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.

 

Yorkshire Champs Final Weekend - an exciting conclusion

 

The end of February saw the last of the Yorkshire Championships held this time at Ponds Forge with the Sprints for 14 and under on Saturday and the same for 15 and over Sunday, alongside the team relays for both Individual Medley and Freestyle.

 

Although the last gala for many swimmers was only 4 weeks ago, a remarkable 33 personal bests were achieved across 53 swims, and 10 swimmers achieving finals on the day.

 

Abigail Miles was successful in finalling for the 50m freestyle and Breaststroke, achieving the silver medal in breaststroke success was continued in the afternoon with the Bronze in 50m backstroke.  Also making the 50m Backstroke final was Elizabeth Safonkina who finished 5^th.

 

Continuing success in the backstroke, Curtis Harper gained a bronze medal in the 50m event, and also the silver for the 50m freestyle event in the afternoon.

 

In the Girls 50m Breaststroke, Georgia Lee qualifying 3^rd achieved 7^th in the final of this event.  Whilst in the boys breaststroke event, the club achieved more medals with Alexander Tikhonov (11) came away with the Bronze and Lewis Baker (12) the Silver.  Lewis also continued his good run for the whole Yorkshire Championships with a 5^th in the final of the 50m Freestyle.

 

 

The final day of the Championships saw a continued level of personal bests amongst the >15 year swimmers.  

 

The session started with the Girls Backstroke with Libby Turner (15) achieving the final, her first of 4 finals in the day with qualification in all 4 strokes. 

 

Thomas Speed (16) qualifying for the 50m Breaststroke in 4^th place, ultimately achieving Bronze in the event.   In the Mens 50m Freestyle Gregory Lugton narrowly missed out on the last place in the final.   Gregory moved onto the afternoon with a good qualifying time in the Mens 50m butterfly, entering the final in 6^th place and finishing in the same place.

 

With 3 finals guaranteed for the afternoon session, the team events started with 2 exciting heats in the womens 9/10 Medley, Barnsley qualifying 4^th,   the team of Jasmine Ball, Kloe Eade, Megan Sharp and Eleanor Valentine-Bull, then went on to do the same in the 9/10 Freestyle relay.

 

The Mens 11/12 team then followed, qualifying 6^th for the 200m freestlye relay, with the Womens 17yr over 200m Medley team narrowly missing out by 0.5seconds in that event final.   The boys then guaranteed their second final qualifying in 9^th for the 200m medley.

 

Despite delays caused by timing issues, and increased tension the girls held it together achieving 4^th position in both their events, being just 0.19 seconds behind Bronze medal in the 200 freestyle.  The Mens team comprising of Lewis Baker, Curtis Harper, Kalum Smart, Myles Tupman and Roman Wallace had an equally exciting 200m Freestlye relay Final coming home in 5^th place, followed by 6^th for the 200m medley relay.

 

Other swimmers for individual and relay events were Jessica Richardson, Eleanor Valentine-Bull, Megan Sharp, Maea Hamby, Kloe Eade, Megan Firth, Harriet Ostrowski-Jones, Lucy Greatorex, Millie Hamby, Jasmine Ball, Lucy Redfern, Sam Charlesworth, Daniel Miles, Kalum Smart, Roman Wallace, Corinne Hill, Alanah Hill, Emma Smith, Libby Turner, Nathan Billingham, Thomas Stather, Elliot Robinson, Thomas Speed, Georgia Hamblett, Ella Waller, Holly Milnes, Gregory Lugton, Holly Mawby, Megan Lee, Lucy Hatfield