THOMAS Halliday and Takumi Trevena were among leading performers at the Victorian Country Short Course Swimming Championships at Shepparton.
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The Ballarat duo earned four gold medals each at the two-day meet at the weekend.
They helped the Midlands District Swimming Association, represented by Ballarat SC, Ballarat Gold and Ballarat GCO, to 45 medals.
Ballarat SC also finished fifth overall, with a fourth in the men’s division and seventh in the women’s.
Ballarat Gold was sixth overall and second in the men’s.
Trevena also broke the country short course record in the boys’ 11-year 50-metre butterfly, touching the wall in 32.02 seconds.
Josh Brien and Shogo Trevena were other Midlands gold medallists in a successful championships for the district.
Midlands medallists:
Joshua Brien (Ballarat Gold) 12-13yo
Gold: 100m butterfly
Silver: 200m individual medley, 100m backstroke, 200m freestyle
Bronze: 100 individual medley
Sam Crothers-Bade (Ballarat SC) 11yo
Silver: 100m individual medley, 50m backstroke
Bronze: 50m freestyle, 100m freestyle, 50m butterfly
Ruby Halliday (Ballarat Gold) 14yo
Bronze: 50m backstroke
Thomas Halliday (Ballarat Gold) 18yo/plus and open
Gold: 200m freestyle, 200 individual medley, 100m freestyle (18-plus), 200m butterfly (open)
Silver: 100m backstroke (18-plus), 200m breaststroke, 200m backstroke (open)
Bronze: 100m individual medley, 100m butterfly (18-plus)
Matthew Jenkins (Ballarat Gold) 14-15yo
Silver: 100m freestyle, 200m freestyle
Jed Prouse (Ballarat Gold) 18yo-plus
Silver: 200m freestyle, 200m individual medley
Bronze: 100m backstroke
Michael Rodger (Ballarat SC) 14-15yo
Bronze: 200m individual medley, 100m individual medley, 200m freestyle
Sophie Thomas (Ballarat SC) 18yo/plus
Silver: 100m freestyle, 200m freestyle, 100m individual medley
Bronze: 100m breaststroke, 100m butterfly, 200m individual medley
Shogo Trevena (Ballarat SC) 11yo
Gold: 50m backstroke
Silver: 50m freestyle, 100m freestyle, 50m butterfly, 50m breaststroke
Takumi Trevena (Ballarat SC) 11yo
Gold: 50m freestyle, 100m freestyle, 100m individual medley, 50m butterfly
Bronze: 50m backstroke
Catherine Zhao (Ballarat SC) 11yo
Bronze: 100m individual medley