Long-course season concludes The fifth Bank Windhoek long-course gala and the annual Aquapentathlon for the 2016/17 swimming season was held last weekend at the Olympia pool. A total of 88 swimmers took part in the gala held on Friday, 7 April.
Four clubs were represented: Aqua Swimming and Fitness Club (10 swimmers), Dolphins Swimming Club (67 swimmers), Marlins Swimming Club (one swimmer) and Namib Swim Academy (10 swimmers).
“The support that swimming receives from Bank Windhoek for our long-course season cannot be overemphasised and appreciated,” said Jurie Badenhorst, public relations officer at the Namibian Swimming Union.
“Coming to the end of the long-course season and with some of the swimmers returning from tours, while the elite swimmers are still on tour in the South African National Championships, and for which galas the swimmers would have peaked; the fact that no records were set and only 24% of the swimmers improved their personal best times is understandable,” Badenhorst said.
The winners, second and third places in the Aquapentathlon Ludorum race were:
Junior victor ludorum
1. Mikah Burger 55
2. Lian Ellis 53
3. Oliver Durand 53
Junior victrix ludorum
1. Corley Viljoen 47
2. Michaela Ohm 45
3. Trisha Mutumbulua 45
Senior victor ludorum
1. Bernard Theron 6:43.28
2. Ronan Wantenaar 7:01.67
3. Dewald Nell 7:17.06 3
Senior victrix ludorum
1. Heleni Stergiadis 7:39.25
2. Joanne Liebenberg 7:54.70
3. Viktoria Ellmies 8:11.78
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