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.
Swimming NZ, still by far the best live results I’ve seen. Live updates while the race is happening.
Live splits and free on YouTube…kiwis showing the world how to do it…commentary was on point also