Records tumble in a wild Comet Swimming Club competition

Jodiesha Kirkpatrick won the 12-year-old girls' age group at the Comet Swimming Club competition. She also won the awards for best all-round 11-and-under swimmer, and top achiever in the 13-and-under age group at the club's prize-giving. 2017 file picture by Liam Clayton

SWIMMING

ONE Hawke’s Bay-Poverty Bay record and two club records were set at a Comet Swimming Club competition night this month.

Fifty swimmers braved wild weather to swim some hot times.

Rixon Skudder set a HBPB record in the 10-year boys’ 100m backstroke. The previous record was held by fellow Comet member Angus Blair.

Twelve-year-old Gus Baker set his first club record in the 200m butterfly, bettering a mark set in 1999. It was just reward for Gus’s hard work in the past 12 months.

Imogen Amor-Bendall shaved half a second off her own 200m butterfly club record.

Eighteen Comet swimmers competed at the Sundevils invitational meeting.

Rixon Skudder won the 10-year boys’ age group; William Matthews, the 11-year boys; Jodiesha Kirkpatrick, the 12-year girls; and Shanice McNabb, the 14-year girls.

Thirty Comet swimmers will compete at the annual East Coast championships being held this weekend in Napier.