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WA States wrapped 🔴⚫️

A fantastic championship campaign from the City of Perth Swimming Club athletes:

🏊‍♂️ 12 athletes raced
⏱️ 48 completed swims
🔥 31 PBs
📈 64.6% PB rate
⏬ 89.68 seconds dropped
🥇 8 gold
🥈 10 silver
🥉 2 bronze
🌍 7 reported record performances

Kate Wallington completed an outstanding campaign with eight PBs from eight swims and six medals—three gold, two silver and one bronze.

Kate also produced seven reported Virtus II3 world-record performances across six events. These performances remain pending formal Virtus ratification.

A brilliant weekend from the City team and everyone who supported them.

Formidable Strength & Conditioning is proud to support City of Perth’s athletes through both swim coaching and strength and conditioning.

Day 3 at WA States ✅

A huge final day from the City of Perth Swimming Club athletes:

🏊‍♂️ 10 athletes raced
⏱️ 17 completed swims
🔥 13 PBs
📈 76.5% PB rate
⏬ 33.89 seconds dropped
🥇 4 gold
🥈 3 silver
🥉 1 bronze

Kate Wallington completed an outstanding final day with two gold, one silver and one bronze medal across her four events.

A brilliant finish from the entire City team after a huge weekend of racing.

Formidable Strength & Conditioning is proud to support City of Perth’s athletes through both swim coaching and strength and conditioning.

Days 1 and 2 at WA States ✅

A strong opening two days from the City of Perth swimmers:

Day 1
🔥 3 personal bests
📈 75.0% PB rate
🏅 2 medals

Day 2
🔥 15 personal bests
📈 55.6% PB rate
🏅 10 medals

Championships so far
⏱️ 31 completed swims
🔥 18 personal bests
📈 58.1% PB rate
🏅 12 medals

Formidable Strength & Conditioning is proud to support the City of Perth swimmers as they test themselves and represent their club at the 2026 WA Age & Open Short Course Championships.

A fantastic effort across the first two days. Recover, reset and get ready to finish the weekend strongly.

Race brave. Back your teammates. Represent with pride.

Good luck to the City of Perth swimmers racing at the WA Age & Open Short Course Championships this weekend.

Be brave in your racing, back your teammates and represent the club with pride. The work has been done, now go out there, compete and enjoy it.

From everyone at Formidable Strength & Conditioning, we’re proud to support you and we’ll be cheering you on all weekend.

Race hard. Race together. Have a proper crack. 🔴⚫️

55 Km in Crocodile infested waters!

Andrew Donaldson completes the Dam to Dam challenge in a time of 11 hours and 51 seconds to become the faster swimmer ever (pending ratification) to complete the challenge!

The swim required Andy and the team to navigate rapids, hot water (29+ degrees), wind gusts and the Kimberley heat to successfully complete the event.

A true team effort to help support Andy through this swim with over 13 months of preparation going into it.

Special mentions to:

Ben Broady for organising the swim and getting a rockstar team together!

Simone Blasor for Pioneering the swim and providing us with key insights on the swim during the race.

Ryan Evernden for preparing Andy body to withstand the event and for paddling the entire distance with to navigate and coach Andy during the swim.

Eoin Carroll for being Andys swimming coach in the lead up to the event.

Jay Prchal for being Andys handler and making sure he was good to go for the event and staying onto of his feeds during the swim.

This was a truely incredible and mind blowing event that has attracted attention around the world, but that was never what it was about.

It was about showing off the amazing place that is the Kimberley to the world, inspiring young people in the community to chase their dreams and to be the start of something truely special.

Until the next one!

“The main thing you don’t want to do is stay stagnant.” – Ryan Evernden

After a big swim, the instinct is often to stop completely.

But smart recovery doesn’t mean doing nothing.

Check out the conversation with Ryan Evernden - coach from Formidable Strength & Conditioning as he explains effective post-event recovery.

Legs tired? Arms sore? 😅 We’ve got you.

Prepare like a pro, recover like a champ!

Tap the link below to grab your FREE dryland activation & recovery guides, thanks to Formidable Strength & Conditioning.

🔗 www.formidablestrength.com.au/ows

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