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Milan Glintmeyer won the women’s 100m backstroke at the New Zealand Swimming Championships.
Young Manawatū swimmer Milan Glintmeyer has secured a spot at the Junior World Championships.
Glintmeyer, 14, won the women’s 100m backstroke at the New Zealand Swimming Championships in Auckland last weekend.
The Kiwi West swimmer finished in 1min 2.22sec to beat second placed Emma Godwin (Heretaunga Sundevils) and Zyleika Pratt-Smith (Coast) who took third.
This result secured Glintmeyer, who has been a rising star in recent years, of a place in the world juniors in Israel later in the year.
At last year’s high school national championships, she won 10 gold medals, two silvers and one bronze, and broke records in the 100-meter butterfly and 100-meter individual medley.