{"id":401639,"date":"2024-06-10T10:17:30","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T10:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=401639"},"modified":"2024-06-10T11:04:38","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T11:04:38","slug":"titmus-thrilling-world-record-hunt-electrifies-crowd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=401639","title":{"rendered":"Titmus' thrilling world record hunt electrifies crowd"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brisbane:<\/strong> \ufeffA\ufeffriarne Titmus<\/a> treated the night-one crowd at Australia's Paris 2024<\/a> swimming<\/a> trials to an exhilarating pursuit of her own 400m freestyle world record.<\/p>\n

The two-time Olympic<\/a> gold medallist fell short of the mark, but only by 0.06 of a second, as an electric crowd cheered on the superstar at Brisbane Aquatic Centre.<\/p>\n

Titmus won the 400m final with a time of 3:55.44, almost breaking the 3:55.38 world record\ufeff she had set at the world championships in Fukuoka last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Before the 23-year-old took to the pool on Monday night, Canadian teen sensation Summer McIntosh owned the fastest time of the year, having clocked 3:59.06.\ufeff<\/p>\n

Lani Pallister, 22, finished second and met Swimming Australia's Olympic qualification time easily, posting 4:02.27, meaning she will join Titmus in the 400m in Paris.<\/p>\n

"I thought there was a chance [of breaking the world record] but you really don't think about those things," Titmus took media poolside.<\/p>\n

\"Ariarne<\/p>\n

"But swimming that close to the record gives me good confidence. The goal isn't to\ufeff swim my best here; the goal is to just book my ticket.<\/p>\n

"I'm excited to see what I can do now in Paris."\ufeff<\/p>\n

Watch Australia's Paris 2024 swimming trials on Nine and<\/strong><\/em> 9Now<\/strong><\/em><\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

In the French capital in just over a month's time, Titmus will be out to defend the Olympic 400m gold medal she won at the Tokyo Olympics.\ufeff<\/p>\n

She's expected to clash with American legend Katie Ledecky\ufeff, Canada's McIntosh and Kiwi young gun Erika Fairweather in what promises to be a pulsating showdown.<\/p>\n

\"Pallister<\/p>\n

"It's very exciting to be a part of this [400m gold medal contention\ufeff]," Titmus said.<\/p>\n

"I kind of wish that I was watching on as a swimming fan because you look back at the legacy points in swimming with Thorpey [Ian Thorpe] and Hacky [Grant Hackett] and Kieren [Perkins], and being a swimming fan then would have been so fun, so I think about what it would be like to be a swimming fan now. I just feel so honoured and proud of the work I've done to be in this position to be able to be a part of this contention to win gold."<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brisbane: \ufeffA\ufeffriarne Titmus treated the night-one crowd at Australia's Paris 2024 swimming trials to an exhilarating pursuit of her own 400m freestyle world record. The […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":401641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401639"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=401639"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":401644,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401639\/revisions\/401644"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/401641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=401639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=401639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=401639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}