Race At Your Pace!
The result for final of the Five Dock Rotary 200m Individual Medley Handicap held on 7 December 2013 was as follows:
| ID | Name | Position |
|---|---|---|
| 750 | Connor EGELTON | 1 |
| 708 | Bronte MARSHALL | 2 |
| 743 | Lucy EGELTON | 3 |
| 527 | Harry GILKES | 4 |
| 976 | David BRADY | 5 |
Winner: Connor EGELTON
Congratulations to 11 year old Christian Taylor on winning the Men’s’ 11 years 100m Backstroke event at the 2013 NSW Metropolitan Championships at Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre on Sunday 7th December 2013.
Christian also came:
The full meet results can be found here.
Following on from our memorable George Wheaton Family Tribute Day on 30th November 2013, our local Federal Member, Craig Laundy, recorded this important piece of our Club’s heritage in a speech to the Federation Chamber of the Australian Parliament on Thursday 5th December 2013.
You can read Craig’s full speech in the Parliamentary Hansard minutes here (PDF version) and watch a video of his speech here.
The Club would like to thank Craig for taking the time to attend our Tribute Day, along with our Club Patron Mayor Angelo Tsirekas and State MP John Sidoti, and for the special effort he made to record this event for posterity.
The final results of the George Wheaton 50m BBB Handicap held on 30 November 2013 were as follows:
| ID | Name | Position |
|---|---|---|
| 698 | Adam BROOKS | 1 |
| 474 | Bernadette FLANNERY | 2 |
| 640 | Daniel CORBETT | 3 |
| 91 | Adam CHRISTODOULOU | 4 |
| 1049 | Celeste JACKSON | 5 |
| 1012 | Mikaela DOWNIE | 6 |
| 1071 | Aidan KIRKPATRICK-JONES | 7 |
| 1054 | Damien GARDINER | 8 |
Winner: Adam BROOKS
The results for the final of the Geoff Roper 200m Freestyle Handicap held on 23rd November 2013 were as follows:
| ID | Name | Position |
|---|---|---|
| 634 | Hamish MURPHY | 1 |
| 687 | Jessica COLLEY | 2 |
| 47 | Evan CHRISTODOULOU | 3 |
| 621 | Rose TUNSTALL | 4 |
| 1054 | Damien GARDINER | 5 |
Winner: Hamish MURPHY
Congratulations to Bronte Marshall for setting the NSW State Record in the 100m Individual Medley (Short Course) S14 event for 13 years & under.
Bronte won the event at the NSW Multi-Class Swimming Championships on 1 June 2013 and was presented with her record certificate by NSW Swimmers with Disability on 26 October 2013.
Drummoyne Swimming Club is sad to learn of the recent passing of Noel Wheaton, the last surviving son of George Wheaton. George was a former Treasurer of the Club and a prominent swimming official. His four sons, George, Neville, Noel, and Lindsay, were all members of the Club.
George Wheaton tragically collapsed and died after racing in a “Father and Son” race at the Club in 1937 at the age of 53. Noel swam in his father’s final 220 yard handicap race and went on to be a successful swimmer in his own right, swimming into his 90’s.
The George Wheaton 50m BBB Handicap Trophy is one of the most hotly-contested events of the year, in which swimmers race against each other with different form strokes – Breaststroke, Backstroke or Butterfly – in the same race.
This year’s “BBB” Final will be contested on 30 November 2013 with a poignant memory of George and his sons.
The following Obituary appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald on Saturday 9 January 1937:
Mr. G. Wheaton.
Mr. George Wheaton, a prominent swimming official, collapsed and died shortly after competing in a 220yds race at the Drummoyne baths on Thursday.
Mr. Wheaton, who was 53 years of age, was for several years a delegate to the New South Wales Amateur Swimming Association. He was honorary secretary of the Western Districts Amateur Swimming Association, and treasurer of the Drummoyne club. His four sons, George, Neville, Noel, and Lindsay, are all members of the club. After a service at St, Bede’s, Drummoyne, yesterday, the body was cremated at the Northern Suburbs Crematorium.
George’s last surviving son, Noel, recently passed away, at the age of 93, bringing this sad chapter in the Club’s history to a peaceful close.
On Saturday 30th November 2013, Drummoyne Swimming Club will be paying a special tribute to George and his sons on the occasion of the George Wheaton 50m BBB Handicap Final (BBB stands for Breaststroke, Backstroke and Butterfly).
We are fortunate to have four generations of the Wheaton family attending the BBB final this Saturday, being George’s daughter-in-law, two grandsons, a great grandson and great-great grandson. The Wheaton family will start the event and present the George Wheaton BBB trophy to the winner.
The occasion will commemorated by Mayor Angelo Tsirekas, Club Patron, and Craig Laundy MP, Federal Member For Reid.
Members and friends of the Club are welcome to join us in honouring the Wheaton family this Saturday. The Club meet will commence at 7.30am with the 100m Freestyle Sprint followed by the BBB event.
Congratulations to 11-year old Christian Taylor, who has returned from the 2013 School Sport Australia Swimming Championships in Adelaide with a swag of gold!
He competed in the following four events, winning three gold medals:
The full meet results are available here.
The result of the final for the Tom Brown 50m Backstroke Handicap held on 9 March 2013 was as follows:
| ID | Name | Position |
|---|---|---|
| 632 | Liam MURPHY | 1 |
| 309 | Joel DIMENTO | 2 |
| 644 | Nicholas CORBETT | 3 |
| 582 | Elise GOOLEY | 4 |
| 643 | Georgia ZOCCO | 5 |
Winner: Liam Murphy