BoBSC returned to Ponds Forge on St Georges day for the Stocksbridge Pentaqua gala, competing sprints over the long course pool. It was fantastic to see a number of new competitors with us for the weekend with the team taking part in 168 individual swims, and alongside new times achieved 101 personal bests, many of the swimmers improving on times achieved only 3 weeks ago.
The squad started the day well in the 100m backstroke with top 10 finishes coming from Megan Sharp (10), Georgia Lee (10), Harriet Ostrowski-Jones (12) and Jessica Richardson (13), and this success continued into the second event with Lewis Baker (11) achieving his first of 9 medals with a silver in the boys 50m Backstroke.
In the girls 50m Breaststroke, Kloe Eade, Bronze (9) received her first medal of the day, whilst Jasmine Ball came 5th in the same age group, in the 10 year group Georgia Lee came away with her first Gold of the day with the second being in the 100m Breaststroke.
Megan Firth (13) and Lucy Hatfield (14) both won Bronze in the 50m Breaststroke for their respective age groups with Harriet and Jessica again achieving top 10 positions. Lucy later narrowly missed out on 3rd in the 100m breaststroke.
In the boys 100m Breastroke Lewis came in 2nd and Myles Tupman achieving 4th in the same age group, whilst Roman Wallace (12) gaining Bronze and Matthew Selous achieving 4th whilst Nathan Billingham achieved top 10 placing.
In the 100m Fly Megan Sharp gained her first of four medals with a Gold, showing strength in the stroke there were a number of other top 10 finishers, including Georgia Clarke and Ella Waller both 14, and Jessica Richardson narrowly missing a medal by 0.28s.
The girls 50m Freestyle saw Kloe (9) gain her first gold of the event whilst we also had a number of top 10 finishers including Megan Sharp and Georgia Lee in the 10 year group and Megan Firth (13).
Lewis’ medal success continued throughout the morning and into the afternoon with 3 golds in 100m freestyle, 100m backstroke and 50m breaststroke. The 50m breaststroke also saw Myles, Roman and Matthew finishing just outside the top 3 and Thomas Stather (16) in the top 10.
In the 50 butterfly Lewis gained the first of his 3 silvers, whilst Nathan Billingham came in top 10.
Just before lunch Megan Sharp achieved Bronze in the 200 individual medley with Jessica Richardson again gaining a close 4th place.
The afternoon saw some great personal bests with many swimmers achieving the current Yorkshire times.
In the first event Lewis gained his second silver in 200m IM with the other being 50m freestyle and a Bronze in 100m Butterfly, giving him joint 2nd top boy for the day also.
Megan Sharp added to her medals with a Bronze in 100m freestyle, with top 10 finishes for Kloe Eade & Jasmine Ball (9) and Eleanor Valentine-Bull (10).
Jasmine Ball gained Bronze in the 100m breaststroke along with the aforementioned Gold for Georgia Lee, Harriett Ostrowski-Jones and Jessica Ford (12) were both strong finishers in the top 10 as were Megan Firth, Georgia Clarke and Ella Waller.
In the 50m Fly, Kloe Eade (9) flew to Gold, and in the 10 year category Megan achieved bronze.
Other swimmers achieving top 10, personal bests or their first events were Neve Booth, Lucy Bratley, Ella Gibbs, Amy Guettat, Megan Lee, Lucy Redfern, Robyn Sykes, Lucy Wainwright, Lucy Wightman, Hannah Wilkie, Imogen Wolff, Olivia Wolff, Nathan Billingham, Alfie Firth, Sam Guettat, Cody Ingram, Kalum Smart, Jonathon Wrightman.
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