Absolute Insurance Youth & Open Swim – Day 3 Heats
5th April 2007
Absolute Insurance Youth & Open Swim – Day 3 Heats
North Shore swimmer Corney Swanepoel continued the record run on the third night at the Absolute Insurance Youth and Open Championships in Christchurch tonight.
The swimmers from the world championships continued to lead the way with Swanepoel going under his own New Zealand record at the QE2 Aquatic Centre.
The 21 year old clocked 27.74s in the heats of the 50m butterfly to slip under his own mark set last year by 2/100ths of a second. He will swim in the preliminary finals tomorrow with the open final on Saturday.
Fellow world championship swimmers just back from Melbourne were again prominent with Melissa Ingram fastest in heats of the 200m backstroke and her North Shore clubmate Dean Kent predictably in a class of his own in the 200m individual medley.
Dunedin’s Bryn Murphy was the top qualifier in the 400m freestyle ahead of the world championship trio of Moss Burmester, Robert Voss and Andrew McMillan.
Two teenagers also shone again with Southland’s Natalie Wiegersma fastest in heats of the 200m butterfly and Manawatu’s Cara Baker, with two titles already under her belt, edged ahead of Helen Norfolk in the heats of the 400m freestyle.
The championships continue until Sunday.
Full results: www.swimmingnz.org.nz Open final video footage at the infonews website
