Coach excited about swimmers performance at World event

Dar es Salaam. Tanzania national swimming team coach Alex Mwaipasi has been satisfied with the standard shown by four swimmers who represented the country in the World Swimming Championships held in Melbourne, Australia.

Ria Save and Sophia Latiff featured in the women’s category while Hilal Hilal and Colins Saliboko in the men’s category.

Mwaipasi said despite the swimmers having failed to bring medals, they had managed to improve their personal best times (PBs) in the event that featured top swimmers in the world.

He said the swimmers made efforts to fight for the nation, but due to various challenges surrounding the game in the country, they did not meet their target.

Mwaipasi said he told all the four swimmers to fight hard in order to meet the target, which they did meet during a four-day event.

“I told the swimmers before the championships that they were supposed to struggle to improve their personal best times and they did it. Their next step now is to improve their times again in the next international championships,

“Our swimmers still have time to improve their swimming standards,” said Mwaipasi.

Tanzania Swimming Association (TSA) vice chairperson Asmah Hilal said they had been impressed by the swimmers’ performance and the results had given them some challenge to fight hard in order to make the game develop.

According to Hilal, currently TSA is struggling to improve the standard of the game in the country, although it still facing some challenges including lack of sponsors and infrastructure such as a modern 50 -meter swimming pool.

“The results have encouraged us, as you know, we do not have modern swimming facilities that could make us perform well in international competitions when compared with other countries,” said Hilal.