Loss to Canty swimming

Press, 28 November 1979, Page 40

Loss to Canty swimming

By KEVIN TUTTY |1 • i Two of the three Binning sisters who are featuring! strongly in their respective!' age-groups in Canterbury)] swimming, will leave Christ-'] church at the end of tla school year to live in Aus-j traiia. j ] But there is some good i news among the bad for the 1 Wharenui club, and Canter- 1 bury. The two younger sis-it ters, Lisa and Kiri, will i leave with their parents fori Sydney next month, but 1 Rickie, a New Zealand rep-jl resentative, will stay inii Christchurch in an attempt t

ito qualify for the Moscow, | Olympics. i Even if Rickie does not qualify, she will probably rejmain in Christchurch until I the end of next year, said her mother, Mrs Maxine 1 Binning, yesterday. “By the time the final I Olympic trial is held in May (Rickie will be half-way through her university entrance year at Burnside High School.’ We would like her 1 I to stay and complete the! 'school year,” she said. p i When the Binnings leave i for Australia in a few weeks i (Rickie will travel with them : (for a short break before re-: turning to Christchurch to,!

, concentrate on her training] schedule for the New Zea-! land championships in Dune- { din in March. “Rickie is keen to swimj for New Zealand at Moscow) if she qualifies and we would like her to stay here i to complete her prepara- : tion,” said Mrs Binning. i However, Rickie may not swim for New Zealand at; the 1982 Commonwealth i Games in Brisbane. If she j leaves New Zealand at the i end of next year she will i easily meet the residential t qualification of six months 1 required before she can i swim for Australia. The 1 .Brisbane games are in Sep-1

(tember-October of 1982. . { The holder of New Zeai land women’s breaststroke (records, Rickie, who will be (16 in April has to reduce (her 100 m time by 2.05, and 200 m time by 3.3 s this summer to achieve the target times set by the swimming' selectors. Her younger sisters, Lisa and Kiri, were both prominent in the Speedo teleprinter age-group preliminaries last week-end. Lisa won four events and Kiri) three and both are sure to] be prominent in the national! finals on December 8 — the last carnival in New Zealand! for both girls.