Making waves at NSW Open

UP against the state’s very best swimmers, more than half-a-dozen Jewish athletes represented their clubs with distinction at last weekend’s 2023 NSW Open Long Course Swimming Championships at Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre. These included the sole Maccabi NSW Swim Club rep, 16-year-old Davis – who came third in the previous week’s NSW Jewish Swimming Championship’s men’s 100 freestyle event. Davis clocked 1:16.87 at the NSW Open in the men’s 100 breaststroke heats, placing 57th overall. Cranbrook Aquatics Swim Club’s Alex Thompson – who won the men’s 100 free at the NSW Jewish championships – swam in four individual events at the NSW Open, making the top 30 in all of them. His best placing was 22nd in the men’s 200 individual medley, in a time of 2:12.85.

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