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Thirty records set in the pool
THE 2007 Marsh National Swimming
championship was held at the Ela Murray International School 25m
pool in the National Capital District saw swimmers set a new
championship record in bagging 30 PNG records over the weekend.
The Ela Murray school pool came alive in what was an exciting
weekend of racing with one hundred and eleven competitors from
the Lae and Boroko Clubs registering 663 individual entries.
Golden swimmer from the Pacific Games Ryan Pini inspired our
athletes to swim with determination to reach their place to
shine as they competed towards achieving excellence in the
competition pool.
As the records tumbled over the four sessions many heartening
moments transpired as our young swimmers in a very competitive
atmosphere set 373 personal best times.
Thirty records were challenged and broken by 15-year-old Judith
Meauri claimed an Open PNG record and an age record in the 100m
Individual Medley 1:13.49 and an age group record in the 50m
freestyle swimming 29.05 both previously held by her.
Her training partner 15-year-old Ian Nakmai claimed two records
for his age group in the 100m individual medley swimming a time
of 1:11.73 and 200m breastroke clocking a time of 2:42.28.
The breastroke record was previously held by Shannon Liew set in
1994 in a time of 2:43.54.
Twenty-year-old Krystle Babao set two senior records, in the
100m Individual Medley 1:15.70 previously held by Dorcas
Emmanuel and the 50m backstroke event swimming a time of 34.31.
The male 4x50 medley relay consisting of swimmers Peter Pokawin,
Nathan Ampa’oi, Jenixon Lim and Arthur Maikin set a new record
in this event swimming a time of 2:10.93.
The previous record was set in 1995 by Ryan Pini, Davan Pat,
Robert Hardman and Ben Wells in a time of 2:13.93. The same team
of four male swimmers took out the record in the Male 4 x 50
Freestyle relay which has been standing since 1988.
 
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