Call for Swimming South Africa to put international justice first and boycott the competition
Unbeaten in national galas, Westville Boys High School is sending swimming champions out into the world.
South African swimmers Karin Prinsloo, Chad le Clos and Myles Brown have brought home the medals from the Aquatic Super Series in Perth, Australia.
Four-time Olympian Roland Schoeman has raced to a double gold on the first day of the second leg of the Fina World Cup Swimming in Berlin.
South Africa’s Olympic governing body will contribute more than R400 000 towards the national swimming team’s Fina World Championships campaign.
SA swimmers will have to pay their own way to compete in the FINA World Championships in Barcelona because Swimming SA cannot fund the trip.
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/ 7 September 2008
Swimming SA management and its Olympic team members have agreed to work together in the interest of the sport.
South Africa’s swim stars are set to gather in Cape Town this weekend for the final national swimming camp in home waters before they take up the challenge in a series of international galas prior to competing at the Beijing Olympic Games in August.
Gerhard Zandberg kept South Africa’s fast-lane medal hunt on course with his 50m backstroke heats effort, coupled with fine performances by Melissa Corfe, Suzaan van Biljon and William Diering, at the Fina World Short-Course Swimming Championships in Manchester on Friday.