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Roundup of the 2023 Masters Swimming Tasmanina Championships

Finally, mywaterworld.life has caught up and posted its news item on the results of the Masters Swimming Tasmania 2023 Summer Championships.

National, Victorian and Tasmanina records broken, and the swim of the meet by Victorian visitor from the powerful Powerpoints Masters Swimming Club Jennie Bucknell, were the highlights of the meet.

Congratulations go to Jennie Bucknell and Rod Laurie for their new Australian records and to Amanda Duggan and Maciej Slugocki for their Swimmer of the Meet awards. The Tasmanina club with the highest standard of racing was the Hobart Aquatic Centre Masters Swimming Club.

Here is our news story.

mywaterworld.life is the home of the most comprehensive news of Masters swimming racing in Tasmania looking at the standard of the swimming using the World-Aquatics points as its benchmarks.

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New records by Magnussen and Slugocki

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.

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Tasmanian Summer Championships

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.

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News of Masters Swimming in Tasmania continues.

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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Great swims of 2022 by Amanda Duggan and Maciej Slugocki

The latest news from mywaterworld.life takes a look at the best swimming performances of 2022 by masters swimmers in Tasmania.

The dominant swimmers of 2022, based on World Aquatics Points (not sure what “FINA” points are now called) were Amanda Duggan and Maciej Slugocki. Their 800 and 1500 metre freestyle times would have placed them both well within world top ten rankings in 2021 and Maciej’s 800m freestyle time would have scored him a number two in the world that year. The 2022 world ranking will be out in March.

You can read all about those swims and more in the mywaterworld.life news of 29 January. The story is also on the Masters inTasmania – Latest News page where you can find previous news items.

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Happening in Tasmania

The 2003 pool season has now well and truly started for Tasmanian masters swimmers. Two swimming meets, jointly sanctioned with Swimming Tasmania have now been completed – one in Hobart on 14 January and the other in Launceston on 21 January.

Three Tasmanian records have already been broken, two by Brent Walker from the Hobart Aquatic Centre Masters SC and the other by Maciej Slugocki from the Tomatoes.

Here is the latest news from 21 January.

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You can find the mywaterworld.life compilation of all news items from 2023 here.

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Sue Mayne – Top Tasmanian National Record Breaker

In our latest news story, mywaterworld.life looks at the Tasmanian masters swimmers who have broken national records over the years. 

Top of the listing is Sue Mayne having set 69 national marks.

You can read all about the record breakers in our latest News story

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Wendy Winzenberg – MST’s top record breaker for 2020

Wendy Winzenberg from the Devonport Masters Swimming Club is Tasmania’s top record breaker for 2020.

In a season’s training disrupted by by the pandemic, Wendy set a total of 15 new marks, five of which were long course and 10 short course.

Showing her versatility, Wendy broke 10 freestyle records over distance from 50m to 1500m, 3 butterfly and 2 backstroke sprint records at distance of 25 and 50m.

There is a full roundup of MST’s 2020 records in mywaterworld.life‘s first story of 2021 in the news section.

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Drills – Breaststroke – a complete overview

Fantastic 5 minutes investment on breaststroke tips and drills with Rikke Møller Pedersen, the current women’s 200m breaststroke world record holder. Her 2:19.11 time still stands at the date of this post, having been set in 2013. 

There are great underwater shots that help explain the various concepts that Rikke talks about. These include specific elements of the stroke to focus on – a great streamline, correct hand position and arm stoke, head position, hip movement, eliminating leg drag and where to kick (to). Drills include sculling and stroke length.  Take some notes and practice in your next training session.

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MST SC LD 2020 Championships

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.