Aussie swimmer McEvoy creates history with sprint "triple crown"

Australia's latest swimming star Cameron McEvoy has completed a perfect Olympic qualifying meet overnight, taking out the 50 meters freestyle event to go with his victories in the 100 and 200 meters freestyle.

On the second last evening of the Australian Swimming Championships in Adelaide, McEvoy did what no Australian has done before by completing the 50-100-200 sprint "triple crown"; he clocked the fastest time of the night with a 21.44 to finish ahead of second-placed Matthew Abood.

Abood's time of 22.08 was good enough to book a spot on the plane to Rio, but 2012 Olympic silver medalist James Magnussen continued his disappointing form; he finished third and yet again missed out on an individual 2016 berth. He will travel to Rio purely as a relay swimmer.

Mitch Larkin backed up his performance in the men's 200m backstroke by blitzing the field in the 50m event as well, while expectation proved too much for Emily Seebohm who finished second in the women's 200m backstroke.

Seebohm, current world champion, finished just 0.1 second behind Belinda Hocking, but both women will head to the Olympic Games having swum the world's two fastest times in the event so far in 2016.

Earlier in the night, Jess Ashwood breezed to an Olympic qualifying time of 8:18:42 in the women's 800m freestyle, while sisters Cate and Bronte Campbell both won their respective semi-finals in the women's 50m freestyle event.

The Australian Swimming Championships concludes in Adelaide on Thursday evening. Endit