Vincentian swimming trio returns from FINA World Championships

Shne Joachim, Cruz Halbich and Aaron Defreitas recently returned to St Vincent after spending five days competing at the 13th FINA World Swimming Championships in Windsor, Canada. Over 1,000 of the world’s best swimmers from more than 170 countries attended the championships, held in December 2016.{{more}}

This was Halbich and Defreitas’ first time competing at this level and both young men represented St Vincent and the Grenadines well, swimming personal best times in their events.

SVG’s very own Caribbean Champion Shné Joachim took her experience to the World Championships, swimming personal best times in every event and finishing a respectable 37th out of over 80 swimmers entered in the 50m breaststroke. Shné swam a time of 32.43 seconds, setting a new national record that will be very hard to beat.

Whilst at the event, the three swimmers were able to witness many world records being broken by swimmers like South Africa’s Chad LeClos. They were able to give their support to Jamaica’s Alia Atkinson, who took a silver and bronze medal in two of her races.