2024 NEW ZEALAND SC CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Tuesday, August 20th – Saturday, August 24th
- Sir Owen G. Glenn Aquatic Centre, Auckland, New Zealand
- SCM (25m)
- Meet Central
- Live Results
The 2024 New Zealand Short Course Championships kicked off this week from Auckland and already we saw a national record bit the dust.
Racing on day two of the competition, Joshua Gilbert took down the New Zealand national standard in the men’s 200m breaststroke, clocking a time of 2:04.57.
23-year-old Gilbert of Club 37 ripped the former national record to shreds, knocking nearly 2 seconds off the 2:06.45 Glenn Snyders put on the books in 2008.
Gilbert led the race wire-to-wire, registering the sole time of the field under the 2:10 barrier by a large margin. Sam Brown of Coast Swimming Club was next to the wall in 2:10.37 while Waitakere’s James Slessor rounded out the podium in 2:12.61.
As for Gilbert, he split 12.75/15.37/15.97/15.89/15.97/16.10 en route to putting up his new lifetime best. Entering this competition, Gilbert’s career-quickest stood at the 2:08.27 notched at the 2022 edition of this competition.
He now ranks 9th in the world on the season.
2023-2024 SCM Men 200 Breast
PRIGODA
2:02.32
| 2 | Mikhail DORINOV | RUS | 2:02.33 | 12/18 |
| 3 | Caspar CORBEAU | NED | 2:02.41 | 12/09 |
| 4 | DANIL SEMIANINOV | RUS | 2:02.80 | 11/22 |
| 5 | Anton MCKEE | ISL | 2.02.74 | 12/09 |
| 6 | Ippei Watanabe | JPN | 2:03.25 | 10/22 |
| 7 | Arno KAMMINGA | NED | 2:03.32 | 12/09 |
| 8 | Ilya SHIMANOVICH | BLR | 2:04.17 | 11/22 |
| 9 | Yu Hanaguruma | JPN | 2:04.57 | 10/22 |
| 10 | Ryuya Mura | JPN | 2:04.79 | 10/22 |
The Oceanian record remains at the 2:01.98 Christian Sprenger logged at the 2009 Australian Championships.
