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Julian Fletcher had a day to remember at the Caribbean Islands Swimming Championships in Barbados yesterday.
The 23-year-old won a gold medal, set a new meet and national record and qualified for this year’s Central American and Caribbean Games in Me...
DATE: Jul 05, 2014
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Swimming
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AUTHOR:
Colin Thompson
The Bermuda Amateur Swimming Association has launched an inquiry into a controversy that marred last weekend’s Validus Bermuda National Championships at the National Sports Centre, The Royal Gazette understands.
At the centre of the dispute is the ge...
DATE: Jun 10, 2014
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Swimming
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AUTHOR:
Colin Thompson
Controversy marred yesterday's final day of the Validus Bermuda National Swimming Championships at the Aquatics Centre.
Doubts were raised over the legitimacy of Pryanka Priyadrshni's blistering swim of 30.88sec in the girls' 13 and over 50 breaststr...
DATE: Jun 09, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Swimming
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AUTHOR:
Colin Thompson
Tyler Mazurek set a national record on the way to a podium finish in the boys’ 13-and-over 400 metres individual medley on day two of the Validus Bermuda National Championships at the Aquatic Centre yesterday.
The 16-year-old Bermudian, who is repres...
DATE: Jun 07, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Swimming
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AUTHOR:
Colin Thompson
Competing on home soil always gets Roy-Allan Burch’s juices flowing.
And the two-times Bermuda Olympic swimmer says the Validus Bermuda National Championships, which commenced last evening at the National Sports Centre, will not be any different.
The...
DATE: Jun 06, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Swimming
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AUTHOR:
Colin Thompson
Roy-Allan Burch, the Bermuda swimmer, will be keen to lower his times at next week’s star-studded Arena Grand Prix at Charlotte.
The Commonwealth Games medal hopeful is competing on the long course in the 50 and 100 metres freestyle at next week’s ev...
DATE: May 08, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Swimming
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AUTHOR:
Colin Thompson
Roy-Allan Burch has set his sights on a podium finish at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow this summer.
And failure, he stressed, is not an option.
“I plan on competing for a medal and I really want to make a push to get on the podium,” said Burch wh...
DATE: Mar 21, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Swimming
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AUTHOR:
Colin Thompson
Bermuda’s junior swimmers will have one more opportunity to qualify for the Carifta Swimming Championships during Saturday’s opening meet of the Best of the Best Series at Saltus Grammar School.
The Best of the Best event starts at 8.30am and is to b...
DATE: Jan 31, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Swimming
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AUTHOR:
Colin Thompson
National swimming coach Ben Smith has hailed Roy-Allan Burch’s record breaking exploits in Genoa, Italy, at the weekend as “spectacular”.
The Olympic swimmer got more than he bargained for in the Genoa 40 Trofeo swim meet in Genoa, Italy, capturing t...
DATE: Nov 05, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Swimming
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AUTHOR:
Colin Thompson
There was a sense of deja vu at the National Aquatics Centre as Bermuda’s women’s relay team clinched a second gold medal at the NatWest Island Games in record time.
Bermuda’s team of Ashley Yearwood, Madelyn Moore, Lisa Blackburn and Rebecca Heylige...
DATE: Jul 17, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Swimming
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AUTHOR:
Colin Thompson