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Zimbabwe: Eeson Eyes Beijing Games
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The Herald (Harare)
25 March 2008
Posted to the web 25 March 2008
Glen Byrom
Harare
The tantalising prospect of a place in Zimbabwe's Olympic team for Beijing will be the lure for 18-year-old Kim Eeson at the South African Open swimming championships in Durban from April 1-6.
The Harare Spartan's Club swimmer, who averages 12-16km per day in arduous training, will be chasing a 400 metres freestyle time of 4min 20.05sec to put her in contention for selection for the Olympics in August, where world record holder Kirsty Coventry and Heather Brands (both USA based) seem likely to carry the Zimbabwean flag. A year ago, at the world championships in Australia, Eeson was just splits of a second away from that Olympic mark, but she has not hit that time since.
But she knows it is within her grasp and she has been training at the Seagulls Swim Club in Pinetown, South Africa, with the squad of noted coach Graham Hill and she is finely tuned and ready to go. The fierce level of competition at Durban should bring out the best in her and she knows that she will need that Beijing time just to qualify for a place in the SA Open 400 metres final.
Eeson earned bronze in 4:34.43 at the recent South African Level 3 Prestige Championships in East London, but she used that as a build-up for Durban, where she will be properly peaked. Zimbabwe will send a team of six to King's Park Pool in Durban. In the team are Tim Ferris, Nick James, Andrew Chance, Eeson, Maxine Heard and Moira Fraser, who turned 17 on March 24.
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