News Archive - June 2010

18 June 2010

Eastern Province's Paul smashes 400m IM World Record

Law student Kevin Paul is a man on a mission. Already the owner of the world record in all breaststroke races in the SM 10 category, Paul smashed the 400m individual medley World record on his first attempt at the German Championships in Berlin on Thursday 17 June, 2010.

The Paralympic Gold Medalist in the 100m Breaststroke touched the wall in 4:53.23 – taking 2 seconds off the previous record of 4:56.24 which stood behind the name of Canada’s Benoit Huot.

According to his father, Mervyn, Kevin’s coach had said the Paralympian had something special up his sleeve after looking at his training times. “This is about the 8th World Record Kevin has set in the last 18 months, but they were all in the various breaststroke distances. Brian Elliot (his coach), though was very optimistic about Kevin’s swimming and so they tried the 400m individual medley and it was a World Record.”

Paul is competing at the German Championships from today (Thursday 17 June) till Sunday 20 June. His performance caught the eye of the German National team and they invited him to stay a further 3 days (Monday 21 June to Wednesday 23 June) for scientific testing. “Swimming South Africa’s High Performance Manager Rushdee Warley helped us to get Kevin to Germany through the SASCOC OPEX programme”, said Mervyn. “We are greatly indebted to both Swimming SA and SASCOC for their efforts in helping us with Kevin. Without them he would now not be competing in Germany.”

Kevin is hard in training for the World Championships in the Netherlands in August.

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17 June 2010

Officials' Courses

11 June 2010

Eastern Province Executive will be conducting a number of officials’ courses this season.

The provisional dates were forwarded to the Clubs recently. I can now confirm that the courses will be held at the Newton Park Committee Room (behind the Grand Stand).

The dates are as follows:

► Saturday, 26th June 2010
► Saturday, 24th July 2010
► Saturday, 21st August 2010
► Saturday, 18th September 2010
► Saturday, 16th October 2010

The Agenda is as follows:

08:15 – 08:30                          Registration
08:30 – 08:50                          Introduction
08:50 – 10:50                          Timekeeping Course

All candidates will be given the opportunity to complete the relevant tests.

10:50 – 11-15                          Tea Break

11:15 – 12:30                          FINA DVD on the Rules
12:30 – 13:30                          Judges Course

The Judges’ Course will be for members who have completed the Timekeepers Course and have already done their practical at the various galas and subject to the proficiency level as a timekeeper.

The Technical Director, Mr Alan Reynolds, will be in attendance.

Mr Neil Lawson, the Chief Timekeeper will conduct the Timekeeping Course and the Chief Judge, Mr Thian de Jager will conduct the Judges’ Course.

The Judges’ Course will also serve as a refreshers course for the present judges.

It is essential the names/numbers of the people attending the Course are forwarded to me as the notes and worksheets have to be prepared.

Please note that if there are not enough candidates for the Courses they will be cancelled.

Please RSVP by the following dates:

1. For the course on 26th June please reply by Monday 21st June 2010.

2. For the course on 24th July please reply by Friday 16th July 2010.

3. For the course on 21st August please reply by Friday 13 August 2010.

4. For the course on 18th September please reply by 10th September 2010.

5. For the course on 16th October please reply by 8th October 2010.

Names to be e-mailed to me on weslor@telkomsa.net.

Should you require any further details, please do not hesitate to contact Lorraine Deasy.

Download pdf format here.

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Le Clos retains Silver, Van Der Burgh claims Bronze

In 2009 Chad Le Clos made his name by winning Silver in the 400m individual medley in the Mare Nostrum in Barcelona. Tonight he repeated that feat by clocking 4:20.23 for the 8 lengths of the pool.

This after Cameron van der Burgh secured Bronze in the 50m Breaststroke with a time of 28.30sec bringing the Bronze Medal tally for South Africa to four. Olympic and World Championship 100m Breaststroke swimmer Kosuke Kitajima (a training partner of Van der Burgh) was rampant going under 28 second for the win, touching the wall in 27.96sec ahead of Dragos Agache of Romania (28.01).

Then it was the turn of 18 year Chad Le Clos. From the minute the swimmers left the blocks, there were only two in it, Thiago Parreira (Brazil) and Le Clos. Parreira was clearly in a class of his own and progressively pulled ahead of the South African. But Le Clos is a fighter. With 100m to go he was almost 7 seconds behind Parreira, but started to close the gap a bit. With 50m the lead had shrunk to 5 seconds and when Le Clos touched the wall in second place he had reduced the deficit to just under 4 seconds. Parreira won in a time of 4:16.85 with Le Clos clocking 4:20.23sec.

The silver medal was Le Clos’ second of the meet after winning Bronze on Wednesday (9 June) in the 200m Butterfly.

The meeting in Barcelona ended tonight and the contingent now moves to Canet for the final leg of the Mare Nostrum from 12-13 June and then off to Sette Colli in Italy from the 17-19 June before the 21 swimmers move to Koper in Slovenia for a training camp from 21 June to 2 July before returning home.

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02 June 2010

TRAINING SWIM AT MARINA MARTINIQUE

It’s been a long tough stretch since our last open water swim and with a long winter still ahead, the Kouga Swim Club will be hosting a TRAINING SWIM at Marina Martinique on Saturday 12 June 2010.

We will start at 10 AM from the car park at Marina Martinique where we started the EP Open Water Swim Series last season.

Please note as this is a training swim and no entry fee will be payable. The swim is entirely at your own risk and no water safety will be present.

Swimmers may wear wetsuits or speedo’s for the more hard core. The water is around 15 – 16 degrees at the moment and could drop if there is bad weather.

The following distances will be available:

º    500 m
º    2 kilometer
º    4 kilometer
º    5,4 kilometer

Please note we are starting at 10 AM so please be at the start by 09H45.

The J’Bay Diving Club will be hosting a beginner course for kids at the same venue starting at 9 AM. Please bring wetsuits for the kids as the water will be cold for them.

Any queries can be directed to Brenton Williams at kougaswim@vodamail.co.za

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