{"id":450698,"date":"2020-10-25T10:20:03","date_gmt":"2020-10-25T17:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=450698"},"modified":"2020-10-25T10:20:03","modified_gmt":"2020-10-25T17:20:03","slug":"tatjana-schoenmaker-breaks-african-record-in-100-breaststroke-at-south-africa-short-course-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/tatjana-schoenmaker-breaks-african-record-in-100-breaststroke-at-south-africa-short-course-nationals\/","title":{"rendered":"Tatjana Schoenmaker Breaks African Record in 100 Breaststroke at South Africa Short Course Nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"

The second day of the South Africa National Short Course Swimming Championships in Pietermaritzburg saw Tatjana<\/strong> Schoenmaker<\/strong> set a new African Record with a FINA Qualification Time in the 100m breaststroke, while Matthew Sates<\/strong> added the 100m butterfly and Rebecca Meder<\/strong> the 200m individual medley.<\/p>\n

Schoenmaker broke her own 2018 African Record of 1:05.12 during the morning heats session, clocking a fast 1:04.38, and improved on that time during the afternoon finals, winning the event in an exceptional 1:03.89. Emily Visagie<\/strong> and Kaylene Corbett<\/strong> claimed the silver and bronze in 1:07.37 and 1:07.45, respectively.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was very happy with my morning swim and I didn\u2019t feel as fast in the finals but when I saw the time I was pretty shocked and I didn\u2019t expect that at all.<\/p>\n

\u201cI tried to drop my time in the 100m and I have proven to myself that I can do 1:03 so I am just hoping that I can go under 2:18 in the 200m, I will be very happy with that for my final race.\u201d Tatjana Schoenmaker said.<\/p>\n

Meder turned up the tempo in the 200m individual medley, winning the race with a FINA Qualification time of 2:09.76, over 5secs ahead of Visagie in 2:15.71 and Paige Brombacher<\/strong> in 2:16.63, while in the final race of the evening, the 200m freestyle, she claimed the bronze in 1:59.46 behind Aimee Canny<\/strong> in 1:56.78 and Dune Coetzee, <\/strong>who beat Shoenmaker in the 400 free on Day 1<\/a>,<\/strong> in 1:58.76.<\/p>\n

There was no stopping Sates, as he bagged his second FINA Qualification, this time in the 100m butterfly, touching the wall in 50.72 ahead of Daniel Ronaldson<\/strong> in 52.97 and Ross Hartigan<\/strong> in 54.06.<\/p>\n

Sates also won the 200m individual medley in 1:55.88 to Ayrton Sweeney<\/strong>\u2019s 1:59.83 and Andre van Huyssteen<\/strong>\u2019s 2:01.80 and the 200m freestyle in 1:44.99 to Dante Nortje<\/strong>\u2019s 1:48.63 and Kobe Ndebele<\/strong>\u2019s 1:49.15.<\/p>\n

It was a close finish for Erin Gallagher<\/strong>, who just missed out on a FINA Qualification time, when she scooped the gold medal in the 100m butterfly in 58.35, just 0.13secs off the 58.22 requirement, with Coetzee taking the silver in 1:00.44 and Inge Weidemann<\/strong> the bronze in 1:01.72.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am constantly learning from my swims so there is a lot that I can take out of this, I don\u2019t see it as a loss today, as it will improve me for tomorrow.\u201d said Gallagher.<\/p>\n

Pieter Coetze<\/strong> walked away with the honours in the 50m backstroke with a time of 24.08, while the silver went to Ruard<\/strong> van Renen<\/strong> in 25.49 and the bronze to Chris Luus<\/strong> in 25.87 and later on in the evening, managed a silver in the 200m backstroke in 1:55.98, behind Martin Binedell<\/strong> in 1:54.14 and ahead of Guy Brooks in 1:59.15.<\/p>\n

Tatjana Schoenmaker wasn’t the only one to turn in a fast performance. In the 50m backstroke, the gold medal was claimed by Kristen Straszacker<\/strong> in 28.69, followed by Michaela de Villiers<\/strong> in 28.90 and Natalie Landman<\/strong>n in 29.45, while the medal podium in the men\u2019s 100m breaststroke consisted of Brenden Crawford<\/strong> in 1:00.54, Jordan Royl<\/strong>e in 1:00.82 and Kian Keylock<\/strong> in 1:00.96.<\/p>\n

The gold medal in the women\u2019s 200m backstroke went to Samantha Randle<\/strong> in 2:12.84, ahead of Hannah Pearse<\/strong> in 2:13.83 and Zoe Phillips<\/strong> in 2:15.29.<\/p>\n

The SA National Short Course Swimming Championships will continue tomorrow with the heats starting at 09h30 and the finals beginning at 15h30.<\/p>\n

FINA World Championships Qualification Times Following Day 02:<\/strong><\/p>\n