City Of Sheffield Swim Squad Premier Open Meet 25, 26, 27 March

Borough of Barnsley Swim Club

City Of Sheffield Swim Squad Premier Open Meet 25, 26, 27 March

 

Easter weekend saw Barnsley swimming in the Level 1 meet at City of Sheffield with clubs from far and wide across the country competing.  Qualifying times were high and 8 of our swimmers were in the mix.   Finals were based on 14 / under and 15/ over with other age groups having heat declared winners.

 

Friday night was distance night and saw Lewis Baker (11) swim the 1500m freestyle finishing in a time of 19:53:77 coming home with the Bronze medal.

 

Saturday was another exciting day with Lewis Baker achieving his second bronze in his age group for 100m back.  Whilst Tom Speed now competing in the open age group finalled in the 50m Breaststroke.

 

Libby Turner (14), who had achieved times for a wide variety of races, came 6^th in the 200m IM heats making the final and 7^th in the 100m Butterfly in her age group.

 

Lewis continued his run of success into Saturday afternoon with a 4^th place in the 100m freestyle, and on Sunday morning gained the gold medal in the 200m freestyle and silver in the 200m backstroke and 100m Breaststroke.

Thomas Speed meanwhile finished 10^th in his age category for the 100m breaststroke.

 

In the 5^th and final session of the weekend, Lewis Baker was out again with a bronze in the 200 IM, Greg Lugton achieved 9^th in his age group for the 100m Butterfly.  Whilst Libby Turner narrowly missed out in the final of the 100m freestyle.

 

Lewis concluded his weekend with the last race of the session, the 400m freestyle coming home with a final Bronze and a PB of 5:07:03 for the event.

 

Other swimmers for the weekend were Lucy Hatfield, Holly Milnes, Elizabethe Safonkina and Emma Smith.