Merrylands had finalists in 9 events from the 22 contested at yesterday's Cumberland Championships, despite three team members coming down sick over the weekend.

David Wang was a finalist in three events, finishing 5th in the 13yrs 100m Breaststroke, 6th in the 100m Backstroke and 8th in the 100m Freestyle, swimming new personal best times in all three events.
Anthony Ventra was also a finalist in the 13yrs 100m Breaststroke, finishing in 10th place.
Peter Johnston was our third individual finalist at the meet, finishing 6th in the 17yrs & Over 50m Breaststroke and 8th in the Open 100m Breaststroke.

The club's three relay teams also finished in the top ten with our 13-14yrs Boys team finishing 8th in both the Medley and Freestyle Relays while our Open Mens Freestyle team also finished 8th.

Finalists Summary:

Anthony Ventra
13yrs 100m Breaststroke (10th)
David Wang
13yrs 100m Freestyle (8th)
13yrs 100m Backstroke (6th)
13yrs 100m Breaststroke (5th)
Peter Johnston
17yrs & Over 50m Breaststroke (6th)
Open 100m Breaststroke (8th)
Boys 13-14yrs 4x50m Freestyle Relay
David Wang, Dylan Baker
Mitchell Burt, Anthony Ventra
(8th)
Boys 13-14yrs 4x50m Medley Relay
Mitchell Burt, Anthony Ventra
David Wang, Dylan Baker
(8th)
Mens Open 4x50m Freestyle Relay
Todd Jenkin, Peter Johnston
David Wang, Anthony Ventra
(8th)

Our swimmers also swam 18 personal best times with another 5 unofficial PBs swum in the relays - every swimmer swam at least 1 PB. Mitchell Burt (100m Breaststroke) and Amber Johnson (100m Backstroke) both swam two PBs in one event, breaking both their 50m and 100m times in their 100m events.

The swimmers who swam PBs were:

Mitchell Burt
100m Freestyle
100m Backstroke
100m Breaststroke (50m & 100m)
200m Individual Medley
50m Freestyle (Relay Leg) (Unofficial)
50m Backstroke (Relay Leg)
Anthony Ventra
100m Backstroke
50m Freestyle (Relay Leg) (Unofficial)
David Wang
100m Freestyle
100m Backstroke
100m Breaststroke
200m Individual Medley
50m Freestyle (Relay Leg)
50m Butterfly (Relay Leg) (Unofficial)
Dylan Baker
50m Freestyle (Relay Leg) (Unofficial)
Peter Johnston
50m Freestyle
50m Backstroke
50m Butterfly
50m Freestyle (Relay Leg) (Unofficial)
Amber Johnson
100m Freestyle
100m Backstroke (50m & 100m)

Congratulations to all our swimmers on their great results and commiserations to Dylan Baker who was forced out of his first ever individual event at the Cumberland Championships through sickness.

The full results with split times are available here.

See Also
  • Cumberland Open & Age Championships

  • 2006/2007 Cumberland Open & Age Championships - Results