{"id":249422,"date":"2019-02-21T05:00:44","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T03:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=249422"},"modified":"2019-02-21T01:35:37","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T23:35:37","slug":"namibia-cana-swimming-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=249422","title":{"rendered":"Namibia CANA Swimming champions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/CANA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-249503\" src=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/CANA.jpg\" alt=\"Namibia CANA Swimming champions\" width=\"176\" height=\"167\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Staff Reporter<\/p>\n<p>NAMIBIA were declared overall winners of the 2019 CANA championship, after collecting a combined team score of 2577, while South Africa came in 2nd place with 1993 points and Zimbabwe in 3rd with 1908 all while breaking records during the just ended five-day tournament.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa\u2019s Kelly-Ann Brown won two gold medals and one silver medal, posting a new Championship Record time of 1:01.42 in the 100m freestyle, winning the 200m butterfly title in 2:36.16 and finishing second in the 200m individual medley in 2:35.28. Namibia\u2019s Jose Canjulo concluded the Championships with a gold medal in the 100m freestyle, touching the wall in 57.46 ahead of SA\u2019s Leshen Pillay in 57.69 and Zimbabwe\u2019s Cory Werrett in 59.42, while also adding a silver medal in the 200m butterfly in 2:23.56 to Mauritius\u2019 Victor AH Yong\u2019s new Championship Record time of 2:19.83 and Pillay\u2019s 2:23.78 and a bronze in the 200m individual medley in 2:23.50 behind SA\u2019s Kian Keylock in 2:20.47 and team-mate Mikah Burger in 2:23.49. Uganda\u2019s Avice Meya claimed a silver in the 200m butterfly in 3:06.88 and later added bronze in the 100m freestyle in 1:05.31, while the gold went to Angola\u2019s Lia Ana Lima in 2:33.20 with Namibia\u2019s Zune Weber finishing first in the freestyle in 1:02.31 and Mauritius\u2019 Tessa IP Hen Cheung second in 1:02.37. Lima also won the 200m individual medley in 2:31.34 to IP Hen Cheung\u2019s 2:34.69 and Namibia\u2019s Vicky Botha\u2019s 2:42.48, while the 200m butterfly 15-16 men\u2019s medals went to Namibia\u2019s Corne Le Roux in 2:13.83, Angola\u2019s Salvador Gordo in 2:17.68 and SA\u2019s Jivall Bodlall in 2:19.78.<\/p>\n<p>In the 200m butterfly, Namibia\u2019s Boys\u2019 U14 200m freestyle relay gold was claimed by Namibia followed by South Africa in and Mozambique in third place.<\/p>\n<p>Namibia won all three masters gold medals in the 200m individual medley, with Sunel Badenhorst , Jane Samson and Dantie Louw clocking, 3:29.46, 3:22.13 and 3:06.05, respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff Reporter NAMIBIA were declared overall winners of the 2019 CANA championship, after collecting a combined team score of 2577, while South Africa came in 2nd place with 1993 points and Zimbabwe in 3rd with 1908 all while breaking records during the just ended five-day tournament. 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