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12/4/2012 
GRENADIAN SWIMMERS OFF TO INSTANBUL  
GASA ( Grenada Amateur Swimming Association) has announced that a team of three swimmers and a coach will be traveling to Istanbul Turkey early on Saturday morning to compete in the FINA World Short Course Swimming Championship (25m) 12-16 December 2012. The lone female swimmer is national record holder, OECS Recorder breaker and age group trophy winner, Carifta gold and silver medalist, CISC gold and silver medalist, CCCAN finalist Oreoluwa Cherebin, who will compete in the 50m and 100m breast stroke, 50m and 100m butterfly and 50m freestyle. Last year she also represented her country at the Commonwealth Youth Games, where she broke a national record. The other two swimmers are US-based national and OECS record holder, Nicholas Coard known for his back stroke and freestyle, and as OECS Champion, Carifta bronze medalist, finalist in CISC and CCCAN. He has participated in FINA Long Course Swimming World Championships and CAC in 2009. At this Championship, he will be competing in the 50m, 100m and 200m back stroke and the 50m freestyle. The third swimmer is Esau Simpson, national and OECS record holder, just out of the Olympics where he had a fantastic swim. In the region he was finalist at Carifta, CISC and CCCAN. His best stroke is freestyle. These three young swimmers are very confident, are determined to have great swims, better their times, and to make God and their country very proud. Source: gov.gd
 

 


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GRENADIAN SWIMMERS OFF TO INSTANBUL