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Rio-bound Beaver By JARROD POTTER The moment it all sunk in as Josh Beaver looked up at the timing boards to find out he had earned his ticket to Rio. Picture: SWIMMING AUSTRALIA LTD
well under qualifying time as he saved his best for last. Chasing down Larkin on his left shoulder for the fourth and final lap, Beaver brought it home in 30.16 - charging through the final 50 metres - to finish in a personal best time and earn his first trip to the Olympic Games. “I knew what I did in the semi-final was good and had a few more gears to go - and saved them for the final, essentially saved the fireworks for the final,” Beaver said. “It just came down to putting everything I knew and everything I’ve worked on for the last four years and basically my entire swimming career into that one moment.” It wasn’t just his fans back in Tooradin, the Casey TigerSharks, Nunawading Swimming Club, and at CASEY Race that cheered him home, but even the national champion Larkin was just as proud to see Beaver make the team as everyone around the Dolphins camp was barracking for him.
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Josh Beaver has earned his ticket to Rio after a flying time in the 200m backstroke final of the Olympic Picture: JARROD POTTER Games trials on Tuesday night. 152454 “I’m really stoked Beav made the team,” Larkin said. “He’s one of the nicest guys around the pool-deck.” Lawson finished third in the 200m backstroke final - unable to repeat the magic of his 2012 swim to earn him a trip to London - as he touched in at 1.59.37.
Larkin continued his domination of the 100m/200m backstroke double with a 1.53.9 to book his second spot in the Rio team from as many races. Beaver and Lawson had one more chance to qualify for Rio - with the 50m backstroke preliminaries and finals on Wednesday night after the
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FROM Tooradin all the way to Rio de Janeiro, swimmer Josh Beaver just earned the right to call himself an Olympian. Beaver, 23, from Tooradin took to the water on Tuesday night for his best chance at the 2016 Hancock Prospecting Australian Championships - the 200m backstroke. Over 10 years of hard work in the pool boiled down to one race at the South Australia Aquatic and Leisure Centre, as Beaver rested his hopes of qualifying for the Rio Olympic Games on his pet event. Needing a first or second place finish and to beat the Olympic Games A qualifying time of 1.57.12 to re-join the Australian team for another international campaign, Beaver did more than enough to qualify. He touched in at 1.56.17 to clinch his spot on the Australian Dolphins Swimming Team and add an Olympic Games campaign to his swimming resume. After just missing out on a spot at the 2012 London Olympic Games team, Beaver couldn’t believe just how quickly it all happened as he became an Olympian in the blink of an eye. “To be honest with you, I don’t even know what was going on,” Beaver said. “I finished and looked up at the times - was 1.56.1 and it was my best and I knew it was enough and it all just sort of clicked. “It all clicked in a moment of a second - that wow ... I’m going to the Olympics.” Tooradin’s newest Olympian stopped the clock at 1.57.42 in the semi-final to earn him lane five for the biggest race of his life, next to Australian champion Mitch Larkin and two lanes over from long-time team-mate Casey TigerShark Matson Lawson. Beaver glued himself to Larkin throughout the race, keeping his splits
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