WA Talents on Show at Oceania Champs

Emerging WA swimmers Zac Incerti and Hadley Lindsay have both returned medal winning performances at the Oceania Swimming Championships in Suva.

A young Australian team produced a string of medal winning performances, with Incerti collecting individual gold medals in the 50m and 100m backstroke, whilst Lindsey scooped silver in the 100m free and dual bronze in the 50m free and 200m Individual Medley.

Broome raised Incerti (19), who took up the sport in his teenage years, impressed to clock 25.91 to win the one lap backstroke ahead of Pini (PNG) and Main (New Zealand). He doubled up in the 100m to touch home in 54.94 ahead of the Kiwi pairing of Cropp and Coetzee.

17 year-old Lindsay won a silver medal in the final of the women’s 100m free, stopping the clock in 57.48, behind Doyle of New Zealand, with Buadromo of Fiji in third.

Lindsay recorded a time of 26.25 in taking third place in the 50m free behind New Zealand’s Fa’amausili and fellow Australian Ramsden, before again earning bronze in the 200m IM, finishing in 2:19.84 behind Gasson (New Zealand) and Cross (Australia).

Incerti and Lindsay were both members of victorious 4x100m freestyle wins in the men’s and women’s races respectively.

Lindsay picked up a further relay medal in the women’s 4x200m relay with Australia taking silver, whilst Incerti swam in gold medal winning 4x200m free and 4x100m medley teams.