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TIME TRIAL TOP THREE: Kiah Melverton (TSS Aquatic), Kareena Lee (Noosa), Maddie Gough (TSS Aquatic). Photo Courtesy: Swimming Australia (Delly Carr).<\/p><\/div>\n
And the might of the Chris Nesbit<\/strong>-coached TSS Aquatic Club on the Gold Coast shone through when they finished first and third in the Mixed 4×1.25km Relay \u2013 an event many in the open water community believe could well be added to the Olympic program in Paris in 2024.<\/p>\n The TSS team of pool stars Kiah Melverton<\/strong> and Maddie Gough<\/strong> with the strength of Kai Edwards <\/strong>and Riley Clout<\/strong> were too strong for the Michael Sage<\/strong>-coached Kawana Waters and TSS \u201cB\u201d.<\/p>\n It also capped a successful weekend for TSS team who wrapped up the \u201cChampion Club\u201d title.For Lee and Sloman, it was the icing on a successful weekend, adding the 5km Time Trials to their 10km Australian open titles, secured on Saturday behind visiting internationals Ferry Weertman<\/strong> (NED) and Hayley Anderson<\/strong> (USA).<\/p>\n The John Rodgers<\/strong>-coached pair were not only presented with gold medals, but they also received individual cheques for $2,500 \u2013 a welcome incentive introduced by Swimming Australia.<\/p>\n The men kicked off the Time Trial proceedings at 7:30am, diving into a staggered start and it was 22-year-old Sloman (54:39.86) who showed all his open water prowess in the end to beat \u201cMr Consistency\u201d Canadian Jon McKay<\/strong> (55:21.95) followed by a welcome return to form from Kawana Waters\u2019 Bailey Armstrong<\/strong> (55:33.53) and Belgravia\u2019s exciting teenge prospect Hayden Cotter<\/strong> (55:43.41).<\/p>\n Lee (56:33.31) had to go all out to ensure she could keep TSS Aquatic training partners and Dolphins rivals, yesterday\u2019s 5km winner Gough (56:36.55) and Melverton (57:12.41) at bay.<\/p>\n The exciting Mixed 4×1.25km Open Relay saw TSS Aquatic A (Melverton, Gough, Kai Edwards, Riley Clout<\/strong>) take the bragging rights and the gold medal in 58:18.577, with Kawana Waters (Mackenzie Brazier, Matthew Robinson, Chloe Gubecka<\/strong> and Armstrong) second in 59:33.523 with TSS Aquatic B (Moesha Johnson, Bianca Crisp, Josh Parrish<\/strong> and James Otley-Doe<\/strong> in 1:00:20.463, third.<\/p>\n TEAM TSS TOPS IN OPEN WATER: Members of the TSS Team, crowned Australian Champion Open Water Club for 2020 and pictured here with Swimming Australia’s long serving Entries,\u00a0Records\u00a0and\u00a0Results\u00a0Specialist Liz Avery, who is retiring at the end of 2020. Photo Courtesy: Swimming Australia (Delly Carr).<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Australia Day Long Weekend came to a close in Adelaide today with the cream of Australia\u2019s open water swimmers and Olympic hopefuls putting the finishing touches to three spectacular<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7938,"featured_media":412712,"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":[65846,65844,120625,51221,82924,120627,120771,7930,34855,113219,51062,39125,60140,120099,120626,37721,65853,65854],"class_list":["post-412711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-world","tag-bailey-armstrong","tag-bianca-crisp","tag-chris-nesbit","tag-ferry-weertman","tag-hayden-cotter","tag-hayley-anderson","tag-james-otley-doe","tag-john-rodgers","tag-jon-mckay","tag-josh-parrish","tag-kai-edwards","tag-kareena-lee","tag-kiah-melverton","tag-maddie-gough","tag-michael-sage","tag-moesha-johnson","tag-nick-sloman","tag-riley-clout"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\r\n![\"TEAM](\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/TEAM-TSS-700x500.jpg\")