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

Australia  Fiji  Hawaii

New Caledonia  New Zealand  Palau

Papua New Guinea  Samoa  Tahiti

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	Tim La Forest   Australia	23.65	Mark Herring   New Zealand	23.71
100m Freestyle	Cameron Prosser   Australia	50.70 CR	Tim La Forest   Australia	51.43	Kirk Palmer   Australia	51.44
200m Freestyle	Grant Brits   Australia	1:51.22 CR	Robert Voss   New Zealand	1:51.78	Kirk Palmer   Australia	1:53.02
400m Freestyle	Nic Donald   Australia	3:55.58 CR	Robert Voss   New Zealand	3:59.44	Grant Brits   Australia	4:00.97
1500m Freestyle	Bryn Murphy   New Zealand	15:43.17	Daniel Ryan   New Zealand	16:00.10	Shane Patience   New Zealand	16:09.60
50m Backstroke	Ashley Delaney   Australia	26.47 CR	Lewis Williams   New Zealand	26.68	Grant Brits   Australia	26.69
100m Backstroke	Ashley Delaney   Australia	55.82 CR	Grant Brits   Australia	57.78	Kurt Bassett   New Zealand	58.07
200m Backstroke	Ashley Delaney   Australia	2:03.91	Kurt Bassett   New Zealand	2:04.75	Dean Kent   New Zealand	2:05.60
50m Breaststroke	Glenn Snyders   New Zealand	28.99	Kieran O'Regan   Australia	29.16	Adrien Thomas   New Caledonia	29.89
100m Breaststroke	Glenn Snyders   New Zealand	1:03.50	Kieran O'Regan   Australia	1:04.04	Adrien Thomas   New Caledonia	1:06.15
200m Breaststroke	Kieran O'Regan   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	Matthew Thomas   New Zealand	24.83
100m Butterfly	Corney Swanepoel   New Zealand	54.51	Tim Dodd   Australia	55.21	Matthew Thomas   New Zealand	55.38
200m Butterfly	Nick Cordner   Australia	2:00.69	Nick D'Arcy   Australia	2:00.98	Nic Donald   Australia	2:01.81
200m I.M.	Stephen Parkes   Australia	2:03.43 CR	Dean Kent   New Zealand	2:06.18	Nick Cordner   Australia	2:06.91
400m I.M.	Dean Kent   New Zealand	4:25.31	Stephen Parkes   Australia	4:26.26	Nick Cordner   Australia	4:29.37
400m Free Relay	Australia  Kirk Palmer,  Cameron Prosser,  Tim La Forest,  Grant Brits	3:23.60 CR	New Zealand  Robert Voss,  Mark Herring,  Hamish Wilson,  Michael Jack	3:27.94	New Caledonia  David Thevenot,  Gilles Dumesnil,  Nicolas Hezard,  Olivier Saminadin	3:31.65
800m Free Relay	Australia  Kirk Palmer,  Nick D'Arcy,  Josh Minogue,  Grant Brits	7:31.64	New Zealand  Robert Voss,  Ben Pickersgill-Brown,  Kurt Bassett,  Dean Kent	7:43.78	New Caledonia  Thomas Dahlia,  Benoit Riviere,  Olivier Saminadin,  David Thevenot	8:09.68
400m Medley Relay	Australia  Ashley Delaney,  Kieran O'Regan,  Tim Dodd,  Tim La Forest	3:45.24	New Zealand  John Zulch,  Glenn Snyders,  Corney Swanepoel,  Robert Voss	3:46.31	New Caledonia  Nicolas Hezard,  Adrien Thomas,  Olivier Saminadin,  David Thevenot	4:02.05

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50m Freestyle	Ellese Zalewski   Australia	26.13	Elizabeth Coster   New Zealand	26.63	Lauren Boyle   New Zealand	26.76
100m Freestyle	Lauren Boyle   New Zealand	57.14	Amelia Evatt-Davey   Australia	57.65	Siobhan Keane   Australia	58.02
200m Freestyle	Ellese Zalewski   Australia	2:00.51 CR	Amelia Evatt-Davey   Australia	2:01.79	Lauren Boyle   New Zealand	2:01.92
400m Freestyle	Stephanie Williams   Australia	4:14.35	Lorren Sellwood   Australia	4:15.34	Lauren Boyle   New Zealand	4:19.20
800m Freestyle	Stephanie Williams   Australia	8:42.25[3]	Lorren Sellwood   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	Jessie Blundell   New Zealand	30.39
100m Backstroke	Elizabeth Coster   New Zealand	1:02.79 CR	Meagan Nay   Australia	1:03.75	Kelly Newcombe   New Zealand	1:04.85
200m Backstroke	Meagan Nay   Australia	2:13.99 CR	Siobhan Keane   Australia	2:15.15	Jessie Blundell   New Zealand	2:18.76
50m Breaststroke	Katie Bird   Australia	32.84	Sarah Vettoretti   New Zealand	33.28	Katie Bone   New Zealand	33.79
100m Breaststroke	Katie Bird   Australia	1:12.37	Talia Goddard   Australia	1:12.56	Sarah Vettoretti   New Zealand	1:12.88
200m Breaststroke	Talia Goddard   Australia	2:34.35	Kelly Bentley   New Zealand	2:35.23	Brittany Beauchan   Hawaii	2:40.94
50m Butterfly	Ellese Zalewski   Australia	26.92 CR	Elizabeth Coster   New Zealand	28.07	Samantha Hamill   Australia	28.14
100m Butterfly	Ellese Zalewski   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	Ellese Zalewski   Australia	2:13.13	Amy Smith   Australia	2:14.09
200m I.M.	Talia Goddard   Australia	2:18.00	Samantha Hamill   Australia	2:19.53	Katie Bird   Australia	2:19.66
400m I.M.	Talia Goddard   Australia	4:52.21	Kristen Wilson   Australia	4:56.80	Kelly Bentley   New Zealand	5:02.10
400m Free Relay	Australia   Ellese Zalewski, CR   Meagan Nay,   Siobhan Keane,   Amelia Evatt-Davey	3:47.16 CR	New Zealand   Lauren Boyle,   Joyce Wiegersma,   Penelope Marshall,   Isabella Franks	3:57.61	New Caledonia   Armelle Hidrio,   Anais Rians,   Lara Grangeon,   Adeline Williams	4:15.62
800m Free Relay	Australia   Meagan Nay,   Stephanie Williams,   Ellese Zalewski,   Amelia Evatt-Davey	8:12.28 CR	New Zealand   Lauren Boyle,   Joyce Wiegersma,   Kirsten Cameron,   Penelope Marshall	8:34.12	New Caledonia   Anais Rians,   Armelle Hidrio,   Adeline Williams,   Lara Grangeon	9:17.39
400m Medley Relay	Australia   Meagan Nay,   Katie Bird,   Samantha Hamill,   Ellese Zalewski	4:14.98	New Zealand   Elizabeth Coster,   Sarah Vettoretti,   Meagan Allan,   Lauren Boyle	4:18.07	New Caledonia   Lara Grangeon,   Adeline Williams,   Armelle Hidrio,   Anais Rians	4:49.89

Open Water medalist

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Men's 5K	James David   Australia	1:01:09.00	Olivier Saminadin   New Caledonia	1:01:29.00	Keiran Carrigan   Australia	1:01:42.00
Men's 10K	Kane Radford   New Zealand	2:07:54.00	James David   Australia	2:08:03.00	Keiran Carrigan   Australia	2:09:54.00
Women's 5K	Brooke Fletcher   Australia	1:03:00.00	Nikita Barsby   Australia	1:08:33.00	Kirsten Cameron   New Zealand	1:09:09.00
Women's 10K	Brooke Fletcher   Australia	2:11:16.00	Nikita Barsby   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	-	1	8	9
4	Hawaii	-	-	1	1

References

1. Championship Information for the 2006 Oceania Swimming Championships. Posted by the Oceania Swimming Association on 2006-03-28; retrieved 2010-06-29.
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 Stephanie Williams missed setting the Championships Record by 0.03. The record at the time was 8:42.22 swum by Briody Murphy at the 2004 Championships.