“With the assistance of CIASA director Adrien Royston, we are delighted to release the first set of CIASA swimming records,” said President Peter Mackay. “This is something which our new technical director Ian Armiger has been instrumental in introducing and these records will now make it easier for us to produce a comprehensive listing of rankings and of national records as well,” he concluded.

To hold a CIASA record, the swimmer must be a CIASA registered member and/or competes under a CIASA recognised club, or participates is CIASA designated meet (must meet FINA Officiating Standards) or in overseas licensed meets.

“This has not been an easy task,” said Coach Ian Armiger. “The records are posted on the CIASA website www.ciasa.ky and are listed by age group, event, club, meet the record was set in etc. As can be expected, when going back through historical documents to develop records such as these, we may have made some mistakes. We hope that all CIASA members – past and present – will review the records and if they see any inaccuracies will let me know so that they can be corrected.”

Once the CIASA SC and LC records are compiled we will then use them as a reference from which we can develop the listing of National Records. The national records criteria will be the same with the exception that to hold a national record the athlete must also be Caymanian.

“I would like to thank Coach Ian and CIASA director Adrien Royston for the time they have spent putting these records together,” said Mr Mackay. “Reviewing historical data, compiling it and checking it over and over is a time consuming job but having these records – and ultimately the rankings – will help move the sport of swimming to one which is transparent and affords all competitive swimmers, registered with CIASA and swimming for a recognised club the opportunity to see how they rate compared to their competition,” he added

Latest news:

Kavanagh Lambert raced to 8th spot in the 11/12yrs 200m breaststroke at the Youth Cup in Toronto.

After a solid 400m IM of 5:52.89 on Day 1, Kav swam to a 2:59.82 Top 8 finish in the 200m breaststroke…only 1.4 seconds off the podium!

Isabella Tognazzo, Lauren Hew, Zororo Mutomba and Matthew Somerville struck medals on Day 2 of the Mega City Meet in Toronto.

Isabella, swimming with confidence from her podium places on Day 1, raced to victory in the 14yrs 200m backstroke with 2:38.61 but it was her 1:05.70 silver medal in the 100m freestyle which gave her most satisfaction as this was a new CARIFTA Qualifying Time.

Lauren Hew narrowly missed the 100m backstroke CARIFTA time with a superb lifetime best of 1:12.62  but then rallied in the 100m 13yrs 100m freestyle to take bronze in 1:06.09.

Zororo Mutomba powered her way to the 10yrs& under 100m freestyle title (1:13.81) and placed 4th in the 100m breaststroke with 1:44.27

Matthew Somerville took bronze in the 11/12yrs 50m backstroke (37.37) with teammate Ed Weber finishing 7th in 39.30.

Ben Somerville and Dylan Lewis placedd 4th & 5th respectively in the 10yrs& under 50m backstroke; Ben in 43.15 and Lewis in 43.60

Isabella Tognazzo swam to a tremendous lifetime best of 3:03.57 to take the 14yrs 200m breaststroke title in the opening session of the Mega City Meet in Toronto.

Isabella went on to finish 4th in the 14yrs 200m individual medley with another lifetime best of 2:42.59, teammate Lauren Hew finishing 6th in the 13yrs age group with 2:42.13: both swimmers are now within striking distance of the CARIFTA Qualifying standard of 2:39.29.

Lara Butler, Geoffrey Butler and Matthew Courtis are racing in the UK this weekend.

The swimmers will be competing in the South West Regional Short Course Championships which take place at Millfield School on 1st/2nd December.