Swimmers win big

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Nine swimmers brought home hardware from the Masters Nationals Swimming Championships in Calgary over the weekend.

The team put Salmon Arm on the map, achieving fourth place in Canada among medium-sized teams and eighth place overall in the country.

"Each Salmon Arm waves master swimmer achieved personal success at nationals," said head coach, Barry Healey.  "This nine-person team made waves at the Repsol Sports Centre, along with 22 family members cheering in the stands for support."

Jill Nahm, 33, swam five relays for the team and brought home two bronze medals, swimming breaststroke in all medley relays.

Emily Taylor, 30, a backstroker for the team, came home with a bronze medal in the 100 back and a silver medal in the 200 back.

Claire Askew, 35, achieved a bronze medal swimming 1,500 metres.

Nadine Quilty, 48, trained to swim fly in three relays and the 100 IM, 200 IM, and 400 IM. She finished fourth in the 400 IM.

Don Cundiff, 40,  placed sixth in the 800 metre free. He also won bronze in the 400 metre medley relay, swimming breaststroke, and brought home a silver in the 4x100 men’s freestyle relay.

Doug Wickware, 31, achieved silver in both the 800 metre free and 1500 metre free.

Rudi Ingenhorst, 70, swam in 12 events bringing home a silver medal in the 100 back, and bronze medals in the 200 IM, 50 m back, 50 m free, and 50 m breast.

Bob Wilkins, 70, achieved gold in the 100 metre back. He brought home three silver medals in 400 free, 800 free and 1500 free. Wilkins also swims all strokes and brought home silver in the 200 back and silver in the 400 IM.

Scott McKee, 58, rounded off the men’s side of the team with a gold in the 400 free event. He also placed silver in both 200 free and silver in 1500 free.