Last chance for swim pair
For the Auckland synchronised swimmers. Anne Breekveldt and Sally-Ann Jenkins the inaugural Canterbury championships at Queen Elizabeth II Park today and tomorrow, will be their last opportunity to qualify for the world championships in West Berlin in August.
The two women will compete in the routines this evening and the figures on Sunday moring before the
The organising committee of the championships is extremely pleased with the response from swimmers. There are 42 entries, including entrants from Auckland, Tauranga, Wellington, Otago and Southland.
Both the routines and figures this evening will be (contested in four classes — open, intermediate, junior and novice. Misses Breekveldt and Jenkins are the two most experienced swimmers in New Zealand. They have competed overseas twice and are on the verge of worldclass performances. Since late last year they have been! training relentlessly in thel hope of competing in the I world championships. If they fail to win selection they will place their j priorities on winning a place in the New Zealand team for the Pan Pacific invitation meeting in Christchurch in November 1979.
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