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Commonwealth Games gold medalist Moss Burmester showed his class to qualify for the world championships on the final morning of heats at the Absolute Insurance swim trials in Auckland this morning.

Burmester (North Shore) produced a superb solo performance in the heats to clock 1:57.48 at the West Wave Aquatic Centre.

It brings the number of individual qualifiers six plus three relay teams with a further two to be considered by selectors. This could swell the team to 16 with the final session to follow tonight.

Burmester was nearly two seconds inside the qualifying time for Melbourne and only 8/10ths of a second outside his own New Zealand record. It was his third fastest time over the 200m butterfly behind his gold medal performance at the Commonwealth Games and his qualifying time here a year ago when he went under the national record of Anthony Mosse.

Tonight’s programme starting at 6pm includes finals of the men’s 1500m freestyle, women’s 200m breaststroke, men’s 200m butterfly, men’s 50m backstroke, women’s 100m butterfly, men’s 100m breaststroke, women’s 50m backstroke, men’s 100m freestyle, women’s 50m freestyle and men’s 4x100m medley relay.