The 2008 Telstra

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were held at the

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in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia from 22–29 March 2008. The championships were used as the Australian trials for the 2008 Olympic Games squad. Like all previous Australian swimming trials, the championships program mirrored the 2008 Olympic swimming program with the addition of the non-Olympic events – 50 m backstroke, breaststroke and butterfly; 800 m freestyle (men) and 1500 m freestyle (women).

Results

Highlighted swimmers achieved the qualification conditions to be included in the Olympic team in that respective event.

Men's events

Women's events

Olympic team news

Due to strong performances, two additional members were added to the Australian Olympic swim team: Nick Ffrost and

Felicity Galvez Felicity Madeline Galvez, OAM (born 4 March 1985) is an Australian swimmer and two-time Olympic gold medalist. She was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder.Andrew Mewing Andrew Mewing (born 1981) is a former national-team swimmer from Australia. He is also a past Executive member of the Australian Swimmers Association. He swam for Australia at: *Commonwealth Games: 2006, *World Championships: 2005, 2007 * Pan P ...

appealing his non-selection after finishing 8th with an A qualifying time, whilst Galvez was selected via a B qualifying time, that ranked her 9th in the 200 m freestyle. Mewing lost his appeal with the

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. Adam Lucas finished second in both the 200 m and 400 m individual medley events, but was not selected because he swam a B qualifying time, rather than an A qualifying time. These are the only events on the Australian roster that remain without a second qualifier.

Melissa Gorman Melissa Anne Gorman (born 11 December 1985) is an Australian long-distance swimmer who specialises in long-distance freestyle and open-water events. Career At the 2006 Commonwealth Games, Gorman won a silver medal in the 800 m freestyle. At ...

failed to meet the qualification time for the 800 m freestyle at the championships themselves, however was included in the team to swim this event after qualifying for the 10 km marathon swimming event. During the early hours of 30 March 2008,

Nick D'Arcy Nicholas James D'Arcy (born 23 July 1987) is a retired national-record holding butterfly swimmer from Australia. He was removed from Australia's 2008 Olympic team due to a violent altercation that happened shortly after the Australian Olympi ...

was involved in an altercation with a fellow

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swimmer,

Simon Cowley Simon Cowley (born 4 October 1980) is a former Australian breaststroke swimmer. In March 2008, he was assaulted by Nick D'Arcy at a pub in Sydney. See also * List of Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming (men) This is the complete l ...

. Cowley was a winner of three gold medals at the

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. D'Arcy is now facing possible expulsion from the 2008 Olympic team. In his own decision, D'Arcy withdrew from the upcoming 2008 World Short Course Championships. He has been charged with assault occasioning grievous bodily harm.

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