The highlights of the last day of the 2009 National Championships were two national 4x50m medley records set by Sliema (men) and Neptunes (women) yesterday.
The improvement in both races was massive.
The Sliema team, made up of Neil Agius, Daniel Galea, Steven Slee and Andrea Agius, improved the previous two-year-old best time by 5.25 seconds when covering the distance in 1:54.08.
Agius also equalled his own national limit of 4:15.32 in the 400m freestyle race.
Nicole Cremona, Melinda Sue Micallef, Davina Mangion and Talisa Pace, of Neptunes, registered 2:04.30 to slash 5.87 seconds off the previous 2008 4x50m medley record. Age-group records, all in category D, came from Pace, 30.17 in the 50m butterfly (previous 30.40) and 1:00.30 in the 100m freestyle (1:00.63).
David Zammit clocked 26.63 in the 50m butterfly, an improvement of 0.30 seconds on Kyle Scerri's time of 2005.
In the afternoon session, Zammit swam the 50m freestyle in 25.28 seconds to better Scerri's previous category D mark, set three years ago, by 0.05 of a second.
Pace was again in record groove, this time in the 200m IM, which she swam in 2:33.94 to erase the record of Gail Rizzo set 14 years ago by 1.38 seconds.