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Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Harley, Burke break more records

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Rachael Thompson-KIng
2200 days ago
20190714
Jahmia Harley competes in the 15-17, 50 metres butterfly at the at the National Age-Group Short Course Championship at the National Aquatic Centre in Balmain, Couva. She won a record-breaking 1:03.59.

Jahmia Harley competes in the 15-17, 50 metres butterfly at the at the National Age-Group Short Course Championship at the National Aquatic Centre in Balmain, Couva. She won a record-breaking 1:03.59.

INNIS FRANCIS

Jah­mia Harley and Keryn Burke won their re­spec­tive age group events in record­ing-break­ing fash­ion on Sat­ur­day evening at the Na­tion­al Age-Group Short Course Cham­pi­onship at the Na­tion­al Aquat­ic Cen­tre in Bal­main, Cou­va.

Harley of Tidal Wave Aquat­ics (TWA) put to­geth­er a fine race to touch the wall first in the Girls 15-17 100 me­tre back­stroke one minute and 03.59 sec­onds to bet­ter her own na­tion­al record of 1:03.95 es­tab­lished last year.

The 16-year-old's ef­fort al­so met the "A" qual­i­fy­ing stan­dard (1:13.80) for the Good­will Swim­ming Meet which will be held in Para­mari­bo, Suri­name from Au­gust 16-18. Al­so meet­ing the stan­dard were sec­ond-place fin­ish­er Ter­ri Yates (15) of Blue Dol­phin with 1:11.06 and Sier­ra Robin­son (15) of Mar­lins with 1:13.72.

Burke broke Harley’s records in the girls 9 - 10 50 me­ter but­ter­fly on Thurs­day in a time of 31.61 and the girls 9-10 100m freestyle on Sat­ur­day in a time of 1.02.32 in the five-day event, which be­gan on Wednes­day and was to con­clude yes­ter­day.

Swim­mers from sev­er­al swim clubs all came out to chal­lenge the op­por­tu­ni­ty to sit on the na­tion­al team for the Good­will Swim­ming Meet in Para­mari­bo, Suri­name from Au­gust 16-18. A team of 40 swim­mers will com­prise four in each age group for both boys and girls, 10 and un­der, 11-12, 13-14, and 15 -17.

Swim­mers will know the suc­ces­sion re­sults af­ter de­lib­er­a­tion is done this week.


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