12/10/2026
🏊♀️🏆 2026 NSW MASTERS SHORT COURSE CHAMPIONSHIPS – THAT'S A WRAP! 🏆🏊♂️
What an incredible weekend of racing in Canberra! 🎉
A huge thank you to all 267 swimmers who joined us across two days of fantastic competition, with some outstanding performances in the pool!
The weekend saw some impressive achievements:
🏆 2 National Records
🏆 7 State Records
🌏 91 World Top 10 recipients
🥇 9 World Number 1 rankings
👏 CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR AWARD WINNERS!
🌟 Swimmers of the Meet
🏊♀️ Elizabeth Merenda
🏊♂️ David Burns
🏆 Division Winners
🥇 Division 1 – Blacktown
🥇 Division 2 – Tuggeranong
🥇 Division 3 – Wollongong
🥇 Division 4 – Molonglo
🏆 Total Points Winner
Tuggeranong
🏆 Des McCormick Trophy (Average Points)
Blacktown
🏆 Gordon Cozins Trophy (Top Relay Points)
Tuggeranong
🏆 Harry Fowler Award
Blacktown Men's 4×50 Medley Relay – Bradley Halicek, Aaron Cleland, David Burns & Andrew Howlett
🎉 The celebrations continued out of the pool, with 110 attendees joining us for the NSW Masters dinner at the Canberra Labor Club!
A special thank you to Tuggeranong and Molonglo for keeping everyone fed across both days and providing our warm-up supervisors throughout the weekend. Your support was greatly appreciated! 👏
Thank you also to our officials, volunteers and everyone who helped make the championships such a success. Events like these wouldn't be possible without you! 💙
Congratulations to all our swimmers, clubs and award winners. We hope you enjoyed the weekend as much as we did!
