Swimming: 12th Fina world short course championship |17 December 2014

Nine national records broken

Nine Seychelles national records were broken and another was set during the 12th Fédération Internationale de Natation (Fina) world short course championship held in Doha, Qatar from December 3-7.

A total of eight swimmers represented Seychelles at the competition, where Felicity Passon, Alexus Laird and Pierre-André Adam were the record breakers.

The country’s 4x50m mixed medley relay team of Alexus Laird, Felicity Passon, Pierre-André Adam and Dean Hoffman set a new record of 1:51.50.

Passon was the biggest performer as she broke five records. In the 100m freestyle, she erased her own record of 59.45 seconds to set a new time of 56.85 seconds. She also improved the 50m freestyle record to 26.00 seconds, improving her old time of 26.80 seconds.

Her next record time came in the 50m butterfly event as she clocked 28.49 seconds to improve her old time of 28.80 seconds. In the 100m butterfly event, Passon’s previous time was 1:05.20 and this time she swam faster to bring her time to 1:03.38.

Passon’s fifth record came in the 200m individual medley where she erased her previous best of 2:33.44 to set a new record of 2:31.74.

All of Passon’s previous times were set during the African Swimming championship in Uganda in April 2014.

Alexus Laird got three records and her first came in the 50m backstroke where she improved Passon’s time of 31.70 seconds for a new national record at 30.31 seconds.

She improved another of Passon’s records – the 100m backstroke – with a time of 1:02.20. Passon’s old best stood at 1:08.90. Her third record came in the 200m backstroke where she obliterated Julie Low-Thion’s record of 2:38.22 which had stood since December 2001. The new record is now 2:18.20.

A new men’s 200m breaststroke national record was beaten during the championship by Pierre-André Adam who stopped the clock at 2:35.28 to improve R. Bonne’s record of 2:35.66 set in 1997.

The following are the results of the Seychellois swimmers at the championship:

Felicity Passon

44th in women’s 100m butterfly – 1:03.38

45th in women’s 200m individual medley – 2:31.74

51st in women’s 100m freestyle – 56.85 seconds

45th in women’s 50m freestyle – 26.00 seconds

41st in women’s 50m butterfly – 28.49 seconds

Alexus Laird

50th in women’s 50m freestyle – 26.23 seconds

45th in women’s 50m backstroke – 30.31 seconds

53rd in women’s 100m freestyle – 57.32

40th in women’s 200m backstroke – 2:18.20

49th in women’s 100m backstroke – 1:02.22

Maria Marzocchi

58th in women’s 50m breaststroke – 38.66 seconds

54th in women’s 100m breaststroke – 1:27.12

Anisha Payet

72nd in women’s 50m butterfly – 32.64 seconds

Pierre-André Adam

78th in men’s 100m breaststroke – 1:07.62

73rd in men’s 50m breaststroke – 30.31 seconds

116th in men’s 50m freestyle – 24.90 seconds

48th in men’s 200m breaststroke – 2:35.28

Justin Payet

94th in men’s 50m breaststroke – 33.60 seconds

133rd in men’s 50m butterfly – 31.31seconds

54th in men’s 200m breaststroke – 2:17.52

94th in men’s 100m breaststroke – 1:19.97

Dean Hoffman

101st in men’s 50m freestyle – 24.49 seconds

82nd in men’s 100m backstroke – 1:06.51

90th in men’s 200m freestyle – 2:05.09

55th in men’s 200m backstroke – 2:24.88

85th in men’s 50m backstroke – 29.67 seconds

Adam Moncherry

118th in men’s 50m butterfly – 27.88 seconds

94th in men’s 50m backstroke – 30.83 seconds

Relay

23rd in 4x100m mixed medley relay – 4:22.02

20th in 4x50m mixed freestyle relay – 1:45.19

15th in 4x100m women’s freestyle relay – 4:07.85

20th in 4x50m mixed medley relay – 1:51.50

S. N.