Swimming records fall

 FOURTEEN year-old Savannah Tkatchenko smashed eight PNG short course records in her Age Category during the national swimming championships held at the Ela Murray International School over the weekend.
Tkatchencko’s, pictured, eight records was part of the 25 records fell over at the 25ms pool in Port Moresby including 252 personal best times set by swimmers from all age group, open and masters’ categories.
Her two-day performances have won her selection into the 2013/14 BSP National Aquatic Excellence squad. The other member who also wins the spot in the squad was Ashley Seeto. The Brisbane-based swimmer, Tkatchenko set records in the  50m breastroke, 200m breastroke, 100m individual medley, 50m backstroker, 100m breaststroke, 50m freestule, 100m backstroke, and 100m freestyle.
In the 50m breastroke event, the part PNG and Australia swam a time of 34.31 seconds taking Xenia Peni’s record of 37.28 seconds set in 1997; the 200m backstroke event winning 2:3138s taking Namiko Kobayashi’s record of 2:34.82s set in 1998; while in the 100m individual medley event Savannah swam a time of 1:09.25s taking Judith Merauri’s record of 1:11.01s set in 2007.
In the 50m backstroke Savannah swam a time of 32.39s, taking Judith Meauri’s record of 34.91 seconds; the 100m breaststroke she swam 1:15.66s, breaking the previous record of 1:17.84s set by Amanda Manchur; the  50m freestyle with a time of 28.55s taking Namiko Kobayashi’s record of 29.24s set in 1998 while in the 100m backstroke Savannah swam a finish time of 1:10.87 taking Amanda Manchur’s record of 1:16.27s. The 100m freestyle event saw her taking Namiko Kobayashi’s record of 1:04.11s set in 1998  with a time of 1:01.87s.
In the masters category Ashley Seeto set a new record in the 25-29 year age category clocking a time of 31.24 seconds in the 50m breaststroke event.
In the 30-34 age category Ryan Pini swam 28.12s in the 50m backstroke event taking Adrian Morey’s record of 33.97s.