The South African Contingent

By Jay C. Upchurch - 2005

Once broadjumper Neville Price and swimmer Graham Johnston established a pipeline to the University of Oklahoma from their native South Africa, a small wave of South Africans took advantage by coming to Norman in the early 1950s. By 1954, seven members of the Sooners’ swimming and diving squad hailed from South Africa. Here is a quick glance at the lives of those seven, plus Price:

Graham Johnston
At 74, Johnston says he is in better condition now than he was when he twice qualified for the South African Olympic team in 1952 and ’56.  The freestyler from Bloemfontein currently holds 15 world records in the masters division.  A three-time All-American at OU, Johnston graduated with a business degree in 1956.  He was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 1998, two years before he retired from the construction business in Houston.  He has been married to the former Janis Thompson for 49 years; they have five children and eight grandchildren.

Lin Meiring
After a 33-year career as a prominent ear, nose and throat surgeon in Oklahoma City, Meiring retired in July 2003.  The 71-year-old native of Natal province was a member of the South African Olympic squad in the 1952 Helsinki Games.  Meiring was a backstroke specialist who earned All-America honors three times.  He initially earned a business degree and went on to graduate from OU medical school in 1965.  He has four children and three stepchildren and nine grandchildren.

Peter Duncan
Another three-time All-American during his time at OU, Peter Duncan was also a member of the 1952 South African Olympic team.  Like Johnston, he was a freestyler.  Today the 70-year-old former Sooner spends his time traveling the world in search of exotic fabrics for his Oklahoma City import/export fabric business, the Fabric Factory.  A native of Pretoria, South Africa, Duncan has three children.

Melvyn van Helsdingen
The backstroke and individual medley were Mel van Helsdingen’s specialities during a successful collegiate swimming career.  En route to helping the Sooners to three Big Seven titles, van Helsdingen earned All-America honours in 1955 and graduated with a geology degree.  The 72-year-old Pretoria product continues to work as a full-time geologist in Oklahoma City.  He married his college sweetheart, Jeanine Harrison, and the couple has one daughter.

Gerry DeJong
One of five Sooners hailing from Pretoria, Gerry DeJong is the senior member of OU’s South African connection.  At 76, DeJong continues to live an active lifestyle that has included several successful business ventures.  He is a real estate developer for a multi-million dollar project, called Sakabula Estates, in Kwa-Zulu Natal province.  DeJong not only owns the golf course that is the centrepiece of Sakabula Estates, he designed it.  As a Sooner, DeJong was a top-notch sprinter.  He is the proud father of five children.

Ernst DeJong
The younger brother of Gerry DeJong, Ernst was a member of the OU diving squad.  Like Johnston, he has gone on to great success at the masters level of his sport.  Besides diving, the 69-year-old DeJong is a champion sharp shooter and equestrian.  Aside from his hobbies, he is a highly successful artist and commercial designer, whose work includes the current design that appears on the official South African bank notes.  He has two children.

Julian Dyason
An All-American in 1957, Dyason was a member of four straight OU squads that captured Big Seven swimming titles.  The son of a Pretoria pool manager, Dyason was a breaststroke champion at several levels, including winning the NCAA breaststroke gold medal as a senior.  He married his college sweetheart, Linda Fowler, and graduated with a geology degree.  The couple had three children and six grandchildren.  A safety engineer with his own business in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Dyason died of a brain tumour in April 1979 at age 44.

Neville Price  (father of Springbok swimmer and coach Dean Price)
The first South African awarded an athletic scholarship by the University of Oklahoma, Neville Price led the way to OU for the rest of his compatriots.  Longtime track and field coach John Jacobs brought Price to OU after his son Bill had competed with the South African at a meet in 1951.  Price went on to earn Big Seven broad jump titles in ’52, ’53 and ’54, before eventually returning home, where he competed for South Africa in the ’56 Olympics.  Later, he managed The Wanderers Golf Club, an exclusive resort in Johannesburg.  Price died of a heart attack in 1975.

1985 Western Province Masters swimmers to the first nationals event in Durban.

South African Masters Swimming

Tim Shead - Masters World Champion

World Champion swimmer Tim Shead (55), of Constantia, Cape Town is creating waves having just returned from Spain where he broke no less than three World records and seven South African records in the Spanish Masters Swimming Championships, which was held in Madrid between 26 and 28 January 2007. Shead competed along with 1400 competitors from across the globe, some as young as 22 years of age, in no less than four swimming events, to glide to victory in his age group.

Since the first of January 2007, he has already broken three World records, ten South African records and achieved six World Number One rankings in 6 different events.

Shead has now broken 12 World Swimming Records and holds the unofficial title of World’s Fastest All Round Swimmer over the age of 50, and has done so for the past five years. Even more impressive is the fact that he has improved his speed over this period and this year smashed the existing world record by an incredible 2.4 seconds in the 100 metre Individual Medley and in doing so went faster than his still untouched world record in the 50-54 age group set 5 years ago

However, this achievement is merely the start of an ambitious year-long quest to accomplish a goal never before realized by any swimmer of any age in the history of the sport of swimming; namely to compete and rank in the ‘Top 10’ worldwide in every swimming event in existence. This comprises each and every different stroke at every distance ranging from the 50 metre sprint to the 1500 metre distance event – a total of 36 events. To date Tim has competed in seven events this year, breaking three world records and ranking No 1 worldwide in 6 events.

Given these extraordinary achievements while training only 4-5 hours a week, you may well ask what the secret of this phenomenal athlete’s success is at such a mature age?

According to Shead, his success started at the age of 38, when, after many years of trying and failing - and certainly falling far short of any world rankings or records - he cognited on the link between proper nutrition and its indelible impact upon mental and physical performance. He broke his first World Record in 1997 at 45 years of age. Long dreaming of attaining the status of one the world’s elite swimmers, he had all but given up by the age of 24, subsisting on fast foods, sandwiches and soft drinks while training up to 5 hours a day and competing in swimming competitions. This realization was to be a turning point in his life, and the beginning of a personal and professional interest in the Health food industry. He cites as the key to his phenomenal late-life success in the sphere of championship swimming, the critical intake of the correct combination of foods, supported by the right nutritional supplementation.

Shead hails from the USA originally, where he graduated from the prestigious Wharton School of Business in 1974. Already a competitive swimmer at age 12, he found his chosen vocation as early as 1976, when he started working as a Swimming coach, and cites this as his ‘first love’. His coaching success led to his team being ranked among the top 15 in the country, and his being awarded the title of US National Swim Coach in 1979, a designation he held up until his retirement from coaching in 1983. He was also one of the youngest US Swimming Coaches ever to receive the prestigious Certificate of Excellence for Coaching Achievement.- an award he won 3 times. Recognizing his dedication and passion to the sport of Swimming, he was elected Chairman of the Athlete’s Representative Committee by his peers and was instrumental in gaining professional recognition for this sport in his country of birth.

He moved to South Africa in 1984 with his South African wife and family, and started competing in Masters Swimming. Not forsaking his first love, Tim coached water polo at Bishops and was Chairman of Western Province School’s water polo until 2005. He also started up a Nutritional foods company and currently retains ownership in two Health Food companies, Advanced Health Food cc, a retail supplier of Health food supplements under the brand ‘Ultima’ and a new Direct Marketing Health food company called P2Life.

Tim firmly ascribes his successes and recent world records to supplementing his diet with two of his own products, a nutritional milkshake which he has taken religiously for 23 years now, found under 2 names; Ultima "1" and P2Life "Nutriboost", and Adaptogens - the most beneficial of all plant nutrients - which he has been taking for the past 10 years.

In peak physical condition and brimming over with energy, Tim Shead is the image of health and vitality personified, and certainly the perfect ambassador for longevity. As he so aptly quips: ‘Age is only a number, quality of life is everything’.

Giving lie to the accepted adage that ageing gracefully necessitates a retreat from physical exertion, he is gearing up for a physical challenge that would make younger men quake in their boots.

His philosophy is simple, if decidedly profound: ‘The human body is amazing and capable of monumental achievements. Look after it, nourish it properly and you will be astonished at how good you can feel and what you are able to accomplish.’

And this is a message which he would like to bring home to each and every talented, young aspiring athlete who would like to take the professional route to realizing his or her dream.

He is certainly living testimony to his own ideology!

Interview with Tim Shead, Founder of P2Life

Today we’re talking to Tim Shead, the guy who started it all here at P2Life. Tim, who was inducted into the International Masters Swimming Hall of Fame in 2014, has set over 43 Masters World Records. We’ll find out about how he got his start in the swimming world, what led him to explore nutrition and start the P2Life business, and why Nutriboost is “not just another protein shake”.

Tim, tell us about your swimming career and how your story began.

Well, my brother was a top swimmer in the U.S. and I just kind of tagged along until I started training seriously at age 11. In high school in Miami, I was one of the better swimmers, but wasn’t recruited to a college team. I went to Penn and was a walk on for their swim team. For the first 2 years at Penn, I didn’t progress and was about to quit. So I talked to my coach, George, who talked me into staying on. He put me on the training table and I ate down with the football players and other athletes where they had professional chefs and nutritious meals. Low and behold, I had tremendous improvements in my time and performance. I didn’t realize it at the time, but looking back, my nutrition was a key factor. At first, I was eating junk food out of the streetside lunch wagon, and then with a change in my diet, my time dramatically dropped.

Sounds like the beginning of your idea to start a nutrition company. So what happened next?

I graduated, moved to California, lived in Los Alamitos, and was working up in Century City, while training twice a day. But I got into my old habits of eating rubbish - whatever was around. Even though I was training 4 hours a day, I swam slower than I was at Penn when I was only training 1 hour a day. I didn’t even qualify for the trials, let alone the Olympic team. So that was the end of that. 

In 1975, I was elected by the top swimmers in the U.S. to represent them as one of the 5 National Athlete Representatives. It was an initiative that provided swimmers with both a voice and vote in all matters governing the sport. In 1976, I was elected Chairman of the Committee, by my peers, and as such I represented all swimmers in the U.S. on the Executive Board and Board of the Directors of swimming as it moved to break away from its previous international multisport affiliation (the Amateur Athletic Union-AAU) to become what it remains to today. FINA recognized “United States Swimming Inc”, and the hiring of its first Director Ray Essick.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa, March 24. LIKE Masters swimming legend Karlyn Pipes-Nielsen, Tim Shead took a break from competition recently, but is back to his record-setting ways, breaking two long course Masters marks at the South African Masters championships in the 60-64 age group.

Shead, an American with dual residence in the United States and South Africa for many years, started things off with a stellar 2:46.46 in the 200 breaststroke. He demolished Allen Stark's record of 2:50.44, set at last year's U.S. nationals.

Next, Shead took aim at Jim McConica's 2010 200 backstroke world record of 2:34.38, just dipping under it with a 2:34.00.

Shead still owns the world record in the long course 100 breast in the 55-59 age group (1:11.13), as well as the short course 200 breast mark in that age group with a 2:33.79.

1987 - 3RD. SOUTH AFRICAN MASTERS SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS

King’s Park, Durban

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EVENT 1 WOMEN 800m FREESTYLE

25/29 1 ALETTA THESNAAR 10.17.79 (S.A. RECORD)

30/34 1 MARGIE DE VILLIERS 12.30.61 (S.A~ RECORD)

35/39 1 DIANNE FOSTER 10.47.06 (WORLD & S.A. RECORD)

2 ADRIENNE SCREEN 15.23.12

40/44 1 ELSA CARSTENS 12.52.47 (S.A. RECORD)

2 CARLA WILD 13.15.06

3 GAIL WHITNALL 13.22.21

45/49 1 GILL TREGENNA 13.49.81 (INAUGURAL S.A. RECORD)

2 BABBARA PEARCE 14.48.03

3 DIANA PATON 15.01.09

55/59 1 LILLIAN PARRINGTON 13.48.61 (S.A. RECORD)

60/64 1 CLARA AURIK 14.48.72 (S.A. RECORD)

EVENT 2 MEN 100m BACKSTROKE

25/29 1 VERNON STOKES 1.19.20

30/34 1 TIMOTHY SHEAD 1.10.66 (S.A. RECORD)

2 MILES KENDRICK 1.16.35

3 GARY STEED 1.20.94

35/39 1 LEE Mc GREGOR 1.02.78 (S.A. RECORD)

2 PETER CILLIERS 1.09.20

3 ERROL STERN 1.17.69

40/44 1 BRIAN STEWART 1.08.82

2 KAROLY TOROS 1.15.68

3 JAMES STEWART 1.21.52

4 WINTON MYERS 1.26.91

44/49 1 ANTON BERRY 1.36.67

50/54 1 BUDDY BORSTLAP 1.25.44 (S.A. RECORD)

2 RON BRYER 1.26.86

3 BOB GARNHAM 1.30.13

55/59 ERNIE RICKLAN 1.24.22 (S.A. RECORD)

2 PETER PIROW 1.40.18

3 CHRIS CAIRNS 1.43.131

65/69 1 PETER ELLIOT 1.50.115 (INAUGURAL S.A. RECORD)

2 JACK BRINK 1.50.274

70/74 1 GEORGE MAY 1.38. (INAUGURAL S.A. RECORD)

80/84 1 FRED KOTHE 2.35.40 (INAUGURAL S.A. RECORD)

 

EVENT 3 WOMEN 50m BREASTSTROKE

25/29 1 GAIL McCARNEY 37.62 (S.A. RECORDS)

2 LINDA HOLLOWAY 37.74

3 SHARON LANGLEY 37.81

4 ESTELLE GROENEWALD 40.30

5 NIKKI HEPTON 41,37

6 SUZETTE JANSEN 42.50

7 MICHELLE GREY 43.55

30/35 1 SHIRLEY MOORE 53.62

35/39 1 BEVERLEY SHUTTLEWORTH 42.61 (S.A. RECORDS)

2 ERICA CLARK 44.41

3 HILARY AUBERT 47.90

4 ROSEMARY CLARK 51.08

5 ADRIENNE SCREEN 52.16

40/44 1 GAIL WHITNALL 46.96

2 JAN BARNETSON 49.13

3 TERTIA BOTHA 50054

45/49 1 GILL TREGENNA 52.53

2 LOUISE PALLET 52.56

50/54 1 GRETA WALLACE 1.02.17 (INAUGURAL SA RECORD)

55/59 1 LILLIAN PARRINGTON 54.60 (INAUGURAL SA RECORD)

65/69 1 GRETA CALITZ 1.07.39

2 ELAINE BUCK 1.12.76

3 NERINA McALL 1.31.07

 

EVENT 4 WOMEN 50m FREESTYLE

25/29 1 JANE WEIR 29.62

2 SHARON LANGLEY 29.91

3 GAIL McCARNEY 30.15

4 ESTELLE GROENEWALD 30.27

5 LYNDA HOLLOWAY 31.47

6 SONJA LOTZ 31.48

7 NOELEEN BARENDSE 32.28

8 BEVERLY BRIDGER 32.39

9 MICHELLE GREY 33.45

10 DEBBIE MeMANUS 36.33

30/34 1 MARGIE de VILLIERS 34.10

2 ERNA HATTINGH 35.78

3 DEE HORSFALL 37.68

4 SHIRLEY MOORE 41.13

35/39 1 DIANNE FOSTER 31.42 (S.A. RECORD)

2 JULIA BEIFORT 33.21

3 ROSEMARY CLARK 34.23

4 ANTOINETTE VAN NIEKERK 35.20

5 BEVERLEY SHUTTLEWORTH 35.77

40/44 1 NATALIE BOSHOFF 32.01 (S.A. RECORD)

2 NICCOLA RUSSELL 32.71

3 ELSA CARSTENS 32.85

4 DEANNA BOWLEY 34.44

5 TERTIA BOTHA 37.81

 

EVENT 5 MEN 1500m FREESTYLE

30/34 1 GARY STEED 19.34.59 (S.A. RECORD)

35/39 1 TYRONE TOZER 18.53.72 (S.A. RECORD)

2 LIONEL LUDORF 20.14.99

3 PETER BEES 21.55.17

40/44 1 PAUL BARRETT-SMITH 19.34.63 (S.A. RECORD

2 BRIAN DALEY 21.06.32

3 JOSEF HILLSTROM 22.29.20

4 LES HADENHAM 24.50.59

5 CHRIS ANNING 27.40.55

 

EVENT 6a MEN 50m FREESTYLE

45/49 1 DONALD CAMPBELL 29.63

2 ANTON BERRY 294 97

3 GARY FREELING 30 20

4 GRAHAM CUNNINGHAM 30:64

5 MIKE SAMUELS 32.24

50/54 1 RON BRYER 30.88

2 BUDDY BORSTLAP

3 NEIL FAIRALL 32 87

4 ALIEN BROWN 33 41

5 GERARD VAN DER HEERVER 36.08

6 ED BECKET 37.17

55/59 1 ERNIE RICKLAN 30.48

2 CHRIS CAIRNS 32.91

3 DOUGLAS BAART 37.24

60/64 1 LEONARD LAWSON 38.73 (S.A. RECORD)

2 IVAN MIHAILOVICH 42.42

65169 1 PETER ELLIOT 39. 90

2 TREVOR NEWMAN 40.10

70/74 1 GEORGE MAY 36.72 (S..A. RECORD)

2 MEL BARTHOLOMEW 37.96

75/79 1 CHARLES BUCK 46.84 (S.A. RECORD)

80/84 1 FRED KOTHE 43.76 (INAUGURAL S.A. RECORD)

EVENT 6b WOMEN 50m FREESTYLE

45/49 1 GILL TREGENNA 36.56

2 CAIRE TAYLOR 38.05

3 DIANA PATON 38.49

4 BARBARA PEARCE 39.13

5 LOUISE PALLET 44.13

50/54 1 DILYS VAN DER MERWE 45.25 (INAUGURAL S.A. RECORD)

55/59 1 LILLIAN PARRINGTON 36.91

60/64 1 CLARA AURIK 41.69 (S.A. RECORD

2 YVETTE HARDWICH 46.74

65/69 1 NERINA MeALL 54.47

 

EVENT 7A MENS 100m FREESTYLE

25/29 1 PAUL BLACKBEARD 56.30 (S.A. RECORD)

2 VERNON STOKES 1.02.00

3 DOUGLAS MOMBERG 1.06.87

4 MARK BEBINGTON 1.08.99

30/34 1 GARY STEED 1.02.47

2 PAUL BENADE 1.02.92

3 MILES KENDRICK 1.05.21

4 COLIN METH 1.07.29

5 MIKE BURTON 1.09.05

35/39 1 LEE Mc GREGOR 56.49 (S.A. RECORD)

2 TYRONE TOZER 58.89

3 LIONEL LUDORF 1.02.39

4 MIKE BOLSTRIDGE 1.05.11

5 PETER BEES 1.05.85

6 ERROL STERN 1.08.72

40/44 1 BRIAN STEWART 59.45 (S.A. RECORD)

2 TINY BARNETSON 1.02.23

3 PAUL BARRETT-SMITH 1.04.33

4 NEVILLE CLARENCE 1.05.07

5 CONAL TURNER 1.09.40

6 KEN DURRANT 1.11.25

7 WINTON MYERS 1.12.98

8 PHIL STEYN 1.15.49

9 CHRIS ANNING 1.23.01

EVENT 7B WOMEN 100m FREESTYLE

25/29 1 JANE WEIR 1.05.00 (S.A. RECORD)

2 ALETTA THESNAAR 1.05.09

3 ESTELLE GROENEWALD 1.06.89

4 SONJA LOTZ 1.10.96

5 MICHELLE GREY 1.14.08

6 BEVERLY BRIDGER 1.15.33

7 DEBBIE McMANUS 1.28.93

30/34 1 MARGIE DE VILLIERS 1.15.80

2 ERNA HATTINGH 1.20.57

35/39 1 DIANNE FOSTER 1.09.92 (S.A. RECORD)

2 JULIA BELPORT 1.14.89

3 ROSEMARY CLARK 1.18.26

4 ANTOINETTE VAN NIEKERK 1.20.29

40/44 1 NATALIE BOSHOFF 1.13.20 (S.A. RECORD)

2 NICCOLA RUSSELL 1.13445

3 ELSA CARSTENS 1.13.91

4 DEANNA BOWLEY 1.23.88

 

EVENT 8A MEN 200m BREASTSTROKE

25/29 1 GRAHAM Du TOIT 2.51.48

2 BRIAN DUGULD 3.04.91

30/34 1 TIMOTHY SHEAD 2.43.30

2 JOHN HARKER 2.48.60

35/39 1 ROBERT HATHERLY 2.38.79 (WORLD & S.A. RECORD)

2 JOHN PLETCHER 3.14.36

40/44 1 KAROLY TOROS 3.08.94

2 HUIBERT PHIELIX 3.21.22.

45/49 1 GRAHAM CUNNINGHAM 3.16.64

2 GLEN CARPENDALE 3.35.35

3 ANTON BERRY 3.57.45

50/54 1 IVAN SCHLAPOBERSKY 3.17.97 (S.A. RECORD)

55/59 1 PETER PIROW 3.37.72 (S.A. RECORD)

2 CHRIS CAIRNS 4.02.11

60/64 1 ARJEN PIETJOU 3.46.08 (S.A. RECORD)

65/69 1 JACK BRINK 4.09.56 (S.A.RECORD)

 

EVENT 8B WOMEN 200m BREASTSTROKE

25/29 1 LYNDA HOLLOWAY 2.58.07 (S.A. RECORD)

2 GAIL McCARNEY 3.05.83

3 NIKKIE HEPTON 3.25.56

35139 1 BEVERMLY SHUTTLEWORTH 3.29.31 (INAUGURAL, S.A. RECORD)

2 ERICA CLARK 3.29.91

3 HILARY AUBERT 3.57.98

40/44 1 GAIL WHITNALL 3.54.65 (S.A. RECORD)

2 JAN BARNETSON 4.03.52

45/49 1 GILL TREGENNA 4.04.15

EVENT 9A MEN 50m BUTTERFLY

25/29 1 PAUL BLACKBEARD 27.70 (S.A. RECORD)

2 KOBUS SCHEEPERS 27.99

30/34 1 ALAN GREY 30.32

2 PAUL BENADE 31.63

3 COLIN METH 33.11

35/39 1 ROBERT HATHERLY 29.60 (S.A. RECORD)

2 PIETER CILLIERS 29.98

3 LIONEL LUDORF 30.33

4 MIKE BOLSTRIDGE 31.84

5 ALIEN MORRISON 31.90

40/44 1 TINY BARNETSON 30.24 (SA. RECORD)

2 NEVILLE CLARENCE 31.24

3 JAMES STEWART 33.73

4 JOE HILLSTROM 33.77

5 LES HADENHAM 38.51

45/49 1 DEREK BERRY 35.46

50/54 1 BOB GARNHAM 36.00

2 BUDDY BORSTLAP 38.22

3 NEIL FAIRALL 42.59

55/59 1 PETER PIROW 41.17

65/69 1 JACK BRINK 55.20

 

EVENT 9B WOMEN 50m BUTTERFLY

25/29 1 JANE WEIR 32.23

2 ALETTA THESNAAR 33.19

3 GAIL McCARNEY 33.43

4 ESTELLE GROENEWALD 34.53

5 SUZETTE JANSEN 36.00

6 LYNDA HOLLOWAY 36.11

7 NOELEEN BARENDSE 37.45

30/34 1 MARGIE de VILLIERS 39.54

35/39 1 DIANNE FOSTER 33.50 (S.A. RECORD)

2 ROSEMARY CLARK 38.96

3 ERICA CLARK 43.62

40/44 1 ELSA CARSTENS 36.26 (S.A. RECORD)

2 GAIL WHITNALL 42.37

3 DEANNA BOWLEY 45.28

45/49 1 BARBARA PEARCE 1.03.08 (INAUGURAL S.A. RECORD)

55/59 1 LILLIAN PARRINGTON 54.22 (S.A. RECORD)

 

EVENT 10A. 4 x 50m MEDLEY RELAY

MEN:

UNDER 40 1 NATAL A 2.02.47

2 NATAL B 2.16.90

MENS 1 TRANSVAAL A 2.03.52 (S.A. RECORD)

140+ 2 NATAL A 2.03.61

3 WESTERN PROVINCE A 2.05.97

4 NORTHERN TRANSVAAL 2.11.02

5 EASTERN PROVINCE 2.30.35

6 TANSVAAL B 2.31.96

7 NORTHERN TRANSVAAL B 2.28.24

8 NATAL B 2.46.18

WOMEN

140+ 1 NATAL A 2.25.27 (S.A. RECORD)

2 ORANGE FREE STATE 2.38.71

3 NATAL B 2.40.53

4 EASTERN PROVINCE 2445.38

NATAL C 2.54.10

6 TRANSVAAL 3.0M6

MEN

120-139 1. NATAL A 2.02.47 (INAUGURAL S.A. RECORD)

2 NATAL B 2.16.90

WOMEN

120-139 4 WESTERN PROVINCE 2.23.59 (INAUGURAL S.A. RECORD)

2 NORTHERN TRANSVAAL 2.26.88

 

EVENT 11 MEN 1500M FREESTYLE

45/49 1 GAY FREELING 21:14.94 (S.A. RECORD)

2 DONALD CAMPBELL 22:09.37

3 ANTON BERRY 26:31.99

50/54 1 BOB GARNHAM 23:12.47 (S.A. RECORD)

2 ALLEX BROWN 23:33.24

3 MIKE ARBUTHNOT 24:07.71

55/59 1 BASIL BRIDAL 26:01.60 (INAUGURAL S.A. RECORD)

2 DOUGLAS BAART 29.16.60

60/64 1. LEONARD LAWSON 29:04.00 (S.A.RECORD)

2 ARJEN PIETJOU 31.56.03

3 IVAN KHAILOVICH 38.24.34

65/69 1 PETER ELLIOT 26.11.43

70/74 1 GEORGE MAY 28.32.38 (S.A. RECORD)

2 MEL BARTHOLOMEW 32.49.87

EVENT 12A MEN 400m FREESTYLE

45/49 1 DONALD CAMPBELL 5:26.04 (INAUGURAL S.A. RECORD)

2 ANTON BERRY 6.36.57

50/54 1 ALIEN BROWN 5.50.94 (INAUGURAL S.A. RECORD)

2 BOB GARNHAM 5.52.70

3 MIKE ARBUTHNOT 6.02.93

55/59 1 ERNIE RICKLAN 5.47.15 (INAUGURAL S.A. RECORD)

2 BASIL BRIDAL 6.33.26

3 DOUGLAS BAART 7.26.38

60/64 1 LEONARD LAWSON 7.16.01(INAUGURAL SA RECORD)

65/69 1 PETER ELLIOT 6.39.67 (S.A. RECORD)

70/74 1 MEL BARTHOLOMEW 8.15.46(INAUGURAL SA RECORD)

EVENT 12B WOMEN 400m FREESTYLE

45/49 1 GILL TREGENNA 6.42.33 (INAUGURAL S.A. RECORD)

.2 BARBARA PEARCE 7.16.15

55/59 1 LILLIAN PARRINCTON 6.39.06 (INAUGURAL S.A. RECORD)

60/64 1 CLARA AURIK 7.32.96 (INAUGURAL S.A.RECORD)

2 YVETTE HARDWICH 0.18.75

 

EVENT 13A MEN 200m INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY

25/29 1 GRAHAM DU TOIT 2.26.45

2 PAUL BLACKBEARD 2.28.39

3 MARK BEBINGTON 3.07.88

30/34 1 TIMOTHY SHEAD 2.27.34

35139 1 LEE McGREGOR 2.22.19 (S.A. RECORD)

2. TYRONE TOZER 2.26.02

3 ROBERT HARTHERLY 2.44.99

40/44 1 TINY BARNETSON 2.41.82

2 JAMBS STEWART 2.51.79

3 JOB HILISTROM 2.54.47

4 NEVILLE CLARENCE 2.58.29

5 LES HADENHAM 3.16.78

45/49 1 DEREK BERRY 3.20.91

2 MIKE SAMUEL 3.33.37

50/54 1 BUDDY BORSLAP 3.14.37

55159 1 PETER PIROW 3.27.65

65/69 1 JACK BRINK 3.57.65

 

EVENT 13 WOMEN 200m INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY

25/29 1 JANE WEIR 2.38.82 (S.A. RECORD)

.2 ALETTA THESNAAR 2.55.30

3 NIKKI HEPTON 3.02.54

30/34 1 DEE HORSFALL 3.31.45

35/39 1 JULIA BELFORT 3.18.24 (S.A. RECORD)

40/44 1 ELSA CARSTENS 3.07.86 (S.A. RECORD)

2 GAIL WHITNALL 3.27.34

45/49 1 CLAIRE TAYLOR 4.19.34 (INAUGURAL S.A. RECORD)

EVENT 14A MEN 50m BACKSTROKE

25/29 1 VERNON STOKES 35.09

30/34 1 MILES KENDRICK 35.87

2 FRANK WATERMAN 39.10

3 FRANS LOTZ 39.70

35/39 1 PIETER CILLIERS 31.32

2 ALLEN MORRISON 33.36

3 ERROL STERN 33.79

4 JOHN NIGHTINGGALE 40.23

40/44 1 BRIAN STEWART 31.23

2 TINY BARNETSON 34.70

3 WINTON MYERS 38.06

45/49 1 DEREK BERRY 39.21

2 GLEN CARPENDALE 44.06

50/54 1 BUDDY BORSTLAP 39.08

2 RON BRYER 39.27

55/59 1 CHRIS CAIRNS 44.56 (S.A. RECORD)

65/69 1 JACK BRINK 51.47 (S.A. RECORD)

70/74 1 GEORGE MAY 44.87 (S.A. RECORD)

75/79 1 CHARLES BUCK 55.37 (S.A. RECORD)

80/84 1 FRED K0THE 57.2O (INAUGURAL S.A. RECORD)

EVENT 14B WOMEN 50m BACKSTROKE

25/29 1 JANE WEIR 35.78 (S.A. RECORD)

2 SONJA LOTZ 36.61

3 ESTELLE GROENEWALD 36.78

4 SUZETTE JANSEN 37.34

5 DEBBIE McMANUS 41.32

6 BEVERLY BRIDGER 41.72

30/34 1 MARGIE DE VILLIERS 39.11 (S.A. RECORD)

2 DEE HORSPALL 44.81

3 SHIRLEY MOORE 45.38

35/39 1 ANTOINETTE VAN NIEKERK 41.55 (S.A. RECORD)

2 JULIA BELFORT 42.15

3 HILARY AUBERT 44.44

40/44 1 NATALIE BOSHOFF 37.20 (S.A. RECORD)

2 NICCOLA RUSSELL 39.08

3 DEANNA BOWLEY 43.39

45/49 1 DIANA PATON 44.01

2 LOUISE PALLET 50.03

65/69 1 GRETA CALITZ 1.10.30

2 ELAINE BUCK 1.17.20

EVENT 15A MEN 100m BREASTSTROKE

25/29 1 BRIAN, DUGULD 1.19.76

2 KEITH DODKINS 1.22.22

30/34 1 TIMOTHY SHEAD 1.13.63

2 JOHN HARKER 1.16.18

3 ALAN GREY 1.19.76

35/39 1 ROBERT HATHERLY 1.12.80 (S.A. RECORD)

2 JOHN FLETCHER 1.23.96

40/44 1 KAROLY TOROS 1.21.96 (S.A. RECORD)

2 HUIBERT PHIELIX 1.30.41

45/49 1 GRAHAM CUNNINGHAM 1.27.44

2 GLEN CARPENDALE 1.36. 08

3 MIKE SAMUEL 1.49.36

50/54 1 IVAN SCHLAPOBERSKY 1.28.77

2 EDDIE BECKET 1.49.52

55/59 1 PETER PIROW 1.42.65

2 CHRIS CAIRNS 1.43.36

3 DOUGLAS BAART 1.50.02

60/64 1 ARJEN PIETJOU 1.44.82 (S.A. RECORD)

65/69 1 TREVOR NEWMAN 2.09.79

EVENT 15B WOMEN 100m BREASTSTROKE

25/29 1 LYNDA HOLLOWAY 1.22.64 (S.A. RECORD)

2 GAIL McCARNEY 1.25.03

3 NIKKI HEPTON 1.33.24

35/39 1 BEVERLEY SHUTTLEWORTH 1.33.97 (S.A. RECORD)

2 ERICA CLARK 1.38.10

3 HILARY AUBERT 1.47.30

4 ROSEMARY CLARK 1.53.85

5 ADRIENNE SCREEN 1.58.75

40/44 1 GAIL WHITNALL 1.44.98

2 JAN BARNETSON 1.51.07

3 TERTIA BOTHA 1.53.91

45/49 1 LOUISE PALLET 1.56.65

50/54 1 GRETA WALLACE 2.17.02 (INAUGURAL S.A. RECORD)

65/69 1 ELAINE BUCK 2.43.49 (INAUGURAL S.A. RECORD)

 

EVENT 16A MEN 200m FREESTYLE

45/49 1 GARY FREELING 2.25.17 (S.A. RECORD)

2 DONALD CAMPBELL 2.30.55

3 ANTON BERRY 3.02.28

50/54 1 RON BRYER 2.43.68

2 BOB GARNHAM 2.44.13

3 ALLEN BROWN 2.48.17

4 NEIL FAIRALL 3.18.12

55/59 ERNIE RICKLAN 2.38.68 (S.A. RECORD)

60/64 1 LEONARD LAWSON 3.22.83

2 IVAN MHAILOVICH 4.03.34

65/69 1 PETER ELLIOT 3.12.68

70/74 1 GEORGE MAY 3.15.12 (S.A. RECORD)

2 MEL BARTHOLOMEW 3.47.15

80/84 1 FRED KOTHE 4.36.66(INAUGURAL S.A. RECORD)

EVENT 16B WOMEN 200m FREESTYLE

45/49 1 GILL TREGENNA 3.09.19

2 DIANA PATON 3.19.56

3 BARBARA PEARCE 3.32.45

50/54 1 DILYS VAN DER MERWE 3.48.79 (INAUGURAL S.A. RECORD)

55/59 1 LILLIAN PARRINGTON 3.06.91 (S.A. RECORD)

60/64 1 CLARA AURIK 3.31.44 (S.A. RECORD)

2 YVETTE HARDWICH 3.58.57

65/69 1 NERINA McALL 4.46.35

 

EVENT 17A MEN 400m FREESTYLE

25/29 1 GRAHAM DU TOIT 4.52.57 (INAUGURAL S.A. RECORD)

30/34 1 GARY STEED 4.58.34 (INAUGURAL S.A., RECORD)

2 MIKE BURTON 6.10.24

35/39 1 LEE McGREGOR 4.31.41 (INAUGURAL S. A RECORD)...

2 TYRONE TOZER 4.45.26

3 LIONEL LUDORF 4.57.74

4 PETER BEES 5.24.51

40/44 1 PAUL BARRETT-SMITH 5.00.94 (S.A. RECORD)

2 JAMES STEWART 5.30.71

3 CONAL TURNER 5.33.18

4 CHRIS ANNING 6.59.50

EVENT 17B WOMEN 400m FREESTYLE

25/29 1 ALETTA THESNAAR 5.01.52 (INAUGURA1 S.A. RECORD)

2 ESTELLE GROENEWALD 5.45.73

3 MICHELLE GREY 6.05.25

30/34 1 MARGIE DE VILLIERS 6.04.87 (INAUGURAL S.A. RECORD)

2 ERNA HATTINGH 6.11.07

35/39 1 DIANNE FOSTER 5.16.07 (INAUGURAL S.A. RECORD)

2 ADRIENNE SCREEN 7.29.62

40/44 1 ELSA CARSTENS 6.14.65 (S.A. RECORD)

2 CARLA WILD 6.30.90

 

EVENT .18A MEN 200m FREESTYLE

25/29 1 GRAHAM DU TOIT 2.11.87

30/34 1 GARY STEED 2.17.59

2 MARK TONKINSON 2.19.10

3 MILES KENDRICK 2.27.84

4 MIKE BURTON 2.27.81

35/39 1 TYRONE TOZER 2.11.44 (S.A. RECORD)

2 LIONEL LUDORF 2.17.67

3 ERROL STERN 2.36.48

4 JOHN NIGHTINGGALE 3.07.62

40/44 1 BRIAN STEWART 2.17.32 (S.A. RECORD)

2 PAUL BARRETT-SMITH 2.22.37

3 BRIAN DALEY 2.27.84

4 CONAL TURNER 2.32.97

5 CHRIS ANNING 3.08.44

EVENT 18B WOMEN 200m FREESTYLE

25/29 1 ALETTA THESNAAR 2.24.19 (S.A. RECORD)

2 ESTELLE GROENEWALD 2. 33.88

3 MICHELLE GREY 2.45.86

4 BEVERLY BRIDGER 2.51.97

35/39 1 DIANNE FOSTER 2.30.52

2 JULIA BELFORT 2.47.56

3 ROSEMARY CLARK 3.05.96

4 ADRIENNE SCREEN 3.34.36

40/44 1 NICCOLA RUSSELL 2.47.89 (S.A. RECORD)

2 GAIL WHITNALL 3.04.12

EVENT 19A MENS 100M FREESTYLE

45/49 1 DONALD CAMPBELL 1.05.34 (S.A. RECORD)

2 GARY FREELING 1.06.14

3 DEREK BERRY 1.09.30

4 MIKE SAMUEL 1.14.71

5 ANTON BERRY 1.21.08

50/54 1 RON BRYER 1.09.32

2 BUDDY BORSTLAP 1.13.05

3 BOB GARNHAM 1.13.29

4 NEIL FAIRALL 1.23.57

5 GERARD VAN DER HEERVER 1.27.74

55/59 1 ERNIE RICKLAN 1.09.18 (S.A. RECORD)

2 BASIL BRIDAL 1.21.30

3 DOUGLAS BAART 1.31.10

60/64 1 LEONARD LAWSON 1.29.17 (S.A. RECORD)

2 IVAN MIHAILOVICH 1.49.18

65/69 1 PETER ELLIOT 1.28.61

70/74 1 GEORGE MAY 1.22.79 (S.A. RECORD)

2 MEL BARTHOLOMEW 1.33.66

75/79 1 CHARLES BUCK 1.53.20(INAUGURAL S.A. RECORD)

80/84 1 FRED KOTHE 1.53.32 (INAUGURAL S.A. RECORD)

EVENT 19B WOMEN 100m FREESTYLE

45/49 1 GILL TREGENNA 1.23.32

2 CLAIRE TAYLOR 1.31.82

3 LOUISE PALLET 1.55.35

50/54 1 DILYS VAN DER MERWE 1.42.61 (INAUGURAL S.A. RECORD)

55/59 1 LILLIAN PARRINGTON 1.25.14

60/64 1 CLARE AURIK 1.38.19 (S.A. RECORD)

2 YVETTE HARDWICH 1.48.20

65/69 1 NERINA. McALL 2.05.13

 

EVENT 20A MENS 100m BUTTERFLY

25/29 1 PAUL BLACKBEARD 1.01.07 (S.A. RECORD)

2 KOBUS SCHEEPERS 1.04.04

35/39 1 PIETER CILLIERS 1.11.60 (S.A. RECORD)

2 MIKE BOLSTRIDGE 1.15.46

40/44 1 TINY BARNETSON 1.08.67 (S.A. RECORD)

2 JOSEF HILLSTROM 1.16.60

3 NEVILLE CLARENCE 1.17.08

4 JAMES STEWART 1.21.73

45/49 1 GRAHAM CUNNINGHAM 1.21.75 (S.A. RECORD)

2 DEREK BERRY 1.32.49

50/54 1 BOB GARNHAM 1.36.50 (S.A. RECORD)

55/59 1 PETER PIROW 1.36.77 (S.A. RECCRD)

65/69 1 JACK BRINK 1.58.95 (INAUGURAL S.A. RECORD)

 

EVENT 20B WOMEN 100m BUTTERFLY

25/29 1 JANE WEIR 1.10.39 (INAUGURAL S.A. RECORD)

2 GAIL McCARNEY 1.13.60

3 LYNDA HOLLOWAY 1.18.67

35/39 1 ROSEMARY CLARK 1.36.06 (INAUGURAL S.A. RECORD)

2 ERICA CLARK 1.40.66

40/44 1 ELSA CARSTENS 1.24.61 (S.A. RECORD)

 

EVENT 21 MEN 50m BREASTSTROKE

25/29 1 BRIAN DUGULD 33.91 (S.A. RECORD)

2 KEITH DODKINS 36.59

30/34 1 TIMOTHY SHEAD 33.33

2 ALAN GREY 33.37

3 COLIN METH 36.04

35/39 1 TYRONE TOZER 35.95

2 JOHN FLETCHER 36.06

40/44 1 ALIEN KAYE 37.21 (S.A. RECORD)

2 KAROLY TOROS 37.79

3 HUIBERT PHIELIX 38.05

4 LES HADENHAM 45.72

45/49 1 GRAHAM CUNNINGHAM 38.00 (S.A. RECORD)

2 GLEN CARPENDALE 41.94

3 MIKE SAMUEL 44.45

50/54 1 IVAN SCHLAPOBERSKY 39.64 (S.A. RECORD)

2 EDDIE BECKET 44.59

55/59 1 PETER PIROW 45.08 (S.A. RECORD)

2 CHRIS CAIRNS 45.34

3 DOUGLAS BAART 47.21

60/64 1 ARJEN PIETJOU 47.187 (S.A. RECORD)

65169 1 JACK BRINK 53.33

2 PETER ELLIOT 54.67

70/74 1 MEL BARTHOLOMEW 49.00 (INAUGURAL S.A. RECORD)

80/84 1 FRED KOTHE 1.07.95 (INAUGURAL S.A. RECORD)

EVENT 22 WOMEN 100m BACKSTROKE

25/29 1 JANE WEIR 1.15.76 (S.A. RECORD)

2 SONJA LOTZ 1.24.34

3 NIKKI HEPTON 1.26.70

4 DEBBIE McMANUS 1.37.94

30/34 1 MARGIE DE VILLIERS 1.27.73 (S.A. RECORD)

2 ERNA HATTINGH 1.35.56

3 DEE HORSFALL 1.40.43

35/39 1 ANTOINETTE VAN NIEKERK 1.30.55 (S.A. RECORD)

2 ERICA CLARK 1.48.46

40/44 1 NATALIE BOSHOFF 1.22.09 (S.A. RECORD)

2 GAIL WHITNALL 1.33.97

3 DEANNA BOWLEY 1.37.75

45/49 1 DIANA PATON 1.36.91

2 GILL TREGENNA 1.53.87

3 BARBARA PEARCE 1.54.34

60/64 1 YVETTE HARDWICH 2.03.76 (INAUGURAL S.A. RECORD)

65/69 1 NERINA McALL 2.26.23

2 ELAINE BUCK 2.50.79

EVENT 23 MEN 50m FREESTYLE

25/29 1 PAUL BLACKBEARD 25.87

2 MARK BEBINGTON 27.85

3 VERNON STOKES 28.43

4 DOUGLAS MOMBERG 29.75

5 STEPHEN WOODROFFE 33.98

30/34 1 TIMOTHY SHEAD 26.91

2 FRANK, WATERMAN 27.07

3 PAUL BENADE 27.65

4 MILES KENDRICK 28.54

5 COLIN METH 28.73

6 GARY STEED 29.47

7 MIKE BURTON 30.03

8 DAVE ROBBERTS 30.85

35/39 1 LEE McGREGOR 25.74 (S.A. RECORD)

2 PIETER CILLIERS 27.87

3 ALLEN MORRISON 27.90

4 PETER BEES 29.25

5 JOHN NIGHTINGGALE 30.49

6 ERROL STERN 31.03

40/44 1 BRIAN STEWART 27.29

2 TINY BARNETSON 28.38

3 NEVILLE CLARENCE 28.71

4 CONAL TURNER 30.10

5 ALIEN KAYE 30.52

6 JAMES STEWART 30.59

7 KEN DURRANT 30.61

8 BRIAN DALEY 30.65

9 PHIL STEYN 31.19

10 WINTON MYERS 31.31

11 JOSEF HILLSTROM 31.52

12 LES HADENHAM 33.29

13 CHRIS ANNING 35.84