December 2022Current[15]
split 52.19 (1st leg); with Madison Wilson (2nd leg), Meg Harris (3rd leg), Emma McKeon (4th leg)
split 1:52.83 (2nd leg), with Madison Wilson (1st leg), Leah Neale (3rd leg), Lani Pallister (4th leg)
split 25.49 (backstroke leg); with Chelsea Hodges (breaststroke leg), Emma McKeon (butterfly leg), Madison Wilson (freestyle leg)

Olympic records

Long course metres

No.EventTimeMeetLocationDateAgeStatusNotesRef
14x100 m freestyle relay3:28.92 2024 Summer OlympicsParis, France27 July 202420Current[16]
2200 m freestyle1:53.272024 Summer OlympicsParis, France29 July 202420Current[17]
34x200 m freestyle relay7:38.08 2024 Summer OlympicsParis, France1 August 202420Current[18]
split 52.24 (1st leg); with Shayna Jack (2nd leg), Emma McKeon (3rd leg), Meg Harris (4th leg)
split 1:53.52 (1st leg) with Lani Pallister (2nd leg), Brianna Throssell (3rd leg), Ariarne Titmus (4th leg)

Honours

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Mollie O'Callaghan. Australian Olympic Committee. 24 July 2021.
  2. Web site: 24 July 2021. Tokyo 2020 Olympics day 1 prelims. SwimSwam. 23 June 2022.
  3. Web site: 28 July 2021. Mollie O'Callaghan breaks 200 free WJR. SwimSwam. 23 June 2022.
  4. Web site: 28 July 2021. Aussie women fall after questionable relay decision. SwimSwam. 23 June 2022.
  5. News: . July 28, 2023 . Mollie O'Callaghan creates history by sweeping the 100m and 200m freestyle titles at the world swimming championships . ABC Sport . July 30, 2023.
  6. News: Goh . ZK . July 24, 2023 . World Aquatics Championships 2023: Australia win both 4x100m freestyle relays with the women setting a new world record . Olympics.com . July 30, 2023.
  7. News: Smirnova . Lena . July 29, 2023 . World Aquatics Championships 2023: Australia women power to gold by smashing own 4x200m freestyle relay world record . Olympics.com . July 30, 2023.
  8. News: de Villiers . Ockert . July 30, 2023 . World Aquatics Championships 2023: Australia break world record defending mixed 4x100m freestyle relay title . Olympics.com . July 30, 2023.
  9. Web site: World Aquatics results – Mollie O'Callaghan. 15 June 2023 . World Aquatics.
  10. Web site: Mixed Freestyle Relay Final results. omegatiming.com. 24 June 2022.
  11. Web site: Aussies blast 7:39.29 for new 4x200 WR. SwimSwam. 31 July 2022. 5 August 2022.
  12. Web site: Australia's Mollie O'Callaghan breaks world record, beating Ariarne Titmus for women's 200m freestyle world title in Japan. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 26 July 2023. 26 July 2023.
  13. Web site: Women's 4x100m Freestyle – Final – Results. Omega Timing. 13 December 2022. 22 December 2022.
  14. Web site: Women's 4x200m Freestyle – Final – Results. Omega Timing. 14 December 2022. 22 December 2022.
  15. Web site: Women's 4x50m Medley – Final – Results. Omega Timing. 17 December 2022. 22 December 2022.
  16. Web site: Australian women break own Olympic Record with 3:28.92 4x100 Free relay/. SwimSwam. 27 July 2024. 15 August 2024.
  17. Web site: Womens 200m Freestyle - Final results. Olympics. 29 July 2024. 15 August 2024.
  18. Web site: 2024 Paris Olympics Ariarne Titmus splits 1:52.95 on Australian anchor day 6 relay analysis. SwimSwam. 1 August 2024. 15 August 2024.
  19. Web site: 26 January 2022. Australia Day Honours List. 25 January 2022. The Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia.
  20. Hanson, Ian (28 August 2022)."Mollie O'Callaghan named Australia'Olympic Program swimmer of the year". Swimming World. Retrieved 4 September 2022.
  21. Web site: Mollie O'Callaghan repeats as Swimming Australia's Olympic Program swimmer of the year. SwimSwam. 10 November 2023. 16 November 2023.
  22. Web site: 29 November 2023 . Swimming makes a big splash at AIS Performance Awards . 29 November 2023 . Australian Sports Commission . English.

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