A small but enthusiastic group of masters swimmers challenged themselves at the 25th Masters Swimming Tasmania (MST), Short Course, Long Distance championships staged in Launceston on Saturday 12 December.
The mywaterworld.life full story on these championships is in the news section.
The top FINA point scoring swim of the meet was by Damian Bennett in the 1500m Freestyle. Damian is from the Launceston club and his time of 18:28.08 was a new Tasmanian Masters record in the 50-54 year age group.
As for the racing – there were many Tasmanian personal bests and records established – sixteen records all together- thirteen by the men and 3 by the women.
Records* were shared between four clubs. The Hobart Aquatic Centre topped the records table with seven.
The top record breaker at the meet was Costan Magnussen from the Van Diemans virtual club. Costan set his records in the 400, 800 and 1,500m Backstroke events and the 800 Individual Medley.
Wendy Winzenberg (Devonport) and Maciej Slugocki (Hobart Aquatic) broke three records each. Wendy set her marks in the 400, 800 and 1500m Freestyle events while Maciej’s were in the 200, 400 and 800 Backstroke. The other record breakers were Brent Walker Tony Forman and Damian Bennett with two each.
mywaterworld.life earlier published a story about the national records broken by Tracy Clarkson and you can catch up with that news here.
*The status of all records established at this meet, as of 14 December 2020, is pending.
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