Barnsley swimmers continued with their run of medals and team spirit this weekend. The City of Sheffield Swim Club Tea Spoon gala is always an exciting event with all swimmers competing in heats and the top 10 getting through to a final, the top 3 receive the traditional Sheffield Steel Tea Spoon. The event was well attended with clubs from across the UK.
This weekend was no exception with 15 Barnsley swimmers attending the event, 9 of whom made it through to 1 or more finals putting BOBSC into 17 of the 50m finals in age groups for all 4 strokes, excitement reigned as the team supported each other in all of the events.
Abigail Miles (11) and Libby Turner (14) were successful in making it through to all 4 finals in their age groups. Libby came away with Silver in Breaststroke and Freestyle with a 4th placing for both Backstroke and Buttterfly, Megan Lee competing in the same age group came 8th in the Breaststroke final. Whilst Abigail who has been selected for this weekends’ North East Regional Training Camp came away with Bronze in Backstroke and Breaststroke with 5th and 7th in Free and Fly respectively. This regional event is run by the England Talent Team a significant achievement with swimmers being selected by the ASA, We wish Abigail every success for the weekend.
Gold was achieved by Thomas Speed in the 15+ age group with a time of 31.03 and competed in the final in Butterfly (6th) and Backstroke (7th).
Success continued in the breaststroke, Lucy Hatfield achieved a Bronze medal with Georgia Lee (5th), Megan Firth (9th), William Kenny (9th) competed in the final of their age groups. Last but not least Jessica Richardson competed in the 50m Butterfly final (9th).
Other swimmers from the day were Jessica Ford, Isabelle Speed, Lucy Bratley, Megan Sharp, Georgia Clark, Robyn Sykes.
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