2006 Oceania Swimming Championships

The 2006 Oceania Swimming Championships were 7–16 July at 3 locations in Queensland, Australia.^[1] This was the sixth edition of the Championships, and featured competitions in:

swimming—7, 8, 10 + 12 July at Trinity Anglican School in Cairns;^[2]
open water swimming—9 + 12 July at Palm Cove Beach;^[2]
synchronized swimming (synchro) -- 14–16 July at Chandler Pool in Brisbane.

All swimming competition listed below were swum in a 50m (long-course) pool.

Participating countries[]

Event schedule[]

The swimming and open water schedules are below. Synchronized swimming was held 14–16 July.^[1]

Date	Friday 7 July	Saturday 8 July	Sunday 9 July	Monday 10 July	Tuesday 11 July	Wednesday 12 July
S w i m m i n g *	50 back (m) semis 50 breast (w) semis 200 free (m) 100 free (w) semis 100 fly (m) semis 200 fly (w) 100 breast (m) semis 400 IM (m) 400 IM (w) 100 back (w) semis 50 back (m) 50 breast (w) 400 free relay (m) 800 free relay (w)	50 free (m) semis 50 fly (w) semis 100 fly (m) 100 free (w) 100 breast (m) 200 breast (w) 400 free (m) 100 back (w) 200 back (m) 50 fly (w) 50 free (m) 800 free (w) 800 free relay (m)		50 back (w) semis 50 breast (m) semis 100 breast (w) semis 100 back (m) semis 400 free (w) 100 free (m) semis 100 fly (w) semis 200 fly (m) 50 back (w) 50 breast (m) 400 free relay (w)	50 free (w) semis 50 fly (m) semis 200 IM (w) 200 breast (m) 200 free (w) 100 free (m) 100 breast (w) 100 back (m) 100 fly (w) 200 IM (m) 200 back (w) 50 fly (m) 50 free (w) 1500 free (m) 400 medley relay (w) 400 medley relay (m)
Open Water			5K			10K

^*Finals-order shown for swimming. Prelims/semifinals/finals were swum in the 50s and 100; prelims/finals were swum in the 200s and 400s; and the women's 800 and men's 1500 were timed finals (i.e. each swimmer swims once; fastest heat swims at night). Morning session (prelims) began at 9:30 a.m.; evening session (semifinals & finals) began at 6:30 p.m.

Results[]

Swimming[]

Men[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50m Freestyle	Cameron Prosser Australia	23.12 CR	Australia	23.65	Mark Herring New Zealand	23.71
100m Freestyle	Cameron Prosser Australia	50.70 CR	Australia	51.43	Kirk Palmer Australia	51.44
200m Freestyle	Grant Brits Australia	1:51.22 CR	New Zealand	1:51.78	Kirk Palmer Australia	1:53.02
400m Freestyle	Australia	3:55.58 CR	New Zealand	3:59.44	Grant Brits Australia	4:00.97
1500m Freestyle	New Zealand	15:43.17	New Zealand	16:00.10	New Zealand	16:09.60

50m Backstroke	Ashley Delaney Australia	26.47 CR	New Zealand	26.68	Grant Brits Australia	26.69
100m Backstroke	Ashley Delaney Australia	55.82 CR	Grant Brits Australia	57.78	New Zealand	58.07
200m Backstroke	Ashley Delaney Australia	2:03.91	New Zealand	2:04.75	Dean Kent New Zealand	2:05.60

50m Breaststroke	Glenn Snyders New Zealand	28.99	Australia	29.16	New Caledonia	29.89
100m Breaststroke	Glenn Snyders New Zealand	1:03.50	Australia	1:04.04	New Caledonia	1:06.15
200m Breaststroke	Australia	2:17.95	Dean Kent New Zealand	2:19.65	Glenn Snyders New Zealand	2:20.95

50m Butterfly	Corney Swanepoel New Zealand	24.33	Kirk Palmer Australia	24.54	New Zealand	24.83
100m Butterfly	Corney Swanepoel New Zealand	54.51	Australia	55.21	New Zealand	55.38
200m Butterfly	Australia	2:00.69	Nick D'Arcy Australia	2:00.98	Australia	2:01.81

200m I.M.	Stephen Parkes Australia	2:03.43 CR	Dean Kent New Zealand	2:06.18	Australia	2:06.91
400m I.M.	Dean Kent New Zealand	4:25.31	Stephen Parkes Australia	4:26.26	Australia	4:29.37

400m Free Relay	Australia Kirk Palmer, Cameron Prosser, , Grant Brits	3:23.60 CR	New Zealand , Mark Herring, ,	3:27.94	New Caledonia , , , Olivier Saminadin	3:31.65
800m Free Relay	Australia Kirk Palmer, Nick D'Arcy, , Grant Brits	7:31.64	New Zealand , , , Dean Kent	7:43.78	New Caledonia , , Olivier Saminadin,	8:09.68
400m Medley Relay	Australia Ashley Delaney, , ,	3:45.24	New Zealand , Glenn Snyders, Corney Swanepoel,	3:46.31	New Caledonia , , Olivier Saminadin,	4:02.05

Women[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50m Freestyle	Australia	26.13	Elizabeth Coster New Zealand	26.63	Lauren Boyle New Zealand	26.76
100m Freestyle	Lauren Boyle New Zealand	57.14	Australia	57.65	Australia	58.02
200m Freestyle	Australia	2:00.51 CR	Australia	2:01.79	Lauren Boyle New Zealand	2:01.92
400m Freestyle	Australia	4:14.35	Australia	4:15.34	Lauren Boyle New Zealand	4:19.20
800m Freestyle	Australia	8:42.25^[3]	Australia	8:42.27	Lauren Boyle New Zealand	8:53.74

50m Backstroke	Elizabeth Coster New Zealand	29.57 CR	Meagan Nay Australia	29.72	New Zealand	30.39
100m Backstroke	Elizabeth Coster New Zealand	1:02.79 CR	Meagan Nay Australia	1:03.75	New Zealand	1:04.85
200m Backstroke	Meagan Nay Australia	2:13.99 CR	Australia	2:15.15	New Zealand	2:18.76

50m Breaststroke	Australia	32.84	New Zealand	33.28	New Zealand	33.79
100m Breaststroke	Australia	1:12.37	Australia	1:12.56	New Zealand	1:12.88
200m Breaststroke	Australia	2:34.35	New Zealand	2:35.23	Hawaii	2:40.94

50m Butterfly	Australia	26.92 CR	Elizabeth Coster New Zealand	28.07	Samantha Hamill Australia	28.14
100m Butterfly	Australia	1:00.60 CR	Amy Smith Australia	1:01.55	Samantha Hamill Australia	1:01.64
200m Butterfly	Samantha Hamill Australia	2:11.91 CR	Australia	2:13.13	Amy Smith Australia	2:14.09

200m I.M.	Australia	2:18.00	Samantha Hamill Australia	2:19.53	Australia	2:19.66
400m I.M.	Australia	4:52.21	Australia	4:56.80	New Zealand	5:02.10

400m Free Relay	Australia , CR Meagan Nay, ,	3:47.16 CR	New Zealand Lauren Boyle, , Penelope Marshall,	3:57.61	New Caledonia , , Lara Grangeon,	4:15.62
800m Free Relay	Australia Meagan Nay, , ,	8:12.28 CR	New Zealand Lauren Boyle, , Kirsten Cameron, Penelope Marshall	8:34.12	New Caledonia , , , Lara Grangeon	9:17.39
400m Medley Relay	Australia Meagan Nay, , Samantha Hamill,	4:14.98	New Zealand Elizabeth Coster, , , Lauren Boyle	4:18.07	New Caledonia Lara Grangeon, , ,	4:49.89

Open Water medalist[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Men's 5K	Australia	1:01:09.00	Olivier Saminadin New Caledonia	1:01:29.00	Australia	1:01:42.00
Men's 10K	Kane Radford New Zealand	2:07:54.00	Australia	2:08:03.00	Australia	2:09:54.00

Women's 5K	Brooke Fletcher Australia	1:03:00.00	Australia	1:08:33.00	Kirsten Cameron New Zealand	1:09:09.00
Women's 10K	Brooke Fletcher Australia	2:11:16.00	Australia	2:24:34.00	Kirsten Cameron New Zealand	2:26:17.00

Synchro medalists[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Open—Solo
Open—Duet

Junior—Solo
Junior—Duet

13, 14 & 15 yrs -- Solo
13, 14 & 15 yrs -- Duet

Open Free Combination

Overall medal table[]


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Australia	32	24	14	70
2	New Zealand	10	17	19	46
3	New Caledonia	0	1	8	9
4	Hawaii	0	0	1	1
Totals (4 nations)		42	42	42	126

References[]

^ ^a ^b Championship Information for the 2006 Oceania Swimming Championships. Posted by the Oceania Swimming Association on 2006-03-28; retrieved 2010-06-29.
^ ^a ^b Swimming and Open Water results from the 2006 Oceania Swimming Championships. Posted by the Oceania Swimming Association on 2006-07-24, retrieved 2010-06-29.
^ In the Women's 800m free, Australia's missed setting the Championships Record by 0.03. The record at the time was 8:42.22 swum by at the 2004 Championships.

[FedInfo-1] Championship Information for the 2006 Oceania Swimming Championships. Posted by the Oceania Swimming Association on 2006-03-28; retrieved 2010-06-29.

[results-2] Swimming and Open Water results from the 2006 Oceania Swimming Championships. Posted by the Oceania Swimming Association on 2006-07-24, retrieved 2010-06-29.

[3] In the Women's 800m free, Australia's missed setting the Championships Record by 0.03. The record at the time was 8:42.22 swum by at the 2004 Championships.

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