Records Shattered At Boys High Swimming

Twelve records went by the board at the Gisborne Boys' High School's annual swimming sports, which were held in perfect conditions at the McRae Baths recently.

Top record breaker was the intermediate champion Robert Kerr, who lowered six times, with his runner-up, Robert Powell, junior champion Jim Westwood, & breaststroker Reid Fletcher, all taking two each.

The senior championship was won by Nicky Smith, with Terry Byrne second, and R. Hanna third.

Senior champion Nicky Smith

Intermediate champion and top record breaker Robert Kerr

High School boys cheer on swimmers in the house relay race

Junior champion Jim Westwood

Michael McCredie, winner of the intermediate diving

Bruce Horsburgh competing in the intermediate diving

Popular teacher Mr R. Glover gets away to a flying start in the Past v. Present relay....won by Past

Reid Fletcher, winner of the corfu dive, surfaces in the centre of the life belt....

....and is pounced on by his defeated rivals

An "imported team of divers from the South Island" added a touch of humour to the programme with their crazy antics.

Billed as a "triple somersault", this trio of Mr R. Swindell (teacher), Robert Kerr, and Michael McCredie, certainly raised a laugh, and a splash, when they tumbled off the three-metre board.

Handstand on the water by Robert Kerr

Richard Kearns with arms and legs flailing

Richard Swindell relaxes in mid air

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The Gisborne Photo News

No 105 : March 21, 1963

Records Shattered At Boys High Swimming