That’s being put to the test at the moment, ‘ Cate said.
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The Malawi-born swimmers – who moved to Australia from Africa in 2001 – became the first sisters to make Australia’s Olympic swimming team since 1972.
Campbell’s younger sister Bronte, the reigning world champion, had been second at the turn but finished just outside the medals in fourth with a time of 53.04.
At 24, Cate is two years older than her sister, and has already recorded great achievements in 2016.
Americans Simone Manuel and Abbey Weitzel also qualified for the semifinals, with Manuel recording the second-fastest preliminary time behind Campbell.
“We both gave it our best and I have no regrets. I’m not going to predict I’ll go faster in the final but I was definitely having a look, seeing where I was and making sure I got through”, Bronte said. Obviously you want the result to be different but in terms of the fact we just went and laid everything we have out there I don’t think either of us have anything to be ashamed of’.
In 2012 Cate was favourite again and after winning gold in the women’s 4x100m freestyle relay, the Simon Cusack coached star got sick before her individual event and was unable to compete.
After breaking the Olympic record in the heats and then lowering it again in the semi-finals, Cate Campbell, who is also the current World Record holder in the event (52.06), will go into the women’s final as the one to beat.
The shock placings for the Australian sisters came after compatriot Larkin earlier won silver. “I knew like I said last night that the back end of the races is where the medals can be won and I think Murphy had a good back end and so did the Russian, so to hold on for silver I was pretty happy”. “Going into tonight to be honest all I wanted was to stand on the podium”.
Australia remains fourth on the medals table with five gold after six days of competition.
Her sister Bronte was much more upbeat however, and was content to be swimming with her sister in an Olympic final.
Another impressive swim was that of Manuel’s; her time of 53.32 was the second fastest of the heats.
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“Even in that race I let my head get ahead of me and that’s not something that I should do and it is something that I’ve been working on hard to not do”.
