Kurt Crosland (Neptune) has beaten double Olympic gold medallist Danyon Loader's Otago record.
When Crosland (28) won a bronze medal in the 200m individual medley at the New Zealand open championships in Auckland, he beat Loader's 1993 Otago record of 2min 5.71sec.
Crosland came close in the heat with 2min 5.92 sec. But he made no mistake in the final with his time of 2min 4.43sec,worth 769 Fina points.
Crosland also won a bronze medal in the 50m backstroke in a time of 26.19sec. It was worth 773 Fina points.
Crosland has won three individual medals at the championships and was also in two medal-winning relay teams.
Kate Godfrey (Neptune), another member of coach Gennadiy Labara's Osca training squad, won a silver medal in the women's 50m backstroke in 29.92sec. It was worth 739 Fina points and was Godfrey's third medal at the championships.
The Neptune team of Rhys Applegarth, Jeremy Tasker, Nick Tyrrell and Adam Simpson won a bronze medal in the 4 x 200m freestyle relay in 7min 48.54sec.
The Neptune club is having a good championship and is third on the club points table with 221 points. North Shore is in the lead with 626 points and Capital Swim Club is second on 617.5 points. Waves is in 36th place with 16 points.
World champion Lauren Boyle won back-to-back gold medals in world championship qualifying times last night. Boyle set the fastest time in the world this year of 8min 23.11sec to win the 800m freestyle, and then went back to the blocks to win the 100m freestyle, both in times to qualify for July's world championships.
Her efforts were matched by fellow Olympians Glenn Snyders and Gareth Kean, who won the 200m breaststroke and 200m backstroke respectively in championship qualifying times.
This brought the world championship Fina A qualifying performances to five swimmers and 13 events.
Paralympics superstar Sophie Pascoe added to her haul with another world record in the 200m freestyle (2min 13.25sec), her fourth of the championships.
Additional reporting from APNZ.
