2008 Olympic Trials Results
April 1-6th – Montreal
8 swimmers represented the Newmarket Stingrays at the Olympic Trials last week: Tessa Bain, Calan Eldridge, Donald Ellison, Mark Kurtzer, Brandon Kingston, Jessica Pietrusiak, Lindsay Seemann, and Matthew Swanston.
Despite some illness, we had some excellent results overall at the meet
There is an “A†final for the top 8 swimmers after the morning preliminaries, and a “B†final for the swimmers placing 9-16th after the morning preliminaries.
Here are performances in the A final:
Lindsay Seemann
- 200 backstroke – 1st place 2:12.06
- 800 freestyle – 2nd place 8:37.98*
- 100 backstroke- 4th place 1:02.77
* NEW PROVINCIAL RECORD
Matthew Swanston
- 200 backstroke- 5th place 2:02.99
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Matthew receiving his 5th place medal from Olympic Gold medalist Mark Tewksbury (100 backstroke, 1992 Barcelona) |
Here are performances in the B final:
Brandon Kingston-
- 1500 freestyle – 9th place 16:00.97*
- 400 freestyle- 16th place 4:05.57
*had 6th fastest time overall
Lindsay Seemann
- 400 freestyle -10th place 4:19.63
- 400 IM – 13th place 4:58.90
- 200 IM- 10th place 2:20.06
Matthew Swanston
- 100 backstroke- 10th place 58.11
- 200 freestyle- 14th place 1:53.27
