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More swim medals
By HENRY MORABANG
BOROKO Swimming club
picked up four medals – two silver and two bronze at the
Brisbane Spring Sprint Long Course competition last Saturday at
the Chandler Pool Complex.
Barbara Leana-Vali and Stanford
Gore won the silver medals in their respective events 100m
women’s breastroke and the 50m men’s butterfly swim in the
11-year-old age group.
Nine-year old Riley Albrecht won two bronze in 50m backstroke in
the field of 36 swimmers and also 50m butterfly to set a new
personal best time of 41.57.
In the 11-year old group, Leana-Vali swam a personal best time
of 1:29.22 and Gore hit the wall in a personal best time of
33.54 to receive a silver medal placing.
There were many more pleasing moments with eight-year-old
Shanice Paraka swimming a personal best time in her 50 freestyle
event 40.09 coming in as 7th fastest competitor out of 39
competitors.
In her 50m backstroke event Paraka swam a personal best time of
45.10 ranking her the 4th fastest out of 36 swimmers. She also
competed in the 50m breastroke 1:01.80 and 50m butterfly 53.63.
Nine-year-old Michelle Gore, sister to silver medallist Stanford
Gore swam a personal best time in the 50m freestyle 45.35, 50m
backstroke 50.88 and the 50m butterfly 49.83.
Tem-year-old Elizabeth Witham swam 38.72 in her 50m freestyle
event, 48.27 in her 50m backstroke event and 51.92 in the girls
10-year-old 50m breastroke event. In her 100m breastroke Witham
swam 1:53.26 and a personal best time of 46.12 in the 50m
butterfly.
Eleven-year-old Leana-Vali after receiving her silver medal in
the 100m breastroke swam in the 50m freestyle event swimming a
personal best time of 32.88 while team mate Victoria Allen swam
34.72, also a personal best time. 100m Freestyle saw both girls
swim, Leana-Vali 1:14.09 and Allen 1:19.33.
In the female 11-year-old 50m backstroke Allen swam a 42.10
while in the 50m Breastroke event Leana-Vali swam into fourth
place stopping the clock at 41.83 in what was an exciting race
with only 0.56 hundredths of a second separating 2nd and 4th
place. Leana-Vali then went on to swim the 50m butterfly,
stopping the clock in a time of 38.48.
Our young male swimmers also swam personal best times with
nine-year-old Sankalp Gosalia stopping the clock in the 50m
freestyle 48.61 and the 50m backstroke 53.64.
In the 11-year-old age group 50m freestyle Stanford Gore swam a
personal best time of 32.24 ranking him 11th fastest in a field
of 48 swimmers. Ishan Guru swam a personal best time of 36.70
alongside fellow team mate Zackery Caradus 37.97 in the same
event.
In the 100m freestyle Gore clocked 1:19.06 while Caradus swam a
personal best time of 1:26.28.
In the 50m backstroke for male 11-year-old Gore swam a personal
best time of 38.42 ranking him the 7th fastest while Zackery
Caradus completed the 50m event in a time of 53.71.
In the 50m breastroke Guru swam into 6th place in a time of
42.77 with team mate Gore swimming into 12th place with a finish
time of 44.70.
In the male 11-year-old 50m butterfly event Caradus swam 49.86
to round off what was a great day of competition.
 
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