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SYDNEY (AFP) — World record holder Liesel Jones confirmed she would not compete at July's World Swimming Championships in Rome despite easily winning the 100m breaststroke at the Australian selection trials here on Saturday.

Jones, who has cut back her training since the Beijing Olympics in order to have a break from the sport, clocked a time of 1:6.10 to hold off fellow Olympian Tarnee White.

The ease of her win combined with the fast time - it would have been enough to win the event at Beijing - has led to increasing pressure for Jones to reconsider her decision to skip Rome.

But she said gaining her diploma from the beauty school she is attending was more important at this stage of her life.

"It is a tough decision to make even filling out a form to say that I am not eligible," she said.

"But I am really committed to beauty school and I do really want to finish it.

"I really want to have that diploma when I finish and I do not want to be left with nothing when I finish just for the sake of doing this team.

"It is hard to commit to give 100 per cent to both, they are both really tiring and both a lot of hard work."

Libby Trickett bounced back from her disappointing 100m butterfly with a comprehensive win in the 50m freestyle in a time of 24.23, with 16-year-old Cate Campbell (24.70) also booking a spot on the team for Rome.

Andrew Lauterstein (51.13) won the 100m butterfly, while Ashley Delaney (53.28) completed the backstroke treble with victory in the 100m ahead of Olympic bronze medallist Hayden Stoeckel (53.98).

Belinda Hocking (2:08.85) produced an impressive effort in taking out the 200m backstroke, Leith Brodie won the men's 200m medley and Bronte Barratt the 400m freesty

from: AFP.