Natikanda hits swim record

Jul 29, 2005

AYA Nakitanda shattered her 100 metre freestyle national record at the 11th World Swimming Championships on Thursday in Montreal, Canada, a day after Natasha Ratter rewrote the 50-metre backstroke mark.

By Phillip Corry

AYA Nakitanda shattered her 100 metre freestyle national record at the 11th World Swimming Championships on Thursday in Montreal, Canada, a day after Natasha Ratter rewrote the 50-metre backstroke mark.

Nakitanda set a new time of one minute 07.76 seconds in the heats of the 100 metre freestyle in which she finished in 75th position out of 79 finishers with seven non-starters.

Her previous mark set in May stood at one minute 38.14 seconds.

Three Ugandan swimmers have bettered their national records in Montreal. First was Gilbert Kaburu, then Ratter followed by Nakitanda.

Ratter set a new time of 37.89 seconds, shattering her previous time of 40.98 seconds.

“The federation is happy with the swimmers performance and it is good that they are setting new marks,” Simon Mugisha, Uganda Swimming Federation (USF) secretary said.

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