Follow every swim.Catch every record.
Results Runner Live is SwimmingSA's live results site. Open it on your phone at a meet, or from home, to see results soon after they're posted, when your swimmer is on next, and the meet guide.
You don't need to download anything or sign in.
What's in it
The site has five tabs. These are the real screens, with made-up swimmers in them.
Today
The first screen you see. It changes through the session.
- Messages from the meet desk sit at the top: a session running late, the car park filling up, a change to the program.
- If the session is being streamed, there's a link to watch it.
- Record on the line shows a final coming up tonight where the fastest qualifier is close to the record, with both times.
- Below that is the result of the final that has just been swum.
- When the session ends, it shows how many events and swims there were, and any records.
Events
The program for each session, and the results as they're posted.
- Events are listed by session. The one in the water is marked Live, and events still to come have an estimated start time.
- Open a final to see the podium and the full list of places and times. If the event covers more than one age group, switch between them at the top.
- Under the podium is the winning margin. At each wall opens the splits.
- An event that hasn't been swum yet shows who's entered, fastest first.
- The search box finds any swimmer or club at the meet.
Mine
Follow the swimmers you're there for and they're all on one screen.
- Search for a swimmer by name, or follow a whole club.
- Your list is saved on your phone, so you don't need an account.
- For each swimmer you'll see their next swim and roughly when it's on, then the result once it's in.
- You can add their swims to your phone's calendar.
Records
Records broken at the meet, and the finals where one could go.
- A record is listed with who swam it, the time, and the time it replaced.
- On the line tonight lists the finals where a record is within reach and what time they're on.
- The Clubs view has club points and each club's medals.
Guide
The practical information for the meet. SwimmingSA writes it for each one.
- Session times: when doors open, when warm-up ends, when racing starts and about when it finishes.
- A venue map, how to get there and what to know before you go.
- Food and the shop, the rules on photography, and the families and safety page.
- New to swim meets? explains heats and finals, seed times, and what DQ, PB and QT mean.
- A link to SwimmingSA's WhatsApp channel for the meet.
Their swim, ready to send to Nan
Open one of your swimmer's swims and tap Share. It makes a picture you can send the way you'd send any photo.
- There are two designs, a medal keepsake and a card in SwimmingSA colours.
- It shows the name, event and time. The club and the place are off until you switch them on.
- All their meets lists a swimmer's fastest swims across every meet on the site.
How records work on the site
Every swim is checked against the South Australian record tables as the results come in. A record only appears on the site after a records officer has ratified it.
- On the lineBefore a final, Today shows the record next to the fastest qualifier's time.
- SwumThe result is posted and the swim is checked against every record it could break.
- RatifiedA records officer looks at the swim and confirms it. This can take a while.
- On the siteThe record is listed under Records and marked on the result, with the time it replaced.
The five kinds of South Australian record
| Record | Who can set it | Where |
|---|---|---|
| South Australian record | A member of a South Australian club | Any meet, anywhere |
| Allcomers record | Any registered swimmer, visitors included | A meet held in South Australia |
| Country record | A member of an SA country club | Any meet, anywhere |
| Country Championships record | Anyone racing at the SA Country Championships | That meet |
| Multi-class record | An SA club member with a classification | Any meet, any event |
Each kind is kept by age group, stroke and distance, with separate tables for long course and short course, so one swim can break more than one record.
On an iPad or a computer, and in dark mode
On a bigger screen the program sits next to the result you've opened. It uses dark mode if your device does.
Which meets are on it
SwimmingSA's own meets
These get everything on this page. The guide can go up before the meet starts, ahead of the results.
Other meets South Australians swim at
For a meet SwimmingSA follows but doesn't run, such as a national championship, the site has the results and records.
More than one at a time
If two meets are on at once, both are on the site and you can switch between them.
Past meets
A meet stays up after it finishes. You can look up a swimmer across all of them.
The meet crew uses it too
results runner is the software on the records desk at the pool. It reads the results, checks them for records and sends them to the site. The announcer and the medals table work from it as well.
- Records desk
- Checks every swim against the record tables. A records officer signs off each record.
- Announcer
- Gets each record and medal presentation written out to read.
- Medal ceremonies
- Presentations are set up from the official places.
- Callroom
- Shows who's due behind the blocks next.
- Updates and the Guide
- The messages on Today and the Guide pages are typed in at the desk.
- Certificates
- A ratified record gets a certificate.
- Trophies and pointscores
- Club pointscores and the perpetual trophies come from the same results.
Good to know
- Do I need an app or an account?
- No. It opens in your phone's browser. You can add it to your home screen if you want it to open like an app. The swimmers you follow are saved on your phone, so there's no sign-in.
- How current are the results?
- Results go up as soon as results runner reads them from the meet's official results, which happens every few minutes. Start times for events still to come are estimates and will move if the session runs late.
- When does a record show up?
- After a records officer has ratified it. A fast swim isn't called a record on the site until then.
- What is not shown?
- Dates of birth, registration numbers, and the reason for a disqualification (you'll see the code only).
- Can a swimmer's name be kept off the site?
- Yes. SwimmingSA can withhold a name. The time stays in the results so the places still add up, but the swimmer isn't named and won't come up in search.
- Why is a first name sometimes cut short?
- The official results pages cut long names off. Where SwimmingSA has the full name, the site uses it.
Interested in what's under the hood? There's a page on where the results come from and how a swim gets checked for a record, with a bit of background. Read how it works