After four days of competition, South African\u2019s top athletes displayed no signs of slowing down as the FINA World Championships qualification times continue to pour in at the SA National Aquatic Championships in Durban.<\/p>\n
There was no stopping Chad le Clos<\/strong> as he raced to his second FINA World Championships qualifying time in his favorite 200m butterfly. Le Clos\u2019 fast time of 1:55.00 saw him claim the gold, over four seconds ahead of Myles Brown<\/strong>, who ended with a time of 1:59.77. Alard Basson<\/strong> was third in 2:03.86.<\/p>\n Cameron van der Burgh<\/strong> was once again in top form as he sped to the finish in the 50m breaststroke, claiming his second gold medal in 27.17 ahead of Brad Tandy\u2019s<\/strong> 28.16 and Jared Pike\u2019s<\/strong> 28.34, while Tatjana Schoenmaker<\/strong> led the charge in her respective race and walked away with the gold in 31.61 ahead of Kaylene Corbett<\/strong> in 32.02 and Tara-Lynn Nicholas<\/strong> in 32.44.<\/p>\n Rebecca Meder, Kate Beavon<\/strong> and Dune Coetzee<\/strong> were all smiles as they confirmed their FINA Junior World Championships qualification times in the 200m freestyle. Meder won the event in 2:02.94, while Beavon claimed the silver in 2:03.13 and Coetzee finished fourth in 2:03.90. The bronze went to Nathania van Niekerk<\/strong> in 2:03.57.<\/p>\n Matthew Meyer<\/strong> just missed out on the 800m freestyle FINA World Championships qualification time, as he scooped the gold in 7:54.53, to the required 7:54.31, ahead of Josh<\/strong> Dannhauser<\/strong> in 8:01.02 and Chad Michau<\/strong> (16), who added his name to the FINA Junior World Championships qualification list with a time of 8:22.99.<\/p>\n Mariella Venter<\/strong> booked her second FINA Junior World Championships qualification, this time in the 200m backstroke semi-finals when she clocked 2:13.52, over four second under the required 2:18.41.<\/p>\n The semi-finals of the 50m backstroke saw Jacques van Wyk, Clayton Jimmie<\/strong> and Jack Oliver<\/strong> fill out the top three spots in 26.06, 26.82 and 27.09, while the ladies\u2019 race was contested between Venter, Felicity Passon<\/strong> and Erin Gallagher<\/strong> in 29.04, 29.79 and 29.87 respectively. The finals for both events will take place tomorrow<\/span>.<\/p>\n Zane Waddell, Douglas Erasmus<\/strong> and Ryan Coetzee<\/strong> will be battling it out for the 100m freestyle gold in tomorrow<\/span> night\u2019s final, as they concluded this evening\u2019s semi-finals in 49.55, 50.26 and 50.74, while Dune Coetzee, Marli Jacobs<\/strong> and Caitlin Kat<\/strong> will be looking for fast times in the 200m butterfly final, having finished the semi-finals in 2:16.27, 2:19.59 and 2:21.27, respectively.<\/p>\n The 200m individual medley semi-final was dominated by Ayrton Sweeney<\/strong> in 2:01.69, followed by Neil Fair<\/strong> in 2:03.14 and Luan Grobbelaar<\/strong> in 2:07.59, with the final being held tomorrow<\/span>.<\/p>\n Paralympian Hendri Herbst<\/strong> won the gold in the 50m freestyle (S1-13) in a fast 27.50, while the first place in the S14-15 category went to Pierre Dellieu<\/strong> in a Deaf Olympics Qualification time of 24.51. Dellieu also grabbed the 50m breaststroke gold in 31.15.<\/p>\n On the ladies side, Christelle Kriel,<\/strong> who posted a World Para Swimming Championships qualification time in the 100m butterfly earlier in the week, claimed her third and fourth gold medal of the competition in the 50m freestyle (S14-15) in 31.55 and the 50m breaststroke in 43.22, with the S1-13 freestyle gold going to Shannon Martins<\/strong> in 34.73 and the breaststroke title to Cornelle Leach<\/strong> in 44.00.<\/p>\n The day 05 heats will start at 10h00<\/span> while the finals will begin at 18h00<\/span> daily.<\/p>\n The staging of this event has been made possible through the support provided by Swimming SA partners, Sport and Recreation South Africa, SASCOC, National Lotteries Commission, Arena and Rand Water.<\/p>\n Qualifying Times following Day 04 \u2013 17th<\/sup> FINA World Championships:<\/strong><\/p>\n Qualifying Times following Day 04 \u2013 6th<\/sup> FINA Junior World Swimming Championships:<\/strong><\/p>\n Deaf Olympics Qualifiers<\/strong>:<\/p>\n World Para Swimming Qualifiers:<\/strong><\/p>\n Press release courtesy of Swimming South Africa<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After four days of competition, South African\u2019s top athletes displayed no signs of slowing down as the FINA World Championships qualification times continue to pour in at the SA National<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":250371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[61030],"class_list":["post-250369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-world","tag-2017-south-africa-national-championships"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\r\n\n
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