As an 11-year-old rising sporting talent, Bathurst’s Thomas Geyer is aiming high.
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“I would like to get the Olympics in swimming and to be the world number one in tennis,” he said when asked what his ultimate sporting dream is.
And the way he has continued to develop as a swimmer has him heading in the right direction for achieving at least one of those goals.
For the third year in a row, Geyer rewrote the record books during the All Saints’ College swimming carnival, smashing the old marks in six different races.
Competing in the 12-year-old boys division at the All Saints’ 25 metre pool, Geyer began by taking ‘just’ three seconds off the record for the 50 metre freestyle when he clocked a time of 32.49 seconds.
He then backed it up by taking five seconds off the 50m breaststoke when he stopped the clock at 41.21. Even that record swim was not Geyer’s personal best effort for the event.
Geyer’s great day continued shaving four seconds off the the 50m backstroke (40.07 seconds) benchmark, before taking seven seconds of the records for both the 50m butterfly (38.3 seconds) and the 100m freestyle (1.13.22).
The young gun then showed he had saved the best for last in the individual medley with a time of 1.25.13, beating the previously best time by 10 seconds.
Despite such good work in the water, Geyer showed his modesty admitting he enjoyed playing with his friends by the side of the pool just as much as winning.
“I enjoyed setting it up for the first time being House Captain and I enjoyed breaking all the records in the pool,” he said.
“I also enjoyed having fun with all of my friends where we sat.”
A keen tennis player who is also looking to make the NSW PSSA team in that particular sport, Geyer will now turn his swimming focus toward the NSW Country Championships in Homebush.
It is an event he won a gold medal at last year.
“I want to get first and be able to stand up on the podium again,” he said.
“It felt really good to be up there last year and I really hope I can do it again.”
Geyer is certainly no newcomer when it comes to breaking records in the pool.
The youngster, who has been swimming competitively with the Bathurst City Swimming Club since he was “four or five”, has broken an 18 records in just three years, some which had stood since 1972.
Geyer’s family has plenty of sporting history in their with his father Steve Geyer one of Bathurst cricket’s premier batsmen for a number of years and Thomas’ uncle Kevin a good enough batsman to represent NSW in the late 1990s.