2022 SA National Swimming Championships

2022 SA National Swimming Championships
2022 SA National Swimming Championships
Host city	Gqeberha, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Date(s)	6–11 April 2022
Venue(s)	Newton Park Swimming Pool
Nations participating	9
Events	44 (men: 21; women: 21; mixed: 2) ; 18 para swimming (men: 9; women: 9)

The 2022 SA National Swimming Championships was held from 6 to 11 April 2022 in Gqeberha, South Africa at the Newton Park Swimming Pool.^[1]^[2] Events were competed in a long course (50 metres long) swimming pool.^[2] It served as a selection meet for determining the swimmers to represent South Africa at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships and 2022 Commonwealth Games.^[3] It was held concurrently with the 2022 SA National Junior Swimming Championships as part of the multi-sport 2022 Telkom SA National Aquatic Championships.^[1] The meet was open to international competition and included multi-class para swimming events.^[4]

Event schedule[edit]

A total of 62 events were competed over six days, including 18 para swimming events. For para swimming events, men and women had the same schedule. Heats started at 07:30 on days one and four, and started at 08:30 on days two, three, five, and six. Senior finals started at 18:00 each day.^[5]

H	Heats		Finals

M = Morning session (starting at 07:30 - days 1, 4; 08:30 - days 2, 3, 5, 6), E = Evening session (starting at 18:00 - all days)

**Men**
Date →	Wed 6		Thu 7		Fri 8		Sat 9		Sun 10		Mon 11
Event ↓	M	E	M	E	M	E	M	E	M	E	M	E
50 m freestyle									H
100 m freestyle					H
200 m freestyle			H
400 m freestyle	H
800 m freestyle
1500 m freestyle
50 m backstroke					H
100 m backstroke	H
200 m backstroke									H
50 m breaststroke							H
100 m breaststroke			H
200 m breaststroke	H
50 m butterfly	H
100 m butterfly							H
200 m butterfly					H
200 m individual medley											H
400 m individual medley			H
4×50 m freestyle relay
4×100 m freestyle relay
4×200 m freestyle relay
4×100 m medley relay

**Women**
Date →	Wed 6		Thu 7		Fri 8		Sat 9		Sun 10		Mon 11
Event ↓	M	E	M	E	M	E	M	E	M	E	M	E
50 m freestyle			H
100 m freestyle							H
200 m freestyle	H
400 m freestyle											H
800 m freestyle
1500 m freestyle
50 m backstroke									H
100 m backstroke			H
200 m backstroke							H
50 m breaststroke	H
100 m breaststroke							H
200 m breaststroke					H
50 m butterfly					H
100 m butterfly	H
200 m butterfly									H
200 m individual medley							H
400 m individual medley	H
4×50 m freestyle relay
4×100 m freestyle relay
4×200 m freestyle relay
4×100 m medley relay

**Mixed**
Date →	Wed 6		Thu 7		Fri 8		Sat 9		Sun 10		Mon 11
Event ↓	M	E	M	E	M	E	M	E	M	E	M	E
4×100 m freestyle relay
4×100 m medley relay

**Para swimming (multi-class, men and women)**
Date →	Wed 6		Thu 7		Fri 8		Sat 9		Sun 10		Mon 11
Event ↓	M	E	M	E	M	E	M	E	M	E	M	E
50 m freestyle	H
100 m freestyle									H
50 m backstroke									H
100 m backstroke			H
50 m breaststroke	H
100 m breaststroke							H
50 m butterfly							H
100 m butterfly					H
200 m individual medley											H

Overall results[edit]

Key: Highlighted swimmers achieved the "A" qualifying time for the 2022 World Aquatics Championships and the 2022 Commonwealth Games in the event.^[6]^[7] Highlighted swimmers achieved a "B" qualifying time and were named to the 2022 World Aquatics Championships roster for South Africa in the event.^[6]^[8]

Men[edit]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle^[9]	Pieter Coetze (RSA) Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	22.34	Brad Tandy (RSA) KwaZulu-Natal	22.49	Clayton Jimmie (RSA) KwaZulu-Natal	22.82
100 m freestyle^[10]	Matthew Sates (RSA) KwaZulu-Natal	48.97	Pieter Coetze (RSA) Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	50.17	Alexander Skinner (NAM) Namibia	50.43
200 m freestyle^[11]	Matthew Sates (RSA) KwaZulu-Natal	1:46.15	Max Litchfield (GBR) Great Britain	1:49.49	Andrew Ross (RSA) Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	1:49.59
400 m freestyle^[12]	Matthew Sates (RSA) KwaZulu-Natal	3:49.37	Max Litchfield (GBR) Great Britain	3:51.37	Andrew Ross (RSA) Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	3:56.92
800 m freestyle^[13]	Aneesh Gowda (IND) India	8:14.45	Roberto Gomes (RSA) Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	8:19.10	Ruan Breytenbach (RSA) Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	8:20.30
1500 m freestyle^[14]	Righardt Muller (RSA) Western Cape Aquatics	15.36.70	Aneesh Gowda (IND) India	15:48.89	Ruan Breytenbach (RSA) Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	16:03.42

50 m backstroke^[10]	Pieter Coetze (RSA) Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	24.74	Jonah Pool-Jones (RSA) Western Cape Aquatics	26.32	Ruard van Renen (RSA) Western Cape Aquatics	26.56
100 m backstroke^[12]	Pieter Coetze (RSA) Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	54.08^[a]	Ruard van Renen (RSA) Western Cape Aquatics	57.04	Liam Vehbi (RSA) Eastern Cape Aquatics	58.03
200 m backstroke^[9]	Ruan Ras (RSA) Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	2:05.03	Guy Brooks (RSA) KwaZulu-Natal	2:05.33	Utkarsh Santosh Patil (IND) India	2:07.21

50 m breaststroke^[13]	Michael Houlie (RSA) Western Cape Aquatics	27.22^[b]	Brenden Crawford (RSA) Aquatics Guateng Ekurhuleni	28.12	Joshua Emslie (RSA) Western Cape Aquatics	28.98
100 m breaststroke^[11]	Brenden Crawford (RSA) Aquatics Guateng Ekurhuleni	1:01.00	Michael Houlie (RSA) Western Cape Aquatics	1:01.56	Matthew Randle (RSA) Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	1:02.96
200 m breaststroke^[12]	Kian Keylock (RSA) Aquatics Guateng Ekurhuleni	2:14.47	Matthew Randle (RSA) Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	2:14.49	Ruan Breytenbach (RSA) Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	2:16.50

50 m butterfly^[12]	Chad le Clos (RSA) Western Cape Aquatics	23.93	Pieter Coetze (RSA) Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	24.14	Matthew Sates (RSA) KwaZulu-Natal	24.28
100 m butterfly^[13]	Chad le Clos (RSA) Western Cape Aquatics	51.88	Matthew Sates (RSA) KwaZulu-Natal	52.06	Pieter Coetze (RSA) Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	53.52
200 m butterfly^[10]	Chad le Clos (RSA) Western Cape Aquatics	1:55.75	Max Litchfield (GBR) Great Britain	1:57.66	Ethan du Preez (RSA) Western Cape Aquatics	1:59.57

200 m individual medley^[14]	Matthew Sates (RSA) KwaZulu-Natal	1:58.37	Max Litchfield (GBR) Great Britain	1:59.96	Kian Keylock (RSA) Aquatics Guateng Ekurhuleni	2:04.52
400 m individual medley^[11]	Max Litchfield (GBR) Great Britain	4:15.39	Ruan Breytenbach (RSA) Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	4:27.14	Ruan Ras (RSA) Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	4:27.34

4×50 m freestyle relay^[13]	Aquatics Guateng Tshwane Pieter Coetze (22.15)^[c]	1:30.75	KwaZulu-Natal	1:31.05	Western Cape Aquatics	1:31.42
4×100 m freestyle relay^[11]	KwaZulu-Natal	3:22.68	Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	3:23.05	Western Cape Aquatics	3:24.55
4×200 m freestyle relay^[10]	Aquatics Guateng Tshwane (a-relay)	7:36.53	Aquatics Guateng Tshwane (b-relay)	7:36.75	KwaZulu-Natal	7:41.27
4×100 m medley relay^[14]	Western Cape Aquatics	3:47.97	Aquatics Guateng Tshwane (a-relay)	3:50.49	Aquatics Guateng Tshwane (b-relay)	3:53.75

^a Coetze swam a FINA "A" cut time of 53.96 seconds in the heats.^[15]^[16]

^b Houlie swam a FINA "A" cut time, though was not automatically qualified for the 2022 World Aquatics Championships team as he did not qualify in an Olympic event.^[17]

^c Coetze swam a FINA "A" cut time of 22.15 seconds in the 50 metre freestyle for the lead-off leg of the relay.^[17]

Women[edit]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle^[11]	Emma Chelius (RSA) KwaZulu-Natal	25.08	Erin Gallagher (RSA) Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	25.39	Aimee Canny (RSA) Western Cape Aquatics Olivia Nel (RSA) Western Cape Aquatics	25.62
100 m freestyle^[13]	Aimee Canny (RSA) Western Cape Aquatics	54.71	Erin Gallagher (RSA) Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	54.73	Emma Chelius (RSA) KwaZulu-Natal	55.70
200 m freestyle^[12]	Aimee Canny (RSA) Western Cape Aquatics	1:58.34	Duné Coetzee (RSA) Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	2:00.60	Erin Gallagher (RSA) Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	2:00.72
400 m freestyle^[14]	Duné Coetzee (RSA) Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	4:12.35	Michaela Pulford (RSA) Aquatics Guateng Ekurhuleni	4:15.93	Rebecca Meder (RSA) KwaZulu-Natal	4:20.47
800 m freestyle^[9]	Michaela Pulford (RSA) Aquatics Guateng Ekurhuleni	8:46.33	Catherine van Rensburg (RSA) Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	8:53.55	Leigh McMorran (RSA) Aquatics Guateng Johannesburg	8:58.50
1500 m freestyle^[10]	Stephanie Houtman (RSA) Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	16:55.55	Catherine van Rensburg (RSA) Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	17:04.28	Leigh McMorran (RSA) Aquatics Guateng Johannesburg	17:08.30

50 m backstroke^[9]	Olivia Nel (RSA) Western Cape Aquatics	28.81	Rebecca Meder (RSA) KwaZulu-Natal	28.86	Kerryn Herbst (RSA) Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	29.43
100 m backstroke^[11]	Rebecca Meder (RSA) KwaZulu-Natal	1:02.55	Kerryn Herbst (RSA) Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	1:02.98	Olivia Nel (RSA) Western Cape Aquatics	1:03.00
200 m backstroke^[13]	Hannah Pearse (RSA) Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	2:15.78	Samantha Randle (RSA) Aquatics Guateng Tshwane		Bernelee Doster (RSA) Aquatics Guateng Johannesburg

50 m breaststroke^[12]	Lara van Niekerk (RSA) Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	30.60	Tatjana Schoenmaker (RSA) Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	30.87	Kaylene Corbett (RSA) Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	31.94
100 m breaststroke^[13]	Lara van Niekerk (RSA) Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	1:05.67	Tatjana Schoenmaker (RSA) Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	1:06.06	Kaylene Corbett (RSA) Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	1:08.63
200 m breaststroke^[10]	Tatjana Schoenmaker (RSA) Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	2:24.01	Kaylene Corbett (RSA) Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	2:24.66	Emily Visagie (RSA) KwaZulu-Natal	2:32.57

50 m butterfly^[10]	Erin Gallagher (RSA) Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	26.39	Inge Weidemann (RSA) Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	27.24	Rebecca Meder (RSA) KwaZulu-Natal	27.35
100 m butterfly^[12]	Erin Gallagher (RSA) Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	59.78	Duné Coetzee (RSA) Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	1:00.82	Rebecca Meder (RSA) KwaZulu-Natal	1:01.50
200 m butterfly^[9]	Duné Coetzee (RSA) Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	2:11.88	Trinity Hearne (RSA) Western Cape Aquatics	2:15.46	Leigh McMorran (RSA) Aquatics Guateng Johannesburg	2:17.88

200 m individual medley^[13]	Rebecca Meder (RSA) KwaZulu-Natal	2:15.01	Dakota Tucker (RSA) Aquatics Guateng Johannesburg	2:18.26	Aimee Canny (RSA) Western Cape Aquatics	2:18.98
400 m individual medley^[12]	Rebecca Meder (RSA) KwaZulu-Natal	4:49.04	Samantha Randle (RSA) Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	4:55.81	Marlies Ross (RSA) Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	4:56.26

4×50 m freestyle relay^[10]	Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	1:43.45	Western Cape Aquatics	1:44.06	KwaZulu-Natal	1:44.08
4×100 m freestyle relay^[11]	Western Cape Aquatics	3:46.42	KwaZulu-Natal	3:50.11	Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	3:54.05
4×200 m freestyle relay^[13]	Aquatics Guateng Tshwane (a-relay)	8:23.15	Aquatics Guateng Tshwane (b-relay)	8:33.80	Western Cape Aquatics	8:37.74
4×100 m medley relay^[14]	Aquatics Guateng Tshwane (a-relay)		Western Cape Aquatics		Aquatics Guateng Tshwane (b-relay)

Mixed[edit]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
4×100 m freestyle relay^[12]	Western Cape Aquatics	3:33.52	Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	3:35.57	KwaZulu-Natal	3:41.69
4×100 m medley relay^[9]	Aquatics Guateng Tshwane (a-relay)	3:54.34	Western Cape Aquatics	3:57.22	Aquatics Guateng Tshwane (b-relay)	4:02.73

Medal table[edit]

* Host nation (Eastern Cape Aquatics)


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Aquatics Guateng Tshwane (RSA)	19	23	17	59
2	Western Cape Aquatics (RSA)	11	7	10	28
3	KwaZulu-Natal (RSA)	9	6	10	25
4	Aquatics Guateng Ekurhuleni (RSA)	3	2	1	6
5	Great Britain (GBR)	1	4	0	5
6	India (IND)	1	1	1	3
7	Aquatics Guateng Johannesburg (RSA)	0	1	4	5
8	Eastern Cape Aquatics (RSA)*	0	0	1	1
8	Namibia (NAM)	0	0	1	1
Totals (9 entries)		44	44	45	133

Qualification via time trial[edit]

The following qualifying time was achieved during a time trial conducted as part of the Championships.

Event	Name	Time	Date	Day	Qualification meet	Ref
200 m backstroke	Pieter Coetze (RSA)	1:56.92	11 April 2022	6	2022 World Aquatics Championships, 2022 Commonwealth Games	^[7]

Records set[edit]

Men[edit]

Event	Stage	Name	Time	Date	Day	Record	Ref
200 m freestyle	Heats	Alexander Skinner (NAM)	1:52.11	7 April 2022	2	Namibian record	^[11]
100 m freestyle	Final	Alexander Skinner (NAM)	50.43	8 April 2022	3	Namibian record	^[10]

Women[edit]

Event	Stage	Name	Time	Date	Day	Record	Ref
50 m breaststroke	Heats	Lara van Niekerk (RSA)	29.72	6 April 2022	1	Commonwealth record, African record, South African record	^[18]^[19]^[20]^[21]

Broadcast[edit]

A live broadcast of day one was aired on YouTube by Swimming South Africa.^[22]^[12] Days two, three, four, five, and six were streamed live as well.^[11]^[10]^[13]^[9]^[14] Aired broadcasts were continuous stream format, meaning they covered heats through finals, and were segmented into two videos if exceeding 12 hours in length.^[22]^[12]^[11]

Participating nations[edit]

Athletes from countries including the following participated at the Championships.^[4]

Botswana (BOTS)
Great Britain (GBR)
India (IND)
Mozambique (CDTM)
Namibia (NAM)
South Africa (RSA, by region)
Seychelles (SEY)
Zambia (ZAM)
Zimbabwe (ZIM)

South Africa regional representation[edit]

Athletes from South Africa competed on teams by province/region, including the following.^[4]

Ekurhuleni, Gauteng (Aquatics Guateng Ekurhuleni - AGA)
Johannesburg, Gauteng (Aquatics Guateng Johannesburg - AGB)
Tshwane, Gauteng (Aquatics Guateng Tshwane - AGC)
Eastern Cape (Eastern Cape Aquatics - ECA)
FAAC
Free State (FSA)
HAM
KwaZulu-Natal (KZNA)
Limpopo (LP)
Mpumalanga (MPA)
North West (North West Swimming - NWS)
Western Cape (Western Cape Aquatics - WCA)

Incidents[edit]

On the morning of the last day of competition, Monday 11 April 2022, 45-year-old security guard Monde Qheru was found dead in the Newton Park Swimming Pool.^[23]^[24]

References[edit]

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2022 SA National Swimming Championships

Event schedule[edit]

Overall results[edit]

Men[edit]

Women[edit]

Mixed[edit]

Medal table[edit]

Qualification via time trial[edit]

Records set[edit]

Men[edit]

Women[edit]

Broadcast[edit]

Participating nations[edit]

South Africa regional representation[edit]

Incidents[edit]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

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