FINDING RESULTS AND PHOTOS ON THE INTERNET

Hi Gropers,

If you are interested in looking up your individual swim time(s) from the FINA World Masters on the Internet, they can be found at:

http://www.fina.org/project/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=74&Itemid=333

The top half of the page are heats, the bottom half of the page results.

Professional photos from the event are available from:

http://www.picturesystems.com/winkipop/sports.cfm

Paul

SALLY BELL’S RELAY AND INDIVIDUAL RESULTS SUMMARY

Hi All !!!
 
Please find attached all results and individual splits in our wonderful relays at Worlds.  Apologies in advance if there are any errors… I’ve double checked so hopefully not! In summary, the highlights were:

• 3 bronze medals
• 13 state records and 1 national (and state) record (but one of the state records was rebroken in the next heat)
• 1 team broke the old National Record by 4 seconds but was beaten by an Australian team
• 1 team missed a National Record by 0.5
• 1 team broke the old state record but was beaten by 2 WA teams
• 1 team broke the old state record but was DQd (dodgy)
• 1 team missed a State Record by 0.5s

And there were some amazing split times by ALL swimmers!  Congratulations everyone.  We calculated after the relay day that Claremont now has more than 20 men who can break 30 for a 50 Freestyle (and most of these have swum under 29 seconds). We also have 3 women under 30 seconds.
 
We’ll do a big individual performance summary at a later stage, but here’s a quick run down of our individual medal (1,2,3) and record tally (just from my dodgy memory - and not including the Open Water Swim because as I write this it hasn’t started!):

• 3 Gold medals (Sally Bell (2), 50 Backstroke & 100 Backstroke; Tom Stachewicz (1), 50 Backstroke)
• 3 Silver medals (Anthony Dunne (1), 200 Breaststroke; Dean Stockwell (1), 50 Breaststroke; Sally Bell (1), 200 Backstroke)
• 8 National Records (Tom Stachewicz (4), 50 Freestyle & 100 Freestyle, 50 Backstroke twice; Sally Bell (1), 50 Backstroke; Anthony Dunne (1), 200 Breaststroke; Dean Stockwell (1), 50 Breaststroke; Ross Leighton (1), 50 Freestyle)

and I’ll be mortified if I missed anyone!!!
 
And of course we had numerous 4-10th placings…  Off the top of my head, those who got infuriating 4ths were Sally Stanford (2), Anthony Dunne (2), Sally Bell (1), Sam McLennan (1 or 2?)… and there were no doubt others that I’ve forgotten… Most importantly our swimmers recorded a swag of monumental PBs…. So many performances spring to mind…. But as I said, we’ll do a proper summary in the near future…

Sal

Relay Results and Splits (MS Excel 2003 Document)

MEDIA RELEASE - WORLD CHAMPS MEDAL HAUL FOR CLAREMONT

Claremont Masters members brought home 12 medals from the FINA World Masters Swimming Championships held at Challenge Stadium last week.

The club won nine individual medals (3 Gold, 3 Silver and 3 Bronze), and 3 Bronze medals in relays.

Local mum Sally Bell won 2 Gold medals and 1 Silver medal in the 45-49 year age group, breaking one National record in the process.  Former WA swimming legend, Tom Stachewicz, won 1 Gold medal in the 40-44 age group, and set a total of 4 National records.

Silver medals were won by Anthony Dunne, in the 45-49 age group, and Dean Stockwell, in the 40-44 age group, both in National record time.

The club’s three individual Bronze medals were won in the three-kilometre Open Water Swim, by Bett Montgomery (55-59), Lesley Meaney (60-64) and Perc Edwards (80-84).

Claremont had a very successful time at the day-long relay competition, breaking no fewer than 13 State records and 1 National record.

The women’s 200-239 relay teams (with an average age of over 50 years) won Bronze medals in both the freestyle and medley relays, with their team of Sally Bell, Lesley Meaney, Sally Stanford and Nicola Corsbie.

The men’s 160-199 relay team (with an average age of over 40 years) won a Bronze medal in the freestyle relay with their team of Tom Stachewicz, Dean Stockwell, Anthony McDonald and John Bowden.

Many other Claremont Masters swimmers gained top 10 placings and a swag of State records, and enjoyed the great competition and international camaraderie on offer at the week-long championships.

ENDS

Contact: Elena Nesci, Secretary, Claremont Masters Swimming Club
 Ph: 0415 314 082  elena.nesci@ozemail.com.au

Media Release (MS Word 2003 Document)

Club Committee, Club Member Awards, FINA World Masters 2008, Features