Swimming |21 February 2019

CANA Zone IV Championships 2019 – February 16-20

Seychelles finishes fifth overall with seven gold medals

Seychellois swimmers won two more gold medals and two silver yesterday on the last day of competition at the Confédération Africaine de Natation (Cana) Zone IV Swimming Championships in Windhoek, Namibia.

This brought the country’s contingent medals tally to 19 – 7 gold, 7 silver and 5 bronze – to take fifth place overall out of 12 countries on the medals table.

It is important to note that Seychelles have won four other gold medals in open water swimming but these medals were scrapped as they are non-championship races.

On the last day yesterday, Mathieu Bachmann had only one challenger in the men’s 17 years and over 200 butterfly and he won in 2:20.89 for the gold medal.

He then joined forces with Tyler Fred, Adam Moncherry and Dean Hoffman to capture the men’s 15 years and over 200m freestyle relay gold medal in a time of 1:39.31.

The two silver medals went to Tyler Fred in the boys’ 15-16 years 100m freestyle with 55.19 seconds, and Mathieu Bachmann in the men’s 17 years and over 200m freestyle in 2:18.54.

In the boys’ 16-18 years 5km open water, Bertrand Payet stopped the clock at 1h05:04.71 to finish third for the bronze medal and on Tuesday, Liliana De Speville Mason also won a bronze medal in the girls’ 12 years and under 100m breaststroke in 1:27.32.

South Africa won the most medals in the pool – 81 (35 gold, 25 silver and 21 bronze) – followed by host country Namibia with 86 (28 gold, 31 silver and 27 bronze) while Mauritius finished third with 47 medals (15 gold, 14 silver and 18 bronze).

The following are the results of the Seychellois swimmers on the last two days

Boys’ 12 years and under 200m backstroke: Thierry Payet (2:57.53, 6th out of 11 swimmers)

Women 15-16 years 200m backstroke: Therese Soukup (2:43.62, 9th out of 17 swimmers)

Men 15-16 years 200m backstroke: Tyler Fred (2:28.51, 8th out of 13 swimmers)

Girls’ 12 years and under 100m breaststroke: Liliana De Speville Mason (1:27.32, 3rd out of 15 swimmers – Bronze Medal)

Girls’ 13-14 years 100m breaststroke: Khema Elizabeth (1:29.38, 10th out of 19 swimmers)

Boys’ 13-14 years old 100m breaststroke: Joshua Miller (1:12.55, 4th out of 20 swimmers), Alain Vidot (1:13.30, 6th out of 20 swimmers)

Men 15-16 years 100m breaststroke: Daniel Ferley (1:15.62)

Men 17 years and over 200 butterfly: Mathieu Bachmann (2:20.89, 1st out of 2 swimmers Gold Medal)

Girls’ 13-14 years 100m freestyle: Khema Elizabeth (1:06.54, 9th out of 20 swimmers)

Girls’ 12 years and under 100m freestyle: Liliana De Speville Mason (1:11.27, 9th out of 20 swimmers)

Boys’ 13-14 years 100m freestyle: Alain Vidot (1:00.75, 9th out of 23 swimmers)

Girls’ 15-16 years 100m freestyle: Therese Soukup (1:03.25, 4th out of 20 swimmers)

Boys’ 15-16 years 100m freestyle: Tyler Fred (55.19, 2nd out of 20 swimmers Silver Medal)

Men 17 years and over 100m freestyle: Dean Hoffman (56.62 seconds, 7th out of 17 swimmers), Adam Moncherry (57.92 seconds, 11th out of 17 swimmers)

Girls’ 12 years and under 200m freestyle: Liliana De Speville Mason (3:04.48, 7th out of 13 swimmers)

Boys’ 12 years and under 200m freestyle: Thierry Payet (2:59.39, 9th out of 18 swimmers)

Boys’ 13-14 years 200m freestyle: Joshua Miller (2:29.26, 5th out of 19 swimmers)

Girls’ 13-14 years 200m freestyle: Khema Elizabeth (2:51.04, 10th out of 19 swimmers)

Boys’ 15-16 years 200m freestyle: Daniel Ferley (2:31.73, 11th out of 24 swimmers)

Men 17 years and over 200m freestyle: Mathieu Bachmann (2:18.54, 2th out of 12 swimmers, Silver Medal)

Boys’ 16-18 years 5km open water: Bertrand Payet (1h05:04.71, 3rd out of 11 swimmers Bronze Medal), Damien Payet Bertrand Payet (1h078:11.52, 4th out of 11 swimmers)

Boys’ 14 years and under 200m freestyle relay: Seychelles team of Alain Vidot, Nathan Nagapin, Thierry Payet and Joshua Miller (1:55.79, 5th out of 10 teams)

Girls’ 15 years and over 200m freestyle relay: Seychelles team of Therese Soukup, Liliana De Speville Mason, Khema Elizabeth and Isabelle Labuschagne (2:03.96 7th out of 9 teams)

Men 15 years and over 200m freestyle relay: Seychelles team of Fred Tyler, Adam Moncherry, Dean Hoffman and Mathieu Bachmann (1:39.31, 1st out of 10 teams Gold Medal)

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