Australia’s next generation of Olympic swimming stars are being led by 15-year-old Ellen Fullerton, who has just broken short-course records set by Stephanie Rice and Brooke Hanson.
Fullerton beat three-time gold medallist Rice’s national 400m individual medley record at the weekend and has now beaten Hanson’s 200m IM record as well, becoming the first Australian woman to win the 100m/200m/400m medley treble at the national short-course titles.
“I can’t believe it. That’s a massive PB (personal best) for me and I’m just so excited,” Fullerton told News Ltd.
“I wasn’t really expecting to swim so fast,” Fullerton told the Courier Mail.
“I had an idea of what the record was because I had seen it in the program, but I had never thought I could actually get it.”
Fullerton had just missed out on trials for the Beijing Olympics, but at this rate the teenager will be leading the charge come the 2012 London Games.