According to Tanzania’s DailyNews, the country will send three swimmers to the World Short Course Swimming Championships in Doha, Qatar from December 3rd-7th.
While the article misconstrues the nature of “junior events,” it appears as though Agnes Kimimba and Noel Kiunsi will be the two participants in FINA’s brilliant new youth development camp that will happen before the meet starts. This does not necessarily mean that they will participate in the competition, however.
The Fedeation has also committed to sending three swimmers to compete in the open races: Ammar Ghadiyali, Catherine Mason, and Sonia Tomiotto. If they can find the funding, they will also hope to send Aliasiga Karimjee, Mariam Foum, and Magdalena Moshi.
At the last FINA World Championships, in long course in 2013, Tanzania had a respectable level of success, including a 66th-place finish from Foum in the women’s 50 free (29.86). That means she beat 17 legally-finishing swimmers. In 2014, she will be in line to crush her own National Record in that event.
Mason and Tumiotto both medaled at the CANA Zone 3 and 4 swimming championships earlier this year in Uganda, including Tumiotto winning both the 50 and 200 breaststrokes. Tumiotto is already being looked to as the future of the country’s swimming on the women’s side, and with good reason – earlier this year, at only 12-years old, she swam a 31.9 in the 50 long course meter freestyle.