The Gillieston Heights 18-year-old has made the national team for the S8 women’s 100 metres freestyle, which she won in both 2013 and 2015. 

The NU Swim club member, who has cerebral palsy, qualified with a time of one minute and 6.29 seconds at the Australian Swimming Championships in Brisbane on Sunday night.

She finished third in the multi-class final behind Lakeisha Patterson and Rachael Watson based on a points system, but was selected in her particular category.

Elliott holds the world record (1:04.73) for the S8 women’s 100m freestyle, set defending her crown at the World Championships in Glasgow two years ago.

The talented teenager first won the same event two years earlier in Montreal.

She has collected 10 medals in her two previous World Championships, with six of them gold.

Australia’s youngest Paralympic medalist, aged 13 at the time, has picked up nine medals from her two Games appearances in London (2012) and Rio (2016).

Elliott set the S8 women’s 50m freestyle world record (29.73s) at last year’s Paralympics.

She continues her campaign at the Australian Swimming Championships in Brisbane this week with the 400m freestyle, 100m butterfly, 50m freestyle, 200m individual medley and 100m backstroke. All of them are multi-class events. The national meet wraps up Thursday.

Meanwhile, Newcastle-raised Thomas Fraser-Holmes has not entered any races at this current carnival, which falls one year out from the 2018 Commonwealth Games. The 25-year-old recently switched Gold Coast clubs from Miami to Bond University.