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Early Winter Interclub 16 June 2018 – 25m course at Gunghalin

On a clear sunny Canberra Sunday afternoon 46 swimmers, 8 non-swimming officials and about a dozen non swimming supporters met at the Gungahlin Leisure Centre. The workers arrived before 1.30pm to set everything up with the able assistance of Lachlan and his staff at the Centre. As it was winter there was hardly another person in the deep end of the pool where we were to swim, even though we had booked only four of the eight lanes for our use.

After everything was set up, the competition got under way five minutes late at 2.35pm. Why five minutes late? Because we had to almost beg for 8 timekeepers to come forward. Perhaps we need to insist that participating clubs supply one full time timekeeper for every five swimmers or something along those lines. As it was, apart from a handful of dedicated full timers, most of our timekeepers were also competing so there was a constant turnover. On the other hand it was heart warming to see David Leake one of our Queanbeyan members going through his paces as trainee Chief Timekeeper. Under the watchful eye of Tuggeranong’s Ann Reid, David came through this pressure test with flying colours. Well done David.

Our non-swimming officials Lenny Partridge and Audrey Stutsel were busy all afternoon with Audrey marshalling the swimmers into their heats and Lenny working with Pete Sharman on recording all the results. Marg Larkin with a little help especially from President John organised the refreshments, that is tea, coffee and water with cakes and biscuits. A big thank you to Nerida McCorkell and Phil Browning, Roger Carter, Mary Liz Partridge, John Collis, Keran Titmuss and to anyone I have missed who brought along cakes or biscuits.

There was a full program of 11 individual events and a relay. Competitors were allowed to swim in four of the individual events and the majority did. This meant that over three hours they had five events, about one every 30 minutes, although several swam in two consecutive 25 metre events giving them only five minutes between both swims. Despite the pressure almost all of our swimmers swam faster than their entry times and it was pleasing to see that every Water Dragon swim was in the Top 25 for New South Wales (NSW) this year. For the actual results see the table of detailed results that follows.

Two of our swimmers swam a number 1 time, that is the fastest time in their event and age group in NSW this year. They were our President John Collis and Chris Loose our Queanbeyan Co-ordinator. It was great to welcome the four-swimmer team from Sapphire Coast again and to also have Stephen de Lorenzo of the Penrith Club, our only Sydney swimmer. We look forward to being joined by swimmers from Goulburn and Young when next we compete.

Gininderra Club from the CISAC Pool fielded a team of five while Tuggeranong had 19 and we Water Dragons 17. Unfortunately Geoff Llewellyn, Nerrida McCorkell and Gary Stutsel were unable to swim. There presence may have been able to help us edge out the Vikings but as it was they outscored us 805 to 744.

While the full results for all swimmers are available on both the National Results Portal and the MSNSW website, the times and places for each of the Water Dragons follow below. Of particular interest are the swimmers’ positions in the New South Wales Top 25 (as at 16th June 2019).

Photo: President, John Collis, leading the Water Dragons cheering squad.
MOLONGLO WATER DRAGONS RESULTS at ACT INTERCLUB
Age Group Name Event Time Event place NSW Ranking for 2019 ytd
Women
50-54 Karen Titmuss  50m Freestyle 36.59 1 5
100m Freestyle 1:26.21 1 4
50m Breaststroke 45.28 1 2
100m Breaststroke 1:41.59 1 2
Mary Liz Partridge  25m Freestyle 22.27 2 7
 25m Backstroke 25.95 3 3
 50m Backstroke 56.81 3 5
 25m Breaststroke 31.88 1 3
55-59 Tanya Colyer  25m Backstroke 32.27 2 11
 50m Backstroke 1:13.75 2 6
100m Butterfly 2:49.03 2 4
200m Medley 5:43.56 1 3
Marg Larkin 100m Freestyle 1:40.72 2 7
200m Freestyle 3:41.42 2 7
65-69 Chris Hayhoe  50m Freestyle 52.07 2 8
200m Freestyle 4:12.44 1 7
 25m Backstroke 33.60 2 12
 25m Butterfly 29.06 1 6
Men
35-39 Alistair Buttimore  50m Freestyle 32.34 1 7
100m Freestyle 1:14.24 1 5
100m Medley 1:24.56 1 5
45-49 Brendon Tasker  25m Freestyle 14.15 1 4
 50m Freestyle 31.53 2 4
200m Freestyle 2:46.57 1 5
50-54 Phil Browning  25m Freestyle 19.11 1 9
 50m Freestyle 44.40 1 9
 25m Backstroke 23.86 1 2
 25m Breaststroke 26.41 1 4
55-59 Chris Loose  50m Freestyle 33.50 1 4
100m Freestyle 1:26.77 1 5
 25m Breaststroke 18.93 1 1
 50m Breaststroke 42.87 1 3
David Specker  25m Freestyle 14.69 1 3
 50m Freestyle 36.37 3 7
 25m Backstroke 20.44 1 3
 25m Breaststroke 25.73 3 6
60-64 Roger Carter  25m Freestyle 19.96 3 12
 50m Freestyle 45.02 3 19
100m Freestyle 1:41.29 3 11
 25m Backstroke 33.12 3 9
David Leake  25m Freestyle 21.12 4 13
 50m Freestyle 49.00 4 20
Gary Simms 100m Freestyle 1:23.72 2 6
 25m Backstroke 25.39 2 8
 50m Breaststroke 54.62 1 5
 25m Butterfly 21.84 2 3
65-69 Tim Booth  50m Freestyle 35.07 2 5
100m Freestyle 1:23.39 1 2
200m Freestyle 2:55.58 1 2
 25m Butterfly 20.09 2 3
John Collis  25m Breaststroke 18.04 1 1
 50m Breaststroke 40.63 1 2
200m Breaststroke 3:25.40 1 2
100m Medley 1:31.69 1 3
70-74 Peter Coggins  25m Freestyle 17.72 1 4
 50m Freestyle 43.41 1 5
100m Freestyle 1:46.93 1 3
200m Freestyle 4:07.19 1 5
75-79 Paul Maggs  25m Freestyle 20.46 1 8
 50m Freestyle 45.58 1 9
100m Freestyle 1:54.12 1 4
200m Freestyle 4:35.76 1 5

RELAYS    

Women 200-239
Chris Hayhoe, Tanya Colyer 4 x 50m Freestyle 3:21.65 2 8
Mary-Liz Partridge, Karen Titmuss
Men 160-199
David Specker, Phi Browning 4 x 50m Freestyle 2:22.28 2 4
Brendon Tasker, Alistair Buttimore
Men 240-279
Gary Simms, Roger Carter 4 x 50m Freestyle 2:43.47 1 3
David Leake, Chris Loose
Mixed 280-319
Paul Maggs, Peter Coggins 4 x 50m Freestyle 2:42.12 1 4
John Collis, Tim Booth

CLUB POINTSCORES

Combined including relays (whose points are double)
Place Club Points
1 Tuggeranong (Vikings) 805
2 Molonglo (Water Force) 744
3 Ginninderra (Marlins) 145
4 Sapphire Coast (Bega-Pambula) 128