2012 Oceania Swimming Championships

The 9th Oceania Swimming Championships were May 28-June 3, 2012 in Nouméa, New Caledonia. The Championships featured competition in Swimming, Open Water Swimming and Synchronized Swimming. Swimming was held at the CARD Guy Verlaguet pool in Dumbéa, Synchro was held at a pool in Ouen-Toro park, and the Open Water races were swum in the waters off Baie des Citrons (5K) and Anse-Vata (10K).^[1]

The 2012 edition marks the third time that Nouméa has hosted the event, after hosting in 1993 and 2002.

Participating nations

14 nations and 2 affiliated members of the Oceania Swimming Association participated in the Championships:^[2] (Note: Number listed is Swimming team sizes, unless otherwise referenced.)

American Samoa (1) Australia (20) Cook Islands (2) Fiji (12)[3]

Hawaii (8) Guam (7) Marshall Islands (2) Federated States of Micronesia (2)

New Caledonia (24) New Zealand (12) Northern Mariana Islands (1) Palau (2)

Papua New Guinea (6) Samoa (4) Tahiti (1) Tonga (3)

Competition schedule

Date	Monday 28 May	Tuesday 29 May	Wednesday 30 May	Thursday 31 May	Friday 1 June	Saturday 2 June
S w i m m i n g		50 fly 200 free 100 back 200 fly 1500 free (men)	50 back 100 free 100 breast 400 IM 4×200 free relay	50 breast 400 free 100 fly 200 back 4×100 free relay	800 free (women) 200 IM 50 free 200 breast 4×100 medley relay
Open Water	5K					10K
Synchro			Solo technique Duet technique Figures (juniors)	Solo free	Duet free

Results

Swimming

A total of 40 swimming events were contested in a long course (50m) pool. Similar to other international competitions, each nation was allowed to have only 2 swimmers advance through to a final in any individual event (additional swimmers could advance into the B final, or empty lanes, put were considered exhibition). In the relay events it was one medal per country. So, for example, if New Zealand 'A' finishes first, Australia 'A' finishes second, New Zealand 'B' finishes third and New Caledonia finishes fourth, New Caledonia would be awarded the bronze medal.

Key

• CR - Championship record
• NR - National record

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50m freestyle	Kyle Richardson   Australia	22.83 CR	Cameron Simpson   New Zealand	23.18	Ryan Pini   Papua New Guinea	23.56
100m freestyle	Kenneth To   Australia	50.08	Ryan Pini   Papua New Guinea	51.28	Daniel Lester   Australia	51.53
200m freestyle	Kenneth To   Australia	1:50.32	Thomas Dahlia   New Caledonia	1:54.76	Ewan Jackson   New Zealand	1:55.70
400m freestyle	Declan Potts   Australia	3:55.23	Trent Grimsey   Australia	4:01.68	Isaac Foote   New Zealand	4:01.69
1500m freestyle	Jarrod Poort   Australia	15:30.68	Trent Grimsey   Australia	15:32.39	Isaac Foote   New Zealand	16:01.21
50m backstroke	Ben Edmonds Australia (AUS)	26.54	Kurt Crosland New Zealand (NZL)	26.72	Ryan Pini   Papua New Guinea	26.95
100m backstroke	Kurt Crosland New Zealand (NZL)	56.52	Ben Edmonds Australia (AUS)	57.15	Ryan Pini   Papua New Guinea	58.43
200m backstroke	Ben Edmonds Australia (AUS)	2:03.12	Kurt Crosland New Zealand (NZL)	2:03.40	Benjamin Gillies New Zealand (NZL)	2:04.90
50m breaststroke	Amini Fonua   Tonga	28.80	Nikolas Pregelj   Australia	29.29	Nicholas Schafer   Australia	29.74
100m breaststroke	Thomas Dahlia   New Caledonia	1:03.27	Nicholas Schafer   Australia	1:03.29	Nikolas Pregelj   Australia	1:04.02
200m breaststroke	Nicholas Schafer   Australia	2:16.67	Thomas Dahlia   New Caledonia	2:16.70	Nikolas Pregelj   Australia	2:18.19
50m butterfly	Ryan Pini   Papua New Guinea	24.41	Daniel Lester   Australia	24.45	Amini Fonua   Tonga	24.93
100m butterfly	Daniel Lester   Australia	53.45	Kenneth To   Australia	53.74	Ryan Pini   Papua New Guinea	53.87
200m butterfly	Declan Potts   Australia	1:59.06	Daniel Lester   Australia	2:02.32	Alan Botrel   New Caledonia	2:14.29
200m I.M.	Kenneth To Australia (AUS)	2:01.35 CR	Daniel Lester Australia (AUS)	2:05.25	Carsten Corazza New Zealand (NZL)	2:06.27
400m I.M.	Carsten Corazza New Zealand (NZL)	4:26.02	Kenneth To Australia (AUS)	4:30.35	Matthew Glassford New Zealand (NZL)	4:36.55
4×100m   free relay	Australia   Kyle Richardson (49.83)   Kenneth To (49.56))   Daniel Lester (53.20)   Declan Potts (52.12)	3:24.71	New Zealand   Ewan Jackson (53.33)   Kurt Crosland (54.51)   Carsten Corazza (51.94)   Cameron Simpson (52.14)	3:31.92	New Caledonia   Benoit Riviere (54.46)   Julien Monot (?)   Hugo Lemerre-Desprez (?)   Thomas Dahlia (?)	3:35.87
4×200m   free relay	Australia   Declan Potts (1:52.05)   Kyle Richardson (1:52.43)   Kenneth To (1:52.59)   Rhys Mainstone (1:57.69)	7:34.76	New Zealand   Ewan Jackson (1:54.57)   Carsten Corazza (1:53.34)   Isaac Foote (1:57.90)   Troy Balvert (1:59.56)	7:45.37	New Caledonia   Thomas Dahlia (1:56.99)   Benoit Riviere (2:02.00)   Emmanuel Limozin (2:00.77)   Léo Cherriffa (2:00.71)	8:00.47
4×100m   medley relay	Australia   Ben Edmonds,   Nicholas Schafer,   Daniel Lester,   Kyle Richardson	3:44.88	New Zealand   Kurt Crosland,   Matthew Glassford,   Carsten Corazza,   Cameron Simpson	3:49.60	New Caledonia   Arthur Funfschilling,   Thomas Dahlia,   Alan Botrel,   Benoit Riviere	4:03.13

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50m freestyle	Ami Matsuo   Australia	26.00	Nicole Mee   Australia	26.82	Armelle Hidrio   New Caledonia	27.02
100m freestyle	Ami Matsuo   Australia	56.17	Amy Levings   Australia	57.62	Emma Terebo   New Caledonia	58.50
200m freestyle	Ami Matsuo   Australia	2:02.67	Maëva Parayre   New Caledonia	2:10.57	Matelita Buadromo   Fiji	2:10.82
400m freestyle	Amy Levings   Australia	4:16.50	Emily Seymour   Australia	4:32.12	Lena Hayakawa   Hawaii	4:40.13
800m freestyle	Jordan White   Australia	8:48.99	Leah Cutting   Australia	9:00.23	Lena Hayakawa   Hawaii	9:40.75
50m backstroke	Grace Loh   Australia	29.65	Jordan White   Australia	30.39	Emma Terebo   New Caledonia	30.80
100m backstroke	Mikkayla Sheridan   Australia	1:03.45	Grace Loh   Australia	1:03.63	Emma Terebo   New Caledonia	1:05.70
200m backstroke	Mikkayla Sheridan   Australia	2:14.06	Jordan White   Australia	2:15.30	Emma Terebo   New Caledonia	2:23.85
50m breaststroke	Lorna Tonks   Australia	31.66 CR	Jessican Hansen   Australia	33.13	Pilar Shimizu   Guam	34.45
100m breaststroke	Lorna Tonks   Australia	1:08.24 CR	Jessican Hansen   Australia	1:10.32	Pilar Shimizu   Guam	1:16.19
200m breaststroke	Jessican Hansen   Australia	2:32.57	Lorna Tonks   Australia	2:36.86	Lena Hayakawa   Hawaii	2:46.92
50m butterfly	Nicole Mee   Australia	27.67	Lorna Tonks   Australia	28.23	Armelle Hidrio   New Caledonia	28.67
100m butterfly	Nicole Mee   Australia	1:01.41	Lorna Tonks   Australia	1:01.61	Yasmine Ware   Hawaii	1:06.35
200m butterfly	Jordan White   Australia	2:13.83	Nicole Mee   Australia	2:13.85	Lena Hayakawa   Hawaii	2:31.96
200m I.M.	Amy Levings   Australia	2:18.91	Mikkayla Sheridan   Australia	2:18.97	Aja Grande   Hawaii	2:26.54
400m I.M.	Amy Levings   Australia	4:51.37	Leah Cutting   Australia	4:56.93	Yasmine Ware   Hawaii	5:23.77
4×100m   free relay	Australia   Ami Matsuo (56.59)   Jordan White (58.62)   Mikkayla Sheridan (56.88)   Amy Levings (57.31)	3:49.40	New Caledonia   Maëva Parayre (1:00.77)   Armelle Hidrio (59.35)   Delphine Bui Duyet (1:01.34)   Emma Terbro (58.71)	4:00.17	Hawaii   Yasmine Ware (1:01.02)   Aja Grande (1:00.44)   Bryee Nihipali (1:04.70)   Lena Hayakawa (1:01.70)	4:07.86
4×200m   freestyle relay	Australia   Amy Levings (2:05.70)   Mikkayla Sheridan (2:04.02)   Jordan White (2:07.10)   Ami Matsuo (2:06.06)	8:22.88	New Caledonia   Emma Terbro (2:10.87)   Armelle Hidrio (2:17.99)   Delphine Bui Duyet (2:12.44)   Maëva Parayre (2:13.55)	8:54.85	Hawaii   Aja Grande (2:16.93)   Lena Hayakawa (2:14.99)   Bryee Nihipali (2:28.46)   Yasmine Ware (2:18.76)	9:19.14
4×100m   medley relay	Australia   Mikkayla Sheridan,   Lorna Tonks,   Nicole Mee,   Ami Matsuo	4:15.09	Hawaii   Bryee Nihipali,   Lena Hayakawa,   Yasmine Ware,   Aja Grande	4:33.75	New Caledonia   Emma Terebo,   Lauriane Santa,   Maëva Parayre,   Armelle Hidrio	4:35.79

Mixed event

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
4×100 m freestyle relay	Australia Declan Potts (53.22) Amy Levings (58.22) Grace Loh (1:00.60) Ben Edmonds (53.64)	3:45.68	New Caledonia Alix Barrois (1:03.92) Léo Cherriffa (57.98) Déborah Cronsteadt (1:04.75) Hugo Lemerre-Desprez (55.55)	4:02.20	New Caledonia Julie Rouam-Sim (1:03.83) Arthur Funfschilling (56.35) Adele Simon (1:05.13) Marcus Meozzi (56.98)	4:02.29
4×100 m medley relay	Australia Grace Loh (1:04.86) Nikolas Pregelj (1:03.68) Daniel Lester (55.55) Ami Matsuo (57.70)	4:01.79	New Caledonia Nicolas Oswald (1:05.15) Maroma Bong (1:17.55) Adele Simon (1:09.43) Hugo Lemerre-Desprez (54.49)	4:26.62	New Caledonia Emmanuel Limozin (1:04.55) Lauriane Santa (1:18.35) Théo Jambet (1:00.62) Julie Rouam-Sim (1:03.57)	4:27.09

Open Water Swimming

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
5K[4]	Rhys Mainstone   Australia	57:05.60	Trent Grimsey   Australia	57:10.94	Isaac Foote   New Zealand	1:01:38.12
10K[5]	Trent Grimsey   Australia	1:58:13.00	Rhys Mainstone   Australia	2:00:41.00	Troy Balvert   New Zealand	2:02:30.00

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
5K[4]	Leah Cutting   Australia	1:03:25.21	Emily Seymour   Australia	1:04:13.95	Charlotte Robin   New Caledonia	1:09:02.09
10K[5]	Melissa Gorman   Australia	2:01:46.00	Emily Seymour   Australia	2:10:56.00	Charlotte Robin   New Caledonia	2:25:30.00

Medal Tally

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Australia	35	25	4	64
2	New Zealand	2	6	5	13
3	New Caledonia	1	7	14	22
4	Papua New Guinea	1	1	4	6
5	Tonga	1	-	1	2
6	Hawaii	-	1	9	10
7	Guam	-	-	2	2
8	Fiji	-	-	1	1
Total		0	0	0	0

Note: Swimming-only currently listed (Australia with 64 total).

See also

• List of Oceania Championships records in swimming

References

1. (French) Programme officiel des compétitions (trans: Official competition program) for the 9th Oceania Swimming Championships. Retrieved from the website of the New Caledonia Regional Swimming Committee (the sub-entity of the French Swimming Federation which oversees swimming in New Caledonia) on 2012-05-29.
2. (French) Liste des structures présentes (trans= Participating nations) for the 2012 Oceania Championships. Published by the French Swimming Federation; retrieved 2012-05-29.
3. Oceania Championships Team posted by Fiji Swimming on 2012-05-22; retrieved 2012-05-30.
4. Results: 5K from the 2012 Oceania Swimming Championships. Published by FFN on 2012-05-28; retrieved 2012-06-05.
5. Results: 10K from the 2012 Oceania Swimming Championships. Published by FFN on 2012-06-02; retrieved 2012-06-05.