GENEVA, Switzerland, January 18. JUNIOR teamers from all over the world, including Canada, France and Germany, converged on Geneva, Switzerland this weekend to compete with other high quality talent at the Geneva International.<\/p>\n
Many of the younger swimmers posted some strong times. However, Canada's Lindsay Seeman may have been the best youngster as the 16-year-old posted the fastest times in two of her events \u2013 regardless of age division.<\/p>\n
Martin Verner garnered the first title of the day with a 51.06 in the men's 100 free. He held off Clemens Rapp (51.27) and Charles Turner (51.85) in the win. In the women's 200 free, Nina Van Koeckhoven touched first in 2:03.61, while Natalie Durant (2:04.92) and Swann Oberseon (2:05.45) completed the rest of the top three.<\/p>\n
The men's 200 breaststroke featured James Kirton winning in 2:21.80 over Giacomo Mungai (2:22.87) and Jiri Vlcek (2:24.80), while Genevieve Cantin won the women's 200 back title with a 2:17.46, just touching out Christin Zenner (2:17.65). 16-year-old Lindsay Seeman of Canada put together a really strong swim in the 15-16 division of the 200 back with a 2:15.75 that would have won the open title.<\/p>\n
Luca Germano grabbed the men's 200 fly title with a time of 2:04.33, although Federico Bussolin posted the fastest time with a 2:02.27 in the 17-18 age division.<\/p>\n
Bridget O'Connor touched out Kimberly Buys in the women's 100 fly with a meet record time of 1:00.24 against Buys' 1:00.30. Both times surpassed the 1:00.64 set by Elena Gemo in 2006.<\/p>\n
In the men's 400 free, Bjorn Mates crushed the competition with a time of 4:00.21, but still finished well off the strong meet record of 3:53.15 set by David Davies last year.<\/p>\n
Louise Jansen pocketed the title in the women's 400 IM with a time of 4:56.68, which obliterated the meet record of 5:00.79 set by Veronica Massari in 2004. Meanwhile, Seemann continued her stellar day in the 15-16 age division with a top time of 4:57.44.<\/p>\n
Although Tom Haffield won the men's 200 IM open title with a 2:08.29, just touching out Chris Middleton's 2:08.43, the 17-18 swimmers had the faster heat with Markus Deibler clocking a 2:06.69 and Lucien Hassdenteufel placing second in 2:07.08.<\/p>\n
Celine Baillod surfaced from the women's 50 breast with a victory in 32.84, while Jonathan Massacand touched out Andrew Shepherd, 27.32 to 27.37, to win the men's 50 back and close out the first day of swimming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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