Cate Campbell scorches opposition to win national 100m freestyle championship Cate Campbell hugs her sister Bronte after winning the Women's 100 metre freestyle title. CATE Campbell's swimming career has been filled with more nightmares than most, but last night her wildest dreams finally came true. The Olympic relay gold medallist welcomed her younger sister Bronte onto the all-conquering 4x100m freestyle team after the Brisbane siblings dominated the national 100m final. Cate surged well ahead to win in 52.92 seconds, a time which would have won last years Olympic gold medal. Bronte, 18, was second in 53.85s and finally gets to race with her big sister having shed tears of joy in the London grandstand last year as Australia claimed its only gold of the pool. "The reward is all that sweeter, I'm on the team to Spain and I've got my sister on the seat next to me," Cate Campbell said. That is absolutely the best scenario. I was just hoping to possibly have her on a relay team with me. To have her as an individual swimmer with me is just beyond my wildest dreams. Bronte said (to me after the race) I can't believe it and she is not often lost for words. That was a pretty big moment. Campbell is the fastest women in the world this year and will head to the Barcelona world titles as raging favourite to become world champion. It's been a long road for both women to this point, more so for Cate who has endured two hip operations, glandular fever, post-viral fatigue and pancreatitis in her short career. What started as a "feeling of glass in her stomach" ended with pancreatitis in London and then she compounded her horror end to the Olympics by breaking her hand in a pool side fall. Sally Foster celebrates winning the women's 200m breastroke final. "So you know what I think that I'm due for a bit of luck," she said. I think that my father will try and bubble wrap me. Bronte has had her own troubles, rushed to hospital in Manchester last year with fears she had deep vein thrombosis before scans revealed a torn calf muscle. Their coach Simon Cusack said it was like they were a "two-for-one" act, riding the highs and lows at identical times. "Yeah it seems to be that were sort of attached on parallel train tracks and follow the same course pretty much," Bronte said. Cusack, who believes Cate would have swum this fast in London last year, said 2013 might finally be the season where the world gets to see his sprint star deliver on her potential. "One would think so, if she can stay healthy for the next 12 weeks," Cusack said."One thing I've learnt coaching Cate for 11 years is you never count your chickens until they've actually hatched. She is supremely talented and hard working girl, but she has probably been let down a bit with bad luck in the past and ill health. In other finals last night Melbourne's Matson Lawson (1:56.59) narrowly held out Brisbane's Mitch Larkin (1:56.79) in the 200m backstroke final as both booked their tickets to Spain. Winner of the men's 200m backstroke final Matson Lawson. Adelaide's Sally Foster posted the second fastest time in Australian history winning the 200m breaststroke in 2:23.94, while Brisbane's Buster Sykes won the men's event in 2:13.25 but did not reach the qualifying time for the world titles team. Meanwhile Matt Targett will be the man to beat in tonight's 50m freestyle final, qualifying fastest in 21.92s ahead of Matt Abood (21.98s), Andrew Abood (22.04s) and James Magnussen (22.06s).