Melbourne 2006 - Day 4

[Chris]

23:00 - Men's 50m Breaststroke
23:12 - Women's 50m Backstroke
23:25 - Men's 100m Butterfly
23:39 - Women's 100m Breaststroke
23:52 - Women's 100m EAD Freestyle
00:03 - Men's 100m Backstroke
00:17 - Women's 50m Freestyle
00:35 - Men's 400m Individual Medley

[Phil Tanner]

Go Haffield! Just setting the alarm clock.

:)

[Chris]

Mens 50m Breaststroke

Heat 1 - Won by Onan Thom of Guyana in 31.64, Jeremy Osborne 3rd in 33.01

Heat 2 - Won by Scott Dickens of Canada in 28.59, James Gibson 2nd in 28.65, Chris Jones 4th in 29.82, Robert Lee 5th in 29.83

Heat 3 - Won by Brenton Rickard of Australia in 28.19, Andrew Bree 3rd in 29.19, Ross Clark 4th in 29.21, Stuart Manford 6th in 29.39

Heat 4 - Won by Darren Mew in 28.21, Chris Cook 2nd in 28.45, Jonathan Nixon 3rd in 29.72, Adam Jackson 7th in 33.04

[Sush]

And we're off!

[Chris]

Womens 50m Backstroke

Heat 1 - Won by Lai Kwan Chui of Malaysia in 31.32

Heat 2 - Won by Tayliah Zimmer of Australia in 29.22, Katy Sexton 3rd in 30.62

Heat 3 - Won by Sophie Edington of Australia in 29.21, Emily Crookall-Nixon 6th in 32.65

Heat 4 - Won by Giaan Rooney of Australia in 28.58 NEW GAMES RECORD, Olivia Rawlinson 6th in 32.84

[OutsideBurner]

Nigeria is apparently now part of Great Britain!! :joker:

[Chris]

Nigeria is apparently now part of Great Britain!! :joker:

:confused:

[OutsideBurner]

:confused:
Our BBC commentators announced all the Negerian swimmers, that qualified for the semi's of the men's 50 breast as British. Obviously no one else noticed.

P.S.
Their flag is very similar to the St Georges Cross.

[Chris]

Mens 100m Butterfly

Heat 1 - Won by Daniel Bego of Malaysia in 55.81

Heat 2 - Won by Ryan Pini of Australia in 53.50, Tom Hollingsworth 6th in 57.45

Heat 3 - Won by of Todd Cooper in 53.64, Matthew Bowe 2nd in 53.83, Simon Le Couilliard 5th in 56.13, Ben Lowndes 8th in 1.00.21

Heat 4 - Won by Moss Burmester of New Zealand in 53.88, Ian Powell 5th in 55.75

[OutsideBurner]

Ignore my previous post yet again my tiredness is getting the better of me. Was up watching the Games last night till the swimming finished, and had to be up at 6.30am this mornin to go to the County Champs. Same again tomorrow!! :sleeping:

If you really want a chuckle the flag I was looking at had the letters NIR under it!! DOH!! :banghead:

[Chris]

Womens 100m Breaststroke

Heat 1 - Won by Tarnee White of Australia in 1.09.11, Kirsty Balfour 2nd in 1.10.20, Lowri Tynan 3rd in 1.11.55

Heat 2 - Won by Jade Edmistone of Australia in 1.09.00, Kate Hayward 2nd in 1.09.62

Heat 3 - Won by Leisel Jones of Australia in 1.08.52, Kerry Buchan 4th in 1.10.21, Fiona Booth 5th in 1.13.68

[Chris]

Womens 100m Freestyle EAD

Heat 1 - Won by Chelsey Gotell of Canada in 1.02.55, Rhiannon Henry 2nd in 1.02.68

Heat 2 - Won by Valerie Grandmaison of Canada in 1.01.28

[Chris]

Mens 100m Backstroke

Heat 1 - Won by Jonathan Le Noury in 1.01.03 :D

Heat 2 - Won by Andrew Lauterstein of Australia in 55.72, Tom Hollingsworth 7th in 1.01.22

Heat 3 - Won by Matthew Clay in 55.94, Liam Tancock 2nd in 56.11

Heat 4 - Won by Matthew Welsh of Australia in 55.22, Gregor Tait 4th in 56.83, Ian Powell 6th in 59.52, Dane Harrop 7th in 1.00.71

[Chris]

Womens 50m Freestyle

Heat 1 - Won by Lai Kwan Chui of Malaysia in 27.07

Heat 2 - Won by Ximene Gomes of Mozambique in 28.76

Heat 3 - Won by Gail Strobridge in 28.01 :D, Emily Crookall-Nixon 2nd in 28.21

Heat 4 - Won by Jodie Henry of Australia in 25.38, Julie Douglas 3rd in 26.30

Heat 5 - Won by Alice Mills of Australia in 25.43, Francesca Halsall 2nd in 26.03, Amy Smith 4th in 26.61

Heat 6 - Won by Libby Lenton of Australia in 25.88

[Chris]

Mens 400m I.M.

Heat 1 - Won by Thomas Haffield in 4.22.69, David Carry 3rd in 4.23.10, Daniel Hawksworth 5th in 4.32.50

Heat 2 - Won by Euan Dale in 4.21.88

[Chris]

In summary, good swims by Darren Mew, Kate Hayward, Thomas Haffield, David Carry and Euan Dale.

Ian Powell makes the semi-finals in the 100m butterfly but is 17th in the 100m backstroke so misses out by one place.

Chris

[OutsideBurner]

I thought Robin Francis was swimming for South Africa in the IM?

[Phil Tanner]

Bizarre night at home. Went to bed at 2230, set alarm for 0030. (Working at 0800 today.) Immediate sound of hoovering downstairs - call down to ask daughter why, she says "why would I be hoovering?" In fact she's inflating blow-up mattress to camp in front of TV.

0030 Alarm goes off, athletics, no swimming, drift off.

0430 daughter, who has fallen asleep with TV on, wakes up at exactly the right moment, yells upstairs "Tom's race is on". Brilliant performance, watch second heat. Back to sleep, alarm goes off again at 0700. I think I'll be suffering later.

[Blocks]

Brilliant 1-2 for David Carry and Euan Dale of Scotland in the 400 IM. :)

[otter cub]

Brilliant is an under statement, it was absolutely awesome. I've never screamed at the tv so much as I have this week.:flash:

Lets hope there's still more to come:fingers:

[headabovewater]

Was amazing to see Simon Burnett win the 100M freestyle, the crowd was loud for England and Scotland today. On Aussie TV too they were touting the South Africans as the most formidable force, and when Simon won it they were surprised. And they aksed Thorpe if he was, and he said "well no I knew about Burnett", the presenters were like "why didn't you say so?" and he said back to them "well I have been saying so..."* . Very funny. *-Not exact quotes.

[mad4it]

Absolutely awesome session of swimming last night, especially the 1-2 for Dave & Euan - its official, my flatmates think i've lost the plot as every night now I have been heard crazily shouting at my tv!!! My sleep pattern is well & truly wrecked though - and I hate how the heats weren't on till 1:35 and then they only decided to show half of them and the other lot at 4ish. I missed the second half and kept drifting in and out during the finals this morning. Students don't do early mornings and this is SO hard!

Great performance from Becky Cooke, thought Keri-Anne Payne might have been able to scrape a bronze but was just touched out by Brittany Reimer. Also good to see Gregor, Liam & Matt qualify through to the 100m Back final and Kirsty & Kerry into the 100m Breast too - got a text from Kerry after the heat swim yesterday, I noticed Leisel Jones had said something to her, "leisel said well done to me!"
and then continued..
"she is lovely, good laugh! scotland team are all high! the atmosphere is absolutely unbelieveable here! xx"
It was so nice to see she's enjoying it and no longer worrying so much, it'll be great to see all her photos and hear all the stories when she gets back!!

Also how good was the 100m Freestyle!!! Simon Burnett did so well. Gotta be honest I tipped Ryk to win or that if Simon won he'd be a very close second, but for Simon to win by half a bodylength was unbelieveable!

And go Todd for the 100m Butterfly tomorrow night, Matt Bowe also through.

:D :D I loved the commentators comment - if Scotland & England were allowed to joined forces here we'd be beating the Australians in the pool by 10 golds to 9!

[Linny]

my flatmates think i've lost the plot as every night now I have been heard crazily shouting at my tv!!! It must be a family trait :), they can't hear you you know!

[Pete]

mapped out to watch the rest of the swimming unhindered. Now I have to work Monday morning.:banghead: