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A small number of Tasmanina Masters swimmers took to racing again – less than a week aftere their Summer Championship.
Two record were broken at the Swimming Tasmania meet with the best swim of the meet recorded by Gabrielle Osborne in her 50m breastroke.
Here is the full story which we also cover in the Masters Tasmania –Latest News page.
Masters Swimming Tasmania is holding its 39th Long Course Summer Championships on Saturday and Sunday, 18 and 19 February. These are the first championships in Australia for 2023. Competitors include world Record breakers John Cocks (Malvern Marlins, Victoria) and Jennie Bucknell (Powerpoints, Victoria), both of whom have previously set World Aquatics (formerly FINA) records.
All the details of the meet are on SwimPhone. There you can find the Psych and Heat sheets and once the meet starts the results as well.
Masters swimming in Australia came roaring back in 2022 to its pre – pandemic levels – 233 national records in World Aquatics (WA) events broken during the year an an additional 91 in non-WA events.
Australia’s top record breaker for 2022 was Tony Goodwin who set 15 new national records in WA events and a further 5 in non-WA events – 20 in total for the year.
Our new story includes break-downs of the national record breakers by state, gender, club and distinguishes between WA and non-WA events. A download of all the national record breakers by state is available from within the news item.
mywatereworld.life has published two more news items looking back and summarising performances from 2022
Our strory on 29 January looked at the top World Aquatics point swims for 2022 and from 4 February we look at the Tasmanian record breakers for that year.
Those stories, and the ones from earlier this year, are on our News from Tasmania page.
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