Times augur well for Speedo swims

Press, Volume CXV, Issue 34008, 24 November 1975, Page 3

Times augur well for Speedo swims

Eight Canterbury! records at an inter-club i swimming carnival at I Queen Elizabeth 11 Park on Saturday augur well, for Canterbury in the national Speedo teleprinter age-group pre-: liminaries next Saturjday. I The records were shared, [between four swimmers, but! there were others who pro-! duced personal best times landjshould repeat or better them next week-end. Tracy Turnbull broke four! imore records on Saturday toi , take her tally to eight in I four weeks. In the 100 m breaststroke she recorded Imin 21.25ec,. which bettered the previous! marks in the junior, 12, and’ 113 years age-groups. The 12 i years time was her own at j Imin 22.95ec, while the othet two were Wendy Wake-, field's, both at Imin 22.55ec.; In the same heat Miss Turnbull had one of her own! records broken. Ricki Bin- '

■fning (Wharenui) broke the 11 : i: years girls’ mark with a time of Imin 22.1 sec, 2sec faster, than Miss Turnbull’s record. i Later Miss Turnbull' l.slashed 3.2 sec off the girls’ ,12 years 200 m individual medley record. Her time beat Trudi Garland's old; ■(mark, and was also inside' ■ithe qualifying time set for! this season’s national open championships. David Clarke (North:

(Beach), who broke the junior boys’ 100 m freestyle record "two weeks ago. broke it ’ again on Saturday in the first ■ leg of the 4 x 100 m freestyle relay. His time of 58.6 sec ■ chopped a substantial I.3sec ■‘off the old mark, and beat ithe qualifying mark for the national championships. Miss Binning broke a .second record in the 100 m backstroke. She did Imin |l7sec. which bettered by 0.6 isec Denise Head's previous ;girls' 11 years record. The other record was ‘broken by Miss Head in the ■2oom freestyle. She took LI : sec off Janice Murdoch’s old [girls’ 12 years record with a 'time of 2min 25.Isec.