Alexander Sporting News · Historical swimming

Swimming across the colonies.

Smith (mile report) wins the closing 220 yards. All six Sydney championships and Lyttelton’s completed New Year meeting are in the archive. Reconstructed replay results, historical evidence and identity limits remain explicit.

11Completed events
27Contests
129Recorded starts
103Event-entry groups

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Sydney · January 6–13

Smith wins the sprint; Andrews takes the plunge. Cavill wins the mile and quarter-mile. Hamilton adds the half-mile with a final-split reversal; Smith (mile report) takes the closing 220 yards.

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Lyttelton · January 1

Five completed events, twelve swims and 72 starts remain preserved. J. S. Wauchop wins the Canterbury championship; G. Barrell takes the New Year sprint.

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Sydney: all six championships complete

The January 12 half-mile and January 13 220 yards are complete. Both retain qualified working dates. No Sunday championship is inferred from the inclusive meeting window. Universal date: January 15, 1900.

All 103 swimming records are event-entry groups, not a distinct-person count or complete career coverage. Times and distances are experimental model outputs.