Mercury (Hobart)

MOMENTS YOU CAN’T MISS

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Men’s 200m freestyle, 7.56pm

Terrific final. If yesterday morning’s heats play out as expected, Aussies Mack Horton, Kyle Chalmers and Alexander Graham may well need big swims to upset England’s 2015 world champion James Guy and Scotland’s Duncan Scott, teammates on Great Britain’s silver medal-winning 4x200m freestyle relay team at the Rio Olympics.

Men’s S9 100m freestyle, 8.49pm

Australia’s Timothy Diskin and Brenden Hall quinellaed this event at the Rio Paralympic­s and are likely to fight out the major medals again on the Gold Coast.

Men’s 100m backstroke, 9.36pm

Queensland’s former world champion Mitch Larkin looked great in yesterday morning’s heat but this is the real thing. No roof, no markings in the night sky for bearings ... all the backstroke­rs have the issue to deal with. England’s Luke Greenbank is a danger.

Women’s 100m butterfly, 9.51pm

Another shot at gold for medal machine Emma McKeon. This is her silver medal race from last year’s world championsh­ips but she’ll have to deal with the pure speed of Canada’s Penny Oleksiak, the Olympic 100m freestyle champion. Australia’s Maddie Groves was fastest in yesterday’s morning heats.

Men’s 4x100m freestyle relay, 10.07pm

Whatever the line-up, it has been glory-or-bust over the past decade at big meets ... and always riveting viewing. James Magnussen was part of the gold medal relays in Delhi (2010) and Glasgow (2014) and he’s on the blocks again. The Aussies should have a lock on this with Olympic champ Kyle Chalmers on board.

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