Glenn Snyders Olympic and Hayley Palmer became the fifth and sixth of New Zealand swimmers to qualify for Commonwealth Games Delhi 2010 when they won the 100m butterfly men and women, respectively, 100 m freestyle swimming championships in New Zealand Auckland on Wednesday.
According to media reports in New Zealand, Snyders passed the mark of 50 meters in 28.70 seconds and although his career cut short in the final 15m he had enough in the tank to win in 1:01.56, which was 2 / 10ths under the qualifying time. He finished ahead of United States based on Ferrif Westgaard Nic and Lucas.
Snyders gave the birthday present perfect to describe the Delhi 2010. He said it was mission accomplished, but wanted a better performance. "I was very relaxed this morning (in qualifying) and swam well. Probably just did too much in the final race was not so long and not as soft as this morning.
"But tonight was to make the qualifying time. Now I have time to work on swim faster and be competitive is time for the Commonwealth Games. It was a good birthday, sure."
It was a similar story in the 100m freestyle Palmer, who was also fractionally before the time of heat in 26.29sec. She clung to gain in 55.17 seconds ahead of Tash Hind and Penelope Marshall to go with the qualifying mark by 2/10ths of a second.
"That is certainly a nice result. The focus of this night was taking place then qualifying," said Palmer. "The goal was to go faster, but above all it was qualifying. He knew that to get to my New Zealand record of 53-high which was set in full costume was unrealistic, but my goal is to be very competitive at the time they get to New Delhi. "
Corney Swanepoel finished a close second to training partner Moss Burmester in the 100m butterfly and men, both on the outskirts of the Games qualifying time. Burmester won in 53.69 seconds to 53.92 seconds Swanepoel announced ahead of Matt Thomas in third.
"It was slow. I can only attribute to the truth because it suits both Corney and I've been training up our best moments," said Burmester. "It will take some time to adjust, but I am gutted for Corney."
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