World champions, a couple out of the water and now Olympic team-mates. The rise and rise of Emily Seebohm and Mitch Larkin has continued with the pair taking out their respective 100m backstrokes in Adelaide to ensure their presence in the Rio pool.
The duo were entered in back-to-back finals at the Australian Championships on Saturday night, with neither being able to be poolside to watch the other's fortunes as they did battle against their prospective Dolphins team-mates. 
Seebohm had the tougher assignment, with FINA World Championship silver medallist Madison Wilson and rising Brisbane teenager Minna Atherton both pressing with qualifying times under the minute mark.
Four years ago, Seebohm might have struggled to deliver under the pressure but as she did in a brilliant run of victories in 2015, kept her stroke together to close it out with a 58.73 swim that ensured she could get the passport ready.
Wilson took the second qualifying spot with a 59.19 just ahead of Atherton, who touched the wall with a 59.46 at just 15 years of age. Her star seems to be well and truly on the rise and she looks poised to deliver at the Gold Coast's Commonwealth Games, if not before.
Seebohm will be the gold medal favourite in this race in Rio and said she still had to overcome a bout of nerves to get through the qualifying process, which many of the athletes here feel is one of the most stressful meets on the calendar.
"I'm happy... I went faster from heat, to semi-final. It was never going to be easy to make this team and it wasn't easy tonight. But I guess I can show that my experience helps a lot," Seebohm said.
"I feel like it should get easier but I swear I get more nervous every year. I was super-nervous going into that. It's hard to keep improving at Australian champs. For me, I need constant racing and that's what helped me last year.
"Coming into this, I had no idea... I really didn't know. Sometimes I think 'Worlds' was just a fluke and it all happened because everything just fell together for me.
"But the thing I took away from that is nobody can make you believe in yourself. You have to be able to do it and that's what I can hold onto."
Larkin had suggested he felt primed to deliver a lightning time in Adelaide and send an early message to some of his potential international rivals in Rio.
He won with a leg in the air but wasn't able to deliver a personal best or threaten Aaron Piersol's supersuit record of 51.94s. Larkin would record a 52.48s, saying there was an element of disappointment but it was largely just mission accomplished.
"My first goal was to come here and qualify for Rio. I can't complain. I'm not sure... I didn't have that easy speed. I'm still happy with it," he said.
"A little bit [disappointing]. When you freshen up and shave down you do want to swim PBs. But I've booked my ticket to Rio so we'll see what happens from there.
"You're not going to nail everything. I don't think anything really went wrong with that swim."
Josh Beaver finished second but wasn't able to post a qualifying time.