CHAMPIONSHIPS IN AUSTRALIA

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28513, 17 February 1958, Page 10

CHAMPIONSHIPS IN AUSTRALIA

Three World Records Broken (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) MELBOURNE, February 16. Three world and two Australian swimming records were broken at the Australian swimming championships at Melbourne’s Olympic Pool last night. John. Monckton, aged 19, of New South Wales, claimed two more world records when he won the 110 yards backstroke title in Imin o.ssec. He broke the Australian 100 metres record by o.7sec, and the 110 yards world record by l.lsec. Monckton already holds the world record for the 200 metres and 220 yards backstroke. In the final event of the evening the New South Wales medley team set a world record of 4min 19.4 sec for the 4 x 110 yards relay. The team was Monckton, J. Devitt, B. Wilkinson, and T. Gathercole. The time was o.6sec better than the previous record. John Konrads won the men’s 220 yards freestyle, but he failed to beat his own world record of 2min 4.Bsec by o.3sec. Two new Australian records went to 17-year-old Gergania Beckett, of New South Wales, who took 2.ssec off the existing 220 yards backstroke record of 2min 47.65ec, and Allan Kable, of New South Wales, who swam the junior men’s butterfly stroke 110 yards in Imin 7.3sec—--o.9sec better than the previous record.