Source: www.guardian.co.tt
Canada-based T&T swimmer Ross Phillips established a new 15-17 boys’ 100 metres breaststroke Long Course record during the Junior Provincial Long Course Championships in Etobicoke Canada on July 3. Competing for his Granite Gators club, Phillips sped to the wall in 1:06.44 minute to win gold and erase the July 1992 record of Seun Harewood of 1:06.61, which was set at the Caribbean Islands Swimming Championship (CISC) Championships which was held in T&T.
Philips also established personal best times in the 50m freestyle (26.23 - 18th), 100m butterfly (1:01.67 -12th), 200 IM (2:12.49-4th) and 400 IM (4:53.91-6th). He first competed for T&T at this year’s Carifta Swimming Championships in Wildey Barbados, and won bronze in the 200m Individual Medley. The next outing for this new national record holder is the 2011 Canada Summer National Championships in Pointe Claire at the Malcolm-Knox Aquatic Centre. He is scheduled to compete in the 50m and 100m breaststroke.