More swim records
Nineteen further swimming records were broken and three equalled in the final four sessions of the Wharenui winter Olympics on Saturday and yesterday. Most of "the records were set .in the younger agegroups. Five were set by New Zealand representatives. from Wharenui, Grant Forbes. Grant Gillard, Andrew O'Donoghue, and Melanie Jones. Gillard, O Donoghue. Kate Stokes and Dallas Hibbs (New Brighton) each set two new records. Records set and equalled were: Men • Open.—A. O'Donoghue (Wharenui). 100 m freestyle. 56.0 s (old record 56.3); 200 m freestyle. 2:2.1 (2:3.6). G. Gillard (Wharenui). 100 m butterfly. 1:1.3 (1:1.9); 4 x 1 length medley. 1:28.4 (1:28.8). G. Forbes (Wharenui). 100 m breaststroke. 1:9.5 (1:10.5). Wharenui. 4 x 1 length freestyle relay. 1:7.6 (equalled record). 11 years.—S. Ellison (Wharenui). 66 Amt butterfly 50.2
(equalled record). Wharenui, 4 x 1 length freestyle relay. 1:24.6 (1:27.7): Wharenui. 4 x 1 length medley. 1:39.2 (1:43.1). 10 years.—Wharenui. 4 x 1 length medley. 1:47.0 (1:48.1). Nine years—D. Hibbs (New Brighton). 33 'urn butterfly. 24.5 (25.0). 24.3 in final. H. Woolley (New Brighton). 33 Gm breaststroke. 28.9 (equalled record). New Brighton. 4 x 1 length medley relay. 1:54.3 (2:0.7). Eight . years.-C. Penrose (Wharenui), 33 ‘.im backstroke 29.8 (30.8). Seven years—S. Wheeler (New Brighton). 33 Gm breaststroke, 39.6 mew record). Women Open—M. Jones (Wharenui;. 100 m butterfly. 1:9.1 (1:9.2). Nine years.-K. Stokes (New Brighton). 33 Gm butterfly 24.7 (24.9). 24.5 in final. K. Price (Neptune). 33 '.im breaststroke. 29.4 (29.8). Eight ' years.—S. Ellison (Wharenui), 33 '.im breaststroke, 31.3 (31.6). Seven years.—N. Giddon (Wharenui). 33 Gm breaststroke. 47.3 (new record).
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