FIVE more Filipino swimmers will attempt to qualify for the Beijing Olympics.

Philippine Amateur Swimming Association president Mark Joseph said that female swimmers Erika Totten, Marichi Gadiongco, Jackie Pangilinan and Denjylie Cordero, and lone male tanker Kendrick Uy will compete in various meets in the US, particularly in the Janet Evans International Meet at the University of South California this June.

The swimming meet is an international event sanctioned by the world swimming body Fina and if the swimmers are able to meet the Olympic standard time, they will go to the Olympics.

“We are keeping our fingers crossed and hope that two more swimmers will make it to the Olympics,” said Joseph.

The swimmers are hoping to join Miguel Molina, Ryan Arabejo, Daniel Coakley, James Walsh, and Christel Simms to the Beijing Olympics in August.

Meanwhile, Fil-British swimmers Charlie Walker and Natasha Brown are slated to compete in the Southeast Asian Age Group Swimming Championships in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand in June.

Walker and Brown, both 17 years old with Filipino mothers, were fresh from their first stint representing the Philippines in the 2008 Fina World Swimming Championship in Manchester, England.

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FIVE more Filipino swimmers will attempt to qualify for the Beijing Olympics.

Philippine Amateur Swimming Association president Mark Joseph said that female swimmers Erika Totten, Marichi Gadiongco, Jackie Pangilinan and Denjylie Cordero, and lone male tanker Kendrick Uy will compete in various meets in the US, particularly in the Janet Evans International Meet at the University of South California this June.

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