NAMIBIAN swimmers excelled at the Northern Tigers Swimming Championships which recently took place in Pretoria, South Africa, winning 32 medals and breaking 24 Namibian records.
Namibia were represented by 16 swimmers, all from the Dolphins club, and they gave a great performance, finishing fourth overall out of a total of 21 clubs.
Tuks Swimming Club was the top club with a total of 2 123 points, followed by Pretoria Aquatic Club (1 043) and Electric Eels Swimming Club (294), while Dolphins were fourth with 215 points.
Mikah Burger was Namibia’s stand-out performer, winning one gold, three silver and three bronze medals, while he reached 10 finals in the Boys 11-12 age group. He also broke a staggering 15 Namibian records in the 400m freestyle, 100m backstroke, 50m breaststroke (twice), 200 and 100m freestyle, 100m breaststroke, 400m individual medley, 50m butterfly, 50m freestyle (twice), 200m individual medley (twice) and 100m butterfly (twice).
Tiana Esslinger won one gold, three silver and one bronze medal, and reached six finals in the Girls 11-12 age group.
She also broke four Namibian records in the 400m freestyle, 50m, 100m and 200m backstroke events.
Corne le Roux won one gold and one silver medal and reached four finals in the Boys 13-14 age group. He broke four Namibian records in the 50m, 100m (twice) and 200m butterfly events.
Heleni Stergiadis won three silver and one bronze medal and reached seven finals in the Girls 13-14 age group. She also broke one Namibian record in the 200m individual medley.
Joanne Liebenberg won one silver and three bronze medals and reached five finals.
Viktoria Elmies won two silver and one bronze medal and reached six finals.
Molina Smalley won two bronze medals and reached eight finals.
Heinrich Burger won one silver medal and reached three finals.
Martin Oosthuizen won one bronze medal and reached two finals.
Jose Canjulo won one bronze medal and reached seven finals.
Five other Dolphins swimmers also reached finals, namely Vicky Botha, Nico Esslinger, Ashram Hishamuddin, Matthias Lichtenberg and Arthur Loftie-Eaton, while Friedrich Setzkorn improved his personal best times in all his events.
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