South African Masters Swimming
32nd Long Course Championships

held at the Kings Park 50m pool in Durban in the Province of KwaZulu-Natal
from the 16th to the 19th of March 2016.

The SAMS Open Water Championships were held as a Surf Swim
at the Marine Surf Lifesaving Club in Durban on the 20th.

2474 entries for individual events were received from 460 swimmers (241 women and 219 men) from 23 clubs.

14 were from foreign swimmers from Australia, Great Britain, Germany, Russia & Hungary.

429 swimmers eventually competed.

406 swimmers scored points for their club in individual races.

10 swimmers won all 6 of their individual events.

374 relay teams were entered.

There were 160 swimmers entered who were 60 years and older.
47 of them were 70 years and older.
11 of them were 80 years and older.

The oldest female competing was Grace Isaac (84) from the Spencer Club in Great Britain.
The oldest male competing was Ted Beukes (86) from Coelacanth MSC.

In the Open Water events 205 swimmers entered and 153 competed.

RECORDS

• FINA Records:

  • 4 FINA World Masters Swimming Records were broken and applications will be submitted to FINA.

    • Individual

      • Andre Steynberg [60] Wahoo MSC (Men 60-64 50m Backstroke 30.66)

        • Previous World Record 31.46 set 2007-06-02

    • Relays

      • Cape Town MSC Women 240-279 A team (Women 4x50m Freestyle Relay 2:04.96)

        • Sanderina Kruger W67, Di Coetzee W61, Gail McCarney W57, Cecilia Stanford W55
          Previous World Record 2:05.98 set 2015-07-11

      • Cape Town MSC Women 240-279 A team (Women 4x100m Freestyle Relay 4:39.62)

        • Sanderina Kruger W67, Di Coetzee W61, Gail McCarney W57, Cecilia Stanford W55
          Previous World Record 4:47.03 set 2015-03-20 (by Cape Town MSC)

      • Cape Town MSC Women 240-279 A team (Women 4x50m Medley Relay 2:22.65)

        • Di Coetzee W61, Gail McCarney W57, Cecilia Stanford W55, Sanderina Kruger W67
          Previous World Record 2:24.95 set 2014-08-07

• SAMS Records

  • Individual

    • 58 South African Masters Swimming Records were broken by 23 different swimmers from 8 different clubs.
      5 second place finishers also bettered the previous SAMS Record.
      Cecilia Stanford (Cape Town MSC) broke SAMS Records in all 6 of her individual events.
      

  • Relays

    • 20 South African Masters Swimming Records were broken or established by 4 different Clubs.
      18 second (or lower) place finishing teams also bettered the previous SAMS Record.

COLOURS

South African Masters Swimming Colours qualifying times were bettered 96 times by 31 different South African Swimmers during the championships.
Heather Campbell, Di Coetzee, Tim Shead, Cecilia Stanford & Andre Steynberg bettered the SAMS Colours qualifying time in all 6 of their individual events.

37 swimmers (23 women & 14 men) who qualified throughout the 2015/2016 season were awarded their SAMS Colours.

In addition there were 2 swimmers who qualified on time in the 2015/2016 season but have yet to fulfil the requirement of participation in 3 SAMS National Long Course Championships.

There were also 3 swimmers who had qualified in previous seasons and had now competed in their 3rd SAMS LC Nationals. They were awarded these SAMS Colours.
 

ENTRY LISTS:

Club list with entry count
Competitors by Name
Competitors by Age
Competitors by Club
Relay teams by Club

AWARDS:

See what Awards were presented.

RESULTS:

BY AGE GROUP:

Individual events:

Women:

19-24	25-29	30-34	35-39	40-44	45-49	50-54	55-59
60-64	65-69	70-74	75-79	80-84	85-89	90-94	95-99

Men:

19-24	25-29	30-34	35-39	40-44	45-49	50-54	55-59
60-64	65-69	70-74	75-79	80-84	85-89	90-94	95-99

Relay events:

Women

Men

Mixed

BY EVENT:

See Real-time results

All events by event number
 

RECORDS & COLOURS:

FINA World Records broken or equalled. (All by event)

SAMS Records broken or equalled. (All by event)

SAMS Records broken or equalled. (By Club)

 

South African Masters Swimming Colours Qualifying Times achieved at the Championships.

• Pool

•   Open Water (These qualifying times are still to be approved by SAMS)

 

SCORES:

Clubs:
    All events (Women, Men, Combined)
    Individual events (Combined)
    Relay events (Combined)

Regions:
    All events (Combined)

Individuals:
    Individual events

SUMMARY:

Medal count

Places count

Championship summary
    Overall
    By Club

DASH-for-CASH:

Results

Results by Masters age groups

OPEN WATER SWIM:

3000m and 1000m Open Water Swims were held on Sunday 20th March at the Marine Surf Lifesaving Club.

3000m results
1000m results

3000m scores
1000m scores

Total scores - The winning Club (Coelacanth MSC) will be presented with the SAMS Open Water Club Trophy at the Awards Function next year.

 

 

This page last updated: JWP 29 July 2016