Seven for Aust, visit

Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32677, 5 August 1971, Page 24

Seven for Aust, visit

Seven swimmers from! the strong Wharenui club will supplement the New Zealand team of six which will compete in the Queensland and Australian winter championships in Brisbane from August 21 to 29. The swimmers, all of whom have met the qualifying times for both championships, are: R. Gray, B Lewis,, M. Trembath. Misses P. Home, J. Tomlinson, L. Rowe, and W. Wakefield. Mr D. W. Cain will be manager, and Mrs B. Rowe the chairman. Misses Tomlinson and Rowe have both bettered the Olympic qualifying time for 800 metres freestyle. The Wharenui and New Zealand teams will travel and stay together while in Australia. Also travelling with the New Zealand team will be a coach who will be appointed today by the national selectors (Messrs A. J. Donaldson, R. Shakespeare and R. M. Webb.) At a New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association council meeting on Tuesday Mr Don-

i aldson said that he had noted i a deficiency in the stroke , technique of some of the ■ swimmers included in the ■ New Zealand team although ! their fitness was not in doubt. In view of what he saw, he suggested a coach be ap- ' pointed to travel with the i team. Mr Donald said too many swimmers were lacking in i stroking and turning techs nique and these had to be : carefully coupled with the ■ conditioning of swimmers.

“Not so long ago we had the stroke technique and no condition. Now we have the opposite in some swimmers,” he added.