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Swimming: Rotorua swimmers excel at Bay of Plenty Junior Championships

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20 Dec, 2017 10:40 PM3 mins to read

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Swim Rotorua took a strong team to the Bay of Plenty Junior Swimming Championships. Photo / Supplied

Swim Rotorua took a strong team to the Bay of Plenty Junior Swimming Championships. Photo / Supplied

Te Arawa Swimming and Swim Rotorua swimmers have enjoyed a successful trip to the Bay of Plenty Junior Swimming Championships.

Te Arawa had a club-record nine swimmers competing at the event, held at the Rotorua Aquatic Centre at the weekend, and all but one were making their debut at the championships.

All nine swimmers achieved personal best times and collected a total of seven medals between them.

Daniel Anderson, 9, collected bronze medals in the 50m breaststroke and 50m freestyle.

Waahanga Downes, 10, won silver in the 100m freestyle and bronze in the 200m freestyle.

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Brothers Finley, 10, and Leo English, 8, took home medals in the 200m breaststroke - Leo silver and Finley bronze, with Finley also collecting a silver medal in the 100m breaststroke.

Ryan Logan, 10, who only recently started competing, won silver in the 200m backstroke. Final ribbons, awarded to the top eight in each discipline, were won by the remaining swimmers Annelies Richardson, 12, Danielle Green, 10, Ryklan Lally, 9, and Ryan
Maxwell, 11.

Swim Rotorua also enjoyed a medal rush at the annual championships. The 14-strong team won a combined total of 62 medals.

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Leading the way was 12-year-old Lina Stahlhut who won the Top Swimmer Award after victory in the girls 200m freestyle. Her other victories came in the 200m and 400m individual medley, 50m butterfly and the 50m and 100m backstroke. Lina also picked up the top girl in her age group in the freestyle, backstroke and medley categories.

Ngamihi Simpson, 10, was in magnificent form to finish undefeated in her 11 events. She took home 11 gold medals from all strokes and distances. Her best performance came in the 100m freestyle where she picked up the tempo in the second half of the race to produce a time of one minute, 8.33 seconds.

Ava Tremain won six gold medals in the girls 9 years and younger. These came in the 50m and 100m breaststroke, 100m and 200m freestyle and 100m and 200m medley. She also won three silver medals.

Competing in the same age group for the boys was Ariel Muchirahondo who almost enjoyed a clean sweep with nine gold medals from his 10 events. His best race came in the 100m freestyle with a great time of one minute, 19.11 seconds. Older brother Aaron, competing in the 11 years age group, placed in the top three for all his races. These included two gold medals which came in the 50m and 200m backstroke with excellent times of 34.69 seconds and two minutes, 47.33 seconds respectively. Aaron did not stop there as he raced his heart out to pick up another five silver and four bronze medals.

Kaia Joyce picked up two silver medals and five bronze medals in the girls' 10 years age group. Miki Joyce did really well throughout the two days of racing and was rewarded with a silver medal in the boys' 11 years 200m breaststroke.

Dion Wright won a brace of bronzes which came in the 100m breaststroke and 200m freestyle. He then teamed up with Aaron Muchirahondo, Miki Joyce and Ariel Muchirahondo to take bronze in the boys' 4x 50m medley relay. The girls stepped up and grabbed silvers in their 4x50m medley and freestyle relays. The quartet for both events were Ngamihi Simpson, Kaia Joyce, Stella Weston and Lina Stahlhut.

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