Amiee Le Blanc of Mar­lins Swim Club wrote her name in­to the books when she broke the record in the girls’ 11 & over 1,500 me­tres freestyle event on Fri­day night of the Na­tion­al Open Long Course Cham­pi­onships at the Na­tion­al Aquat­ic Cen­tre in Bal­main, Cou­va.

She did not, how­ev­er, make the qual­i­fy­ing time for the Cen­tral Amer­i­can and Caribbean Con­fed­er­a­tion (CC­CAN) Swim Cham­pi­onships in Au­gust in El Sal­vador.

The record was set by Sha­nia David back in 2013 when she swam to a blis­ter­ing 19 min­utes and 38.36 sec­onds. Le Blanc, con­test­ing the fi­nal of the event, pro­duced a jaw-drop­ping per­for­mance that saw her touch the wall at the fin­ish in 19:34.00.

She was the on­ly swim­mer to have achieved such a feat on the night. Her gold medal fin­ish was fol­lowed by sec­ond-place Tay­lor Marchan (20:35.95) with the bronze medal go­ing to Zara Per­si­co af­ter stop­ping the clock at 20:42.10.

Al­so Fri­day, Nikoli Black­man swam to vic­to­ries in three ‘A’ fi­nals—the boys’ 11 & over 200m in­di­vid­ual med­ley in 2:14.30, the 100m freestyle in 51.71 and the 50m back­stroke by post­ing a time of 27.11.

Al­so, there were ‘A’ fi­nal wins for Zarek Wil­son, clock­ing 55.13 in the 11 & over the 100-me­tre but­ter­fly and Maid­an Ed­wards who touched the wall at 1:10.92 in the girls’ 100m but­ter­fly.

Or­nel­la Walk­er and Aiden Nixon were al­so in the win­ner’s row of the 50m back­stroke ‘A’ fi­nal for boys and girls re­spec­tive­ly.

Yes­ter­day, Black­man led a list of reg­u­lar names who will be in con­tention for the CC­CAN cham­pi­onships.

Black­man, who led the coun­try’s medal haul of 54 medals, which con­sist­ed of 22 gold, 16 sil­ver and 16 bronze at the Carif­ta Games over the East­er hol­i­days, booked his places in the ‘A’ fi­nals of the boys 11 & over 200m freestyle event by top­ping the pre­lim­i­nar­ies in a time of 1:56.09.

He was fol­lowed in­to sec­ond po­si­tion by Zachary An­tho­ny (2:02.66) with Rique­lio Joseph (2:05.31) in third, all set to con­test the A fi­nal for swim­mers reg­is­ter­ing the top eight times.

The ‘B’ fi­nals for swim­mers com­ing ninth to 16th po­si­tions, will be led by Josi­ah Changar (2:10.58) and in­cludes Blaine So­bri­an, Ale­jan­dro Agard and Levi Smith, among oth­ers.

Black­man will al­so pur­sue a qual­i­fy­ing berth in the 11 & over 50m but­ter­fly event af­ter fin­ish­ing sec­ond be­hind Chris­t­ian Awah. The lat­ter touched the wall at the fin­ish line first, post­ing a time of 24.51 with Black­man close be­hind in 25.66, while Zarek Wil­son, an­oth­er of the T&T swim aces, was in third po­si­tion in 25.71 sec­onds. All will con­test the ‘A’ fi­nals.

Black­man, a three-time First Cit­i­zens Sports Foun­da­tion’s Ju­nior Sports­man of the Year nom­i­nee, will al­so go af­ter the ‘A’ fi­nal in the 11 & over 50m breast­stroke event. This af­ter he dis­posed of the eight-man field to win in 30.70, fin­ish­ing ahead of sec­ond-place Za­ckary Gre­sham (31.52) and Rique­lio Joseph (31.83).

Mean­while, Cherelle Thomp­son will al­so go af­ter a CC­CAN spot in the girls’ 11 & over 50m but­ter­fly af­ter lead­ing a close dash to the fin­ish in the pre­lim­i­nar­ies. The T&T Olympian who rep­re­sent­ed the coun­try in the 50m freestyle in Tokyo, Japan, touched the wall yes­ter­day in a time of 29.11.

She fin­ished ahead of Amari Ash who clocked 30.01, to al­so earn a place in the fi­nal, along­side Tilly Col­ly­more in third at 30.27.

Nata­nia Ed­wards in ninth po­si­tion will still have a chance for a CC­CAN spot, along with the oth­er swim­mers in the ‘B’ fi­nal, should they be able to splash to the qual­i­fy­ing stan­dard.

Or­nel­la Walk­er will al­so go af­ter ho­n­ours in the girls’ 11 & over 100m back­stroke fol­low­ing her 1:06.93-sec­ond win in the pre­lim­i­nar­ies, yes­ter­day. The re­sult means she will con­test the ‘A’ fi­nal, lin­ing up along­side sec­ond-place Alyssa Reid 1:13.44 and third Kiara Goodridge (1:14.51).