Swimming SA (SSA) is looking into why so few of the nationรขโฌโขs swimmers based in the US are failing to convert to elite levelรขโฌลก national coach Graham Hill said on Monday.
Nine swimmers qualified for the world championships during the national trials in Durban last week.
The good news is that four of them were womenรขโฌลก and every single one is trained locally รขโฌโ not one of the American females made the cut-off to get to the international showpiece in Gwangjuรขโฌลก South Korea.
Of the five male qualifiersรขโฌลก three are in the US.
รขโฌลWe are looking at how many swimmers weรขโฌโขve got in Americaรขโฌลก and when they left us what condition they were inรขโฌลกรขโฌย said Hill.
รขโฌลWhen they come back theyรขโฌโขre not stepping up to the next level and that doesnรขโฌโขt add up for me.รขโฌย
Olympic medallists Penny Heyns and Marianne Kriel were among the last batch of US-based women to qualify for the Olympics.
The SA women who qualified for Beijing 2008 and London 2012 were all trained locally (no women qualified in 2004 and 2016).
Roland Schoemanรขโฌลก Ryk Neethling and Lyndon Fernsรขโฌลก all medallists at Athens 2004รขโฌลก were the last US-based men to win silverware for SA.
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