Durban — Tatjana Schoenmaker slayed the last of Penny Heyns’s national records on Sunday as she added the 50m breaststroke SA short-course crown to her 100m and 200m titles. She was one of eight swimmers to beat qualifying marks for the world championships in China in December on the final day of the SA trials at the King’s Park pool‚ though Douglas Erasmus was the only new face to make the list that totalled 11. Schoenmaker‚ who took Heyns’s 50m and 100m long-course marks at the Commonwealth Games in April‚ beat the longest-standing SA record in the morning heats. Heyns’s 30.60 had stood since 1999‚ but Schoenmaker went 30.44 in the preliminaries and then lowered it to 30.39 in the afternoon final. "It’s an honour to do it‚" said Schoenmaker‚ who now owns five of the six senior national breaststroke records across Olympic-distance long-course and short-course. "She [Heyns] did it without goggles. I don’t know if I would be able to do it‚" she added. The only mark not in her hands i...
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