Kai Taylor has the chance to emulate his swim-great mother Hayley Lewis after booking his ticket to the world championships in Japan with victory in the men's 200m freestyle at the trials in Melbourne.
Like his mother, who won the same event as a teenager at the 1991 world titles in Perth, the 19-year-old Taylor took gold from lane eight after he initially missed qualifying for the final.
In the Perth race, a then 16-year-old Hayley swam in the outside lane to beat American great Janet Evans for gold.
On Wednesday, Taylor was gifted a spot in the final when Kyle Chalmers withdrew to concentrate on the rest of his program.
He made the most of his chance to lead at every turn to touch home in one minute 46.25 seconds.
The youngster, who won the event at the national titles in April, admitted he was in tears after initially misjudging his heat to finish ninth fastest.
But he was thrilled with his performance in the final.
"Fortunately Kyle pulled out which got me an eighth spot and that took the pressure off me a little bit after my win at nationals," Taylor said.
"It meant the world to me that he pulled out and I will definitely be sending him a message."
His triple Olympian mother watched from the stands and gave her son some advice before the race.
"Even though she's a legend of the sport she just wants me to be happy," Taylor said.
"She told me to do my thing, be calm, but she did however mention that great things happen from lane eight."
In other results on Wednesday night, Olympic champion Kaylee McKeown posted the third fastest time in history in the 100m backstroke final.
McKeown stormed home in 57.50, just 0.50 seconds off her own world mark of 57.45.
Mollie O'Callaghan was second in 58.42, both well inside Swimming Australia's qualifying time for Fukuoka of 59.99.
Isaac Cooper revealed he was "almost in tears" before the final of the men's 100m butterfly after drastically overhauling his training program and cutting back his kilometres in the pool.
The 19-year-old said he had swapped laps for mixed martial arts, tennis and surfing but still managed his fastest time in 15 months.
Tokyo Olympian Cooper touched in 53.46 - just outside the qualifying mark of 53 seconds but will still be on the plane to Japan.
"The last few weeks have been stressful for me as I made a very drastic change to my program," the 19-year-old Queenslander said.
"For the last three months I started doing MMA, tennis and I've been surfing three to four times a week and using those as training sessions.
"Leading into this comp I was nervous to see what my results would be."
