{"id":313697,"date":"2011-03-16T11:16:13","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T11:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/16\/zambia-country-dominates-swimming-gala\/"},"modified":"2011-03-16T11:16:13","modified_gmt":"2011-03-16T11:16:13","slug":"zambia-country-dominates-swimming-gala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/16\/zambia-country-dominates-swimming-gala\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambia: Country Dominates Swimming Gala"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"39.5373801917\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/><!-- close google_banner_mid div ---><\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.co.zm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/ac5c213deszambia180.jpg\" alt=\"The Times of Zambia (Ndola)\" title=\"Visit The Times of Zambia (Ndola)\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p><!-- begin story layout piece here --><\/p>\n<p>16 March 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Zambian swimmers at the weekend dominated the Invitational swimming gala held at the Baobab International School, wrapping 77 gold, 91 silver and 45 bronze medals as the host nation emerged tops with 2006 points.<\/p>\n<p>The terrific performance by the Zambian swimmers saw the country placed on top of the final overall points standing followed by arch-rivals Malawi who could only amass 1,468 points on the chat.<\/p>\n<p><!-- close google_inset_a div ---><\/p>\n<p>The two-day event saw Tanzania finishing 467 points behind Malawi and could only manage a consolation of topping a disadvantage one-man squad from Botswana that obtained 32 points.<\/p>\n<p>In the individual category, Zambian Emma Jager&#8217;s classical performance saw her breaking four records. She beat her old 200 metres free-style record of 2:33.03 to clock a time of 2:32.90 and managed to re-write her old 100 metres individual medley of 1:22.19 in a time of 1:21.76.<\/p>\n<p>Jager exceeded her old 100-metre timing of 1:10.72 to finish on 1:10.35 and she bettered her 100 metres free-style swimming of 1:23.16 to set a record of 1:20.48. Mia Phiri broke the 200 metres free-style record held by Crystal Findlay of 3:41.68 in a time of 3:30.21 while Sinead Doyle improved her 200 metres breast-stroke record of 4:15.05 to 4:05.12 and again managed to outshine 100 metres record holder Jasmine Chungu, who should now beat Doyle&#8217;s record of 1:54.07 to improve his current record of 1:57.87.<\/p>\n<p><!-- end story layout piece here --><\/p>\n<p><!-- close google_banner_subbody div ---><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><b>More News on allAfrica.com<\/b><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Read more here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201103160560.html\" title=\"Zambia: Country Dominates Swimming Gala\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zambia: Country Dominates Swimming Gala<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 16 March 2011 Zambian swimmers at the weekend dominated the Invitational swimming gala held at the Baobab International School, wrapping 77 gold, 91 silver and 45 bronze medals as the host nation emerged tops with 2006 points. The terrific performance by the Zambian swimmers saw the country placed on top of the final overall points standing followed by arch-rivals Malawi who could only amass 1,468 points on the chat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-313697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Zambia: Country Dominates Swimming Gala - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/16\/zambia-country-dominates-swimming-gala\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Zambia: Country Dominates Swimming Gala - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"16 March 2011 Zambian swimmers at the weekend dominated the Invitational swimming gala held at the Baobab International School, wrapping 77 gold, 91 silver and 45 bronze medals as the host nation emerged tops with 2006 points. 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