Eleven swimmers from the Borough of Barnsley Swimming Club competed in the City of Leeds SC October Level 2 short course Meet held at the John Charles Centre for Sport on 25 and 26th October 2014.
Reaching the start list was an achievement in itself as the meet was over-subscribed and over 1,200 swims were rejected.
The swimmers again demonstrated their continuing improvement and achieved a further 23 personal best times.
The 9 and 10 year old swimmers were awarded medals on a heat declared basis whilst the 11 year and upward swimmers swam in heats with the top ten in age categories 11/12, 13/14 and 15 and over swimming again in the finals.
Alexander Tikhonov (9 years) won gold medals in the 200m breaststroke and 200m IM and a silver medal in the 100m backstroke. Georgia Lee (9 years) also won bronze medal in 50m breaststroke.
In the 13/14 age group Libby Turner (13) reached the finals of the 100m backstroke finishing 5th, the 200m IM finishing 7th, and the final of the 200m breaststroke.
In the 15 and over category Thomas Speed reached the final of the 50m breaststroke finishing 9th. At 15 he was by far the youngest in a final that was dominated by swimmers from Loughborough University.
New short course personal best times were achieved by:
Alex Tikhonov 100m free, 50m back, 100m back, 200m breast, 200m IM
Ben Nutt 50m fly
Greg Lugton 200m free
Tom Speed 50m breast
Elizabeth Safonkina 200m free, 200m breast, 50m breast, 100m back, 100m breast, 100m fly
Georgia Lee 50m breast, 100m breast
Harriet Ostrowski-Jones 100m free, 100m breast
Jessica Richardson 100m fly, 200m back
Libby Turner 50m back, 100m back
Phoebe McNicholas 200m breast
This was an extremely tough meet and the sessions were long with swimmers racing up to 7pm in the evening. The swimmers, although tired showed so much determination at this high level meet and swam exceptionally.
Well done to everyone!
Carly Herbert
Head Coach
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