SATES ADDS TWO MORE NATIONAL TITLES TO HIS HEFTY HAUL
Friday, 12 August 2022 - Relishing being back on home turf, Pietermaritzburg teenager Matt Sates added two more national titles to the three he won a day earlier at the SA Short Course Swimming Championships on Friday.
The A qualification times required for the World Short Course Championships proved elusive on the day, but a total of six swimmers did achieve the B qualifying times in their respective races, meaning they’ll still be in line for selection for the team to represent South Africa at the global event in Melbourne, Austra...
ANOTHER AFRICAN RECORD FOR SPEEDY TEEN VAN NIEKERK
Saturday, 13 August 2022 - Pretoria teenager Lara van Niekerk continued her sensational form at the SA Short Course Championships on Saturday, storming to yet another SA and African record in the Pietermaritzburg pool.
The 19-year-old double Commonwealth Games gold medallist stormed to victory in the 50m breaststroke in 29.62 seconds to better the record she set at the same event a year ago. In doing so, she also secured another A qualification mark for the World Short Course Championships in Melbourne, Australia this December.
She may...
This has left me speechless – Van Niekerk
By GARY LEMKE in Birmingham
The Commonwealth is conquered, now bring on the world. For the second time in 72 hours, Lara van Niekerk blew away the opposition on the way to winning gold at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, this time adding the 100m breaststroke title to the 50m crown she won so impressively.
Still only 19, Van Niekerk has come out of the shadows and is now set to blaze a breaststroke trail that Penny Heyns started in the 1990s when she broke 14 world records and won three Olympic medals, and which Tatjana Schoenmaker ...
DOUBLE SILVER AND BRONZE FOR TEAM SA ON ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL NIGHT FOR SA IN THE POOL
Monday, 1 August 2022 - South Africa's swimmers added three more medals to the rapidly increasing Team SA haul at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham on Monday.
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Pieter Coetzé claimed his second medal of the Games, adding the 50m backstroke silver to his 100m backstroke gold, while Erin Gallagher claimed silver in the 50m butterfly and Para-swimmer Christian Sadie bronze in the S7 50m freestyle.
The biggest smile of the night belonged to Gallagher who outgunned Olympic 100m butter...
UNDER ARMOUR AMBASSADOR TATJANA SCHOENMAKER RETAINS COMMONWEALTH TITLE TO TAKE GOLD IN THE 200M BREASTSTROKE
South Africa – 31 July 2022. South African swimming sensation and Under Armour Ambassador Tatjana Schoenmaker further solidified her legacy as one of the best swimmers South Africa has produced by successfully retaining her 200m breaststroke title at the 2022 Commonwealth games.
The 200m world record-holder was in top form edging out Jenna Strauch from Australia and fellow South African swimmer Kaylene Corbett with the time of 2:21.92 to ...
DOUBLE GOLD FOR SA SWIMMERS IN BIRMINGHAM
Saturday, 30 July 2022 - Teen swimming sensations Lara van Niekerk and Pieter Coetzé led the medal charge on the second night of swimming at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham on Saturday.
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Van Niekerk claimed Team South Africa’s first medal of the Games by powering to gold in the 50m breaststroke final which featured three South African swimmers. She claimed the victory in another Commonwealth Games record time of 29.73 seconds. Tatjana Schoenmaker finished fourth in 30.41 and Kaylene Corbett sixth in 31.10.
“It f...
