Swimming: South West Age Group competition in Plymouth |02 May 2017

Felicity Passon lowers two Seychelles records, wins five gold medals

Felicity Passon just can’t stop improving Seychelles records in the pools and winning medals.

Competing in the 17 years and over age category of the three-day South West Age Group competition in Plymouth, England during the Labour Day weekend, Passon lowered two national records and won five gold medals.

In the 50m butterfly, she lowered her own record of 27.90 seconds to 27.59 seconds and she got her second national record of 29.30 seconds in the 50m backstroke. The previous record of 29.48 seconds belonged to Alexus Laird.

Passon won the gold medals in both the 50m butterfly and 50m backstroke and according to her parents, the backstroke time of 29.30 seconds is indeed a ‘B’ standard qualifying time for the World Championship in Budapest, but unfortunately it was not swam in a Fédération internationale de natation (Fina) meet.

The young swimmer also won the 4x100m freestyle relay with her team in 3 minutes 50.69 seconds (3:50.69) by swimming her leg in 57.18 seconds. She also claimed the 100m backstroke in a personal best time of 1:02.80 which is again close to the World Championship ‘B’ standard qualifying of 1:02.73.

Passon’s fifth gold medal came in the 50 freestyle in a time of 26.41 seconds.