Day One:
Alex Kierstead advanced to youth final in 6th with a personal best.

Day Two:
Jon McKay set a new club record in 15-17 boys 400 IM breaking Nick Sinclair's record. Jon was 6th in the final in 4:31.89 narrowly missing the senior national standard.

From Coach Rod

Canada has never qualified a swimmer for any open-water event at the Olympics. Don't bet against Richard Weinberger of Victoria being the first Canuck to do so.

The rapidly emerging 10K star continues leaving a splashy imprint on the path to the 2012 London Summer Games. So much so he may be edging in to join pool swimmer Ryan Cochrane, triathlete Paula Findlay and rowers David Calder, Malcolm Howard and Lindsay Jennerich as an Island-based podium threat for London 2012.

Richard Weinberger nabbed the silver medal today in the last of his week-long stretch of races, with a stellar performance in the 10km in Argentina.  His main competition was once again World Champion Spiros Gianniotis, though this time Richard was even closer to touching him out for the gold medal.

The race was so tight that eight swimmers were challenging for the top spots up until the last 200m, with the last 75m coming down to Gianniotis and Weinberger, the difference between them being less than a second.

UVPCS had a strong showing at the 2012 VIR SC Championships on January 20th weekend.  Forty-three swimmers, their coaches and families travelled to Nanaimo for a rainy-windy weekend of competition.

UVPCS open water swimmer Richard Weinberger proved to be a fierce competitor once again today, in Brazil for the FINA 10km.  Richard placed 3^rd in an extremely close race; he touched in at 2:11:42.34, with Italian Nicola Bolzonello and Spiros Gianniotis of Greece edging in less than three seconds ahead of him.