Tag: Lauren Boyle
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NZ Champs: Matt Stanley takes down another Loader record
20-year-old Matthew Stanley rewrote the record books for a second straight night at the New Zealand Swimming Championships in Auckland tonight, which doubles as the Olympic Trials. In a class of his own in the 200 freestyle, Stanley qualfied for the London Olympics in 1:47.57, 6/100ths of a second inside the 16-year-old national record set…
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Boyle gets Regan a ticket for Shanghai
Senior high performance coach Mark Regan was not ranked high enough to be selected as part of the New Zealand team for Shanghai 2011, after having resigned as national head coach after Commonwealth Games 2010. But star performer Lauren Boyle spoke out, saying she has no other coach now she is out of the US…
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Lauren Boyle set 800 free record
US-based Lauren Boyle set a new kiwi national record at the New Zealand championships last night, winning in 8:33.30, more than 2.5 seconds under the FINA ‘A’ qualifying time, and more than 2 seconds quicker than the record set by Phillipa Langrell at the Barcelona Olympics in 1992. Interesting to read that she set her…
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Boyle and Batchelor down NZL marks
At the New Zealand Championships in Auckland tonight, US-based Lauren Boyle smashed the national record in the 400 freestyle, with a 4:07.61 nearly two seconds inside her record of 4:09.45 from the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi. In the 100 butterfly, 15-year-old Sophia Batchelor became the first from her country to crack the minute, winning…