Australia at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships

Australia at the; 2015 World Aquatics Championships
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in Kazan, Russia
Competitors	89 in 5 sports
Medals; Ranked 4th	Gold7Silver3Bronze8Total18
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Last updated October 07, 2019

Australia competed at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships in Kazan, Russia from 24 July to 9 August 2015.

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands. It is the largest country in Oceania and the world's sixth-largest country by total area. The neighbouring countries are Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, and East Timor to the north; the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu to the north-east; and New Zealand to the south-east. The population of 26 million is highly urbanised and heavily concentrated on the eastern seaboard. Australia's capital is Canberra, and its largest city is Sydney. The country's other major metropolitan areas are Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, and Adelaide.

The 16th FINA World Championships, also Aquatics 2015, were held in Kazan, Russia from 24 July to 9 August 2015. Russia hosted this event for the first time. The number of participating national teams (190), athletes (2,400) and the number of medals (75) were the most ever amongst these championships. This was the first time the World Aquatics Championships partially overlaps with the FINA World Masters Championships that have a number of athletes, countries (110) and medals (635) which are the most ever also.

Kazan is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia. With a population of 1,243,500, it is the sixth most populous city in Russia.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Bronte Campbell Cate Campbell Emma McKeon Melanie Schlanger * Emily Seebohm Madison Wilson *	Swimming	Women's 4×100 m freestyle relay	August 2
Gold	Emily Seebohm	Swimming	Women's 100 m backstroke	August 4
Gold	Mitch Larkin	Swimming	Men's 100 m backstroke	August 4
Gold	Bronte Campbell	Swimming	Women's 100 m freestyle	August 7
Gold	Mitch Larkin	Swimming	Men's 200 m backstroke	August 7
Gold	Emily Seebohm	Swimming	Women's 200 m backstroke	August 8
Gold	Bronte Campbell	Swimming	Women's 50 m freestyle	August 9
Silver	Madison Wilson	Swimming	Women's 200 m backstroke	August 8
Silver	Cameron McEvoy	Swimming	Men's 100 m freestyle	August 6
Silver	Kyle Chalmers * Jayden Hadler Mitch Larkin Cameron McEvoy David Morgan * Jake Packard	Swimming	Men's 4×100 m medley relay	August 9
Bronze	Domonic Bedggood Melissa Wu	Diving	Mixed 10 m synchronized platform	July 25
Bronze	Samantha Mills Esther Qin	Diving	Women's 3 m synchronized springboard	July 25
Bronze	Jessica Ashwood	Swimming	Women's 400 m freestyle	August 2
Bronze	Mack Horton	Swimming	Men's 800 m freestyle	August 5
Bronze	Cate Campbell	Swimming	Women's 100 m freestyle	August 7
Bronze	Thomas Fraser-Holmes Grant Hackett * Kurt Herzog * Cameron McEvoy David McKeon Daniel Smith *	Swimming	Men's 4×200 m freestyle relay	August 7
Bronze	Ben Treffers	Swimming	Men's 50 m backstroke	August 9
Bronze	Bronte Campbell Madeline Groves * Emma McKeon Taylor McKeown Emily Seebohm Melanie Schlanger * Lorna Tonks * Madison Wilson *	Swimming	Women's 4×100 m medley relay	August 9

Diving

Australia sent a team of eight divers to compete for the individual and synchronized events at the World Championships.^[1]

Men

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Semifinals		Final
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
James Connor	3 m springboard	431.85	10 Q	457.10	11 Q	422.35	11
Grant Nel	3 m springboard	450.30	8 Q	412.45	16	Did not advance
Domonic Bedggood	10 m platform	441.50	13 Q	469.05	8 Q	470.40	8
James Connor	10 m platform	435.95	13 Q	427.75	13	Did not advance
James Connor Grant Nel	3 m synchronized springboard	384.87	10 Q	N/A		387.69	12
Domonic Bedggood James Connor	10 m synchronized platform	388.80	9 Q	N/A		375.12	12

Women

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Semifinals		Final
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Maddison Keeney	1 m springboard	283.40	4 Q	N/A		226.05	12
Esther Qin	1 m springboard	261.60	6 Q	N/A		280.50	5
Maddison Keeney	3 m springboard	305.55	9 Q	314.60	7 Q	326.60	7
Esther Qin	3 m springboard	329.10	4 Q	345.75	4 Q	347.20	4
Melissa Wu	10 m platform	320.80	11 Q	324.30	11 Q	364.20	5
Samantha Mills Esther Qin	3 m synchronized springboard	291.90	3 Q	N/A		304.20
Lara Tarvit Melissa Wu	10 m synchronized platform	294.84	6 Q	N/A		302.22	8

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Final
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank
Grant Nel Maddison Keeney	3 m synchronized springboard	310.02	4
Domonic Bedggood Melissa Wu	10 m synchronized platform	308.22

Open water swimming

Australia fielded a full team of eight swimmers to compete in the open water marathon.^[2]

Men

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Simon Huitenga	10 km	1:50:41.3	15
George O'Brien	10 km	1:51:19.6	28
Jarrod Poort	5 km	55:31.1	20
Jarrod Poort	25 km	5:07:44.5	17
Sam Sheppard	5 km	55:53.6	32
Sam Sheppard	25 km	4:56:22.9	6

Women

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Melissa Gorman	5 km	59:12.7	7
Chelsea Gubecka	10 km	1:58:51.3	13
Chelsea Gubecka	25 km	5:28:49.2	13
Kareena Lee	10 km	1:59:32.8	20
Jessica Walker	5 km	59:09.9	5
Jessica Walker	25 km	5:23:33.0	12

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Melissa Gorman Simon Huitenga Jarrod Poort	Team	56:07.4	6

Swimming

Australian swimmers earned qualifying standards in the following events (up to a maximum of 2 swimmers in each event at the A-standard entry time, and 1 at the B-standard):^[3] Swimmers must qualify at the 2015 Australian Championships (for pool events) to confirm their places for the Worlds.

The 2015 Australian Swimming Championships were held from 3 to 10 April 2015 at the Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre in Sydney, New South Wales. They doubled up as the national trials for the 2015 World Aquatics Championships in Kazan, Russia, the 2015 Summer Universiade, held in Gwangju, South Korea, the 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships, held in Glasgow, Scotland and the 2015 FINA World Junior Swimming Championships, held in Singapore.

Thirty-six swimmers (22 men and 24 women) have been selected to compete for the Australian team, including defending World champions Christian Sprenger in the 100 m breaststroke and Cate Campbell in the 100 m freestyle.^[4]^[5] 2012 Olympic silver medalist and two-time reigning World champion James Magnussen was set to compete, but later withdrew from the team because of a shoulder injury, having been ruled out to defend his Worlds title in the 100 m freestyle.^[6]^[7]

Christian David Sprenger is an Australian former breaststroke swimmer. He trains at the Commercial Swimming Club under Simon Cusack.

Cate Campbell Australian swimmer, Olympic gold medallist, world champion, former world record-holder

Cate Natalie Campbell, is an Australian competitive swimmer, and a current multiple world record holder, who won two bronze medals at the 2008 Summer Olympics, a gold medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics and a gold and a silver medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics. She is the current world record holder in the Long Course 4 x 100 m Freestyle Relay with Team Australia and the short course 100 m freestyle.

James Magnussen is a retired Australian swimmer and Olympic medallist. He was the 2011 and 2013 100-metre freestyle world champion, and holds the fifth fastest swim in history in the 100-metre freestyle, with a time of 47.10, which until 2016 also stood as the fastest swim in textile swimwear material.

Men

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Matthew Abood	50 m freestyle	22.28	11 Q	22.16	14	Did not advance
Josh Beaver	200 m backstroke	1:57.62	8 Q	1:57.99	13	Did not advance
Tommaso D'Orsogna	100 m freestyle	49.04	18	Did not advance
Tommaso D'Orsogna	100 m butterfly	52.22	15 Q	52.26	15	Did not advance
Thomas Fraser-Holmes	200 m individual medley	1:59.96	13 Q	1:58.83	10	Did not advance
Thomas Fraser-Holmes	400 m individual medley	4:15.93	10	N/A		Did not advance
Jayden Hadler	50 m butterfly	23.83	19	Did not advance
Jayden Hadler	100 m butterfly	52.17	14 Q	52.09	12	Did not advance
Mack Horton	400 m freestyle	3:47.37	11	N/A		Did not advance
	800 m freestyle	7:47.08	5 Q	N/A		7:44.02
	1500 m freestyle	15:00.51	11	N/A		Did not advance
Grant Irvine	200 m butterfly	1:56.92	=14 Q	1:57.94	15	Did not advance
Mitch Larkin	50 m backstroke	24.77	4 Q	24.65	4 Q	24.70	4
	100 m backstroke	52.50 OC	1 Q	52.38 OC	1 Q	52.40
	200 m backstroke	1:55.88	1 Q	1:54.29 OC	1 Q	1:53.58 OC
Cameron McEvoy	100 m freestyle	48.33	2 Q	47.94	1 Q	47.95
Cameron McEvoy	200 m freestyle	1:46.39	4 Q	1:46.09	3 Q	1:47.26	8
David McKeon	200 m freestyle	1:47.00	10 Q	1:47.60	13	Did not advance
David McKeon	400 m freestyle	3:47.36	10	N/A		Did not advance
David Morgan	200 m butterfly	1:56.05	8 Q	1:58.83	16	Did not advance
Jake Packard	100 m breaststroke	59.92	9 Q	59.66	7 Q	59.44	5
Christian Sprenger	50 m breaststroke	27.54	17	Did not advance
Christian Sprenger	100 m breaststroke	1:01.13	28	Did not advance
Ben Treffers	50 m backstroke	24.74	3 Q	24.64	3 Q	24.69
Ben Treffers	100 m backstroke	54.00	15 Q	DSQ		Did not advance
Tommaso D'Orsogna Kyle Chalmers Matthew Abood Ashley Delaney	4×100 m freestyle relay	3:16.34	13	N/A		Did not advance
Cameron McEvoy David McKeon Daniel Smith Thomas Fraser-Holmes Grant Hackett* Kurt Herzog*	4×200 m freestyle relay	7:08.40	1 Q	N/A		7:05.34
Kyle Chalmers Jayden Hadler Mitch Larkin Cameron McEvoy David Morgan* Jake Packard	4×100 m medley relay	3:31.86	2 Q	N/A		3:30.08

Women

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Jessica Ashwood	400 m freestyle	4:04.47	2 Q	N/A		4:03.34 OC
	800 m freestyle	8:22.17	2 Q	N/A		8:18.41	4
	1500 m freestyle	15:56.52	3 Q	N/A		15:52.17 NR	4
Hayley Baker	200 m backstroke	2:11.63	17	Did not advance
Bronte Campbell	50 m freestyle	24.74	7 Q	24.32	4 Q	24.12
Bronte Campbell	100 m freestyle	53.50	3 Q	53.00	3 Q	52.52
Cate Campbell	50 m freestyle	24.40	1 Q	24.22	1 Q	24.36	4
Cate Campbell	100 m freestyle	53.22	=1 Q	52.84	2 Q	52.82
Madeline Groves	100 m butterfly	58.31	10 Q	58.17	11	Did not advance
Madeline Groves	200 m butterfly	2:08.65	9 Q	2:08.00	9	Did not advance
Emma McKeon	200 m freestyle	1:57.78	7 Q	1:56.95	8 Q	1:56.41	7
	50 m butterfly	26.79	=21	Did not advance
	100 m butterfly	58.12	8 Q	57.59	5 Q	57.67	4
Taylor McKeown	100 m breaststroke	1:06.97	7 Q	1:07.19	9	Did not advance
Taylor McKeown	200 m breaststroke	2:24.02	9 Q	2:24.41	11	Did not advance
Keryn McMaster	200 m individual medley	2:13.42	17	Did not advance
Keryn McMaster	400 m individual medley	4:39.05	13	N/A		Did not advance
Leah Neale	400 m freestyle	4:13.98	21	N/A		Did not advance
Leah Neale	800 m freestyle	8:44.38	26	N/A		Did not advance
Melanie Schlanger	200 m freestyle	1:58.94	17	Did not advance
Emily Seebohm	50 m backstroke	27.75	3 Q	27.70	5 Q	27.66	4
	100 m backstroke	59.04	2 Q	58.56	1 Q	58.26
	200 m backstroke	2:09.44	7 Q	2:06.56	2 Q	2:05.81
Brianna Throssell	50 m butterfly	26.90	=26	Did not advance
Brianna Throssell	200 m butterfly	2:09.16	12 Q	2:07.57	=6 Q	2:06.78	=4
Lorna Tonks	50 m breaststroke	21.22	16 Q	31.05	12	Did not advance
Lorna Tonks	100 m breaststroke	1:07.32	12 Q	1:07.54	13	Did not advance
Tessa Wallace	200 m breaststroke	2:24.88	12 Q	2:24.68	12	Did not advance
Tessa Wallace	400 m individual medley	4:44.93	21	N/A		Did not advance
Madison Wilson	50 m backstroke	28.02	=7 Q	27.83	6 Q	27.92	6
Madison Wilson	100 m backstroke	59.17	3 Q	59.05	3 Q	58.75
Emily Seebohm Emma McKeon Bronte Campbell Cate Campbell Madison Wilson* Melanie Schlanger* Bronte Barratt*	4×100 m freestyle relay	3:35.86	2 Q	N/A		3:31.48
Bronte Barratt Jessica Ashwood Leah Neale Emma McKeon	4×200 m freestyle relay	7:52.66	3 Q	N/A		7:51.02	6
Bronte Campbell Madeline Groves* Emma McKeon Taylor McKeown Emily Seebohm Melanie Schlanger* Lorna Tonks* Madison Wilson*	4×100 m medley relay	3:57.95	4 Q	N/A		3:55.56

Synchronized swimming

Australia has qualified a squad of eleven synchronized swimmers for the following events.

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Final
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Bianca Hammett Nikita Pablo	Duet technical routine	72.0011	28	Did not advance
Bianca Hammett Nikita Pablo	Duet free routine	73.1667	30	Did not advance
Bianca Hammett Danielle Kettlewell Jo-Ann Lim Nikita Pablo Emily Rogers Cristina Sheehan Jemma Singleton Danielle ten Vaanholt* Deborah Tsai* Amie Thompson	Team technical routine	70.8602	20	Did not advance
Hannah Cross* Bianca Hammett Danielle Kettlewell Nikita Pablo Emily Rogers Cristina Sheehan* Jemma Singleton Danielle ten Vaanholt Deborah Tsai Amie Thompson	Team free routine	75.1000	16	Did not advance

Water polo

Men's tournament

Team roster

George Ford is a water polo player from Australia. He was part of the Australian team at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships, as well as part of the team attending the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

Jarrod Gilchrist is a water polo player of Australia. He was part of the Australian team at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships, as well as being part of the team which went to the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

Aaron Younger is an Australian water polo player. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he competed for the Australia men's national water polo team in the men's event. He was born in Attadale, Western Australia and is 6 feet 4 inches (193 cm) tall. At Men's 2018 FINA Men's Water Polo World Cup, Aaron Younger was nominated best player of the tournament. He currently plays for Hungarian club Ferencvaros.

Group play

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Serbia	3	3	0	0	40	26	+14	6	Advanced to quarterfinals
2	Australia	3	1	1	1	24	19	+5	3	Advanced to playoffs
3	Montenegro	3	1	1	1	29	26	+3	3	Advanced to playoffs
4	Japan	3	0	0	3	23	45	−22	0

Source: SportResult.com
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head number of goals scored; 5) goal difference.

27 July 2015 21:30	Report	Japan	4–10	Australia	Kazan Attendance: 2,287 Referees: Massimiliano Caputi (ITA), Hatem Gaber (EGY)
		Score by quarters: 0–2, 2–2, 1–3, 1–3
		four players 1	Goals	Campbell 3

29 July 2015 13:30	Report	Australia	5–5	Montenegro	Kazan Attendance: 313 Referees: Boris Margeta (SLO), Sergey Naumov (RUS)
		Score by quarters: 0–2, 1–1, 1–1, 3–1
		Younger 3	Goals	Janović 2

31 July 2015 12:10	Report	Serbia	10–9	Australia	Kazan Attendance: 890 Referees: Radosław Koryzna (POL), Georgios Stacridis (GRE)
		Score by quarters:3–2, 2–2, 1–4, 4–1
		three players 2	Goals	Younger 3

Playoffs

2 August 2015 20:10	Report	South Africa	1–17	Australia	Kazan Attendance: 213 Referees: Ni Shi Wei (CHN), German Moller (ARG)
		Score by quarters: 1–5, 0–6, 0–2, 0–4
		E. Le Roux 1	Goals	Younger 4

Quarterfinals

4 August 2015 18:50	Report	Greece	7–7	Australia	Kazan Attendance: 1,996 Referees: Boris Margeta (SLO), Vojin Putniković (SRB)
		Score by quarters:1–0, 1–3, 3–1, 2–3 PSO:5–4
		Fountoulis, Genidounias 2	Goals	Younger 3

5th–8th place semifinals

6 August 2015 15:30	Report	Montenegro	11–8	Australia	Kazan Attendance: 1,500 Referees: Francesc Buch (ESP), Vojin Putniković (SRB)
		Score by quarters:4–1, 1–1, 4–4, 2–2
		Janović 4	Goals	three players 2

Seventh place game

8 August 2015 14:00	Report	Australia	6–10	United States	Kazan Attendance: 1,677 Referees: Nenad Peris (CRO), Francesc Buch (ESP)
		Score by quarters:3–2, 0–2, 1–4, 2–2
		Younger 2	Goals	Azevedo 4

Women's tournament

Team roster

Group play

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Australia	3	3	0	35	14	+21	6	Advanced to quarterfinals
2	Netherlands	3	2	1	38	18	+20	4	Advanced to playoffs
3	Greece	3	1	2	36	22	+14	2	Advanced to playoffs
4	South Africa	3	0	3	6	61	−55	0