Hazel Ouwehand 50 Fly Report, Distance and Youth Headline New Zealand Nationals
Hazel Ouwehand lowered her nationwide document within the ladies’s 50 butterfly, the spotlight of the Apollo Initiatives New Zealand Swimming Championships in Auckland final week.
The document swim was one in every of many excellent performances, led by a famend distance contingent headed by Erika Fairweather and teenage skills, on the ladies’s aspect specifically. The performances have set the stage for collection of a 12-strong delegation to the World Aquatics Championships, in addition to 9 swimmers for the World Junior Championships.
Ouwehand was the standout, going 25.43 on Friday to win the ladies’s 50 fly. She lowered her document from 25.88. Earlier within the day, she “known as herself out” on social media, saying that she supposed to swim a 25 and decrease her document.
“That felt phenomenal, completely phenomenal!,” she instructed Swimming NZ. “That was the aim going into it tonight, was to interrupt my NZ document, I’ve been actually near it the previous couple of months and I knew that I had it in me. I used to be pondering 25.66s, however to go 25.43s, I’m past comfortable.”
Ouwehand received the ladies’s 100 fly in 58.81, .48 seconds off the A minimize. She won’t be headed to Worlds, although, “for a myriad of constructive causes,” per Swimming NZ. However New Zealand will nonetheless ship two within the 50 fly, with Zoe Pedersen getting an A minimize in 26.15, which can be the nationwide 18-year-old document. Third place was Laura Quilter in 26.22, additionally an A minimize for the 32-year-old who got here out of retirement and will get a Worlds journey to Singapore for her efforts.
Pedersen had a breakout meet. She twice lowered the nationwide junior document within the ladies’s 50 free, her quickest time of 25.44 good for third (Chelsey Edwards received in 25.16, adopted by Quilter’s 25.26). Pedersen was additionally third within the 100 fly and third within the 100 free.
Fairweather was usually dominant. She swept the 200 free (1:56.56), 400 free (4:03.06) and 800 free (8:21.67) to safe Worlds A cuts in all three. Most impressively, she had firm in every. Milana Tapper earned the A minimize within the 200 free by going 1:57.95 to get to her first Worlds. The 400 and 800 featured three A cuts apiece. Caitlin Deans went 8:29.32 to get the spot within the 800 forward of Eve Thomas’ 8:30.00. Thomas returned the favor by going 4:08.05 to Deans’ 4:08.81 within the 400 free.
Dean positioned third within the 200 free, forward of Edwards and Thomas. Tapper received the 100 free in 54.95, with Edwards (55.13) second and Pedersen third. Deans additionally secured an A minimize by successful the 1,500 in 16:12.18.
The ultimate day ended with two A cuts for 50 backstrokers. Amber George received the ladies’s race in 27.92 to get to Singapore. Andrew Jeffocat’s 24.89 within the males’s likewise punched him a ticket. George had tied for the win within the 100 again with Milan Glintmeyer in 1:00.84, inside 4 tenths of an A minimize. Quilter was second within the 50 again.
Teen Monique Wieruszowski swept the ladies’s breaststroke occasions, going 31.25 within the 50, 2:31.92 within the 200 and 1:09.68 within the 100.
The contingent of veterans on the boys’s aspect didn’t fairly hit previous speeds, a gaggle that didn’t embody Lewis Clareburt, who’s a part of the Worlds workforce regardless of not collaborating within the meet. Paris Olympian Kane Follows fell shy of a spot at Worlds regardless of two nationwide titles. He went 1:58.39 within the 200 again and 55.23 within the 100 again. Carter Swift clocked 49.07 to edge Cameron Grey by .11 seconds to the 100 free crown. The Paris Olympian Grey was additionally second to Jeffcoat within the 50 again after successful the 50 fly in 23.83 and isn’t on the Worlds workforce. Paris sprinter Taiko Torepe-Ormsby didn’t compete.
Georgina McCarthy assembled a powerful meet. She received the 400 IM in 4:45.67, the 200 again in 2:13.59 and the 200 IM in 2:15.39. Second within the 400 IM was Tahitian 15-year-old Videau Deotille in what seems to be a nationwide document.
Louis Clark earned a spot at Worlds within the new 3-kilometer swim by successful the 1,500 free in a B minimize of 15:25.82. He additionally received the 800 free, was second to Brendan Visser within the 400 free and second to Kevin Zhang within the 200 free. With out Torepe-Ormsby, Harrison Klouwens brushed inside .09 of the A minimize within the 50 free, successful in 22.16. Hara Hughes swept the boys’s breaststroke occasions, with 100 fly winner Caleb Carlisle his runner-up within the 50.
The opposite title to observe on the boys’s aspect was 16-year-old Ariel Muchirahondo. He received the 400 IM and set nationwide age-group data in each backstroke occasions.
Muchirahondo is amongst 9 swimmers headed to the World Junior Championships in Otopeni, Romania, within the fall. Pedersen will signify her nation at each competitions, and the World Juniors delegation consists of 2023 World Juniors silver medalist Wieruszowski.
New Zealand World Championships Group
Lewis Clareburt, Caitlin Deans, Erika Fairweather, Amber George, Finn Harland, Andrew Jeffcoat, Savannah-Eve Martin, Zoe Pedersen, Laura Quilter, Milana Tapper, Eve Thomas, Louis Clark (open water)
Coaches: Graham Hill, Mitch Nairn, Michael Weston, Matthew Ingram (supervisor)
New Zealand World Junior Championships Group
Milan Glintmeyer, Daniel Kregting, Alyssa Lawson, James Leigh, Ariel Muchirahondo, Zoe Pedersen, Igor Russanov, Alyssa Tapper, Monique Wieruszowski
Coaches: John Gatfield, Aidan Withington, Amanda White (supervisor)
