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Photo by Jo Barnsdale

Three King's Champions at NAGs

Dan Harvey —

During the the school holidays three swimmers from King's travelled to Hawkes Bay to compete at the NZ National Age Group Swimming Championships (NAGs). Noah Brummitt Year 11, and William McFarlane Year 10, were competing at NAG's for the first time and Alfie Weatherston-Harvey Year 11, for the second.

Noah competed in the 50m Freestyle and Butterfly as well as the 100m Freestyle. He qualified for the final in the two freestyle events finishing seventh in the 100m and eighth in the 50m.

William took on all the Freestyle distances from 50m up to 400m as well as the 50m Butterfly. He qualified for the final for the 200m and 400m Freestyle coming seventh for the 200m and claiming Bronze in the 400m and only missing the Silver by 0.21sec.

William with his medal from the 400m Freestyle — Image by: Dan Harvey

Alfie competed in the 100m and 200m backstroke, 200m, 400m, 800m and 1500m Freestyle. He made finals for all events and took Bronze in the 800m Freestyle. 

Post from Swimming Otago following Alfie's medal in the 800m freestyle — Image by: Swimming Otago

Agonisingly he came fourth in the 200m Backstroke, 400m and 1500m Freestyle. Again fractions of a second were the difference, missing the medal by 0.09 sec in the 200 Backstroke.

Noah and Alfie also competed for the Kiwi Swim Club team in the 4x100m Freestyle and Medley Relays with Alfie leading off and Noah anchoring for both. In the Freestyle Relay they finished fourth, 5 sec and two placings ahead of their seeding. In the Medley Alfie led off with the Backstroke and had the team in second. When Noah took over on the final (Freestyle) leg they were sitting fifth, he stormed the field to take the Silver Medal! Making them the second fastest U16 Medley Relay team in NZ.

Alfie and Noah with medals from the relay — Image by: Dan Harvey