Tatjana Schoenmaker shines at national swimming trials
Commonwealth Games heroine, Tuks teammate Kaylene Corbett and stablemate Nathania van Niekerk also qualify world championship in July
Tatjana Schoenmaker led three more women to world championship qualifying times on the second day of the national swimming trials in Durban on Tuesday. Commonwealth Games heroine Schoenmaker and her Tuks teammate Kaylene Corbett went one and two in the 200m breaststroke‚ clocking 2min 24.44sec and 2:25.62 respectively‚ both inside the 2:25.91 required to make the team for the international showpiece in Gwangju‚ South Korea‚ in July. Their stablemate‚ Nathania van Niekerk‚ added her name to the roster while winning the women’s 200m backstroke in 2:11.37. So far four women have qualified for the world championships‚ with Erin Gallagher having done it in the 100m freestyle on the opening day. Gallagher broke Lize-Marie Retief’s 11-year-old 50m butterfly SA record on Tuesday‚ touching in 26.30 to shave 0.06sec off the old mark. Among the men‚ US-based student Christopher Reid qualified in emphatic style as he went 1:57.11 in the 200m backstroke. So far‚ Chad le Clos (200m butterfly) is ...
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