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Flynn Southam
Personal information
NationalityAustralian
Born (2005-06-05) 5 June 2005 (age 20)
Murdoch, Western Australia
Sport
SportSwimming
StrokesFreestyle
ClubBond University[1]
CoachChris Mooney[1]
Medal record
Men's swimming
Representing  Australia
Event1st2nd3rd
Olympic Games011
World Championships (LC)302
World Championships (SC)131
Commonwealth Games300
World Junior Championships221
Junior Pan Pac Championships420
Total1385
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place2024 Paris4×100 m freestyle
Bronze medal – third place2024 Paris4x200 m freestyle
World Championships (LC)
Gold medal – first place2023 Fukuoka4×100 m freestyle
Gold medal – first place2023 Fukuoka4×100 m mixed freestyle
Gold medal – first place2025 Singapore4×100 m freestyle
Bronze medal – third place2023 Fukuoka4×200 m freestyle
Bronze medal – third place2025 Singapore4×200 m freestyle
World Championships (SC)
Gold medal – first place2022 Melbourne4×50 m freestyle
Silver medal – second place2022 Melbourne4×100 m freestyle
Silver medal – second place2022 Melbourne4×200 m freestyle
Silver medal – second place2022 Melbourne4×50 m mixed freestyle
Bronze medal – third place2022 Melbourne4×50 m medley
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal – first place2022 Birmingham4×100 m freestyle
Gold medal – first place2022 Birmingham4×200 m freestyle
Gold medal – first place2022 Birmingham4×100 m mixed freestyle
World Junior Championships
Gold medal – first place2023 Netanya200 m freestyle
Gold medal – first place2023 Netanya4×100 m mixed freestyle
Silver medal – second place2023 Netanya50 m freestyle
Silver medal – second place2023 Netanya4×100 m freestyle
Bronze medal – third place2023 Netanya4×200 m freestyle
Junior Pan Pacific Championships
Gold medal – first place2022 Honolulu50 m freestyle
Gold medal – first place2022 Honolulu100 m freestyle
Gold medal – first place2022 Honolulu200 m freestyle
Gold medal – first place2022 Honolulu4×200 m freestyle
Silver medal – second place2022 Honolulu4×100 m freestyle
Silver medal – second place2022 Honolulu4×100 m medley

Flynn Southam (born 5 June 2005) is an Australian swimmer. At the 2022 Junior Pan Pacific Championships, he won gold medals in the 50 metre freestyle, 100 metre freestyle, and 200 metre freestyle. In the 4×100 metre freestyle relay, he won a gold medal at the 2022 Commonwealth Games as well as silver medals at the 2022 Junior Pan Pacific Championships and the 2022 World Short Course Championships, swimming on the finals relay at each competition. In the 4×200 metre freestyle relay, he won gold medals as a finals relay member at the 2022 Commonwealth Games and 2022 Junior Pan Pacific Championships, and a silver medal at the 2022 World Short Course Championships.

Background

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Southam was born 5 June 2005 in Australia.[2][3] He trains at Bond University in Gold Coast, Queensland under the guidance of head coach Chris Mooney.[1]

Career

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2022

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2022 Australian Swimming Championships

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At the 2022 Australian Swimming Championships, held in Adelaide in May, Southam qualified for the 2022 Commonwealth Games in the 4×100 metre freestyle relay, based on his time of 48.76 and third-place finish in the 100 metre freestyle, and the 4×200 metre freestyle relay, based on his fourth-place finish in the 200 metre freestyle with a time of 1:46.82.[4]

2022 Commonwealth Games

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On day one of swimming competition at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, conducted at Sandwell Aquatics Centre in Birmingham, England starting in July, Southam won a gold medal in the 4×100 metre mixed freestyle relay, contributing a split of 49.21 for the first leg of the preliminaries before being substituted out for William Yang in the final.[5][6] The following day, he won a second gold medal, this time leading off the 4×100 metre freestyle relay in the final with a time of 48.54 seconds to help achieve a new Games record time of 3:11.12 with finals relay teammates Zac Incerti, William Yang, and Kyle Chalmers.[7] Two days later, he went three for three in his relay events, helping win the gold medal in the 4×200 metre freestyle relay in a Games record time of 7:04.96 by contributing a split of 1:46.08 for the second leg of the relay in the final.[8] In his final event, the 50 metre freestyle, he placed tenth in the semifinals with a time of 22.60 seconds.[9]

2022 Junior Pan Pacific Championships

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2022 Junior Pan Pac Championships
Gold medal – first place200 m freestyle1:47.11 (CR)
Gold medal – first place100 m freestyle48.23 (CR)
Gold medal – first place4×200 m freestyle7:13.07 (CR)
Gold medal – first place50 m freestyle22.36
Silver medal – second place4×100 m freestyle3:18.06
Silver medal – second place4×100 m medley3:36.96

For the 2022 Junior Pan Pacific Swimming Championships, held at Veterans Memorial Aquatic Center in August in Honolulu, United States, Southam won the gold medal in the 200 metre freestyle with a Championships record of 1:47.11, breaking former record of 1:47.65 set by Drew Kibler in 2018.[10][11][12][13] The following day, he won the gold medal in the 100 metre freestyle with a Championships record time of 48.23 seconds, lowering the former mark of 48.91 established by Jack Cartwright in 2016, and finishing over one full second ahead of silver medalist Thomas Heilman of the United States.[14][15] Later in the finals session, he helped win the gold medal in the 4×200 metre freestyle relay in a Championships record time of 7:13.07, leading off the relay with a time of 1:47.30.[15][16][17] On the third day, he helped win the silver medal in the 4×100 metre freestyle relay in a final time of 3:18.06, leading-off the relay with a 48.43.[11][18]

Starting off the fourth and final day, Southam ranked third in the preliminaries of the 50 metre freestyle with a time of 22.75 seconds and qualified for the final.[11][19] For his first event of the evening finals session, he won the gold medal in the 50 metre freestyle, finishing in a time of 22.36 seconds, which was 0.14 seconds ahead of the two Americans who tied for the silver medal.[11][20] Concluding the Championships, he helped win the silver medal in the 4×100 metre medley relay, splitting a 47.87 for the freestyle leg of the relay to contribute to the final mark of 3:36.96.[11][21][22] Across his individual events, he earned a total of 27 points for his placings, ranking as the second highest scoring male swimmer, only one point behind fellow Australian Joshua Staples.[23]

2022 World Short Course Championships

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2022 World Championships (SC)
Gold medal – first place4×50 m freestyle1:23.44 (OC)
Silver medal – second place4×100 m freestyle3:04.63 (OC)
Silver medal – second place4×50 m mixed freestyle1:28.03 (h)
Silver medal – second place4×200 m freestyle6:46.54 (OC)
Bronze medal – third place4×50 m medley1:30.81 (h)

Southam was named to the Team Australia roster in early September for the 2022 World Short Course Championships in Melbourne, which was a little over two months before the start of competition.[24][25] On the first day of competition, 13 December, he contributed a split time of 46.55 seconds for the second leg of the 4×100 metre freestyle relay in the preliminaries to help qualify the relay to the final ranking fourth with a time of 3:07.02.[26] In the evening final, he helped win the silver medal in an Oceanian, Commonwealth and Australian record time of 3:04.63, leading-off the relay with a personal best time of 47.04.[27] The third morning, he swam the third leg of the 4×50 metre freestyle relay in the preliminaries in 21.08 seconds, which contributed to a time of 1:24.42 that qualified the relay to the final ranking fifth.[28] For the final, he swam a 21.10 for the third leg, helping set new Oceanian, Commonwealth, Australian, and Australian All Comers records of 1:23.44 and win the gold medal.[29]

Leading-off the 4×50 metre mixed freestyle relay in the morning preliminaries on day four with a 22.04, Southam helped qualify the relay to the final ranking second in 1:29.82.[30] Later in the same preliminaries session, he split a 1:42.20 for the second leg of the 4×200 metre freestyle relay to help advance the relay to the final ranked fourth with a time of 6:54.83.[31] On the finals 4×50 metre mixed freestyle relay, Kyle Chalmers substituted in for him and he won a silver medal for his efforts when the relay placed second in 1:28.03.[32] In his second event of the evening, he split a 1:41.50 for the third leg of the 4×200 metre freestyle relay to help win the silver medal in an Oceanian, Commonwealth, and Australian record time of 6:46.54.[33][34] The fifth morning, he helped advance the 4×50 metre medley relay to the final ranking seventh with a time of 1:33.25, swimming a 21.28 for the freestyle leg of the relay.[35] He won a bronze medal in the event when the finals relay placed third in a time of 1:30.81.[36]

2023

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At the 2023 New South Wales State Open Championships in March in Sydney, Southam won the gold medal in the 200 metre freestyle with a 1:47.08, placed fourth in the final of the 100 metre freestyle with a 49.08, eighth in the final of the 50 metre freestyle with a 22.78, and fifth in the 1500 metre freestyle with a 16:01.14.[37][38] The following month, in the preliminaries of the 200 metre freestyle on day two at the 2023 Australian Swimming Championships, he ranked third and qualified for the final with a time of 1:47.53. He won a silver medal in the final with a personal best time of 1:46.67. The following day, he won the bronze medal in the 50 metre freestyle with a personal best time of 22.32 seconds. On the fourth and final day, he won the bronze medal in the 100 metre freestyle with a time of 48.53 seconds before winning the national title in the 4×100 metre freestyle relay, where he split a 47.71 for the anchor leg of the relay to help finish in 3:18.35.[39] Following the Championships, he was named to the Swimming Australia roster for the 2023 World Junior Championships.[40]

For his first event at the 2023 Australian Swimming Trials in June in Melbourne, Southam placed fifth in the final of the 200 metre freestyle with a 1:47.11.[41]

International championships (50 m)

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Meet50 freestyle100 freestyle200 freestyle4×100 freestyle4×200 freestyle4×100 medley4×100 mixed freestyle
Junior level
PACJ 20221st place, gold medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)2nd place, silver medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)2nd place, silver medalist(s)N/a
WJR 20232nd place, silver medalist(s)9th1st place, gold medalist(s)2nd place, silver medalist(s)3rd place, bronze medalist(s)5th1st place, gold medalist(s)
Senior level
CG 202210th1st place, gold medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)[a]
WC 202311th1st place, gold medalist(s)3rd place, bronze medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)
a Southam swam only in the prelims heats.

International championships (25 m)

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Meet4×50 freestyle4×100 freestyle4×200 freestyle4×50 medley4×50 mixed freestyle
SCW 20221st place, gold medalist(s)2nd place, silver medalist(s)2nd place, silver medalist(s)3rd place, bronze medalist(s)[a]2nd place, silver medalist(s)[a]
a Southam swam only in the prelims heats.

Personal best times

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Long course metres (50 m pool)

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EventTimeMeetLocationDateAgeRef
50 m freestyle22.322023 Australian Swimming ChampionshipsGold Coast19 April 202317[39]
100 m freestyle48.232022 Junior Pan Pacific ChampionshipsHonolulu, United States25 August 202217[14]
200 m freestyle1:46.672023 Australian Swimming ChampionshipsGold Coast18 April 202317[39]
50 m backstroke27.062020 McDonald's Queensland ChampionshipsBrisbane16 December 202015[3]
100 m backstroke55.902021 Australian Age Group ChampionshipsGold Coast10 April 202115[3]

Short course metres (50 m pool)

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EventTimeMeetLocationDateAgeRef
50 m freestyle22.292021 Queensland ChampionshipsBrisbane19 September 202116[3]
100 m freestyle47.04r2022 World Short Course ChampionshipsMelbourne13 December 202217[27]
200 m freestyle1:53.562019 State Teams ChampionshipsCanberra6 October 201914[3]
50 m backstroke25.852021 Queensland ChampionshipsBrisbane19 September 202116[3]
100 m backstroke53.622021 Queensland ChampionshipsBrisbane18 September 202116[3]

Legend: r – relay 1st leg

Continental and national records

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Short course metres (25 m pool)

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No.EventTimeMeetLocationDateAgeTypeStatusNotesRef
14×100 m freestyle3:04.632022 World Short Course ChampionshipsMelbourne13 December 202217OC, NRCurrentCR[27]
24×50 m freestyle1:23.442022 World Short Course ChampionshipsMelbourne15 December 202217OC, NR, ACRCurrentCR[29]
34×200 m freestyle6:46.542022 World Short Course ChampionshipsMelbourne16 December 202217OC, NRCurrentCR[33][34]
Legend: OC – Oceanian record; CR – Commonwealth record; NR – Australian record; ACR – Australian All Comers record;
Records not set in finals: h – heat; sf – semifinal; r – relay 1st leg; rh – relay heat 1st leg; b – B final; † – en route to final mark; tt – time trial

Awards and honours

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  • Hancock Prospecting Swimming Excellence scholarship, holder: 2023[38]

References

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    Flynn Southam
    Personal information
    NationalityAustralian
    Born (2005-06-05) 5 June 2005 (age 20)
    Murdoch, Western Australia
    Sport
    SportSwimming
    StrokesFreestyle
    ClubBond University[1]
    CoachChris Mooney[1]
    Medal record
    Men's swimming
    Representing  Australia
    Event1st2nd3rd
    Olympic Games011
    World Championships (LC)302
    World Championships (SC)131
    Commonwealth Games300
    World Junior Championships221
    Junior Pan Pac Championships420
    Total1385
    Olympic Games
    Silver medal – second place2024 Paris4×100 m freestyle
    Bronze medal – third place2024 Paris4x200 m freestyle
    World Championships (LC)
    Gold medal – first place2023 Fukuoka4×100 m freestyle
    Gold medal – first place2023 Fukuoka4×100 m mixed freestyle
    Gold medal – first place2025 Singapore4×100 m freestyle
    Bronze medal – third place2023 Fukuoka4×200 m freestyle
    Bronze medal – third place2025 Singapore4×200 m freestyle
    World Championships (SC)
    Gold medal – first place2022 Melbourne4×50 m freestyle
    Silver medal – second place2022 Melbourne4×100 m freestyle
    Silver medal – second place2022 Melbourne4×200 m freestyle
    Silver medal – second place2022 Melbourne4×50 m mixed freestyle
    Bronze medal – third place2022 Melbourne4×50 m medley
    Commonwealth Games
    Gold medal – first place2022 Birmingham4×100 m freestyle
    Gold medal – first place2022 Birmingham4×200 m freestyle
    Gold medal – first place2022 Birmingham4×100 m mixed freestyle
    World Junior Championships
    Gold medal – first place2023 Netanya200 m freestyle
    Gold medal – first place2023 Netanya4×100 m mixed freestyle
    Silver medal – second place2023 Netanya50 m freestyle
    Silver medal – second place2023 Netanya4×100 m freestyle
    Bronze medal – third place2023 Netanya4×200 m freestyle
    Junior Pan Pacific Championships
    Gold medal – first place2022 Honolulu50 m freestyle
    Gold medal – first place2022 Honolulu100 m freestyle
    Gold medal – first place2022 Honolulu200 m freestyle
    Gold medal – first place2022 Honolulu4×200 m freestyle
    Silver medal – second place2022 Honolulu4×100 m freestyle
    Silver medal – second place2022 Honolulu4×100 m medley

    Flynn Southam (born 5 June 2005) is an Australian swimmer. At the 2022 Junior Pan Pacific Championships, he won gold medals in the 50 metre freestyle, 100 metre freestyle, and 200 metre freestyle. In the 4×100 metre freestyle relay, he won a gold medal at the 2022 Commonwealth Games as well as silver medals at the 2022 Junior Pan Pacific Championships and the 2022 World Short Course Championships, swimming on the finals relay at each competition. In the 4×200 metre freestyle relay, he won gold medals as a finals relay member at the 2022 Commonwealth Games and 2022 Junior Pan Pacific Championships, and a silver medal at the 2022 World Short Course Championships.

    Background

    Southam was born 5 June 2005 in Australia.[2][3] He trains at Bond University in Gold Coast, Queensland under the guidance of head coach Chris Mooney.[1]

    Career

    2022

    2022 Australian Swimming Championships

    At the 2022 Australian Swimming Championships, held in Adelaide in May, Southam qualified for the 2022 Commonwealth Games in the 4×100 metre freestyle relay, based on his time of 48.76 and third-place finish in the 100 metre freestyle, and the 4×200 metre freestyle relay, based on his fourth-place finish in the 200 metre freestyle with a time of 1:46.82.[4]

    2022 Commonwealth Games

    On day one of swimming competition at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, conducted at Sandwell Aquatics Centre in Birmingham, England starting in July, Southam won a gold medal in the 4×100 metre mixed freestyle relay, contributing a split of 49.21 for the first leg of the preliminaries before being substituted out for William Yang in the final.[5][6] The following day, he won a second gold medal, this time leading off the 4×100 metre freestyle relay in the final with a time of 48.54 seconds to help achieve a new Games record time of 3:11.12 with finals relay teammates Zac Incerti, William Yang, and Kyle Chalmers.[7] Two days later, he went three for three in his relay events, helping win the gold medal in the 4×200 metre freestyle relay in a Games record time of 7:04.96 by contributing a split of 1:46.08 for the second leg of the relay in the final.[8] In his final event, the 50 metre freestyle, he placed tenth in the semifinals with a time of 22.60 seconds.[9]

    2022 Junior Pan Pacific Championships

    2022 Junior Pan Pac Championships
    Gold medal – first place200 m freestyle1:47.11 (CR)
    Gold medal – first place100 m freestyle48.23 (CR)
    Gold medal – first place4×200 m freestyle7:13.07 (CR)
    Gold medal – first place50 m freestyle22.36
    Silver medal – second place4×100 m freestyle3:18.06
    Silver medal – second place4×100 m medley3:36.96

    For the 2022 Junior Pan Pacific Swimming Championships, held at Veterans Memorial Aquatic Center in August in Honolulu, United States, Southam won the gold medal in the 200 metre freestyle with a Championships record of 1:47.11, breaking former record of 1:47.65 set by Drew Kibler in 2018.[10][11][12][13] The following day, he won the gold medal in the 100 metre freestyle with a Championships record time of 48.23 seconds, lowering the former mark of 48.91 established by Jack Cartwright in 2016, and finishing over one full second ahead of silver medalist Thomas Heilman of the United States.[14][15] Later in the finals session, he helped win the gold medal in the 4×200 metre freestyle relay in a Championships record time of 7:13.07, leading off the relay with a time of 1:47.30.[15][16][17] On the third day, he helped win the silver medal in the 4×100 metre freestyle relay in a final time of 3:18.06, leading-off the relay with a 48.43.[11][18]

    Starting off the fourth and final day, Southam ranked third in the preliminaries of the 50 metre freestyle with a time of 22.75 seconds and qualified for the final.[11][19] For his first event of the evening finals session, he won the gold medal in the 50 metre freestyle, finishing in a time of 22.36 seconds, which was 0.14 seconds ahead of the two Americans who tied for the silver medal.[11][20] Concluding the Championships, he helped win the silver medal in the 4×100 metre medley relay, splitting a 47.87 for the freestyle leg of the relay to contribute to the final mark of 3:36.96.[11][21][22] Across his individual events, he earned a total of 27 points for his placings, ranking as the second highest scoring male swimmer, only one point behind fellow Australian Joshua Staples.[23]

    2022 World Short Course Championships

    2022 World Championships (SC)
    Gold medal – first place4×50 m freestyle1:23.44 (OC)
    Silver medal – second place4×100 m freestyle3:04.63 (OC)
    Silver medal – second place4×50 m mixed freestyle1:28.03 (h)
    Silver medal – second place4×200 m freestyle6:46.54 (OC)
    Bronze medal – third place4×50 m medley1:30.81 (h)

    Southam was named to the Team Australia roster in early September for the 2022 World Short Course Championships in Melbourne, which was a little over two months before the start of competition.[24][25] On the first day of competition, 13 December, he contributed a split time of 46.55 seconds for the second leg of the 4×100 metre freestyle relay in the preliminaries to help qualify the relay to the final ranking fourth with a time of 3:07.02.[26] In the evening final, he helped win the silver medal in an Oceanian, Commonwealth and Australian record time of 3:04.63, leading-off the relay with a personal best time of 47.04.[27] The third morning, he swam the third leg of the 4×50 metre freestyle relay in the preliminaries in 21.08 seconds, which contributed to a time of 1:24.42 that qualified the relay to the final ranking fifth.[28] For the final, he swam a 21.10 for the third leg, helping set new Oceanian, Commonwealth, Australian, and Australian All Comers records of 1:23.44 and win the gold medal.[29]

    Leading-off the 4×50 metre mixed freestyle relay in the morning preliminaries on day four with a 22.04, Southam helped qualify the relay to the final ranking second in 1:29.82.[30] Later in the same preliminaries session, he split a 1:42.20 for the second leg of the 4×200 metre freestyle relay to help advance the relay to the final ranked fourth with a time of 6:54.83.[31] On the finals 4×50 metre mixed freestyle relay, Kyle Chalmers substituted in for him and he won a silver medal for his efforts when the relay placed second in 1:28.03.[32] In his second event of the evening, he split a 1:41.50 for the third leg of the 4×200 metre freestyle relay to help win the silver medal in an Oceanian, Commonwealth, and Australian record time of 6:46.54.[33][34] The fifth morning, he helped advance the 4×50 metre medley relay to the final ranking seventh with a time of 1:33.25, swimming a 21.28 for the freestyle leg of the relay.[35] He won a bronze medal in the event when the finals relay placed third in a time of 1:30.81.[36]

    2023

    At the 2023 New South Wales State Open Championships in March in Sydney, Southam won the gold medal in the 200 metre freestyle with a 1:47.08, placed fourth in the final of the 100 metre freestyle with a 49.08, eighth in the final of the 50 metre freestyle with a 22.78, and fifth in the 1500 metre freestyle with a 16:01.14.[37][38] The following month, in the preliminaries of the 200 metre freestyle on day two at the 2023 Australian Swimming Championships, he ranked third and qualified for the final with a time of 1:47.53. He won a silver medal in the final with a personal best time of 1:46.67. The following day, he won the bronze medal in the 50 metre freestyle with a personal best time of 22.32 seconds. On the fourth and final day, he won the bronze medal in the 100 metre freestyle with a time of 48.53 seconds before winning the national title in the 4×100 metre freestyle relay, where he split a 47.71 for the anchor leg of the relay to help finish in 3:18.35.[39] Following the Championships, he was named to the Swimming Australia roster for the 2023 World Junior Championships.[40]

    For his first event at the 2023 Australian Swimming Trials in June in Melbourne, Southam placed fifth in the final of the 200 metre freestyle with a 1:47.11.[41]

    International championships (50 m)

    Meet50 freestyle100 freestyle200 freestyle4×100 freestyle4×200 freestyle4×100 medley4×100 mixed freestyle
    Junior level
    PACJ 20221st place, gold medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)2nd place, silver medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)2nd place, silver medalist(s)N/a
    WJR 20232nd place, silver medalist(s)9th1st place, gold medalist(s)2nd place, silver medalist(s)3rd place, bronze medalist(s)5th1st place, gold medalist(s)
    Senior level
    CG 202210th1st place, gold medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)[a]
    WC 202311th1st place, gold medalist(s)3rd place, bronze medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)
    a Southam swam only in the prelims heats.

    International championships (25 m)

    Meet4×50 freestyle4×100 freestyle4×200 freestyle4×50 medley4×50 mixed freestyle
    SCW 20221st place, gold medalist(s)2nd place, silver medalist(s)2nd place, silver medalist(s)3rd place, bronze medalist(s)[a]2nd place, silver medalist(s)[a]
    a Southam swam only in the prelims heats.

    Personal best times

    Long course metres (50 m pool)

    EventTimeMeetLocationDateAgeRef
    50 m freestyle22.322023 Australian Swimming ChampionshipsGold Coast19 April 202317[39]
    100 m freestyle48.232022 Junior Pan Pacific ChampionshipsHonolulu, United States25 August 202217[14]
    200 m freestyle1:46.672023 Australian Swimming ChampionshipsGold Coast18 April 202317[39]
    50 m backstroke27.062020 McDonald's Queensland ChampionshipsBrisbane16 December 202015[3]
    100 m backstroke55.902021 Australian Age Group ChampionshipsGold Coast10 April 202115[3]

    Short course metres (50 m pool)

    EventTimeMeetLocationDateAgeRef
    50 m freestyle22.292021 Queensland ChampionshipsBrisbane19 September 202116[3]
    100 m freestyle47.04r2022 World Short Course ChampionshipsMelbourne13 December 202217[27]
    200 m freestyle1:53.562019 State Teams ChampionshipsCanberra6 October 201914[3]
    50 m backstroke25.852021 Queensland ChampionshipsBrisbane19 September 202116[3]
    100 m backstroke53.622021 Queensland ChampionshipsBrisbane18 September 202116[3]

    Legend: r – relay 1st leg

    Continental and national records

    Short course metres (25 m pool)

    No.EventTimeMeetLocationDateAgeTypeStatusNotesRef
    14×100 m freestyle3:04.632022 World Short Course ChampionshipsMelbourne13 December 202217OC, NRCurrentCR[27]
    24×50 m freestyle1:23.442022 World Short Course ChampionshipsMelbourne15 December 202217OC, NR, ACRCurrentCR[29]
    34×200 m freestyle6:46.542022 World Short Course ChampionshipsMelbourne16 December 202217OC, NRCurrentCR[33][34]
    Legend: OC – Oceanian record; CR – Commonwealth record; NR – Australian record; ACR – Australian All Comers record;
    Records not set in finals: h – heat; sf – semifinal; r – relay 1st leg; rh – relay heat 1st leg; b – B final; † – en route to final mark; tt – time trial

    Awards and honours

    • Hancock Prospecting Swimming Excellence scholarship, holder: 2023[38]

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