Barnsley Minors & Yorkshire Champs Week 2

 

Yorkshire Championships 13^th / 14^th February

 

The second week of the Yorkshire Championships saw some more great swimming from the club with 5 medals being picked up by the squad along with further top 10 finishes.

In the Boys 400m Individual Medley, Lewis Baker (12) secured a top 5 finish whilst in the weekend also achieving  Silver in 100m Freestyle and Bronze in the 1500m freestyle, came 4^th in the 200m Breaststroke and competed in the 100m backstroke final.

 

Alexander Tikhonov (11) also achieved a 4^th place in the 200m Breaststroke.

 

Another good week for Curtis Harper with a 6^th place in the 100m freestyle final and after qualifying 2^nd fastest for the 100m Backstroke, finished 6^th in the final.

 

Abigail Miles (12) achieved Bronze in 200m Breaststroke whilst also coming 5 in the 400m individual medley.

 

Megan Sharp (10) achieved Bronze in 200m Butterfly, the only 10 year old in the 10/11 age group

 

Thomas Speed (17) achieved Silver in the 200m breaststroke.

 

Also swam Jessica Richardson, Libby Turner, Gregory Lugton, Corinne Hill, Alanah Hill, Sam Charlesworth, Nathan Billingham, Elliot Robinson, Lucy Greatorex

 

 

Barnsley Minors

 

This week saw the first round of the competition since the promotion to Division 1 last year.  For the minors league each club has a swimmer doing 50m of each stroke by age group and a relay team for both freestyle and individual medlay.    

 

 

It was an exciting weekend with second place being in grasp in the last 5 races, ultimately, Barnsley were 4^th with 109  points, behind Sheffield and Rotherham on 119 / 120 respectively and Adwick coming first with 140 points.

 

Yorkshire Championships Week 1

 

This weekend was the first of 3 for the Yorkshire County Championships, at John Charles Sports Centre Leeds in the long course pool.   To gain opportunity to race the squads have to achieve cut off times across each age group, this year due to the level of entries, a number of our swimmers achieved the times but were unable to complete. 

 

Age groups were based on age at end of year with 10/11 at end of year competing in the same category.

 

Whilst in this first weekend the squad did not achieve any medals in the tough competition there were many personal bests and top 6 places, there was a mixture of heat declared winners and finals across the day.

 

In 100m backstroke Abigail Miles (12) achieved a fantastic 4^th place in the final.

 

Alexander Tikhonov also achieved 4^th in the 10/11 200m Individual Medlay. Whislt Abigail achieved 6^th in the same event.

 

Alexander Tikhonov went on to qualify for the final of the 100 Breaststroke in top spot as did Thomas Speed, but narrowly missed out on a medal within 0:31 seconds splitting the top 4, whilst Lewis Baker (12) achieved the final qualifying 5^th.

 

On the Saturday afternoon placing continued with Curtis Harper achieveing 6^th in the 10/11 400m freestyle, and Lewis Baker coming home in 4^th.

 

In the 400m Freestyle Abigail also achieved a top 6 position with a time of 5:08:85, and Libby Turner qualified for the 200m IM final.

 

Racing continued on Sunday with 9 swimmers competing, Abigail Miles finished 5 in final of the 100m Breaststroke, and Libby Turner (15 AG) competed in the Final of the 100m Fly and came 6^th in the final of the 100m Breastroke.

 

The afternoon session saw Curtis Harper and Alexander Tikhonov come home in 4^th and 5^th respectively for the Boys 200m (10/11)Freestyle, with Lewis Baker (12) achieving a top 6 position in his age category.

 

Also competing were Jessica Richardson, Elizabeth Safonkina,  Corinne Hill, Alanah Hill, Sam Charlesworth, Magan Sharp, Harriet Ostrowski-Jones, Megan Firth, Greg Lugton, Lucy Gretorex.