SYDNEY, June 29 (Reuters) - Three-times Olympic champion Libby Trickett failed to clinch a place in Australia’s world championship relay team on her competitive return from retirement in Adelaide on Wednesday.
The 26-year-old ended her short retirement last September but was unable to compete at the main Australian trials in early April because she needed to be registered for dope testing for nine months.
Given an extra chance in the race-off for a place on the 4x100 metre freestyle relay team, Trickett swam a time of 55.68 seconds in her first race in nearly two years.
That was only was only good enough for sixth place behind 50m butterfly world champion Marieke Guehrer, who clinched the spot at the July 19-31 world championships in Shanghai in 54.29.
Trickett, who raced under her maiden name of Lenton before marrying in 2007, won one Olympic gold at Athens in 2004 and two at Beijing as well as eight world championship titles, including a record five in Melbourne in 2007.
The 26-year-old ended her short retirement last September but was unable to compete at the main Australian trials in early April because she needed to be registered for dope testing for nine months.
Given an extra chance in the race-off for a place on the 4x100 metre freestyle relay team, Trickett swam a time of 55.68 seconds in her first race in nearly two years.
That was only was only good enough for sixth place behind 50m butterfly world champion Marieke Guehrer, who clinched the spot at the July 19-31 world championships in Shanghai in 54.29.
Trickett, who raced under her maiden name of Lenton before marrying in 2007, won one Olympic gold at Athens in 2004 and two at Beijing as well as eight world championship titles, including a record five in Melbourne in 2007.
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