World Championship Trials- 3 medals!

July 13th, 2009 | Stingray Office Manager | Stingray News

Newmarket Stingrays swimmers won 3 medals in total at the World Championships Trials which were held in Montreal from July 8th-11th.  Lindsay Seemann won a silver medal in the 800 freestyle on the last day of the meet.  She posted a time of 8:38.99  Winning the event was distance swimmer and 2008 Olympian Savannah King of Vancouver.

Also winning medals, was Michael Zoldos, who finished 2nd in the 400 freestyle in a time of 3:50.93, just behind 2008 Olympic bronze medalist Ryan Cochrane.  Michael also won bronze in the 1500 freestyle in a time of 15:21.04

Other top 16 performances:

Lindsay Seemann:

400 IM                    4:45.94                                     4th place
200 freestyle           2:01.22     (2:00 97 prelim)         7th place
200 backstroke        2:20.15     (2:15.45 prelim)         8th place

Michael Zoldos:

200 freestyle           1:50.52                                     9th place 

 

 

6 swimmers are representing the Newmarket Stingrays at the World Championship Trials, which are being held in Montreal from July 8-11th.  The meet serves as  the selection meet for the upcoming World Championships which are in Rome later in July. 

Also being selected from this meet are teams for Canada’s “B” team which will compete at 2 meets in London, England in early August, as well as Youth and Junior Teams for an Australian tour in January 2010.

 Prelims begin on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday at 10:00am , and finals are  on each of those days beginning at 6:00pm.  On Saturday, prelims begin at 9:00am and finals begin at 4:00pm ( to accomodate live cbc tv coverage).

Finals will be webcast each day here

LIVE RESULTS

 

Best wishes to:

 

Tessa Bain (age 21) New Mexico State

 

Emily Rose Creighton(age 17) National Senior

 

Brandon Kingston(age 18) National Senior

  

Lindsay Seemann(age 16) National Senior

 

Jeffrey Swanston(age 15) AG1

 

 Michael Zoldos (age 19)
Stanford University

 

 

 Also qualified for this meet, but not attending are:  Calan Eldridge, Donald Ellison, Sarah McLean, Jessica Pietrusiak,  Matthew Swanston, and Neta Yokev