2004 Oceania Swimming Championships

The 2004 Oceania Swimming Championships were held May 15–19, 2004 at the National Aquatics Center in Suva, Fiji.^[1] This was the fifth edition of the Championships, and featured competitions in: swimming, open water swimming and synchronized swimming (synchro). The synchro competition marked the first time the sport had been swum in Fiji.^[2]

All swimming competition listed below were swum in a 50m (long-course) pool.

Participating countries

The 2004 Oceania Swimming Championships featured 134 swimmers from 11 countries, and the USA State of Hawaii:^[3]

American Samoa (4)  Australia (35)  Federated States of Micronesia (2)  Fiji (10)  Guam (4)  Hawaii (4)

New Caledonia (24)  New Zealand (41)  Northern Mariana Islands (2)  Palau (1)  Papua New Guinea (3)  Tahiti (4)

Event schedule

Date	May 15	May 16	May 17	May 18	May 19
S w i m *	200 free (M) 50 breast (W) 200 fly (W) 50 back (M) 400 IM (W) 400 IM (M) 400 free relay (M) 800 free relay (W)	100 fly (M) 100 free (W) 100 breast (M) 100 back (W) 50 free (M) 200 breast (W) 400 free (M) 50 fly (W) 200 back (M) 800 free relay (M) 800 free (W)	50 back (W) 50 breast (M) 200 fly (M) 400 free (W) 400 free relay (W)	100 back (M) 100 breast (W) 100 fly (W) 100 free (M) 50 free (W) 200 breast (M) 200 back (W) 200 IM (M) 200 IM (W) 50 fly (M) 200 free (W) 400 medley relay (M) 400 medley relay (W) 1500 free (M)
Open Water			5-kilometer (5K)		10-kilometer (10K)
Synchro		Junior Figures Senior Technical Solo		Junior Duet Senior Free Solo Senior Technical Duet	Junior Solo Senior Free Duet Free Routine Combination

• (*) Semifinals were held in the events 50 and 100 in length. 50 semifinals were held the same evening as their final; 100 semifinals were held the evening before the final.

Results

Swimming

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50m Freestyle	Carl Probert   Fiji	23.44	Gilles Dumesnil   New Caledonia	23.70	Andrew Lauterstein   Australia	23.79
100m Freestyle	Leith Brodie   Australia	51.59	Andrew Lauterstein   Australia	51.63	Carl Probert   Fiji	52.03
200m Freestyle	Josh Krogh   Australia	1:51.81 CR	Andrew Thompson   Australia	1:52.19	Ephraim Hannant   Australia	1:52.64
400m Freestyle	Josh Krogh   Australia	3:55.68 CR	Brendon Hughes   Australia	3:56.92	Andrew Thompson   Australia	3:58.95
1500m Freestyle	Josh Krogh   Australia	15:37.66	Andrew Thompson   Australia	15:39.71	Ephraim Hannant   Australia	15:44.14
50m Backstroke	Ryan Pini   Papua New Guinea	26.83 CR	Scott Talbot-Cameron   New Zealand	27.06	Michael Jackson   Australia	27.31
100m Backstroke	Andrew Lauterstein   Australia	56.86	Andrew Burns   Australia	57.51	Ryan Pini   Papua New Guinea	57.81
200m Backstroke	Andrew Burns   Australia	2:01.77 CR	Michael Jackson   Australia	2:05.46	Leith Brodie   Australia	2:06.11
50m Breaststroke	Mark Riley   Australia	28.82 CR	Rainui Teriipaia   Tahiti	29.34	James Beasley   Australia	29.50
100m Breaststroke	Mark Riley   Australia	1:03.34	James Beasley   Australia	1:03.85	Rainui Teriipaia   Tahiti	1:05.08
200m Breaststroke	Mark Riley   Australia	2:17.80	James Beasley   Australia	2:18.66	Richard Adamson   New Zealand	2:22.95
50m Butterfly	Corney Swanepoel   New Zealand	24.25	Ryan Pini   Papua New Guinea	24.84	Andrew Lauterstein   Australia	25.17
100m Butterfly	Corney Swanepoel   New Zealand	53.30 CR	Ryan Pini   Papua New Guinea	54.06	Andrew Lauterstein   Australia	54.89
200m Butterfly	Josh Krogh   Australia	1:59.49 CR	Andrew Richards   Australia	2:00.20	Brendon Hughes   Australia	2:02.47
200m I.M.	Dean Kent   New Zealand	2:04.79	Mitchell Bacon   Australia	2:05.14	Leith Brodie   Australia	2:07.08
400m I.M	Mitchell Bacon   Australia	4:26.41	Dean Kent   New Zealand	4:27.55	Michael Jackson   Australia	4:29.94
400m Free Relay	Australia	3:25.97	New Zealand	3:30.12	New Caledonia	3:43.82
800m Free Relay	Australia	7:31.34 CR	New Zealand	7:47.10	New Caledonia	8:26.81
400m Medley Relay	Australia	3:44.71 CR	New Zealand	3:48.87	Fiji	4:09.56

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50m Freestyle	Danni Miatke   Australia	26.37	Alison Fitch   New Zealand	26.80	Sally Foster   Australia	26.90
100m Freestyle	Alison Fitch   New Zealand	57.54	Danni Miatke   Australia	57.62	Alicia Coutts   Australia	57.80
200m Freestyle	Lara Davenport   Australia	2:02.78	Briody Murphy   Australia	2:02.91	Haylee Reddaway   Australia	2:03.29
400m Freestyle	Briody Murphy   Australia	4:12.91 CR	Stephanie Williams   Australia	4:17.77	Helen Norfolk   New Zealand	4:22.62
800m Freestyle	Briody Murphy   Australia	8:42.22 CR	Stephanie Williams   Australia	8:44.19	Haylee Reddaway   Australia	8:50.59
50m Backstroke	Elizabeth Coster   New Zealand	30.14 CR	Karina Leane   Australia	30.18	Danni Miatke   Australia	30.50
100m Backstroke	Karina Leane   Australia	1:03.90	Stephanie Williams   Australia	1:04.33	Stephanie Rice   Australia	1:04.56
200m Backstroke	Stephanie Williams   Australia	2:14.58 CR	Karina Leane   Australia	2:16.22	Shannon Clayton   New Zealand	2:18.89
50m Breaststroke	Jade Edmistone   Australia	32.43 CR	Sally Foster   Australia	32.46	Chelsea Nagata   Hawaii	35.62
100m Breaststroke	Jade Edmistone   Australia	1:09.96 CR	Sally Foster   Australia	1:10.37	Kelly Bentley   New Zealand	1:16.47
200m Breaststroke	Sally Foster   Australia	2:32.70	Jade Edmistone   Australia	2:34.67	Helen Norfolk   New Zealand	2:39.95
50m Butterfly	Danni Miatke   Australia	27.33 CR	Elizabeth Coster   New Zealand	28.01	Georgina Toomey   New Zealand	28.06
100m Butterfly	Elizabeth Coster   New Zealand	1:00.95	Stephanie Rice   Australia	1:01.09	Danni Miatke   Australia	1:01.49
200m Butterfly	Alicia Coutts   Australia	2:17.96	Lara Davenport   Australia	2:18.99	Nathalie Bernard   New Zealand	2:21.16
200m I.M.	Alicia Coutts   Australi	2:16.92 CR	Helen Norfolk   New Zealand	2:17.57	Stephanie Rice   Australia	2:19.51
400m I.M	Helen Norfolk   New Zealand	4:52.78	Stephanie Rice   Australia	4:56.09	Kelly Bentley   New Zealand	5:03.99
400m Free Relay	New Zealand	3:50.86	Australia	3:51.09	New Caledonia	4:13.44
800m Free Relay	Australia	8:18.37 CR	New Zealand	8:27.41	New Caledonia	9:21.64
400m Medley Relay	Australia	4:14.35 CR	New Zealand	4:18.87	New Caledonia	4:49.88

Open Water medalist

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Men's 5K	Hayden Jackson   Australia	59:05	Jarred Nederpelt   Australia	1:00:46.49	Daniel Ryan   New Zealand	1:02:22.36
Men's 10K	Jarred Nederpelt   Australia	2:03:59.45	Hayden Jackson   Australia	2:07:40.20	Benoit Riviere   New Caledonia	2:16:22.05
Women's 5K	Shannon Clayton   New Zealand	1:04:49.35	Nichole Hunter   Australia	1:04:49.48	Vanessa Clabau   New Caledonia	1:09:21.38
Women's 10K	Nichole Hunter   Australia	2:15:28.39	Vanessa Clabau   New Caledonia	2:23:31.02	not awarded

Synchro medalists

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Junior—Solo	Bobi-Rose Leatherby   New Zealand		Verity Leach   New Zealand		Sarah Morris   Australia
Junior—Duet	Kelly Andrews Tamika Domrow   Australia	65.940	Samantha Reid Candice Wood   Australia	64.352	not awarded
Open—Solo	Lisa Daniels   New Zealand	77.834	Laure Algayres   New Caledonia	71.250	not awarded
Open—Duet	Lisa Daniels Nina Daniels   New Zealand		not awarded		not awarded
Free Routine  Combination	New Zealand		Australia		New Caledonia

Overall medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Australia	33	30	20	83
2	New Zealand	12	11	9	32
3	Papua New Guinea	1	2	1	4
4	Fiji	1	-	2	3
5	New Caledonia	-	3	8	11
6	Hawaii	-	-	1	1
7	Tahiti	-	-	2	2

References

1. Oceania Swimming Championships 2004, from the OceaniaSport website, retrieved 2010-04-05.
2. Synchronised Swimming debuts in Fiji published by OceaniaSport (event website); last updated 2004-05-10. Retrieved 2010-04-05.
3. Team List from the 2004 Oceania Swimming Championships; retrieved 2010-04-05.