Saturday 13 December 2014

Barnsley MInors Individual Gala 1 November 2014

37 Swimmers took part in the Barnsley Minors League Individual Gala held at Knottingley on 1 November 2014.

In this short course gala all events are over 50m. The swimmers eligible to enter are drawn from the teams who take part in the four divisions of the Barnsley Minors League. The other clubs taking part this year included Adwick, Chapeltown, Knottingley, Rossington, Rotherham Metro, Scunthorpe Anchor, Sheffield City and City of Wakefield.

Our team won 21 medals and achieved 74 personal best short course times from 124 swims. There were 7 Gold medalists, 7 Silver medalists and 7 Bronze medalists with Elizabeth Safonkina claiming a maximum 4 Gold Medals from her 4 events.

The medalists were:

9 Year Girls

Macy Yoxall: Silver Backstroke; Silver Butterfly

Lola Yoxall: Bronze Breaststroke

10 Year Girls

Isabelle Speed: Bronze Breaststroke

Maddie Barker: Bronze Backstroke

12 Year Girls

Elizabeth Safonkina: Gold Freestyle; Gold Backstroke; Gold Breaststroke; Gold Butterfly

Ella Waller: Silver Backstroke; Bronze Butterfly

13 Year Girls

Georgia Hamblett: Bronze Breaststroke

14 Year Girls

Lauren Heywood: Silver Backstroke

9 Year Boys

Jacob Nurcombe: Gold Breaststroke; Bronze Freestyle

11 Year Boys

Matthew Selous: Gold Backstroke

Sam Charlesworth: Gold Breaststroke; Silver Backstroke

14 Year Boys

Thomas Stather: Silver Breaststroke

15 Year Boys

Jonathan Yeates: Silver Breaststroke; Bronze Butterfly

Others taking part included:

Lucy Hamblett, Phoebe Wells, Freya Waller, Lucy Redfern, Neve Wilkie, Imogen Hickling, Lauren Sharp, Evie Gregory, Lucy Greatorex, Megan Firth, Lucy Gray, Lucy Hatfield, Emily Yeates, Georgia Clarke, Alanna Sidebottom, Charlotte Savage, Alexandra Nicholson, Daniel Miles, Jonathon Wightman, Kalum Smart, Isaac Wall, Jake Wall, Reece Tate and Elliot Robinson.

There are too many personal best times to list individual swimmers. However everyone should be greatly encouraged by the improvements shown in their personal best times.

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