Tanzania swimmers improve time in Fina World meet

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 Hangzhou, China.

Tanzania was represented by Kayla Temba and Celina Itatiro who featured in women’s category while Hilal Hilal and Colins Saliboko in men’s category.

Mwaipasi said despite the fact that the swimmers did not bring medals, but they had managed to improve their personal best time (PBs) in the event which featured prominent 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 for the swimmers and all of them met during a four-day event.

“I told the swimmers before the championships that they were supposed to struggle to improve their time and they attained it and the next step is to improve their time again in the next international championships,

“Our swimmers still have time to improve their swimming standard, I would not like to mention each swimmers performance, and there are club coaches who would be tasked to make sure they all trained hard in order improve their time in the game,” said Mwaipasi.

Leaders’ comments

Tanzania Swimming Association (TSA) Chairman, Imani Dominick said they had been impressed by the swimmers performances and the results had given them some challenge to fight hard in order to make the game develop.

Dominick said currently, TSA was struggling to improve the standard of the game in the country, but still facing challenges including lack of sponsor’s and infrastructures like a modern 50 -meter swimming pool.

“The results have encouraged us, as you know, we did not have modern facilities when compared with other countries ,” said Dominick.