Warmer weather brings out Yabbies

November 3, 2022 tcwadmin 021122, 2022, Local Sport
Presidents (or the president’s representative) from 10 swimming clubs, along with the president of the Western Districts Swimming (Cobar’s Bill Fugar, second from left) lined up to contest the President’s Race at the Cobar Yabbies 50th Anniversary Swimming Carnival at the Cobar Memorial Swimming Pool on Saturday. The Open Carnival race winner was Ian Goodman from Grafton, with Rodger Bruce from Gosford winning the Four Way Carnival title. Cobar’s club president, John Carswell (4th from left) finished third in the Four Way Carnival. The Four Way carnival is an annual event conducted by the Cobar, Forbes, Gosford and Nelson Bay clubs. See Page 24 for full carnival results.

Warmer weather has brought out the Yabbies in bigger numbers with 17 swimmers lining up on the blocks for last Tuesday night’s competition swim.

Bill Fugar had the best time of the night when he swam spot on his nominated time to win the 50 metres freestyle handicapped event.

Paul Swainston had the next best recorded time of 0.06 seconds off his time which earned him a win in the 30m swim.

Lucas Hardy claimed a win in the 100m swim after finishing within 0.16 seconds of his nominated time.

The minor placings in the 30 metres swim were filled by Stephen Clark in second with 0.13 and Greg Clark was third on 0.18.

Jason Toomey finished second to Fugar in the 50m event with 0.63 seconds off his time and third was a tie between Murray Harland and Lucas Hardy, both with 0.75 seconds off their times.

In the 100m swim Jason Toomey, with 0.65 seconds off his time, ran second to Hardy with Chris Powell finishing back in third place with 1.11 seconds off his nominated time.

The swim on Tuesday night was a good warm up for the Yabbies 50th Anniversary Carnival on Saturday with the Cobar swimmers dominating the podium in most events

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