This weekend saw 4 of our Age Group (11 – 14) swimmers compete in the North East Regional ASA Championship at Ponds Forge on long course, to enter regionals a higher qualification time needs to be gained. The event is swum across 2 weekends and the swimmers will be back in the pool over the bank holiday weekend. The age group is based on the swimmers age on 31st December 2016.
Jessica Richardson (13) was first out in the 100m backstroke achieving a time of 1:16.97 beating her previous PB. Elizabeth Safonkina (14) achieved 8th in qualifying making it through to the final later in the day, a great achievement coming 9th.
Elizabeth later competed in the 50m breaststroke achieving a PB of 38:16. Whilst Jessica competed in the 200m fly on the Sunday, narrowly missing out on a PB with a great swim at 2:49.98.
Curtis Harper (11) who qualified for the regionals at Rotherham gained another PB with 1:19.89 and although was swimming in the 11/12 category came 2nd in his age group.
The last BoBSC event of the weekend was for Harriet Ostrowski-Jones in the 100m breaststroke gaining at time of 1:31.43.
The event continues on 28th & 29th May at Ponds Forge, Sheffield
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