Aussie Swim Team Builds to Rio

Swimming Australia will be holding a National Event Camp on the Gold Coast in early 2013 as the long road to Rio begins in earnest.

The camp will be the first step in the preparations for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio and will play an important role in identifying and developing the training pathway for the next four year Olympic cycle which aims to return the Australian Swim team to the top of the International tree.

Included in the extensive camp are Western Australian Institute of Sport athletes; Bobby Jovanavich, Lennard Bremer, Tommy Sucipto, Adelaide Hart, Emily Kayser and Brianna Throssell, whilst recent Perth relocate and new WAIS scholarship holder Yolane Kukla will also head to camp in her native state.

Bremer and Sucipto will train in the breaststroke camp, and will join backstroker Jovanavich in men’s selection, whilst sprint freestylers Kukla and Hart, will join butterfly swimmer Throssell and distance swimming prospect Kayser in the women’s camps on the Gold Coast.

Swim coach Matt Magee, based out of the City of Perth, earned selection as the assistant coach with the butterfly squad for the camp.

One athlete who will not be looking too far ahead just yet however, is 16 year-old Brianna Throssell who departed with the Australian short course team this week for the World Short Course Championships in Istanbul, Turkey.

The Matt Magee coached Throssell – who impressed at the recent short course champs in Perth – was selected to travel in her first senior world championship team and will compete in butterfly in the Turkish capital.

The Championships run from December 12 – 16 with ONE HD broadcasting all finals live.