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SUCCESSFUL IN SINGAPORE 🇸🇬
SMNE TEAM DELIVER 32 MEDALS.

Wrapping up the 2023 Singapore SC Nationals.

Team SMNE has walked away with an impressive haul of 32 medals

🥇14 Gold
🥈12 Silver
🥉6 Bronze

SMNE development Coordinator and team member Luke Bibby said “this trip has successfully provided our older athletes the race opportunity they needed to help them realise their potential, racing overseas can be the little boost that helps you break into the Aus team as it is extremely competitive in Aus.

Each athlete has exceeded expectations for this week with everyone lifting for the team relays, individual events ,supporting our finalists and the team in general.

We will definitely look to support more opportunities in the future”

The team would like to express its thanks to former SMNE coaches @bobby_hurley & John Woodford @aquatic.courses for their support over in Singapore, always nice to see some friendly faces.

The team would also like to thank the SMNE board for their support of the trip and to Nick Dobson and Justin Rothwell for their help behind the scenes.

And a big thank you to @singapore_aquatics for hosting us- we look forward to returning! ...

DAY 4 Singapore SC nationals.

In our teams final day of racing in the Men’s and women’s 50Fr - Tomas Kapocius and Sydney Brown claimed Bronze 🥉🥉

In the Men’s 100IM Joel Ivory pulled out a lifetime PB to claim silver 🥈cracking into 54sec mark for the first time. with the Winner putting on a new meet record for the win.

A silver 🥈in the women’s 200BR saw Bella Zangs dominant run continue.

Our mixed Medley relay A - Joel,Paris, Sydney & Joesph and B- Tim,Bibby, Bella and Kira, teams finished 1st and 3rd 🥇🥉

And finally our Women’s 4x50 claimed 🥇 in a new meet record time and in a race that came down to a touch our relay M finished the meet with a Silver 🥈

Other results: respectfully.
W50FR - Paris Zang 6th, Kira Long 8th
M50FR- Cal Fenwick-kearns- 12th, Kyan Winn 17th
M100IM - Luke Bibby 8th, Tim Li 17th ...

Racing line up for the final Heat session of 2023 Singapore SC Champs! ...

DAY 4 FINALS- 2023 Singapore SC Nationals.

4 Golds🥇🥇🥇🥇

🥇Our first gold of the night came in the men’s 200IM, with Gabe Gorgas overcoming a bout of illness earlier in the week to take a commanding lead from start to finish to claim victory and become Singapore champion!
Luke Bibby also featured put on a strong performance to claim the bronze 🥉

🥇Our 2nd Gold came from Joseph Hamson in the men’s 50BK in a PB time. With Tomas Kapocius claiming the silver 🥈

Our final 2 golds 🥇🥇 came in the Men’s A 4x100FR - Joel, Joseph, Gabe and Tomas. Where the men had to hold off a strong host of local teams to claim the win.

And our Women’s 4x100 -Paris,Sydney,Bella and Kira, again showed they are a class above claiming victory by a full 25mtrs.

Other notable performances included Silver for 🥈Paris Zang in the Women’s 50m Backstroke.

🥉Bronze for Joseph Hamson in the men’s 100BF in a very red hot field.


Sydney Brown -4th 100 BF
Tim Li- 200 IM B Final 1st 5sec PB
Bella Zang- 200 IM 🥈
Kyan Winn- 400 FR B final 2nd, 50 BK B Final 2nd

Men’s B - 4x100 Fr 4th -Bibby, Cal, Kyan, Tim. ...

DAY 3 - 2023 Singapore SC Nationals @singapore_aquatics ...

DAY 2 FINALS -2023 Singapore SC nationals.

5 GOLD MEDALS. 🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇

🥇In a comeback for the ages Cal Fenwick-Kerns set the tone for the night, having the swim of his life. Building to a grandstand finish the boy from Manly claimed our first gold of the night in the Men’s 200m Backstroke in a new PB time and first time cracking 2 minutes.

And from then the gold didn’t stop flowing.

🥇Back in action again Bella Zang claimed our second gold in the W 50m Breaststroke a full second clear of the field.

🥇Next up - a head to head match up that again went down to the wire with Joel Ivory having already won silver in the 50BR backing up to take on Tomas Kapocius in the men’s 100Fr, the boys put on a great performance just 0.2 outside the meet record with Tomas just edging out Joel.

🥇🥇Our Women’s team convincingly won gold in the 4x50 medley with all working strongly together for the win.Kira, Bella, Paris & Sydney

And our Men’s A held off a tightly packed field winning by a half an arm to get the win. Tomas,Joseph, Joel and Bibby.

EVERYTHING ELSE: Respectively.

🥈Sydney Brown -100FR
Paris Zang - 100Fr 5th (A Final)
Luke Bibby - B final 50BR 1st
Joel Ivory 🥈50 BR, 🥈100 FR
Tim Li- 50 BR (A final) 7th
Bella Zang - 100 FR (B Final) 1st
Kira Long - 100FR (B Final) 3rd
Kyan Winn- 100FR B final 9th
Gabe Gorgas -100FR B final 1st

Men’s B Team 4th- Cal,Kyan,Tim & Gabe ...

RACING DAY 2 @singapore_aquatics ...

DAY 1 FINALS - 2023 Singapore SC Nationals.

What a great start from our Open touring team. 3 Golds on the opening night

Night 1 saw some fantastic performances

Sydney Brown has claimed SMNEs first ever international Gold 🥇in a race that came down to the wire with 3 girls all in the hunt for the win. Sydney powered home to take the win and become Singapore Champion.

Our second gold came in the Women’s 100 Breaststroke GOLD🥇with Bella Zang again fighting to the finish to come out victorious.

And a 3rd GOLD 🥇 from our relay boys SMNE A - Mens 4x100 Medley - Tom,Gabe,Joseph & Joel in a very convincing win.

ALL THE REST: respectively

Paris Zang- 100 BK 🥈
Cal Fenwick-Kerns 100 back 4th
Joel Ivory 200 free 🥉
Joe Hamson - 100 bk 🥈50 fly 🥉
Gabe Gorgas - 100Br 🥈
Kira Long - 50BF B final
Tim Li - 100Brs B Final 3rd
Kyan Winn - 100 bk B final 200 free B final
Luke Bibby - 100 brs 5th PB 🚀 at 28!!
Men’s B -4th cal,Tim,bibby,Kyan ...

Day 1 racing line up for our Open touring team @singapore_aquatics ...

Our 3 MC, SAARS & NAARS Development Clinics were a huge success. Well done to all who attended and thank you to coaches Sandi, Analiese, Sam, Quentin, Steve, Blake and Luke. ...