SA Senior Nationals 2023 - 12th to 16th April, Newton Park Swimming Pool, Gqeberha - RESULTS

Good luck to the Vineyard team this week at Senior Nationals. They will be competing under the Western Cape banner.

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Session Report

Session Report V1 (pdf)
(Note: Session #10 -last day- Finals will start at 5:00pm and not 6:00pm)

Full Results, all Events

RESULTS: Vineyard swimmers (representing WCA)

Click on the swimmer’s name for SANAT and click on SANJ for those results.
In SANAT, they represent WCA. In SANJ, they represent their club Vineyard.

#	Vineyard swimmer SANAT	Vineyard swimmer SANJ
1	Emma De Wet (15)	SANJ
2	Chanel Du Plessis (16)	SANJ
3	Rebecca Fury (15)	SANJ
4	Abi Kotze (13)	SANJ
5	Emma Kuhn (18)	–

6	Luke Altmann (21)	–
7	Peter Etzold (17)	–
8	Yusseni Furtado (18)	–
9	Troy Jones (17)	–
10	Taylor Luck (17)	–
11	Tai Pearson (15)	SANJ
12	Wikus Potgieter (18)	–
13	Keeno Swarts (18)	–

**Back L-R:** Emma Kuhn, Emma De Wet, Luke Altmann, Abi Kotze, Chanel Du Plessis, Rebecca Fury
**Front L-R:** Peter Etzold, Keeno Swarts, Taylor Luck, Tai Pearson, Yusseni Furtado, Troy Jones, Wikus Potgieter
**Coaches:** Rhys Hugo and Duncan Bonney

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Finals: Day #1, Wed 12th April

Click on their picture to see their results. Excellent swimming!
100 Breast for Emma Kuhn and Peter Etzold
- With a fantastic swim in her 100 Breast, Emma Kuhn (@emma.kuhn4 ) came 2nd in the “B Final” (10th Overall). Heats 1:13.69, Finals 1:13.75
- Peter Etzold (@peterr_etzold ) had another impressive swim coming 3rd in the “B Final” (11th Overall). Finals 1:04.50
100 Back for Emma De Wet, Taylor Luck and Wikus Potgieter
- Emma De Wet (@emmadewet07 ) with an outstanding performance (and dipping further under that World Juniors Time) came 7th overall in the Women 100 Back. Heats 1:03.92, Finals 1:04.03
- Taylor Luck (@amphibiank1ng), had an excellent final coming 6th overall in the Men 100 Backstroke. His time is also the first person (18&U) to get the World Juniors time! Heats 57.88, Finals 58.14
- The Big W, Wikus Potgieter (@wikus_potgieter_ ) had an amazing swim, coming 4th overall in the Men 100 Backstroke in 57.31

Finals: Day #2, Thurs 13th April

Click on their picture to see their results. Well swum!
200 IM for Emma Kuhn, Peter Etzold and Tai Pearson
- Well done to Emma Kuhn, she came 5th overall in the Women 200 IM on Day 2 of Senior Nationals, 2:20.70. Excellent swimming Emma!!
- Well done to Peter Etzold, who came 10th Overall (3rd in the B final), in the Men 200 IM, 2:08.85, a LCM PB. Great effort Peter!!
- Well done to Tai Pearson, who came 15th Overall (7th in the B Final) in the Men 200 IM, 2:10.65. In the heats, he did a 2:10.52, a LCM PB. Excellent swimming Tai!!
50 Back for Emma De Wet, Wikus Potgieter and Taylor Luck
- Well done to Emma De Wet, who came 9th overall in the Women 50 Backstroke, 30.12 a LCM PB. Excellent swimming Emma!!
- Well done to Wikus Potgieter, who came 5th overall in the Men 50 Backstroke, 26.63, a LCM PB. Excellent effort Wikus!
- Well done to Taylor Luck, who came 6th overall in the Men 50 Backstroke, 26.64. In the heats he did a 26.54, a LCM PB. Excellent swimming Peter!

Finals: Day #3, Fri 14th April

Click on their picture to see their results. Well swum!
100 Free for Abi Kotze and Taylor Luck
- Well done to Abi Kotze, she came 14th overall in the Women’s 100 Freestyle (58.60) (youngest in both the A and B final by 2 years!) Abi did a 58.46 in the heats. Excellent swimming Abi!!
- Well done to Taylor Luck, who came 6th overall in the Men’s 100 Freestyle. This swim is another World Juniors Qualifying time (51.61). Taylor did a 51.59 in the heats. Great swimming!
200 Breast for Peter Etzold
- Well done to Peter Etzold, he came 1st in the B final and 7th overall in the Men’s 200 Breaststroke. His time of 2:21.07 is also a World Juniors qualifying time! Peter did a 2:23.19 in the heats. Excellent swimming!
4×100 Relays for Abi Kotze, Emma Kuhn and Wikus Potgieter
- We had some excellent relay swims (representing Western Cape)
- The girls, Abi (@abi_kotze ) and Emma (@emma.kuhn4 ) came 2nd in the Women 4×100 Freestyle.
- Wikus (@wikus_potgieter_ ) was part of the Men 4×100 Freestyle who came 3rd!

Finals: Day #4, Sat 15th April

Click on their picture to see their results. Well swum!
50 Free for Abi Kotze, Taylor Luck and Rebecca Fury
- Well done to Abi Kotze (@abi_kotze). She came 8th (26.87) in the A final of the Women 50 Freestyle. Her swim in the morning was both a SA record (26.49) for Girls 13 and a World Juniors qualifying time!
- Well done to Rebecca Fury, who had to do a swim-off (She and another swimmer had the exact same time in prelims). Her time (27.04) would have placed her 14th overall in the Women’s 50 Freestyle
- Well done to Taylor Luck (@amphibiank1ng ). He came 13th overall in the Men’s 50 Freestyle (23.83).
100 Fly for Abi Kotze, Emma Kuhn, Tai Pearson and Wikus Potgieter
- Well done to Abi Kotze (@abi_kotze ) who came 4th overall in the Women 100 Fly (Youngest in the A final by 4 years!). Her time of 1:01.05 is both a new SA record for girls 13 and also another World Juniors Qualifying Time!
- Well done to Emma Kuhn, she came 16th overall in the Women 100 Butterfly in 1:04.80
- Well done to Tai Pearson (@tai_pearson_ ) who came 8th overall in the Men 100 Butterfly (55.00). His time in the heats (54.63) is a new SA record for boys 15 and a World Juniors Qualifying Time!
- Well done to Wikus Potgieter (@wikus_potgieter_ ) who came 12th overall in the Men 100 Butterfly in a time of 55.73
4×50 Relays for Rebecca Fury, Abi Kotze and Taylor Luck
- In the Women 4×50 Freestyle Relay, Abi (@abi_kotze ) went a 26.46 and Rebecca (@rebecca.fury ) went a 26.86! The WCA Women came 2nd overall!
- In the Men 4×50 Freestyle Relay, Taylor (@amphibiank1ng ) went a 22.96!! The WCA Men came 2nd overall.

Finals: Day #5, Sun 16th April

Click on their picture to see their results. Well swum!
200 Backstroke for Emma De Wet and Wikus Potgieter
- Well done to Emma De Wet. She came 2nd (2:21.90) in the B Final of the Women 200 Backstroke. Her time placed her 8th overall by time!
- Well done to Wikus Potgieter. He came 11th overall (2:10.16) in the Men’s 200 Backstroke.
50 Fly for Abi Kotze and Tai Pearson
- Well done to Abi Kotze, she came 6th overall (27.72) in the Women’s 50 Butterfly. Good swimming!
- Well done to Tai Pearson, he came 8th (25.06) in the A final of the Men’s 50 Butterfly. Good swimming!
4 x 100 Medley Relay for Women
- Well done to our girls, who in the Women 4×100 Medley Relay came third! Emma De Wet (1:04.34 Back) and Abi Kotze (58.48 Free).