Day 5 National short course swimming championships

Sydney Uni finished the final day of the
Australian Short Course Championships’ meet with a gold medal in the Men’s 100m
freestyle, 4^th in the men’s 100m individual medley, 8^th
women’s 200m breaststroke and  13^th
in the 200 butterfly, and 15^th in the overall pointscore.

Heats
Session highlights

Kate Johnson finished her meet in fine
style finishing 29th in the 200m freestyle in a personal best time of 2.02.16.

Stephen Parkes made the B final of the 200m
butterfly in a personal best time of 1.58.54.

Meagan Ramsay made her 3^rd final
of the meet qualifying 7^th fastest for the 200m breaststroke final,
again in a personal best time of 2.28.62.

Finals
Session

Matt Abood claimed gold in the 100m
freestyle in a very fast time of 47.05, which should see him chosen to
represent Australian at the World Short Course Championships to be held in
Dubia

Stephen Parkes  finished 4^th in the 100m individual
medley in 54.46 narrowly missing a podium finish by .1 sec and backed up for
the B final of the 200m butterfly.

Meagan Ramsay finished a creditable 8^th
in the 200m breaststroke final in 2.28.68.

The Men’s 4 x 100m A medley relay put in an
incredible performance to finish 4^th in 3.38.27.  The team consisted of David Wise, Stephen
Parkes, Sam McConnell and Matthew Abood. The B team of 10^th Tim
Halliday, Alistaire Pickles, Dylan Curtis, Gordon Willis finished 10^th.
The Women’s  medley relay team finished
12^th.