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Australian Aquatics Media Guide - XII FINA World Swimming Championships – Melbourne March 17 – April 1, 2007 © HSM 2007 OPEN WATER DOLPHINS HAVE PROUD TRADITION TO UPHOLD OPEN WATER SWIMMING is as Australian as Vegemite, kangaroos, Holden cars and lamington’s – almost every Aussie has, at some stage, swum in a river, lake or at the beach. It’s an Australian past time and not surprisingly the Telstra Dolphins have a proud competitive history in the sport. Australia has won at least one medal from five of the six FINA World Championships that have featured open water swimming since it was first added to the program in Perth in 1991. This year the open water component of the 2007 World Championships will be held at St Kilda beach, one of the most picturesque points of Port Phillip Bay and only a short distance from Melbourne’s city centre. Considered one of the most fashionable suburbs within Melbourne, it's one of Melbourne's most lively, cosmopolitan areas and is also a hugely popular among tourists who flock there all year round to enjoy the night life and to visit one of the city’s most renowned landmarks, Luna Park. The Open Water Swimming course itself is free to attend and will run between the famous St Kilda pier and the St Kilda Marina, creating a natural amphitheatre for the 5 kilometre, 10km and 25 km events for both men and women. Four of the six events - the men’s and women’s 5km (both Sunday March 18), the women’s 25km (Saturday March 24) and men’s 25km (Sunday March 25) - will be held on weekends allowing anyone the opportunity to witness some of the globe’s fittest and most courageous athletes battle for world supremacy. FINA conduct’s World Open Water Championships every second year (even years) as a stand alone event as well as including the open water component alongside swimming, diving, synchronised swimming and water polo in the biannual FINA World Championships in odd years like 2007. Leading the Telstra Dolphins will be current 25km FINA World Open Water champion Josh Santacaterina (10km, 25km), former Kiwi Kate Brookes-Peterson (5km, 10km) and surf life saving icon Ky Hurst (5km, 10km). Joining them in the Australian team will be 2004 25km FINA World Open Water gold medallist Brendan Capell (25km), team veteran Shelley Clark (25km) and teenagers Alexandra Bagley (5km, 10km) and David Browne (5km). Apart from Santacaterina and Capell’s success at the last two FINA World Open Water Championships, three other Australian’s have tasted gold at the World Championships. Open water legend Shelly Taylor-Smith won the inaugural 25km title on the Swan River in Perth in 1991 before joining Melissa Cunningham, who won individual gold in the same event, and David Bates, to take the 25km team title in Rome in 1994. Others to see the podium in more recent times include Hurst, who won silver in the 5km as a precocious 16-year-old in Perth in 1998, high profile pool swimmer turned open water star Hayley Lewis, who claimed bronze in the 5km in Fukuoka in 2001, and Capell, who snared silver in the 25km in 2005. – KURT HANSON
Australian Aquatics Media Guide - XII FINA World Swimming Championships – Melbourne March 17 – April 1, 2007 © HSM TELSTRA DOLPHINS AUSTRALIAN OPEN WATER TEAM MEN: Ky Hurst (SLC Aquadot NSW) David Browne (St Peters Western Qld) Josh Santacaterina (St Peters Western Qld) Brendan Capell (St Peters Western Qld). WOMEN: Kate Brookes-Peterson (Redcliffe Leagues Lawnton Qld) Alexandra Bagley (Gardens Qld) Shelley Clark (Hunter NSW). STAFF: Head Coach Greg Towle (NSW) Manager John Saliba (NSW) Coach Don Watson- Brown (Qld) Physiotherapist Britt Caling (Qld). AUSTRALIAN OPEN WATER ENTRIES BY DAY DAY 2 - Sunday March 18 5km W – Kate Brookes-Peterson, Alexandra Bagley 5km M – Ky Hurst, David Browne DAY 4 - Tuesday March 20 10km W - Kate Brookes-Peterson, Alexandra Bagley DAY 5 - Wednesday March 21 10km M – Ky Hurst, Josh Santacaterina DAY 8 - Saturday March 24 25km W – Shelley Clark DAY 9 - Sunday March 25 25km M – Brendan Capell, Josh Santacaterina AUSTRALIAN SWIMMING WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP MEDAL TALLY Open Water swimming only GOLD SILVER BRONZE TOTAL Perth 1991 1 - 1 2 Rome 1994 2 1 1 4 Perth 1998 - 1 1 2 Fukuoka 2001 - - 1 1 Barcelona 2003 - - - - Montreal 2005 - 1 - 1 Totals 3 3 4 10
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