Fiona Doyle Breaks Annamay Pierse’s Longstanding 50m Breaststroke CIS Record

Fiona Doyle has had an incredible meet thus far breaking three Irish National records, but this morning, she broke a different kind of record: a CIS Championships record.

Doyle swam a 30.70 to take just one one-hundredth off the 2009 mark set by none other than former world record holder Annamay Pierse. The year Pierse set that record, she went on to break the world record in the long course 200m breaststroke.

After that swim Doyle is now the first person to break a Pierse record since she set records in all three breaststroke events at the 2009 CIS Championships.

Doyle has been on fire this competition, and is currently set up to be the first swimmer since Pierse to sweep the breaststroke events at the CIS Championships.

During her 2009 CIS record run, Pierse took all three wins, something that could very likely happen to Doyle tonight. Her closest competitor this morning was UBC’s Erin Stamp. Stamp was a 31.15.

Defending champion Tera Van Beilen will also be in the race. She took the sixth seed with a time of 32.21.

 

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tamilia
9 years ago

what’s CIS? and was it in 50 m pool or 25 m ?

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