National Squads - Swimming

The events will take place on the following dates.

RSA Cup - Saturday 12 December 2010

National Novices Competition - Sunday 13 December 2010  starting at 9:30 am

National Age Group Competition  -  Sunday 13 December 2009 starting at 2:30 pm and continuing  through  Monday 14 December 2010 and Tuesday 15 December 2010.

This event is for divers who have not competed or participated in a National Age Group event at any stage in the past.

Boys and girls will dive in one event (against each other).

Gold, silver and bronze medals will be presented to the winners.

All divers will receive a participation certificate.

The competition will be run under slightly new rules as proposed by Central Gauteng Aquatics.

This is an open tournament for all registered clubs. The competition will be run on 1m and 3m springboards and platform (5m, 7.5m & 10m).

The age of the competitors will be their age as at midnight on 31 December 2009.

Divers must dive in their age group, except for Group E divers, who may dive in Group D.

There will be a synchronised diving event for Groups A, B, C and D on 3m only.

Competitors and officials must be registered with SSA for the current aquatic year.

Foreign competitors must provide a clearance letter with their entries from their federation.

Age Groups A, B and C competitions will be run in terms of FINA rules DAG 3.1 to 3.3 inclusive.

FINA Rule DAG 4.5.1 will be amended to change 12 to 6 in relation to finals. Thus, DAG 4.5.1 is amended to read – “When facilities and time permits, the top six [6] divers from the previous session will participate in a final competition performing only dives without limit.

The scores of the dives with limit from the previous session will be carried forward and added to the scores in the final competition to determine the top six [6] rankings.

Divers lower than 6th place will be ranked by their preliminary scores.  

The group E and D competition, with no finals, will be run as follows

GROUP E  
Nine years and under 1 and 3m (no platform event) 4 dives of which 2 may be jump movements. No movement with the same number may be repeated.

GROUP D   
Ten and Eleven years 1, 3m and 5m boards 3 dives from different groups with a maximum tariff of 5.4 plus 2 dives from different groups without tariff limit. Synchronised Diving: 3 rounds of dives, 2 compulsory dives, dd 2.0, one with both divers facing forwards and one with both divers facing backwards, plus one voluntary dive with no limit.

Entry fees:
R100 per diver per board with a maximum of entry fee of R300 entry for any one diver on condition THAT THE ENTRIES FEES ARE PAID IN FULL BY ELECTRONIC BANKING PRIOR TO 15 NOVEMBER 2009.

Thus, if a diver competes 1, 3, platform and synchronised the diver will only pay R300 for entries] Synchronised diving entry fee R100 per team. 

This is an Open tournament for registered divers.

The  competition  is  a  knock-out  event  for  men  and  women,  held  on  the  3m springboard. The seeding for the knock-out will be determined by a preliminary competition. 

The preliminary seeding competition will comprise 6 dives for men and 5 dives for women.  

The dives for the preliminary competition will be from any group with no limit on degree of difficulty and no repeat of a dive number.  

The knockout part of the competition will be for the 8 top seeds.

In the knockout event the divers will perform 6 dives [men] and 5 dives [women] from any groups with no limit on degree of difficulty but with no repeat of dive numbers.

The unseeded divers will compete over 5 or 6 dives for the Women’s and Men’s Plates.

The RSA Cup knockout will be based on Wimbledon Tennis last 8 knockout system.

Entry Fee: R100 per diver