Dolphin youths show their class at Regional Champs

Date: 4th
– 6th May 2007
Location:

Millfield
School


Event: South
West Regional Youth Championships

Swindon
Dolphin swimmers proved their class at the South West Regional Youth Championships
at

Millfield
School

last weekend signing off with 11 medals (5 gold, 2 silver and 4 bronze), 2 Wiltshire
and 6 club records, and a whole host of  new
and improved National Qualifying Times (NQTs). 15 of the 25 competing swimmers were
finalists or finished in the top 8, and several Dolphins returned home less than 1%
outside their NQTs and will head to the
Swansea 2007 Long Course Open Meet at
the weekend looking to shave off those remaining few tenths of a second.

British
100m Breaststroke Champion Chris
Jones came
first in the finals of the men’s 50m & 100m breaststrokes while Tilly
Gray won
the 14/15 year girls’ 100 & 200m butterfly finals breaking the Wiltshire junior
& senior records in the 100m. 

Chief
Coach Andi
Manley secured
gold in the men’s 50m freestyle final with Jones and Mark
Tanner placed
third and sixth behind him.  Jones also
took a silver medal in the men’s 200m brs, Nigel
Masters won
bronze in the men’s 50m Brs and Dan
Rose finished
third in the men’s 200m butterfly final.

Elizabeth
Beckett (14/15
yrs) was in stunning form achieving her first NQTs of the season in the girls’ 100m
& 200m breaststrokes; she won a silver medal in the 200m in a time of 2.45.67,
a club record.  Meanwhile club records
continued to tumble as Mel
Agius (15/16
yrs) added two more NQTs to her collection in the 200m & 400m freestyle events
and Jose
Prunty just
fell short of her 1500m frs NQT coming home in a time of 18.31.10.  

Jon
Audis won
a bronze medal in the 100m backstroke and also reached the finals in the men’s 50m
& 200m backstrokes, the 100m fly and the 200m individual medley.

Other
notable performances included a
4^th & 5^th for Andrea
Alleyne (16
yrs & over) in the finals of the 50m frs and 50m fly for women, while Sam
Wells (15/16
yrs) was 6^th in the men’s finals of the 100m fly, finishing less than a
second outside his NQT, and 5^th in the 200m fly.  Kath
Baker was
well placed in 3 breaststroke finals and there were also NQTs for Audis (2), Gray (2), Jones (3)
and Manley.

Elizabeth Beckett: NQTs in 100m & 200m Brs

Results: 

ResultsRegionalYouths.pdf
(24.25 KB)

Source:
Swindon
Dolphin Press Team