Merrylands swimmers won medals in two events at yesterday's Cumberland Championships.

Todd Jenkin won the bronze medal in the 17yrs & Over 50m Breaststroke, breaking his long course P.B. to finish in 33.59. Our other medalist was the Boys 11-12yrs 4x50m Medley Relay. The team consisting of Greg Stanford, Anthony Ventra, David Wang and Mitchell Burt took over 6 seconds off their entry time to finish 2nd, four hundredths of a second in front of 3rd place. All 4 swimmers in the team also swam under their PBs.

Our other swimmers also performed well, with 13 finalists out of the 22 events contested.

Our finalists were:

Anthony Ventra
12yrs 100m Breaststroke (8th)
David Wang
12yrs 100m Freestyle (5th)
12yrs 200m Individual Medley (9th)
12yrs 100m Breaststroke (6th)
Todd Jenkin
17yrs & Over 50m Breaststroke (3rd)
Open 100m Breaststroke (5th)
Peter Johnston
17yrs & Over 50m Breaststroke (9th)
17yrs & Over 50m Butterfly (10th)
Brittany Johnson
16yrs 100m Breaststroke (4th)
16yrs 100m Butterfly (6th)
Boys 11-12yrs 4x50m Freestyle Relay
David Wang, Greg Stanford
Mitchell Burt, Anthony Ventra
(4th)
Boys 11-12yrs 4x50m Medley Relay
Greg Stanford, Anthony Ventra
David Wang, Mitchell Burt
(2nd)
Womens Open 4x50m Freestyle Relay
Brittany Johnson, Greta Guajardo
Rachel Johnston, Amber Johnson
(6th)

Our swimmers also swam 21 personal best times with another 6 unofficial PBs swum in the relays. Mitchell Burt (100m Backstroke, 100m Breaststroke), Anthony Ventra (100m Breaststroke) and Amber Johnson (100m Backstroke) all swam two PBs in one event, breaking both their 50m and 100m times in their 100m events.

The swimmers who swam PBs were:

Greg Stanford
50m Backstroke (Relay Leg)
50m Freestyle (Relay Leg) (Unofficial)
Mitchell Burt
100m Backstroke (50m & 100m)
100m Breaststroke (50m & 100m)
50m Freestyle (Relay Leg) (Unofficial)
Anthony Ventra
100m Breaststroke (50m & 100m)
100m Freestyle
50m Breaststroke (Relay Leg) (Unofficial)
50m Freestyle (Relay Leg) (Unofficial)
David Wang
100m Freestyle
200m Individual Medley
100m Breaststroke
50m Freestyle (Relay Leg)
50m Butterfly (Relay Leg) (Unofficial)
Todd Jenkin
50m Breaststroke
100m Breaststroke
Peter Johnston
50m Freestyle
50m Butterfly
Amber Johnson
100m Backstroke (50m & 100m)
Brittany Johnson
100m Breaststroke
Butterfly
Rachel Johnson
50m Freestyle
50m Freestyle (Relay Leg) (Unofficial)

Our club finished 19th overall with 67 points.

Congratulations to all our swimmers on their great results.

The full results with split times are available here.

See Also
  • Cumberland Open & Age Championships

  • 2005/2006 Cumberland Open & Age Championships - Results