Sucipto Named for FINA World Short Course Champs

Published On: 10 November 2016

WA swimmer Tommy Sucipto has earned selection for the Australian Dolphins team for the 2016 FINA World Short Course Swimming Championships in Canada.

The Rockingham Swim Club member joins the 19-strong Australian squad after he won the men’s 50m and 100m breaststroke titles at the Australian Championships in Brisbane last week.

The 21 year-old clocked 26.85sec for victory in the 50m final, winning ahead of Matthew Wilson (26.96) and Rio Olympian Jake Packard (27.06).

Sucipto backed that effort up, with a second gold medal in the 100m final, stopping the clock in 57.67 for an All Comers record, again finishing ahead of Matthew Wilson (58.65) and Jake Packard (58.68).

Nicholas Brown earned a silver medal in the men’s 200m butterfly final, touching home in 1:53.28min behind Olympian David Morgan (1:51.86).

Sucipto’s Rockingham teammate Holly Barratt snared dual bronze medals, in the 50m back and 50m fly finals.

Barratt finished in 26.83 in the backstroke, behind Olympian and World Champion Emily Seebohm (26.28) with Minna Atherton (26.53) in second.

Seebohm again bested Barratt in the final of the 50m fly, with the Queenslander first home in 26.13, with Barratt’s 26.23, marginally shy of second place getter Christina Licciardi in 26.21.

The FINA World Short Course Championships will be held in Windsor from December 6-13.