Australia’s Leisel Jones and Libby Trickett set new shortcourse world records at a Grant Prix meet in Canberra on Saturday.
Jones clocked one minute, 3.72 seconds in the 100 metres breaststroke to shave 0.14 off her own existing mark set at the Australian championships in Hobart in 2006.
Moments later, Trickett clocked 55.74 seconds in the 100 metres butterfly to cut 0.15 off the mark set earlier this month by compatriot Felicity Galvez at the World Shortcourse Championships in Manchester.
The nation’s Olympic swimming team is competing at the meet following a week-long training camp at the Australian Institute of Sport.
Organisers scheduled finals for the morning to give competitors a chance to experience similar conditions to those expected at the Beijing Olympics.
Jones said she had enjoyed the opportunity to try out the morning finals format.
“Morning finals can be difficult if you think of them that way but we have made ourselves aware that it is the morning finals and practised it to be that way," Jones said.
Trickett said the timing of the finals would not be a problem at the Olympics in August.
