Jessica Thompson and Lara van Niekerk Strike Gold Again at Short Course Champs
Jessica Thompson continues her leading form at the SA National Short Course Champs, adding two more golds in the 50m freestyle and 100m backstroke, while Lara van Niekerk claims the 50m breaststroke title in Pietermaritzburg
Jessica Thompson Sets New SA Record, Matches African Record
Jessica Thompson set a new 50m butterfly national record and equalled the 50m backstroke African mark on Day 2 action at the Bombela Concession Company SA National Short Course Championships in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, on Friday
Jessica Thompson Strikes Double Gold on SA Short Course Champs Opening Day
Jessica Thompson kicked off the Bombela Concession Company SA National Short Course Champs with two titles, collecting gold in the 100m freestyle and 50m butterfly at Pietermaritzburg on Thursday
Erin Gallagher Joins Kaylene Korbett and Rebecca Meder in World Aquatics Champs Qualifying Times
The 2025 SA National Swimming Championships has concluded with three women swimmers having achieved qualifying times for the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore, at the Newton Park Swimming Pool in Gqeberha in the Eastern Cape on Sunday, 13, April 2025. Erin Gallagher dipped under the required time in the morning heats of the 50m butterfly […]
Rebecca Meder Sets World Champs Qualifying Mark at SA Swim Champs in Gqeberha
Rebecca Meder broke her own 200m IM Paris 2024 South African record and set a World Championships Qualifying Mark while Michaela de Villiers set a new national 50m backstroke record at the SA Swim Champs in Gqeberha on Thursday
Jessica Thompson and Rebecca Meder Day 1 Winners at the SA National Swimming Champs
17-year-old Jessica Thompson and New Zealand-based Rebecca Meder among Day 1 champions at the SA National Swimming Championships underway at the Newton Park Swimming Pool in Gqeberha on Wednesday
Selectors in Keen Attendance as Mzansi Swimmers Start 2025 in Mbombela
Jessica Thompson and Marony Jacobs caught deserved attention when 2025 started with a bang for Mzansi swimmers, with the fastest talent in the sport catching the eye of selectors at Swimming SA’s Grand Prix in Mbombela over the weekend
Two Final African Record at World Short Course Swim Champs in Budapest
The SA women’s 4x100m medley relay team of Milla Drakopoulos, Lara van Niekerk, Rebecca Meder and Jessica Thompson; and 50m freestyle semi-finalist, Caitlin de Lange, set new African records as Short Course Champs wrap in Budapest
Stephanie Houtman Sets New 1500m Freestyle African Record in Budapest
Stephanie Houtman set a new African record in the 1500m freestyle the Day 4 Highlight in Budapest while Rebecca Meder lined up in two finals at the Short Course World Championships in Hungary on Friday
Two More African Records for Magnificent Rebecca Meder
Rebecca Meder racked up a further two African records, and also recorded a personal best a whisker off Tatjana Smith’s continental breaststroke record at the World Short Course Championships in Budapest on Thursday
Rebecca Meder ‘Stoked’ at Qualifying for 100m Breaststroke Final in Budapest
Rebecca Meder continued to show her rising form in the breaststroke events, finishing third in her 100m breaststroke semifinal to qualify for Thursday’s final at the World Short Course Championships in Budapest on Wednesday
Rebecca Meder Shatters Long-Standing African Record on Opening Night in Budapest
Rebecca Meder took over half a second off Zimbabwean Olympic great Kirsty Coventry’s African 200m individual medley record on the opening night of the World Short Course Swimming Champs in Budapest on Tuesday.