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Wednesday 14 March 2018
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Legendary record holder, Colin Gill, congratulates Matua Wilson for beating his 48year old record. Photo: Sarah Peacock.
Age-old record pipped Emily Beaumont It was just a mere 13 hundredth’s of a second that broke Murchison Area School’s longest standing record at the school’s swimming sports on Tuesday, March 6. Sixteen-year-old student Matua Wilson glided through the water in the same pool where 48 years earlier Colin Gill set the record
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for the 100m freestyle senior boys race, achieving a finish of 1.10.60. Set in 1970 the record became a legend of the school as the years sailed by without it being broken. After breaking a record as a year8 student, Matua’s father told him to set his sights on Colin’s record. “I didn’t think I had a chance, just knowing it was so old,” says Matua. “I was so stoked to beat it,
having heard of the record, but I never thought I’d get close.” Colin laughed off suggestions of a rematch and says, while proud to have held the record for such a long time, he was pleased to see it broken. “It took a while, didn’t it? I was absolutely pleased to hear the news, I sent through my congratulations,” says Colin. “With the
way things advance these days I thought it would have been skittled before now.” Matua says the record was far from his mind while racing, instead he was focused on beating the person beside him. “I knew I was doing well, I was just trying to swim as fast as I could, I had no idea I was even going for the record,” he says.
Receiving congratulations from local townsfolk, students, and even his North Island-based grandmother within hours of the record-breaking race, Matua says his sporting focus is now on the upcoming rugby season. But next year you can expect him back in the pool where he’s determined to “beat it by a bit more than 13 hundredth’s of a second”.
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