Swimming at the 2017 Commonwealth Youth Games

Swimming at the 2017 Commonwealth Youth Games
Venue	Betty Kelly Kenning Swim Complex
Dates	19–22 July 2017
Competitors	184 from 45 nations
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The swimming competitions at the 2017 Commonwealth Youth Games in Nassau, The Bahamas took place from 19 to 22 July at the Betty Kelly Kenning Swim Complex.^[1][2] A total of 184 athletes from 45 nations contested 35 different events. Each Commonwealth Games Association was allowed to enter up to two swimmers (individual events) and one relay per event. In the Games, age limits set by the Fédération Internationale de Natation (FINA) for world Junior competitions were followed, according to which the age limit for boys is set to 15–18 years (means swimmers born in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2002) and for girls its 14–17 years of age (means swimmers born in 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003).^[3]

Format[]

The competition will feature 35 long course (50m) events, divided between males, females and mixed events into the following events:

• freestyle: 50, 100, 200, 400, 800 (females only) and 1500 (males only);
• backstroke: 50, 100 and 200;
• breaststroke: 50, 100 and 200;
• butterfly: 50, 100 and 200;
• individual medley (I.M.): 200 and 400;
• mixed relays: 4x100 free, 4x200 free and 4x100 medley

Medal summary[]

Medal table[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1		8	9	4	21
2		8	3	4	15
3	New Zealand	7	8	5	20
4		7	4	6	17
5		3	2	3	8
6		1	2	5	8
7		1	1	2	4
8		0	2	2	4
9	*	0	2	1	3
10		0	2	0	2
11		0	0	1	1
		0	0	1	1
		0	0	1	1
Totals (13 nations)		35	35	35	105

Men[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle	Scott McLay  Scotland	23.10	Kyle Abeysinghe  Sri Lanka	23.38	Jeron Thompson  Trinidad and Tobago	23.43
100 m freestyle	Scott McLay  Scotland	50.46	Kyle Abeysinghe  Sri Lanka*	50.93	Jonathan Tan  Singapore	51.10
200 m freestyle	Lewis Clareburt  New Zealand	1:49.89	South Africa	1:50.50	Jack McMillan  Northern Ireland	1:50.72
400 m freestyle	South Africa	3:53.76	Lewis Clareburt  New Zealand	3:54.15	England	3:55.67
1500 m freestyle	Zac Reid  New Zealand	15:40.11	Australia	15:50.64	James Freeman  Botswana	15:53.73
50 m backstroke	New Zealand	26.18	England	26.44	Singapore	26.50
100 m backstroke	Singapore	56.42	Scotland	56.53	New Zealand	56.85
200 m backstroke	South Africa	2:00.90	England	2:03.21	Singapore	2:05.00
50 m breaststroke	Michael Houlie  South Africa	27.68	Izaak Bastian  Bahamas	28.77	Singapore	29.19
100 m breaststroke	Michael Houlie  South Africa	1:01.86	Singapore	1:03.41	Izaak Bastian  Bahamas	1:03.71
200 m breaststroke	South Africa	2:16.44	Michael Houlie  South Africa	2:16.97	Taichi Vakasama  Fiji	2:17.17
50 m butterfly	Scott McLay  Scotland	24.53	Dylan Koo  Singapore	24.55	Wales	24.66
100 m butterfly	Wales	53.87	Singapore	54.32	Singapore	54.35
200 m butterfly	England	1:59.89	Lewis Clareburt  New Zealand	2:00.24	Australia	2:01.02
200 m individual medley	Thomas Dean  England	2:02.13	Lewis Clareburt  New Zealand	2:03.06	England	2:04.39
400 m individual medley	Lewis Clareburt  New Zealand	4:18.78	Thomas Dean  England	4:24.47	Australia	4:25.42

• During the competition Abeysinghe won the silver medal in the men's 100m freestyle event, marking Sri Lanka's first ever swimming medal at either the Youth or Senior Commonwealth Games.^[4]

Women[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle	Meg Harris  Australia	25.89	Australia	25.97	New Zealand	26.02
100 m freestyle	Quah Jing Wen  Singapore	56.31	New Zealand	56.59	Scotland	56.95
200 m freestyle	New Zealand	2:01.56	Scotland	2:02.32	Rebecca Meder  South Africa	2:02.56
400 m freestyle	England	4:16.36	Northern Ireland	4:16.43	Australia	4:17.76
800 m freestyle	England	8:49.94	Northern Ireland	8:54.06	Rebecca Meder  South Africa	8:54.21
50 m backstroke	England	29.04	Wales	29.34	Mariella Venter  South Africa	29.66
100 m backstroke	Mariella Venter  South Africa	1:01.77	England	1:02.19	New Zealand	1:02.68
200 m backstroke	Mariella Venter  South Africa	2:13.57	England	2:14.79	Wales	2:16.52
50 m breaststroke	Christie Chue  Singapore	32.38	Bahamas	32.52	Ciara Smith  New Zealand	32.56
100 m breaststroke	South Africa	1:10.14	Christie Chue  Singapore	1:10.72	Ciara Smith  New Zealand	1:11.07
200 m breaststroke	England	2:31.00	New Zealand	2:31.49	South Africa	2:32.32
50 m butterfly	Quah Jing Wen  Singapore	59.92	England	1:00.14	New Zealand	1:01.27
100 m butterfly	Quah Jing Wen  Singapore	27.23	Alicia Wilson  England	27.28	Scotland	27.56f
200 m butterfly	England	2:10.95	Quah Jing Wen  Singapore	2:13.29	Australia	2:13.80
200 m individual medley	Alicia Wilson  England	2:15.49	New Zealand	2:16.55	Northern Ireland	2:17.97
400 m individual medley	New Zealand	4:42.19	Rebecca Meder  South Africa	4:46.69	England	4:49.22

Mixed[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
4×100 m freestyle relay	Singapore (SGP) Quah Jing Wen Jonathan Tan	3:36.01	England (ENG) Alicia Wilson	3:36.17	Scotland (SCO)	3:37.05
4×200 m freestyle relay	New Zealand (NZL) Lewis Clareburt Chelsey Edwards Zac Reid	7:50.85	England (ENG)	7:55.79	Australia (AUS)	7:57.74
4×100 m medley relay	Singapore (SGP) Quah Jing Wen	3:56.74	New Zealand (NZL) Lewis Clareburt Ciara Smith	3:57.21	England (ENG) Alicia Wilson	3:59.33

Participating nations[]

There were 45 participating nations at the swimming competitions with a total of 184 swimmers. The number of athletes a nation entered is in parentheses beside the name of the country.^[5]

References[]

External links[]

• Results