Simon Fraser
Adrian VanderHelm, Tim Woinoski and the men’s 400-meters medley relay team all set records as Simon Fraser University won eight of 12 events on Day 1 of the Clan Cup Friday at the Margaret & Paul Savage Pool at SFU.
VanderHelm won the 400-meters individual medley in four minutes, 18.15 seconds, easily breaking the Clan Cup record (4:24.29) and his own SFU record of 4:21.20 set last year. VanderHelm finished eight seconds ahead of teammate James Cormier in second place (4:26.07) in the race.
Woinoski was challenged in the 800 freestyle, winning easily in 8:08.46 to break the Clan Cup record held by J. Kawashita of Japan (8:11.80) set in 2008.
Simon Fraser opened the evening finals by winning the women’s and men’s 200-meter freestyle relays and closed the first day of the meet with relay victories in the women’s and men’s 400 medley relays.
The men’s 400 medley relay team took top spot beating the two-year old meet record 3:44.73 to 3:45.63. The team consisted of VanderHelm, Colton Peterson, Gabriel Lee and Justin Kiedrzyn.
The Clan winning times in the other relays were: women’s 200 freestyle (1:47.11); men’s 200 freestyle (1:32.66); women’s 400 medley relay (4:16.60).
In between the relays were the record swims by VanderHelm and Woinoski and two other individual wins by Clan swimmers.
Lauren Swistak narrowly won the 200 freestyle over former teammate Alexandria Schofield (Simon Fraser Acquatics) 2:04.21 to 2:04.85.
SFU’s Lee narrowly won the men’s 200 freestyle over teammate Mackenzie Hamill 1:50.18 to 1:50.88.
This is the 19th year of the Clan Cup International in which 44 events will be contested over three days. Day 2 of the Cup commences Saturday at 9 a.m. with a prelims session that includes the 200 IM, 100 butterfly, 100 breaststroke, 100 backstroke and 400 free individual events. The evening Finals session with include those events and will be book ended by the timed final 800 free relay at the start and the 200 medley relay at the evening's close.
The Finals start at 5:30 PM on Saturday. On Sunday, the preliminaries begin at 9:00 AM and the Finals at 4:30 PM.
