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Another African record for Sadie as Hendricks finishes fourth at Para world champs<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

26 September 2025 \u2013 Team South Africa continued to show impressive form at the World Para Swimming Championships in Singapore on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nathan Hendricks just missed out on a medal in the S13 400m freestyle for visually impaired swimmers, finishing fourth in 4 minutes 15.28 seconds. Gold was claimed by Russian Egor Shchitkovskii in a time of 4:02.14.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLast night I swam the 50 free so it was quite a tight turnaround to the 400 free this morning, being the first event,\u201d he explained afterwards. \u201cSo this morning was me just trying to make certain I made the final, and then in the final it was just go guns blazing and see how I do. I left everything in the pool, so I was very chuffed with this race.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As for the position he finished, Hendricks added: \u201cI was quite chuffed with the placing, coming fourth. I was quite happy with that. Time-wise, I\u2019m OK with it, I could do a lot better but now I know what I can work on, especially more into the swim and the turns because the turns weren\u2019t too great, but I can definitely work on those and get better.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, after already securing three medals at these championships, Christian Sadie once again went quicker than ever before, setting a new African record in the S7 50m freestyle. The 27-year-old finished in a time of 28.70 seconds to finish fifth in the final, with the gold once again going to Ukrainian Andrii Trusov in 27.98 seconds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cToday went quite well overall. The 50 free is always a fun one. I think it\u2019s just a splash and dash and small technical things need to go right, and execution needs to be good,\u201d said Sadie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think in the morning, the swimming was really good, but there were some small technical things that I got really wrong,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was a good time, but for what I knew I should have been doing, maybe not as great as we could have had. But in the evening we fixed up all of those things. The technical stuff was a lot better and execution was also a lot better, so overall I feel like it was really good in the morning and we were able to improve in the evening as well.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After also progressing through their morning heats of the S13 400m freestyle, Alani Ferreira finished seventh in the final in 4 minutes 56.05 seconds, while Danika Vyncke was eighth in the same race in 5:05.55.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The World Para Swimming Championships in Singapore come to an end on Saturday, 27 September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– ENDS –<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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