Swimmers claim medals at championships

By Yarrawonga Chronicle

Feb 25, 2025

Some of the Yarrawonga Mulwala Swimming Club silver and bronze medallists.

The Ovens and Murray Swimming Championships were held in Wodonga at the weekend with the two-day event seeing almost 350 swimmers taking to the pool from the district.

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Held at Waves in Wodonga, the swimming quality across the region was outstanding, with many previous records broken.

The weather brought its all too with hot and humid days through to storms and rain!

Yarrawonga Mulwala Swimming Club had 18 swimmers who represented the club over the weekend.

Lara Angwin’s Girls 15 yrs 100m Butterfly was a hotly contested swim.

There were fantastic results all around with huge personal best swims, many swimmers taking ribbons home in top 10 finishes, along with many taking home medals, finishing in the top 3 of their events.

Yarrawonga Mulwala had 86 swims in total including 30pbs, 13 medals with 6 silver and 7 bronze and 56 Top 10 finishes.

Flynn Cox won bronze medals in both the boys 12 years 50m and 100m freestyle.

Silver Medallists:

Younger members of the team raring to go for their swims.

Finn Angwin - Boys 14 yrs 100m Breaststroke.

Lara Angwin - Girls 15 yrs 100m Backstroke, Girls 15yrs 100m Butterfly and Girls 15yrs 50m Backstroke.

Finn Angwin in the 14 years boys 100m Breaststroke.

Emily Buerckner - Girls 16yrs 100m Breaststroke.

Max Vodusek - Boys 15yrs 50m Backstroke.

Bronze Medallists:

Charlie Bourke - Mens Open 200m Breaststroke.

Charlie Bourke in the Mens Open 200m Breaststroke.

Jack Bourke - Boys 15ys 100m Backstroke and Boys 15 yrs 50m Backstroke.

Flynn Cox - Boys 12yrs 50m Freestyle, Boys 12yrs 100m Freestyle and Boys 50m Backstroke.

Ella Hollister - Girls 15yrs 50m Breaststroke.

Next weekend the Yarrawonga Mulwala Swimming Club head to Corowa for Ovens and Murray Relay Championships which is a highlight of the racing calendar.