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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, we know we've got some incredible masters swimmers over
in Singapore at the moment. They are competing in the
twenty twenty five World Aquatics Masters Championships and joining us
live on the line. I believe he's over there in Singapore.
Masters Swimming NTY Chair Neil Ludvigson, Good morning to you.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Neil, good morning. How are you.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
I'm very well, Neil. How are our incredible masters swimmer's
going over there?
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Well, that's done extremely well. I mean we've got how
many eight nurs seven gold medals? Oh wow, I'm fifteen
and seventeen medals in total, and that's not bad when
you think New South Wales has got twenty gold medals
and that's and we're only Darwin and we're one club. Yes,
(00:53):
go about twenty club, twenty or thirty clubs and so
you know, you've got to understand that's impressive performance.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
That's awesome, Neil. That sounds wonderful. You know when you
look at our population size and and you know, you
look at what the Northern Territory's doing there at the
Masters World Championships, that is absolutely incredible. Tell me about
some of the standout performers. I mean ann walker in
(01:23):
the eighty five to eighty nine year age group. She's
had a fantastic run, hasn't she.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Yeah, well she had. She won, she's won sort of
four individual gold and then she was involved in two
relay golds yesterday yep, and last night she was an
very exhausted lady. I don't think I can go on, Neil.
(01:50):
I'm so tired. I'm so tired. I'm an old.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Well let's point out as well, did she win gold
in the eight hundred freestyle?
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Yeah, yes, she and she wons in the fifty fly,
which is a.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
It's a grueling, rice grueling.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Grueling, grueling for anyone, let a person in there who's yeah,
well yeah, but she's a very fit woman. Really what that.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Is absolutely incredible? Like I love that she is competing
at the World Masters Championships, you know, in the age
group of eighty five to eighty nine years and years old,
and she's not alone. Maggie Roberts as well.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Yeah, Maggie Roberts and Voull hissed over. Yeah, got val
got I think three silvers and a bronze and that
was mainly a backstroker and she I think it's actually
got silver medals in all three of the backstroke events
and and got better as the week went on. What
(02:58):
a legend. I think. I think it's just nerves as well,
you know, like you start with, I mean, and had
been too large swimming events before, but Val had never
been to any and or Maggie of course has got
a gold medal once before, got a gold medal in
the World Masters in Japan about two years ago. But yeah, but.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
They all did very well well then, and Roberts won.
He got a bronze in the four hundred I am
is that right?
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Yeah? Again a killer he was in the eighties to
eighty five. He and he got a really was really
really hard and he yeah, he's physical, you know, Like
I mean four hundred im is hard. I mean you've
got to do one hundred butterfly, then you do one
hundred of each stroke and it's and it's technically difficult
(03:54):
as well, because each each turns different and you've got
to do different like it's quite and you've got.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
You've got to be fish, but you've got to be
strong as well, right to be able to do all
of the strokes and over that distance.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Yes, And I mean doing all. I mean, we try
it masters swimming. We try and do all of the strokes.
You're like, because it's much better for you as a
health benefit. I mean to swim to do that and
to do all four strokes, yeah, as it works your
whole body.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Yeah, you're spot on. I mean, Neil, I don't think
I've done butterfly since I was about fifteen, though, mate,
I don't know if I still could. I'm gonna have
to jump in the pool and give it a crack.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Yes, we always remember it's a rigal motion, like you
like it. Test down, bum down, chest down, bum down. Help.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Yeah, but you know, look, I just think it's so
incredible to see our more senior Territorians swimming at this
level and absolutely smashing ash over there in Singapore. I
mean Bob in the Bob Patterson in the seventy to seventy.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Fours and he's you know, seventy five to eighty four. Sorry,
and he got he got one gold, a silver and
a bronze and he also got He and Ann were
the ones that really held together the relays, and so
just amazing.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
So tell me a little bit more about the realays, Neil.
I love a good real eye and you know you
see that team spirit come together. Tell us a little
bit more about how our team went over there.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
We won, We won, We won the three twenty for
women in freestyle and in in the medley with all
four strokes, and in the freestyle one they were up
against about you know, five other teams and they won
it by about twenty five seconds. They went close, or
they certainly said an NT record. I don't think we
(06:04):
said in this I don't think we said in the
Australian one, but we and we were quite quite close
to a world one. It was they were just so
far in front.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
When you say the three twenty, real ay, is that
like an accumulation of ages of age, you've got.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
To average eight, you've got to average eighty. Now, because
we had in that race, we had val and and yeah,
and that one's eighty six and the other one's eighty eight.
That meant we could have a seventy five year old
and a seventy one year old in it.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Yeah. Oh, and how cool.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
It's only because our eighty plus eighty five plus ones
are so so competitive that you could do it that
way that that works.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Yeah, and how awesome like it sounds like our swimmers
have done absolutely awesome. I mean, a total of twenty
three Northern Territory swimmers. You must be you know, you
must be really proud of what they've achieved.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Oh, I'm absolutely proud. I mean, I'm the president of
the Northern Territory Branch. I mean I didn't even swim
because I was going through it and I decided it
was better that I helped, you know, like because some
of these older women, you know, it's very you know,
some of them haven't traveled that much really, I mean,
you're not. Although the other advantage here is that most
(07:36):
of us have been to Singapore or before and we've
just and we just you know, like so it's they're
a bit more relaxed about them. The metro and you
know all those you know, the MRT and stuff and so,
and they can get around and they can eat most
of them can eat the food. Lots of the other
older Australians find it a bit weird in a place
(07:58):
like this where you whereas whereas for us, coming to
Singapore is not yeah, we're so yeah much more. I
mean only because it's close exactly, and we often come
over here and swim we've swum many times in the
Singapore Masters they have like the Australian Championships or the
Singaporeans have a championship here in usually October November, and
(08:22):
we've summoned that many times. So and we've brought not
as many people, usually about fables maybe ten of us
come over at the time. But you know, like it's
it's sort of like, I mean, it's it's sort of
a holiday. This time, it didn't seem much of a holiday.
There were so many people. I mean there were nearly
five thousand, nearly five thousand competitors, Wow, from about eighty
(08:45):
three countries.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
That's incredible. And then when you look at how our
Northern Territory Mass systemers have gone, Neil, I just think
it's so wonderful.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
You know.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
I love seeing seeing our senior Territorians in the pool
swimming at that age and then competing to you know,
to the level that they are at that age. I
hope I am that active, you know, in my older years.
I just think it's really you know, it's something so
wonderful to say.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Yeah, and it's so health it's so good for your health.
I mean, one of our other swimmers Steve Greenwell came
back to swimming because he was diagnosed as a diabetic.
He's now fifty eight and he's come back as for
a health reasons and he's swam some of the best times. Yeah,
Like he hadn't done that thing since he was about
(09:39):
eighteen or nineteen.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
What a legend. That's so good. I love it.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
And although he didn't win any medals, y he set
personal best. Yeah that's all. That's all you can really
expect of anyone.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
With your spot on well. Neil, thank you so much
for joining us this morning from Singapore and letting us
know what's going on. I love hearing about Territorians doing
great stuff and this is You've brought the biggest smile
to my face hearing about these awesome senior territorians absolutely
smashing USh.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Yeah, thank you very much, Katie. I'm glad you were
interested in what you're doing.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
No, I love it. Thank you so much for having
a chat with us this morning.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Neil
Well, we know we've got some incredible masters swimmers over
in Singapore at the moment. They are competing in the
twenty twenty five World Aquatics Masters Championships and joining us
live on the line. I believe he's over there in Singapore.
Masters Swimming NTY Chair Neil Ludvigson, Good morning to you.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Neil, good morning. How are you.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
I'm very well, Neil. How are our incredible masters swimmer's
going over there?
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Well, that's done extremely well. I mean we've got how
many eight nurs seven gold medals? Oh wow, I'm fifteen
and seventeen medals in total, and that's not bad when
you think New South Wales has got twenty gold medals
and that's and we're only Darwin and we're one club. Yes,
(00:53):
go about twenty club, twenty or thirty clubs and so
you know, you've got to understand that's impressive performance.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
That's awesome, Neil. That sounds wonderful. You know when you
look at our population size and and you know, you
look at what the Northern Territory's doing there at the
Masters World Championships, that is absolutely incredible. Tell me about
some of the standout performers. I mean ann walker in
(01:23):
the eighty five to eighty nine year age group. She's
had a fantastic run, hasn't she.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Yeah, well she had. She won, she's won sort of
four individual gold and then she was involved in two
relay golds yesterday yep, and last night she was an
very exhausted lady. I don't think I can go on, Neil.
(01:50):
I'm so tired. I'm so tired. I'm an old.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Well let's point out as well, did she win gold
in the eight hundred freestyle?
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Yeah, yes, she and she wons in the fifty fly,
which is a.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
It's a grueling, rice grueling.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Grueling, grueling for anyone, let a person in there who's yeah,
well yeah, but she's a very fit woman. Really what that.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Is absolutely incredible? Like I love that she is competing
at the World Masters Championships, you know, in the age
group of eighty five to eighty nine years and years old,
and she's not alone. Maggie Roberts as well.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Yeah, Maggie Roberts and Voull hissed over. Yeah, got val
got I think three silvers and a bronze and that
was mainly a backstroker and she I think it's actually
got silver medals in all three of the backstroke events
and and got better as the week went on. What
(02:58):
a legend. I think. I think it's just nerves as well,
you know, like you start with, I mean, and had
been too large swimming events before, but Val had never
been to any and or Maggie of course has got
a gold medal once before, got a gold medal in
the World Masters in Japan about two years ago. But yeah, but.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
They all did very well well then, and Roberts won.
He got a bronze in the four hundred I am
is that right?
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Yeah? Again a killer he was in the eighties to
eighty five. He and he got a really was really
really hard and he yeah, he's physical, you know, Like
I mean four hundred im is hard. I mean you've
got to do one hundred butterfly, then you do one
hundred of each stroke and it's and it's technically difficult
(03:54):
as well, because each each turns different and you've got
to do different like it's quite and you've got.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
You've got to be fish, but you've got to be
strong as well, right to be able to do all
of the strokes and over that distance.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Yes, And I mean doing all. I mean, we try
it masters swimming. We try and do all of the strokes.
You're like, because it's much better for you as a
health benefit. I mean to swim to do that and
to do all four strokes, yeah, as it works your
whole body.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Yeah, you're spot on. I mean, Neil, I don't think
I've done butterfly since I was about fifteen, though, mate,
I don't know if I still could. I'm gonna have
to jump in the pool and give it a crack.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Yes, we always remember it's a rigal motion, like you
like it. Test down, bum down, chest down, bum down. Help.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Yeah, but you know, look, I just think it's so
incredible to see our more senior Territorians swimming at this
level and absolutely smashing ash over there in Singapore. I
mean Bob in the Bob Patterson in the seventy to seventy.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Fours and he's you know, seventy five to eighty four. Sorry,
and he got he got one gold, a silver and
a bronze and he also got He and Ann were
the ones that really held together the relays, and so
just amazing.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
So tell me a little bit more about the realays, Neil.
I love a good real eye and you know you
see that team spirit come together. Tell us a little
bit more about how our team went over there.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
We won, We won, We won the three twenty for
women in freestyle and in in the medley with all
four strokes, and in the freestyle one they were up
against about you know, five other teams and they won
it by about twenty five seconds. They went close, or
they certainly said an NT record. I don't think we
(06:04):
said in this I don't think we said in the
Australian one, but we and we were quite quite close
to a world one. It was they were just so
far in front.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
When you say the three twenty, real ay, is that
like an accumulation of ages of age, you've got.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
To average eight, you've got to average eighty. Now, because
we had in that race, we had val and and yeah,
and that one's eighty six and the other one's eighty eight.
That meant we could have a seventy five year old
and a seventy one year old in it.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Yeah. Oh, and how cool.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
It's only because our eighty plus eighty five plus ones
are so so competitive that you could do it that
way that that works.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Yeah, and how awesome like it sounds like our swimmers
have done absolutely awesome. I mean, a total of twenty
three Northern Territory swimmers. You must be you know, you
must be really proud of what they've achieved.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Oh, I'm absolutely proud. I mean, I'm the president of
the Northern Territory Branch. I mean I didn't even swim
because I was going through it and I decided it
was better that I helped, you know, like because some
of these older women, you know, it's very you know,
some of them haven't traveled that much really, I mean,
you're not. Although the other advantage here is that most
(07:36):
of us have been to Singapore or before and we've
just and we just you know, like so it's they're
a bit more relaxed about them. The metro and you
know all those you know, the MRT and stuff and so,
and they can get around and they can eat most
of them can eat the food. Lots of the other
older Australians find it a bit weird in a place
(07:58):
like this where you whereas whereas for us, coming to
Singapore is not yeah, we're so yeah much more. I
mean only because it's close exactly, and we often come
over here and swim we've swum many times in the
Singapore Masters they have like the Australian Championships or the
Singaporeans have a championship here in usually October November, and
(08:22):
we've summoned that many times. So and we've brought not
as many people, usually about fables maybe ten of us
come over at the time. But you know, like it's
it's sort of like, I mean, it's it's sort of
a holiday. This time, it didn't seem much of a holiday.
There were so many people. I mean there were nearly
five thousand, nearly five thousand competitors, Wow, from about eighty
(08:45):
three countries.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
That's incredible. And then when you look at how our
Northern Territory Mass systemers have gone, Neil, I just think
it's so wonderful.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
You know.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
I love seeing seeing our senior Territorians in the pool
swimming at that age and then competing to you know,
to the level that they are at that age. I
hope I am that active, you know, in my older years.
I just think it's really you know, it's something so
wonderful to say.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Yeah, and it's so health it's so good for your health.
I mean, one of our other swimmers Steve Greenwell came
back to swimming because he was diagnosed as a diabetic.
He's now fifty eight and he's come back as for
a health reasons and he's swam some of the best times. Yeah,
Like he hadn't done that thing since he was about
(09:39):
eighteen or nineteen.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
What a legend. That's so good. I love it.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
And although he didn't win any medals, y he set
personal best. Yeah that's all. That's all you can really
expect of anyone.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
With your spot on well. Neil, thank you so much
for joining us this morning from Singapore and letting us
know what's going on. I love hearing about Territorians doing
great stuff and this is You've brought the biggest smile
to my face hearing about these awesome senior territorians absolutely
smashing USh.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Yeah, thank you very much, Katie. I'm glad you were
interested in what you're doing.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
No, I love it. Thank you so much for having
a chat with us this morning.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Neil
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