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Swimming: Young swimmers smashing records

By Alastair Johnson
Rotorua Daily Post·
8 Jul, 2014 05:00 PM2 mins to read

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Bianca Donelley, left, and Jack Weston have swum into the Bay of Plenty record books.

Bianca Donelley, left, and Jack Weston have swum into the Bay of Plenty record books.

Two Rotorua swimmers have written their names into the Bay of Plenty history books after setting new records at a swim meet in Tauranga.

Swim Rotorua enjoyed a successful outing at the popular Greerton swim meet recently.

The event took place across three days and attracted swimmers from Auckland, Waikato, Bay of Plenty and Hawke's Bay.

Bianca Donelley, 11, and Jack Weston, 16, secured eight new Bay of Plenty records during the meet.

Bianca was in great form as she blasted to a string of records.

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She set new Bay of Plenty records in the girls 11-years 100m, 200m and 400m freestyle with excellent times of 1min 04.82sec, 2m 19.09s and 4m 56.86s respectively.

Not content with that, Bianca then took an axe to the 200m backstroke record with a new best time of 2m 35.37s, reducing the record by almost four seconds.

Rotorua Lakes High School student Jack was also in a record-breaking mood.

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He showed great race skills and pacing to ink his name in the record books with his signature breaststroke events.

First up was the 50m breaststroke where he set a new mark of 31.25 seconds.

This was quickly followed with an excellent 200m breaststroke time of 2m 24.75s, to break the record by two seconds.

To cap a fine weekend, Jack then lowered the open and 16-year record to 1m 06.89s

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It was a breakthrough meeting for local swimmer James Baldwin, 12, who posted nine top-10 places.

In only his second season, James produced an excellent series of performances to return to Rotorua with plenty of prizemoney.

James picked up two second places in the boys 13-years-and-younger 100m and 200m breaststroke and four third places.

His best performance came in the exciting 50m freestyle where James, although third, excelled with a swift time of 28.18s, which was just outside the Bay of Plenty record.

Also making finals and top-10 places were Tara Chemis, Rachel Mead, William Spear, Samantha Irving, David Boles, Milla Theobald and Emily Spear.

Congratulations to our record breakers and to James who caught the eye with his aggressive sprinting style.

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The team continue to grow in experience and we are confident we can keep improving over the winter season.

Following a challenging two-week training camp, the athletes will be back in the competition pool chasing more records and best times at the Swim Rotorua swim meet on July 19.

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