Swimming Carnival at Condobolin on Sunday. Pictured is club president John Carswell with John Claus, Stephen Clark, Greg Dimond, Bill Fugar, Josh Mainey, Shane
Josephson and Murray Harland. ▪ Photo contributed
The Cobar Yabbies Senior Men’s Swimming Club dominated the AIF Western District Swimming Carnival at Condobolin on Sunday.
The Yabbies won nine out of the 16 events contested, including the first six events of the day, with Dave Mexted the Yabbies’ best individual performer with six wins from the carnival.
John Carswell started the day off on the right foot with a win in the 50 metres Presidents Sealed Handicap event.
Carswell had the best time of 1.19 seconds off his nominated time.
Mexted backed that up with a win in Event 2, the 30 metres RSL Handicap, when he tied with Tom Gray from Dubbo.
Both finished within 0.06 seconds of their nominated times.
Bill Fugar grabbed first place in the third event, the 30 metres Open Handicap, with 0.37 seconds off his nominated time.
Mexted won the next event, the 50 metres RSL Handicap, when he finished within 0.19 seconds of his time.
The Yabbies claimed first and third places in the 50 metres Open Handicap with Murray Harland the winner on 0.34 and Shane Josephson was third (0.84).
Mexted recorded his third win of day in the 50 metres RSL Championship (Under 50 years) event.
Greg Martin finished in second place in the 50 metres RSL Championship (50-64 years) swim and Scott Toomey was second in the 50 metres Open individual Sprint Scratch race.
Cobar filled the minor places in the 100 metres Open Handicap event with Carswell second on 0.90 and Greg Dimond was third with 1.94.
Cobar won two of the five relay events and two Cobar swimmers joined two Dubbo swimmers to win another.
The Yabbies won the 4×50 metres Open Scratch Relay with Harland, Fugar, Scott Toomey and Jason Toomey finishing with a time of 2min 18.62sec.
Their other relay win came in the 6×50 metres Sealed Handicap Relay (with teams required to have a minimum of one RSL swimmer).
Mexted was Cobar’s RSL swimmer and he teamed up with John Claus, Josh Mainey, Stephen Clark, Josephson and Dimond to claim the win with 3.22 seconds off their nominated time.
Mexted and Martin joined Dubbo swimmers Gray and David Sparkes to win the 4×50 metres RSL Scratch Relay
Cobar was third in the 10 Man 50 metres Sealed Handicap Relay after they finished within 4.22 seconds of their nominated time.
