World short-course champion and Olympic queen score preseason victories in Switzerland
Tatjana Schoenmaker in action at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham last year. Picture: Anton Geyser/Gallo Images
Schoenmaker is looking to improve on the 200m breaststroke silver she won at the 2019 world championships, having skipped last year’s edition to focus on the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.At the Lausanne Swim Cup at the weekend Schoenmaker reigned supreme in her premier 200m breaststroke event in which she claimed the Tokyo Olympic gold, winning in 2min 24.45sec, well ahead of Martina Carraro of Italy in 2:27.54.
Sates, swimming for the Pietermaritzburg Seals club though he has been training at Tuks for the past several weeks, claimed four triumphs and a second place. While Sates was well off his 4:11.58 best in the 400m individual medley, and more than two seconds slower than his 200m bests of best of 1:57.43 and 1:45.91 , he was close to his 3:49.27 400m freestyle personal record. Schoenmaker’s 200m breaststroke effort was not far off her winning time at the national championships in April last year, which suggests she is on track to be in good shape when it counts later in the season.
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