The 2008 Oceania Swimming Championships were held in New Zealand and featured competition in swimming, open water swimming and

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. It was the 7th

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in Lake Okataina and Lake Rotoma whilst the swimming and synchronized swimming competitions were carried out from 5 June to 8 June in Christchurch at the QEII Leisure Centre. Twelve of the 13 federated members of the Oceania Swimming Association competed with the Northern Mariana Islands the only member not to send any swimmers. Two associate members also attending, bringing the total to 14: the French overseas department

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and the USA State Hawaii.

Medal Tally

The ranking sorts by the number of gold medals earned by a member federation (or associate member) of the Oceania Swimming Association. The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze medals. If, after the above, countries are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically. The host country, New Zealand, is highlighted in lavender. The greatest number of medals won in each medal category, gold, silver, bronze, and total, is in boldface.

Swimming

A total of 38 swimming events were contested in a 50-metre pool. To give the smaller island nations a chance against the stronger swimming nations of Australia and New Zealand the championships rules stated that in the individual events only the top two qualifiers from each country progress through to the final with the third fastest swimmer only from those countries with two swimmers qualifying for the ‘A’ final permitted to swim in the ‘B’ final. In the relay events it was one medal per country. So, for example, if New Zealand 'A' finishes first, Australia 'A' finishes second, New Zealand 'B' finishes third and New Caledonia finishes fourth, New Caledonia would be awarded the bronze medal.

Key

* CR - Championship record * NR - National record

Men's events

Women's events

Open Water Swimming

Men's events

Women's events

Synchronized Swimming

Records broken

During the 2008 Oceania Swimming Championships, 42 Championship Records (or Meet Records) were set. Multiple Continental and National Records were also set.

Championship records

* Men's 50 m freestyle - Mark Herring (22.96) (heats) * Men's 50 m freestyle - Mark Herring (22.92) (final) * Men's 50 m freestyle - William Benson (22.92) (final) * Men's 50 m freestyle -

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(22.86) (B final) * Men's 100 m freestyle - Reese Turner (50.61) (heats) * Men's 100 m freestyle - Cameron Gibson (50.36) (heats) * Men's 100 m freestyle - Mark Herring (49.83) (heats) * Men's 200 m freestyle - Robert Hurley (1:49.62) (heats) * Men's 200 m freestyle - Robert Hurley (1:48.84) (final) * Men's 400 m freestyle - Robert Hurley (3:53.56) (final) * Men's 1500 m freestyle - Theodore Pasialis (15:27.31) (timed final) * Men's 50 m backstroke - Daniel Bell (26.45) (heats) * Men's 50 m backstroke - Robert Hurley (25.64) (final) * Men's 100 m backstroke - Robert Hurley (55.04) (final) * Men's 100 m backstroke - Robert Hurley (54.91) (relay) * Men's 200 m backstroke - Robert Hurley (2:01.23) (final) * Men's 50 m breaststroke - Glenn Snyders (28.31) (final) * Men's 200 m breaststroke - Glenn Snyders (2:16.24) (final) * Men's 50 m butterfly - Corney Swanepoel (23.98) (final) * Men's 100 m butterfly - Ryan Pini (52.33) (final) * Men's 200 m butterfly -

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(1:58.00) (final) * Men's 200 m individual medley - Dean Kent (2:02.21) (final) * Men's 4×100 m freestyle relay - Mark Herring,

, William Benson, Cameron Gibson (3:19.91) (timed final) * Men's 4×200 m freestyle relay - Ryan Napoleon,

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, Theodore Pasialis, Robert Hurley (7:25.63) (timed final) * Men's 4×100 m medley relay - Daniel Bell, Glenn Snyders, Corney Swanepoel, Cameron Gibson (3:38.62) (timed final) * Women's 50 m freestyle - Rebecca Ohlwein (26.01) (heats) * Women's 50 m freestyle - Rebecca Ohlwein (25.84) (final) * Women's 100 m freestyle -

Hayley Palmer Hayley Gloria Palmer (born 8 May 1989 in Cheltenham) is an Olympian and National Record holding swimmer from New Zealand. She swam for NZ at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and 2012 Summer Olympics. Early life Palmer was born in Cheltenham, ...

(55.55) (heats) * Women's 100 m freestyle -

(55.55) (final) * Women's 200 m freestyle -

Helen Norfolk Helen Norfolk (born 27 August 1981 in Christchurch) is a New Zealand swimming competitor. She won a bronze medal with Lauren Boyle, Alison Fitch and Melissa Ingram in the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay at the 2006 Commonwealth Games. She has com ...

(2:00.31) (final) * Women's 50 m backstroke -

Elizabeth Coster Elizabeth Mary Coster (born 11 December 1982) is a New Zealand former swimmer, who specialises in backstroke and butterfly events. She helped the New Zealand team to pull off a fourth-place effort and broke a New Zealand record of 4:06.30 in th ...

(29.08) (heats) * Women's 50 m backstroke -

(28.89) (final) * Women's 100 m backstroke -

(1:02.19) (heats) * Women's 100 m backstroke -

(1:01.10) (final) * Women's 200 m backstroke -

Melissa Ingram Melissa Ingram (born 24 June 1985 in Henderson, New Zealand) is a retired New Zealand swimmer. She won a bronze medal with Lauren Boyle, Helen Norfolk and Alison Fitch in the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay at the 2006 Commonwealth Games. Ingram co ...

(2:11.03) (timed final) * Women's 50 m breaststroke - Jessica Legge (32.22) (timed final) * Women's 100 m butterfly - Amy Smith (59.96) (final) * Women's 200 m butterfly - Amy Smith (2:09.63) (final) * Women's 200 m individual medley -

(2:14.74) (final) * Women's 400 m individual medley -

(4:47.32) (timed final) * Women's 4×200 m freestyle relay -

Lauren Boyle Lauren Marie Boyle (born 14 December 1987) is a former competitive swimmer from New Zealand. She has competed at three Commonwealth Games and three Olympic Games. Career Boyle won a bronze medal with Helen Norfolk, Alison Fitch and Melissa ...

, Tash Hind (8:10.78) (timed final) * Women's 4×100 m medley relay - Bridgette-Rose Taylor, Jessica Legge, Amy Smith, Olivia Halicek (4:09.14) (timed final)

External links

Championship information on Swimming New Zealand site

Full results (pdf)
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Medal Tally

Swimming

Key

Men's events

Women's events

Open Water Swimming

Men's events

Women's events

Synchronized Swimming

Records broken

Championship records

See also

External links