2022 SA National Swimming Championships explained

2022 SA National Swimming Championships
Hostcity:	Gqeberha, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Dates:	6–11 April 2022
Venues:	Newton Park Swimming Pool
Nations:	9
Events:	44 (men: 21; women: 21; mixed: 2) 18 para swimming (men: 9; women: 9)

The 2022 SA National Swimming Championships was held from 6 to 11 April 2022 in Gqeberha, South Africa at the Newton Park Swimming Pool.^{[1] [2]} Events were competed in a long course (50 metres long) swimming pool.^[2] It served as a selection meet for determining the swimmers to represent South Africa at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships and 2022 Commonwealth Games.^[3] It was held concurrently with the 2022 SA National Junior Swimming Championships as part of the multi-sport 2022 Telkom SA National Aquatic Championships.^[1] The meet was open to international competition and included multi-class para swimming events.^[4]

Event schedule

A total of 62 events were competed over six days, including 18 para swimming events. For para swimming events, men and women had the same schedule. Heats started at 07:30 on days one and four, and started at 08:30 on days two, three, five, and six. Senior finals started at 18:00 each day.^[5]

Men

Date →	Wed 6		Thu 7		Fri 8		Sat 9		Sun 10		Mon 11
Event ↓	M	E	M	E	M	E	M	E	M	E	M	E
50 m freestyle									H
100 m freestyle					H
200 m freestyle			H
400 m freestyle	H
800 m freestyle
1500 m freestyle
50 m backstroke					H
100 m backstroke	H
200 m backstroke									H
50 m breaststroke							H
100 m breaststroke			H
200 m breaststroke	H
50 m butterfly	H
100 m butterfly							H
200 m butterfly					H
200 m individual medley											H
400 m individual medley			H
4×50 m freestyle relay
4×100 m freestyle relay
4×200 m freestyle relay
4×100 m medley relay

Women

Date →	Wed 6		Thu 7		Fri 8		Sat 9		Sun 10		Mon 11
Event ↓	M	E	M	E	M	E	M	E	M	E	M	E
50 m freestyle			H
100 m freestyle							H
200 m freestyle	H
400 m freestyle											H
800 m freestyle
1500 m freestyle
50 m backstroke									H
100 m backstroke			H
200 m backstroke							H
50 m breaststroke	H
100 m breaststroke							H
200 m breaststroke					H
50 m butterfly					H
100 m butterfly	H
200 m butterfly									H
200 m individual medley							H
400 m individual medley	H
4×50 m freestyle relay
4×100 m freestyle relay
4×200 m freestyle relay
4×100 m medley relay

Mixed

Date →	Wed 6		Thu 7		Fri 8		Sat 9		Sun 10		Mon 11
Event ↓	M	E	M	E	M	E	M	E	M	E	M	E
4×100 m freestyle relay
4×100 m medley relay

Para swimming (multi-class, men and women)

Date →	Wed 6		Thu 7		Fri 8		Sat 9		Sun 10		Mon 11
Event ↓	M	E	M	E	M	E	M	E	M	E	M	E
50 m freestyle	H
100 m freestyle									H
50 m backstroke									H
100 m backstroke			H
50 m breaststroke	H
100 m breaststroke							H
50 m butterfly							H
100 m butterfly					H
200 m individual medley											H

Overall results

Key:^{[6] [7] [6] [8]}

Men

50 m freestyle	Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	22.34	KwaZulu-Natal	22.49	KwaZulu-Natal	22.82
100 m freestyle	KwaZulu-Natal	48.97	Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	50.17	Namibia	50.43
200 m freestyle	KwaZulu-Natal	1:46.15	Great Britain	1:49.49	Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	1:49.59
400 m freestyle	KwaZulu-Natal	3:49.37	Great Britain	3:51.37	Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	3:56.92
800 m freestyle	India	8:14.45	Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	8:19.10	Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	8:20.30
1500 m freestyle	Western Cape Aquatics	15.36.70	India	15:48.89	Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	16:03.42
50 m backstroke	Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	24.74	Western Cape Aquatics	26.32	Western Cape Aquatics	26.56
100 m backstroke	Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	54.08	Western Cape Aquatics	57.04	Eastern Cape Aquatics	58.03
200 m backstroke	Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	2:05.03	KwaZulu-Natal	2:05.33	India	2:07.21
50 m breaststroke	Western Cape Aquatics	27.22	Aquatics Guateng Ekurhuleni	28.12	Western Cape Aquatics	28.98
100 m breaststroke	Aquatics Guateng Ekurhuleni	1:01.00	Western Cape Aquatics	1:01.56	Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	1:02.96
200 m breaststroke	Aquatics Guateng Ekurhuleni	2:14.47	Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	2:14.49	Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	2:16.50
50 m butterfly	Western Cape Aquatics	23.93	Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	24.14	KwaZulu-Natal	24.28
100 m butterfly	Western Cape Aquatics	51.88	KwaZulu-Natal	52.06	Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	53.52
200 m butterfly	Western Cape Aquatics	1:55.75	Great Britain	1:57.66	Western Cape Aquatics	1:59.57
200 m individual medley	KwaZulu-Natal	1:58.37	Great Britain	1:59.96	Aquatics Guateng Ekurhuleni	2:04.52
400 m individual medley	Great Britain	4:15.39	Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	4:27.14	Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	4:27.34
4×50 m freestyle relay	Aquatics Guateng Tshwane Pieter Coetze (22.15)	1:30.75	KwaZulu-Natal	1:31.05	Western Cape Aquatics	1:31.42
4×100 m freestyle relay	KwaZulu-Natal	3:22.68	Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	3:23.05	Western Cape Aquatics	3:24.55
4×200 m freestyle relay	Aquatics Guateng Tshwane (a-relay)	7:36.53	Aquatics Guateng Tshwane (b-relay)	7:36.75	KwaZulu-Natal	7:41.27
4×100 m medley relay	Western Cape Aquatics	3:47.97	Aquatics Guateng Tshwane (a-relay)	3:50.49	Aquatics Guateng Tshwane (b-relay)	3:53.75

Coetze swam a FINA "A" cut time of 53.96 seconds in the heats.^{[9] [10]}

Houlie swam a FINA "A" cut time, though was not automatically qualified for the 2022 World Aquatics Championships team as he did not qualify in an Olympic event.^[11]

Coetze swam a FINA "A" cut time of 22.15 seconds in the 50 metre freestyle for the lead-off leg of the relay.^[11]

Women

50 m freestyle	KwaZulu-Natal	25.08	Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	25.39	Western Cape Aquatics Western Cape Aquatics	25.62
100 m freestyle	Western Cape Aquatics	54.71	Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	54.73	KwaZulu-Natal	55.70
200 m freestyle	Western Cape Aquatics	1:58.34	Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	2:00.60	Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	2:00.72
400 m freestyle	Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	4:12.35	Aquatics Guateng Ekurhuleni	4:15.93	KwaZulu-Natal	4:20.47
800 m freestyle	Aquatics Guateng Ekurhuleni	8:46.33	Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	8:53.55	Aquatics Guateng Johannesburg	8:58.50
1500 m freestyle	Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	16:55.55	Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	17:04.28	Aquatics Guateng Johannesburg	17:08.30
50 m backstroke	Western Cape Aquatics	28.81	KwaZulu-Natal	28.86	Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	29.43
100 m backstroke	KwaZulu-Natal	1:02.55	Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	1:02.98	Western Cape Aquatics	1:03.00
200 m backstroke	Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	2:15.78	Aquatics Guateng Tshwane		Aquatics Guateng Johannesburg
50 m breaststroke	Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	30.60	Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	30.87	Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	31.94
100 m breaststroke	Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	1:05.67	Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	1:06.06	Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	1:08.63
200 m breaststroke	Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	2:24.01	Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	2:24.66	KwaZulu-Natal	2:32.57
50 m butterfly	Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	26.39	Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	27.24	KwaZulu-Natal	27.35
100 m butterfly	Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	59.78	Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	1:00.82	KwaZulu-Natal	1:01.50
200 m butterfly	Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	2:11.88	Western Cape Aquatics	2:15.46	Aquatics Guateng Johannesburg	2:17.88
200 m individual medley	KwaZulu-Natal	2:15.01	Aquatics Guateng Johannesburg	2:18.26	Western Cape Aquatics	2:18.98
400 m individual medley	KwaZulu-Natal	4:49.04	Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	4:55.81	Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	4:56.26
4×50 m freestyle relay	Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	1:43.45	Western Cape Aquatics	1:44.06	KwaZulu-Natal	1:44.08
4×100 m freestyle relay	Western Cape Aquatics	3:46.42	KwaZulu-Natal	3:50.11	Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	3:54.05
4×200 m freestyle relay	Aquatics Guateng Tshwane (a-relay)	8:23.15	Aquatics Guateng Tshwane (b-relay)	8:33.80	Western Cape Aquatics	8:37.74
4×100 m medley relay	Aquatics Guateng Tshwane (a-relay)		Western Cape Aquatics		Aquatics Guateng Tshwane (b-relay)

Mixed

4×100 m freestyle relay	Western Cape Aquatics	3:33.52	Aquatics Guateng Tshwane	3:35.57	KwaZulu-Natal	3:41.69
4×100 m medley relay	Aquatics Guateng Tshwane (a-relay)	3:54.34	Western Cape Aquatics	3:57.22	Aquatics Guateng Tshwane (b-relay)	4:02.73

Qualification via time trial

The following qualifying time was achieved during a time trial conducted as part of the Championships.

Records set

Men

Event	Stage	Name	Time	Date	Day	Record
200 m freestyle	Heats		1:52.11	7 April 2022	2	Namibian record
100 m freestyle	Final		50.43	8 April 2022	3	Namibian record

Women

Broadcast

A live broadcast of day one was aired on YouTube by Swimming South Africa.^{[16] [17]} Days two, three, four, five, and six were streamed live as well.^{[18] [19] [20] [21] [22]} Aired broadcasts were continuous stream format, meaning they covered heats through finals, and were segmented into two videos if exceeding 12 hours in length.^{[16] [17] [18]}

Participating nations

Athletes from countries including the following participated at the Championships.^[4]

• (BOTS)
• (GBR)
• (IND)
• (CDTM)
• (NAM)
• (RSA, by region)
• (SEY)
• (ZAM)
• (ZIM)

South Africa regional representation

Athletes from South Africa competed on teams by province/region, including the following.^[4]

• Ekurhuleni, Gauteng (Aquatics Guateng Ekurhuleni - AGA)
• Johannesburg, Gauteng (Aquatics Guateng Johannesburg - AGB)
• Tshwane, Gauteng (Aquatics Guateng Tshwane - AGC)
• Eastern Cape (Eastern Cape Aquatics - ECA)
• FAAC
• Free State (FSA)
• HAM
• KwaZulu-Natal (KZNA)
• Limpopo (LP)
• Mpumalanga (MPA)
• North West (North West Swimming - NWS)
• Western Cape (Western Cape Aquatics - WCA)

Incidents

On the morning of the last day of competition, Monday 11 April 2022, 45-year-old security guard Monde Qheru was found dead in the Newton Park Swimming Pool.^{[23] [24]}

See also

• South Africa at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
• South Africa at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships
• Telkom SA National Aquatic Championships
• List of swimming competitions

Notes and References

1. http://swimsa.org/disciplines/swimming/events-1/sa-grand-prix-invitational-swimming-meets-nelspruit-swimming-pool-mpumalanga-7-8-january-i-tbc-18-20-february-i-kings-park-durban-11-13-march-2022/sa-national-aquatic-championships-2022/event-information "Event Information: 2022 S A National Swimming Championships incorporating S A National Junior Age Groups"
2. Race, Retta (2 April 2022). "NCAA Champion Matt Sates Entered In Nine Events For South African Championships". SwimSwam. Retrieved 5 April 2022.
3. http://swimsa.org/news/schoenmaker-leads-the-charge-for-world-champs-commonwealth-qualification-at-national-championships "Schoenmaker Leads The Charge For World Champs, Commonwealth Qualification At National Championships"
4. http://swimsa.org/disciplines/swimming/events-1/sa-grand-prix-invitational-swimming-meets-nelspruit-swimming-pool-mpumalanga-7-8-january-i-tbc-18-20-february-i-kings-park-durban-11-13-march-2022/sa-national-aquatic-championships-2022/psych-sheet "2022 SA National Aquatic Championships - Swimming: Psych Sheet"
5. http://swimsa.org/disciplines/swimming/events-1/sa-grand-prix-invitational-swimming-meets-nelspruit-swimming-pool-mpumalanga-7-8-january-i-tbc-18-20-february-i-kings-park-durban-11-13-march-2022/sa-national-aquatic-championships-2022/daily-schedule "2022 SA National Swimming Championships Daily Schedule"
6. https://resources.fina.org/fina/document/2022/02/16/c973b959-787e-44a4-a39b-a2d2718dbb6b/1_Budapest-2022_Qualification-System.pdf "FINA World Championships 2022: Qualification System"
7. Isaacson, David (11 April 2022). "King Matt gathers the crowns, speedy Pieter the qualifying times". TimesLIVE. Retrieved 11 April 2022.
8. http://swimsa.org/news/veteran-le-clos-joins-teenage-brigade-in-sa-team-for-swimming-world-championships "Veteran Le Clos joins teenage brigade in SA Team for swimming World Championships"
9. Race, Retta (6 April 2022). "Van Niekerk, Canny, Coetze Qualify For Budapest World Championships". SwimSwam. Retrieved 6 April 2022.
10. https://supersport.com/aquatics/news/7c94b80c-6bba-4b13-9f48-bdf451f0684b/coetz_and_schoenmaker_qualifies_for_birmingham_commonwealth_games "Coetzé and Schoenmaker qualifies for Birmingham Commonwealth Games"
11. Jonckheere, Karien (9 April 2022). "18-year-old matric pupil stuns Olympic superstar Tatjana Schoenmaker at SA swim champs". News24. Retrieved 9 April 2022.
12. Hamann, Michael (6 April 2022). "South African Champs Day 1 Prelims: Van Niekerk Blasts World-Leading 50 Breast". SwimSwam. Retrieved 6 April 2022.
13. https://www.iol.co.za/capetimes/news/lara-van-niekerk-smashes-records-at-swimming-championships-10ba6926-f0c7-4859-a04e-25d64e22405c "Lara van Niekerk smashes records at swimming championships"
14. Chetty, Amir (7 April 2022). "Van Niekerk shines on opening day of national swimming champs". TimesLIVE. Retrieved 7 April 2022.
15. http://swimsa.org/news/van-niekerk-shines-on-opening-day-of-national-swimming-championships "Van Niekerk Shines On Opening Day Of National Swimming Championships"
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23. Loubser, Doreen (12 April 2022). "Guard found floating in Newton Park swimming Pool identified". Algoa FM. Retrieved 15 April 2023.
24. Marais, Riaan (12 April 2022). "Guard's body found floating in pool at SA Swimming Championships". The Herald. Retrieved 15 April 2023.