Good efforts in swimming

Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33932, 27 August 1975, Page 12

Good efforts in swimming

Although only Lynne Rowe (twice) and Martin Tuohy, a little unexpectedly in the 400 m individual medley, were Canterbury winners of gold medals at the winter national swimming championships at the week-end, there were a number of other fine performances. With Gordon Dinnison not arriving in Auckland for the championships, it was a very young side with only Miss Rowe and Brent Lewis experienced competitors. However, the youngsters responded extremely well, with some of the best per-

formances coming from the junior boys.

David Clarke, who recently set a provincial 100 m long-course record, though he still has a year in the grade, took the short-course record as well with a time of 58.5 sec, half a second better than Roy Gray’s old time. His North Beach club-mate, Phillip Kirkpatrick, also improved by about a second in the same event with his 60.1 sec.

Michael Smith twice broke the 200 m butterfly record of Mark Trembath, finally by about 2sec, Two of the best performances were by the 12-year-old Tracey Turnbull, who went a shade over Imin 23sec in the 100 m breaststroke, and Marie Bishop (13), who did the 100 m butterfly in Imin Msec, both of them Canterbury short-course records. So was Lewis’s 100 m breastroke time of Imin 13.5 sec. when pushing Roman Novak to a national record, although it was comfortably outside Lewis’s best long-course time of Imin 12.7 sec.