The Cube swimming pool in Swakopmund played host to the 2019 Namibia National Short Course Championships over the past four days, with seven clubs from Windhoek, Oranjemund and Swakopmund participating. More than 170 swimmers took part in the swimming gala that was held in the state-of-the-art indoor 25m swimming pool in Swakopmund and marked the highlight of the Namibian Short Course Season. Plenty of personal best and records were achieved over the four-day championships, with members from Windhoek's Dolphins Swimming Club emerging as the overall winners with 1 367 points, followed by Aqua Swimming and Fitness Club, who also hail from the capital. Third place went to the Oranjemund Sand Sharks. Swimmers who stood out at the championships were Swakopmund Dolphins swimmer Phillip Seidler, who missed out on a Namibian parallel record with 0.32 seconds, while Dentie Louw improved his personal best from two and a half months ago with 6.74 seconds in the Men's 22 to 44 year old 200m freestyle, with his new record now standing at 2:28.66. Rose Matyayi of Aqua Swimming and Fitness Club improved the Namibian record for girls in the 200m individual medley, and Mikah Burger joined Matyayi in breaking national records when he improved the current Namibian record for the boys ‪13 - 14‬ year 200m by 0.24 seconds. Burger also just missed another record, the boys ‪13 - 14‬ year 200m freestyle, by less than a second. "For the swimmers, they have to qualify to come and swim at the National and for local swimming, we are going into the long course swimming. It is in a 50 meter pool and will it all will happen in Windhoek" Namibia Swimming Union executive member Odette Grant said. The first of the long course swimming events will be the Pupkewitz Schools Development Gala taking place in Windhoek at the end of October.