Tag: Matthew Stanley
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Swimming New Zealand have medals in their sights
Read stuff.co.nz As expected, Lauren Boyle will head the Kiwi charge for medals in Glasgow. The three-times bronze medallist at last year’s world champs in Barcelona will contest the women’s 200 metres, 400m and 800m freestyle events and lead the 4x200m freestyle relay team. Glenn Snyders should be in the medal hunt in the 100m…
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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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NZ Championships: 3 Kiwis qualify for the Olympics
At the New Zealand Championships in Auckland today, 20-year-old Matt Stanley took down Danyon Loader’s 16-year-old national record in the 400 freestyle, with a 3:47.67 besting Loader’s gold winning time form the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. Glenn Snyders went twice under the London qualifying time in the men’s 100 breaststroke, and Natalie Wiegersma finished 1/100th of…