adminAiden Onorati, Takunda Mafundikwa, Lorna Doorman and Ratidzo Mutangadura.
The five-day event, which ended on Tuesday, featured more than 700 swimmers and Zimbabwe got their medals through Liam Davis while some of the swimmers made it to the finals but could not finish in the top three.
Team manager, Julie Price, said the competition was stiff and added that South Africa have started preparing for the 2016 Olympic Games.
“The competition was very tough, we didn’t get many medals as we expected. We got two medals from Liam Davis. He performed very well.
“We had quite a few swimmers in the final because it was made up of 10 swimmers but unfortunately we didn’t get medals.
“Chase Onorati came fourth twice, there were 741 children and the competition was tougher than last year.
“The times were exceptional, South Africa have upped their competition. They are preparing for Rio 2016 and a lot of money has been invested. They are actually looking at increasing the time to cut on the number of participants,” said Price. Price said although most of the swimmers could not win medals they posted some good times according to Zimbabwean standards.
“Most of the kids did some very good times according to Zimbabwe standards but it gave us a lesson that South Africa is ahead of us, that’s why we want to go to South Africa.
“Our kids realised that they need to train a lot more and possibly go to more meetings like this, so that they can see what the competition is like and what they need to do to improve their times.
Online Reporter