Twelve wins from 12 for Jodiesha

OUT-OF-TOWN COMPETITION: Comet swimmers competed in the Rotorua meeting that was part of the New Zealand Junior Swim Festival. Pictured are back (from left): Aria Harrison, Hayley Durston, Tamsyn Brown, Kobe Teka-Kururangi, Kimberley Hayes, Brad Hill and Imogen Amor-Bendall. Front: Fletcher Haar, Max Phillips, Rixon Skudder, Angus Baker, Angus Blair, Gemma Hill and Jodiesha Kirkpatrick. Picture by Liam Clayton

JODIESHA Kirkpatrick won all 12 individual races she entered in the Rotorua meeting that was part of the New Zealand Junior Swim Festival.

Kirkpatrick smashed four Comet club records, in the 100-metre freestyle, 200m freestyle, 100m butterfly and 100m individual medley.

All 12 of her swims were in personal best times.

A 19-strong Comet team, accompanied by coach Bianca Shaw, came away with 17 gold, five silver, and six bronze medals.

The Comet swimmers had an 86 percent personal-best swim rate.

The New Zealand Junior Swim Festival ran throughout the country on the same weekend last month.

New Zealand is split into four zones, with qualifying times set for swimmers to be able to compete.

Gisborne belongs to the Central North Island Aquaknights zone, made up of Hawke’s Bay-Poverty Bay, Bay of Plenty, Waikato and Taranaki.

Up to 350 swimmers competed against each other in Rotorua.

Angus Blair won four gold medals in Rotorua, in the 200m backstroke, 100m butterfly, 50m backstroke and 100m backstroke.

He also got two silver and three bronze medals.

Rixon Skudder broke the Hawke’s Bay-Poverty Bay record for the 100m backstroke in 1 minute 22.70 seconds, beating Ben Quilter’s 2003 record.

Skudder broke three Comet club records, in the 50m backstroke, 100m backstroke, and 200 backstroke.He won one gold medal, two silvers and one bronze.

Imogen Amor-Bendall got a silver in the 50m butterfly, and Tamsyn Brown got bronze medals in the 50m and 200m breaststroke.