World top tenners | Noosa Today

By Ian Jobling

Thirteen swimmers from Noosa Masters Club made Top Ten placings in 39 FINA events for the year 2020. FINA is the governing body for swimming internationally and only accepts results from sanctioned swim meets.

Jan Croft, coach of the Noosa Masters club, was ranked number one in the world in her age category – she was first in the 400, 800 and 1500 metres freestyle, and second in the 200m and third in the 100m Freestyle.Jan was considered for the Australian team for the 1960 Rome Games but she missed out because there was no event for her talents in long-distance swimming. Although she was Queensland and Australian 800m Freestyle champion several times, that event was not introduced for women until…