Day 6 Finals: Lincoln destroyer back in action

THE Lincoln Destroyer was back in action at the Gold Coast Aquatic Centre last night taking his usual spot at the top of the podium.

Representing Chandler, the Tsuyoshi Kimura-trained Lincoln Wearing dominated from start to finish to claim the boys’ 16 years 1500m freestyle in 15:10.44, well ahead of next best Russel Pang (Singapore, 15:29.12) and Jesse Hamilton (Chandler, 15:42.13).

Wearing’s performance tonight moves him fourth behind some of the biggest names in distance swimming: Perkins. Hackett. Horton.

Australia’s fastest 16-year boys over 1500m freestyle of all-time:
1. Kieren Perkins: 14:58.08
2. Grant Hackett: 15:03.67
3. Mack Horton: 15:04.87
4. Lincoln Wearing: 15:10.44

This meet, Wearing has remained undefeated in the distance freestyle events, sweeping the 1500m, 800m and 400m. His twin Isaac was the bronze medallist in the boys’ 16 years 800m freestyle and finished fifth tonight (16:00.59) in the 1500m.

In other results:

Surrey Park’s Ishaaq Ismail was a headline act with the 14-year-old setting the only national record of the night. Ismail’s winning time of 24.80 in the boys 14 years 50m butterfly wiped the existing national age record of 24.97 set by Maxwell Cunningham in 2024.

Another 14-year-old swimmer made noise tonight when she claimed two golds in one hour and brought her tally to six.

MLC Aquatic’s Lucy Ma opened up her Night 6 program with the 400m individual medley in which she was the sole swimmer to go under the 5-minute mark (4:58.78).

An hour later, Ma backed up in the 200m backstroke. In one of the closest finishes of the night, Ma (2:20.14) got the touch over Carlile’s Charlotte Lim (2:20.65) and Ambrose Treacy’s Lauren Bethel (2:20.75) who placed second and third respectively.

So far this meet, Ma has swept the 200m and 400m individual medley titles, 100m and 50m breaststroke titles and the 200m and 100m backstroke titles, and she has picked up a silver in the 200m freestyle. Ma still has the 100m freestyle to go.

18y Girls’ 50m Butterfly: Olivia Hine was one-hundredth of a second away from cracking a national age record of Olympian Emily Seebohm‘s that has remained unbeatable for almost 16 years. Hine, who trains at Somerville House under Tim Lane, clocked 26.09 to win the 18-year girls’ 50m butterfly, a fingernail outside of Seebohm’s record time of 26.08. Jessica Whiting (Traralgon -26.93) and Audrey Jackson (Abbotsleigh – 27.09) placed second and third respectively.

18y Boys’ 400m Freestyle: Lucas Fackerell – the Mackrell – powered home to finish almost three seconds ahead of the field and claim his first national title of the meet. The Western Australian athlete from Hale stopped the clock at 3:53.32. Miami’s Tomo Shadforth placed second (3:56.21) ahead of Noah Magoffin in third (MCA – 3:57.78).

13y Girls’ 400m IM: Carlile’s golden girl of the meet Molly Young won the 13-year girls’ 400m individual medley and brought her medal tally to six golds. Young touched in at 5:03.52 with Hannah Fleming second (Rackley – 5:07.51) and her fellow clubmate Anna Munzarova third (5:11.29).

See full results here: https://liveresults.swimming.org.au/sal/2026Age/

Pictured: Lincoln (left) and Isaac Wearing (right)