Victorian State Championships, Day 2: Homeland Hero Tara Kinder Takes Her Gold Medal Haul To 3 With A Difficult Double

Victorian State Championships, Day 2: Homeland Hero Tara Kinder Takes Her Gold Medal Haul To 3 With A Difficult Double

Homeland hero Tara Kinder has taken her gold medal tally to a few on day two of the 2025 Mattioli Victorian Open LC Championships – successful a difficult double within the 400m freestyle and the 200m breaststroke on the Melbourne Sports activities And Aquatic Centre.

The 21-year-old, who debuted for Australia ultimately yr’s Global Quick Direction Championships in Budapest, opened her house State Titles in high-quality taste with an afternoon one victory within the 400m person medley in a non-public highest time of four:46.02.

And there used to be no preventing her on day two.

Kinder (Melbourne Vicentre, VIC), who’s coached through Olympic gold medal trainer Craig Jackson, used to be a transparent winner within the 400m freestyle, touching in 4:14.67, forward of visiting Irish swimmer Victoria Catterson (4:8.43) and Nunawading’s Dakoda Mathers (4:23,96).

Tara Kinder (Melbourne Vicentre) in motion on the 2024 Global Quick Direction in Budapest. Photograph Courtesy Swimming Australia.

Ahead of the four-time 2024 Australian Quick Direction champion staged a neck-and-neck tussle with Lily Koch(Nunawading, VIC) over the general 50 metres of the open girls’s 200m breaststroke.

Tinder (2.28.33) combating exhausting to out-touch the plucky Koch (2:28.93) with 100m winner Albury’s Sienna Toohey (2:30.31) a robust completing 3rd.

In the meantime, Paris Olympic relay gold medallist Olivia Wunsch (Carlile, NSW) added the 50m freestyle in 25.15 to her spectacular day one victory within the 100m – once more conserving Jap pairing Rikako Ikee (25.56) and Ai Soma (25.77) at bay.

The 24-year-old Ikee appearing all her magnificence within the 100m butterfly, successful in 58.19 forward of Nunawading’s Isabella Boyd (58.84) with Wunsch taking house the bronze in 58.98.

Whilst Paris Olympians Iona Anderson (Highlanders, WA) and Max Giuliani (TSS Aquatic, QLD) endured their successful shape additionally – Andersson, the 2024 Global Championship silver medal, including the 100m in 2.13.22.

And previous Tasmanian Giuliani, the 21-year-old Paris finalist, including his primary tournament, the 200m freestyle in 1:48.05, forward of Cameron Bladen (TigerSharks. VIC) 1:49.10 and Hoe Yean Khiew (Malaysia) 1:49.91.

RESULTS

2025 Mattioli Victorian Open LC Championships, Days 1 and a couple of:

MEN

 Freestyle

100m: 

Max Guiliani (TSS Aquatic, QLD) 49.81
Gabriel Gorgas (Manly/Metro North East, NSW) 50.28
Jezze Gorman (St Andrews, QLD) 50.30

200m:

Max Giuliani (TSS Aquatic, QLD) 1:48.05
Cameron Bladen (TigerSharks, QLD) 1:49.10
Hoe Yean Khiew (Malaysia) 1:49.91

400m:

Hoe Yean Khiew (Malaysia) 3:53.29
Tommy Lane (Cheltenham) 3:55.18
Cameron Bladen (TigerSharks, VIC) 3:55.84

800m:

Lachlan Walker (TSS Aquatic, QLD) 8:09.33
Tommy Lane (Cheltenham, VIC) 8:13.56
Luke Higgs (Warringah/Metro North East, NSW) 8:17.97

Backstroke

50m:

Juho Lee (Korea) 25.90
Callum Halloran-Lavelle (Nunawading, VIC) 26.05
Will Sharp (Nunawading, VIC) 26.22

200m

Uho Lee (Korea) 1:57.04
Will Sharp (Nunawading, VIC) 2:00.74
Marius Bol (Carlile, NSW) 2:02.36

Breaststroke

50m:

Sam Williamson (Melbourne Vicentre, VIC) 26.66
Lucas Matzerah (Germany) 27.60
Cameron Jordan (SOPAC Swim Membership, NSW) 27.851

100m:

Lucas Matzerah (Germany) 1:00.57
Joshua Yong (UWA West Coast, WA) 1:01.21
Calvin Reed (Propulsion, VIC) 1:02.76

Butterfly

50m:

Christophe Elson (Vikings Swim Membership, New Zealand) 24.17
Joseph Hamson (Knox Pymble/Metro North East, NSW) 24.48
Jack Carr (St Andrews, QLD) 24.69

200m:

Archie Kreutzberger (Nth Albury, NSW) 2:03.09
Hello Rooster Goh (Malaysia) 2:03.31
Joseph Hamson (Knox Pymble/Metro North East, NSW) 2:03.34

Particular person medley

200m:

Gabriel Gorgas (Manly/Metro North East, NSW) 2:02.57
Clancy Luscombe (Marion, SA) 2:05.20
Samuel Higgs (Warringah/Metro North East, NSW) 2:05.83

WOMEN

Freestyle

 50m:

Olivia Wunsch (Carlile, NSW) 25.15
Rikako Ikee (Japan) 25.56
Ai Soma (Japan) 25.77

100m:

Olivia Wunsch (Carlile, NSW) 54.16
Inez Miller (Fenix Swim Membership, WA) 55.84
Rikako Ikee (Japan) 56.60

400m:

Tara Kinder (Melbourne Vicentre, VIC) 4:14.67
Victoria Catterson (Eire) 4:18.43
Dakota Mathers (Nunawading, VIC) 4:23.96

800m:

Mackenzie Hunter (MLC Aquatic, VIC) 9:01.68
Dakoda Mathers (Nunawading, VIC) 9:04.28
Taylor Watson (Yara Valley Waves, VIC) 9:08.27

Backstroke

100m:

Iona Anderson (Highlanders, WA) 1:00.50
Semra Olowoniyi (Nunawading, VIC) 1:02.90
Jessica Wilson (Nunawading, VIC) 1:03.65

200m:

Iona Anderson (Highlanders, WA) 2:13.22
Alannah Banks (Surrey Park, WA) 2:16.16
Abbey Kearney (Nunawading, VIC) 2:17.46

Breaststroke

100m

Sienna Toohey (Albury, NSW) 1:07.19
Lily Koch (Nunawading, VIC) 1:08.48
Isabelle Rae (Albury, NSW) 1:10.97

200m:

Tara Kinder (Melbourne Vicentre, VIC) 2:28.33
Lily Koch (Nunawading, VIC) 2:28.93
Sienna Toohey (Albury, NSW) 2:30.31

Butterfly

50m

Rikako Ikee (Japan) 25.95
Ai Soma (Japan) 26.53
Olivia Wunsch (Carlile, NSW) 26.48

100m:

Rikako Ikee (Japan) 58.19
Isabella Boyd (Nunawading, VIC) 58.84
Olivia Wunsch (Carlile, NSW) 58.98

Particular person Medley

400m

Tara Kinder (Melbourne Vicentre, VIC) 4:46.02
Taryn Roberts (TSS Aquatic, QLD) 4:57.42
Makayla Larkin (Cheltenham, VIC) 5:02.46

FULL RESULTS