Top swimmers enter

Press, Volume CXII, Issue 32902, 28 April 1972, Page 20

Top swimmers enter

Four of New Zealand’s six Olympic swimming nominees--J. McConnochie, M. Treffers, and Misses S. J. Hunter and J. Patkhouse will be major attractions at the Wharenui Pool tomorrow evening.

They will be competing in the first winter swimming carnival between Canterbury, Otago and Southland.

Both McConnochie and Miss Hunter will swim in their specialist events, the 400 metres individual medley, Miss Parkhouse will be in the 400 metres freestyle, and Treffers will join McConnochie tn the men’s 400 metres medley. Miss H. Coombridge (Waikato), who is studying in Dunedin, will not be swimming. She recently had an operation and is not yet back in full training. While the main attention will be focused on these four swimmers each centre has a strong team. Other notable competitors are B. Lewis and R. Gray (Canterbury), M. Craig and J. Marston (Otago), Misses J. Tomlinson and L. Rowe (Canterbury), J. Pascoe (Southland), G. Boyens and D. Ledgerwood (Otago).

With such a line-up, and on the general improvement some of them have shown over the last year, it seems likely that at least two national senior and junior short-course records will be broken.

The Munich nominees are unlikely to be in a recordbreaking mood, however, as they have been in hard training, building-up in the hope of final selection.