Kirsten Cameron - 2009

2009

  • Gold Medal in Swimming NZ's Inaugural 10 km Open Water Championship, held in Wellington.
  • FINA World Masters Record Holder, 1500m LC Freestyle 35-39 Age Group
  • Waikato Open Record Holder, 1500m SC Freestyle, 800m SC Freestyle
  • 13th FINA Marathon Swimming World Cup 10 km Swim Varna Bulgaria. (Refer Wairarapa Times Age 4 September 2009, Local Sport article, "When Push Comes to Shove it Must be Open Water Swimming.")
  • Attended World Masters Games 2009 in Sydney, Australia. Gold in 100m, 200m, 400m, 800m Freestyle in 35-39 Age Group, Silver in 50m Freestyle. All times were New Zealand Masters Records. The 400m Freestyle and 800m Freestyle were inside the World Masters Records. However, FINA decided that the World Masters Games were not an appropriate venue for World Records and refused to ratify any World Records set at this meet, despite being a Masters Sanctioned meet and run according to FINA regulations. The reason given was that some non-masters registered swimmers may have been competing. The times however, will still stand as New Zealand Masters Records and will still be counted in the World Masters Top 10 Tabulations. Therefore, the Fastest World Masters 800m time in the 35-39 Age Group is six seconds faster than the actual World Record. (Both times swum by Kirsten Cameron.) Refer Wairarapa Times Age 22 October 2009, Local Sport article, "Camerons world records in doubt".)

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