Tuesday 12 January 2016

Christmas sprint 9th December 2015

BoBSC Christmas Sprint 9th December 2015

 

This weekend was the highlight of our season with the annual Borough of Barnsley Swim Club Christmas Sprint at Ponds Forge with over 350 swimmers competing from 20 clubs.  Events were swum long course with all strokes at 50m and 100m alongside 200IM.

The gala awarded top club and top girl and boy in all age groups, the squad had a fantastic day coming away with many of the top girl and boy trophies within our 50+ swimmers competing.

 

First race of the day was the Girls 200IM, bringing in Gold for Jessica Richardson (12), Silver for Megan Sharp (9), Macy Yoxall (10), Elizabeth Safonkina (13) and Corinne Hill (15+).

The 100m backstroke saw our squad achieve Gold for Greg Lugton (14), Jessica Richardson and Elizabeth Safokina.  Macy Yoxall continued her good run with Silver, whilst Bronze was awarded to r Alexander Tikhonov (10). 

Megan Sharp continued her medal run with Gold in the 100m Butterfly, Silvers being achieved in the same event by Macy Yoxall, Elizabeth Safonkina and Jess Richardson.

In the 100m breaststroke, Finlay McNicholas (9) and Roman Wallace (11) came home with the Silver.  , Sam Charlesworth (12) achieved bronze in his age group.

Alexander Tikhonov added to his medals with a Gold in both the 100m breaststroke and 50m fly, Greg Lugton also gaining further Golds in the 50m Fly and 50 Freestyle.

The 50m Breaststroke saw Megan Firth (12) achieve Gold, Elizabeth Safokina Silver,  whilst Jazmine Ball (9), Macy Yoxall and Phoebe Mcnicholas achieved Bronze.

In the last event 50m Freestyle before lunch Curtis Harper (10) came away with a speeding ticket in a great 33.59 and Alexander Tikihonov continue the medal spree with a Bronze.  Elizabeth Safokina & Georgia Hamblett (14) achieved gold with Megan Sharp adding to her medals with a bronze, with sisters Macy & Lola Yoxall (10) both gaining speeding tickets in the event.

 

The first event of the afternoon was the boys 200m IM seeing Curtis Harper obtaining the Silver.

Moving into the backstroke, Macy Yoxall gained another Gold in the 10 year group whilst Megan Sharp attained Silver as did Jessica Richardson, Harriett Ostrowski-Jones (12) gaining Bronze.

In the boys 50 Breaststroke, Roman Wallace achieved Silver and Sam Charlesworth & Nathan Billingham (14) Bronze.

The girls 50m fly was a great success with gold for Megan Sharp, Macy Yoxall, Jesssica Richardson and Elizabeth Safokina  with Lola Yoxall gaining the silver and Georgia Hamblett the Bronze in their respective age groups.

The Girls 100m Breaststroke saw twins Macy and Lola come home with Silver and Bronze respectively adding to their great day, Lucy Hatfield (13) and Megan Firth achieved Gold with Elizabeth Safokina & Corinne Hill (15) also getting a silver.

100m Fly was Gold for the boys also with Alexander Tikhonov achieving first, accompanied by Lewis Baker (11) and Greg Lugton (14).

To round off her day Megan Sharp gained the Silver in 100m Freestyle, with Georgia Lee (10) gaining bronze.  In the 12 year age group Jess Richardson and Lucy Greatorex came away with Gold and Silver respectively. Whilst Elizabeth Safokina achieved Silver and Georgia Hamblett Bronze in their respective age groups.  For the boys in the same event Greg Lugton achieved another Gold.

The club came away top age group awards for Megan Sharp (9), Macy Yoxall (10), Jessica Richardson (12) Elizabeth Safokina (13), Alexander Tikhonov (10), a fantastic end to inter club competitions in 2015.

 

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