Thanks to some quick work by the team down at Kilbirnie pool, the prelim reasults are available on the website at the conclusion of each session. So if you want to know how things are going, then look here!

The heat sheets for the 2009 National Long Course championships are now available online

The seeding sheets for the 2009 National Long Course Championships are now available online.

Unfortunately, and despite best intentions to hold this meet, Tasman Gold are unable to host the 2009 South Island Short Course championships. Fortunately though, Tasman Gold have rescheduled their plans and are focussing on a 2010 event.  An alternative host for this event has been found and details will follow shortly.

The Masters South Island Short Course Swimming Championships were held in Blenheim at Stadium 2000 on Friday 18^th and Saturday 19^th July with great success (even with a power blow-out on the generator switchboard for the first hour on Saturday morning which held up the racing). Competitors came from the length of the country; with Masters swimmers from clubs in Auckland through to Invercargill taking part.

These were held in the Challenge Stadium, an impressive facility boasting three 50-metre pools, a diving pool and a water polo pool. The swimming competition was held in the two Olympic pools, one indoor and one outdoor. Like the champs held in Riccione, Italy four years ago the women and men swam separately, alternating between the indoor and outdoor pools.