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Gareth Kean and Daniel Bell celebrated a double night of victory for New Zealand swimmers at the Pan Pacific junior championships in Guam yesterday.
Kean, from Wellington, set a national open record and a meet record in the 200m backstroke while west Aucklander Bell scored his second gold of the championships by winning the 100m butterfly, also in a meet record.
The medal adds to a gold and bronze won by Bell on the opening two days of the meet.
Kean, 17, clocked 1min 59.52 seconds to win his final over Japan's Tamahiro Yamazaki, breaking by 0.05sec the national open record established last year by North Shore's Kurt Bassett at the world youth championships.
Earlier, Bell set a new meet record in topping qualifiers for the 100m butterfly and then went faster in 52.37sec to win the final.
This was 0.23sec inside the national age group record for 18 years, going under the previous mark held by Beijing Olympian Corney Swanepoeol.
Meanwhile, Wellington's Samantha Lee finished eighth in the A final of the 200m backstroke, while the 400m freestyle relay teams both finished in fifth place.
- NZPA
