Throssell Lands Seven Bronze from YOG Campaign

WAIS athlete Brianna Throssell has won seven bronze medals in the pool at the Youth Olympic Games (YOG) after coming third in the women’s 100m butterfly on the final night of competition in the pool.

Eighteen-year-old Throssellwas over the moon with her meet performance after touching the wall in 59.12behind gold and silver medallist Lilianna Szilagyi from Hungary and Yufei Zhang from China.

“I’m quite honoured for it to be my sixth bronze [in finals], this is probably one of the best meets I have ever had, it is just so much fun,” the West Australian said.

“That was my last swim and to finish with a bronze I am so happy.”

While the bronze queen looks like she has a bright future, Throssell says she is just focussing on getting back into training.

“There is still so much to learn. When you look at both Liliana (Russia) and the Chinese girl, they were absolutely amazing and hopefully one day I can improve a bit myself and become like them. They just had such awesome swims tonight,” Throssell said.

“I think I have got to get back in the pool and have a hard training. I haven’t had a full session in a while, because we have been tapering and racing, but I guess looking forward to Rio that is my aim, but I don’t want to put too much pressure on me to qualify. I will just do my best.”

Medalling in the 100m and 200m butterfly, the 200m freestyle and the girl’s 4x100m freestyle and medley relays as well as being a heat swimmer in the 4x100m mixed medley, Throssell has contributed to seven of Australia’s 14 medals at the YOG so far.

-AOC