вЂњHeвЂ™s certainly swimming well, heвЂ™s very efficient and heвЂ™s happy with whereвЂ™s heвЂ™s at the moment. вЂњHis 48.05 in the 100m freestyle after a 53.62 (27.46/26.16) negative split in the 100m backstroke and the вЂfly in the morning вЂ“ (collectively) thatвЂ™s probably more impressive than any one of those swims individually. вЂњFlynn (like so many others) didnвЂ™t get a chance to race at the Junior Worlds and then the Junior Worlds v World University Team was also cancelled so he has been wanting to race for a little while,вЂќ said Samuelson. Here, his astute coach Kyle Samuelson gives an insight into SouthamвЂ™s break through weekend as he makes the move into the open ranks. Photo Courtesy: Delly Carr (Swimming Australia). OH YEAH: Bond University coach Kyle Samuelson canвЂ™t stop watching Flynn Southam. SouthamвЂ™s time broke the Queensland record of 22.43 set by Tokyo Olympian Isaac Cooper in 2020 and the All Comers mark of 22.31 set by New Zealand World Championship representative Michael Pickett from 2018. Not to be satisfied with the 100m, young Southam then set his sights on the 50m freestyle as well, where he finished second to SomersetвЂ™s Thomas Nowakowski clocking 22.29 to NowakowskiвЂ™s 22.20 with his team mate Andrew Newling third in 22.30. SouthamвЂ™s 100m time smashed Brayden McCarthyвЂ™s long standing 2014 Queensland Age Group mark for 16-year-olds of 48.99 and Beijing Olympian Kenrick MonkвЂ™s 2008 Queensland All-Comers record of 49.49.Д«ut even more impressive was the fact that just 30 minutes earlier he had negative split his Open 100m backstroke, clocking 53.62 (27.46/26.16) to finish third to 24-year-old Tom Jeffries (Rackley) 53.33 and 18-year-old Thomas Hauck (All Saints) 53.60.ДЄnd he had also earlier in the day clocked 24.35 in the open 50m butterfly. In an impressive strategy, eight others swimmers in the open 100m freestyle all clocked sub 24 seconds for their opening 50m split вЂ“ but none of them came back in 24 seconds either вЂ“ let alone powering home Southam style over his final 25m in under 12 seconds (11.84). Southam, coached by Kyle Samuelson in a Bond program that will see gold medal winning Tokyo Olympic coach Chris Mooney take over as head coach next month, almost negative split his 48.05 (24.01/24.04) in an eye-catching display of even split swimming.

Two years before Chalmers won Olympic gold in Rio, he had clocked 48.65 at the 2014 Australian Short Course Championships in Canberra and Thorpe swam 48.98 in 1999 вЂ“ the year he re-wrote the world long course records over 200 and 400m freestyle вЂ“ 12 months after his breakthrough World Championship win and 12 months before his triumphant Sydney Olympics.

It was a time faster than both Chalmers and Thorpe had swum at the same age, breaking the Queensland Age Group records in both the 50 and 100m freestyle events. With three years left as an age grouper, Southam stepped up to win his first State Open title in the 100m freestyle in a sizzling 48.05. BREAKING OUT: Teenager Flynn Southam stepping up to Open company.

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