Sunday, 25 July 2021, 4:22 pm
Clareburt
on Fire in 400m Individual Medley
Wellingtonian
swimmer Lewis Clareburt set the Tokyo Olympic pool abuzz
tonight with a sizzling personal best in his 400m individual
medley heat.
Clareburt recorded 4min 09.49s to qualify
second fastest for tomorrow’s final behind Australian
Brendan Smith (4min 09.27s) for the final.
Clareburt
recently broke his personal record by more than two seconds
when he swam 4min 09.87s at the national championships. To
go so much faster again and in a heat at that, emphasises
his ability.
Afterwards Clareburt rated his
performance at just 2 out of 10, explaining he feels he has
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Misha Koudinov
Photo: PHOTOSPORT
Misha Koudinov will compete in the men s artistic competition while Dylan Schmidt will compete in the men s trampoline.
Koudinov and Schmidt are the first New Zealand gymnasts to be selected to two Olympics both having competed at Rio in 2016.
Koudinov has competed at four Commonwealth Games and was the first New Zealander to make a gymnastics World Cup final.
His specialty apparatus are the parallel bars and the high bar where he is currently ranked 9th and 19th in the world, respectively.
Schmidt is ranked 9th in the trampoline while Maddie Davidson is the first New Zealand woman to compete at the Olympics in the trampoline.