Event: ASA
National Masters and Senior Age Group Championships (25m)
Venue: Ponds
Forge,
Date: 26-28
October 2007
Andi Manley – World Record (30-34 yrs) 100 frs
Swindon
Dolphin’s
Andi
Manley and Chris
Jones set new world records at the 2007 short
course ASA National Masters and Senior Age Group Championships over the weekend. Manley won
the 100m freestyle gold in the 30-34 year age group in a world record time of 50.24,
while Commonwealth medallist, Jones (25-29
years), touched home 20 seconds clear of his nearest rivals in the 200m breaststroke
in a world record breaking time of 2.14.44.
Manley went
on to smash the european record in the 200m freestyle and the british record in the
100m Butterfly, while the 72 year+ mixed 4 x 50m medley relay foursome of Jon
Audis, Jones, Kath
Baker and Louise
Maynard also set a british record.
Chris Jones – World Record (25-29 yrs) 200m brs
Records
continued to tumble in the relay events with Audis, Jones, Manley and Nigel
Masters setting a european record in the men’s 100
year+ 4 x 50m medley, and a british record in the men’s 100 year+ 4 x 50m freestyle. Andrea
Alleyne, Maynard, Katherine
Bowe and Baker also took
a british record in the women’s 72 year+ 200m medley relay.
The
event, held at Ponds Forge Arena in
, saw the 21 strong Dolphin team put
on an incredible display
in the pool and return to their
base with a memorable haul of 21 gold, 6 Silver and 10 bronze medals.
Dolphin
Chief Coach, Manley,
lead the way from the outset and brought his tally of individual gold medals
to 5 with further victories in the 50m breaststroke and 50m freestyle.
Jon
Audis had
a tremendous campaign taking gold in the 50m, 100m and 200m backstrokes, & 100m
Individual Medley (IM) in the 25-29 year age group. There
were also individual successes for Nigel
Masters (35-39 years) in the 50m, 100m and 200m breaststrokes, Jones in
the 400m freestyle, Paul
Kirk (35-39 years) in the 200m IM and for Anthony
Clark who won the 50m breaststroke.
Not
to outdone by the men, Alleyne, Maynard and Baker (all
18–24 years), won silver medals for the women. Sarah
Lock secured 2 third places in the 35-39 year age group.
Anthony Clark – Gold (40-44 yrs) 50m brs
Clark
(40-44
years) was in awesome form over the 3 days of competition, setting personal best times
on his way to amassing a
complete set of gold, silver and bronze medals in the 50m, 200m and 100m breaststrokes
respectively.
There
was also a noteworthy second place for John
Drake (30-34 years) in the 200m butterfly and Michael
Eaton (30-34 years) added a bronze medal to the Dolphin
collection in the 100m backstroke.
The
other outstanding performances of the weekend saw Claire
Hayes (25-29 years) achieving a significant personal
best in the 100m freestyle and Dolphin storming
to victory in the 72 year+ mixed open relay.
Medal
Summary:
Gold:
Andi
Manley
(30-34 yrs) – 100 frs (WR), 200 frs (ER), 100 fly, (BR), 50 brs, 50m frs
Jon
Audis (25-29 yrs) – 50 bk, 100 bk, 200 bk, 100 IM (CR)
Chris
Jones (25-29 yrs) – 200 brs (WR), 400 frs (CR)
Nigel
Masters (35-39 yrs) – 50 brs, 100 brs, 200 brs
Paul
Kirk (35-39 yrs) – 200 IM
Anthony
Clark (40-44 yrs) – 50 brs
72
yr+ 4X50m frs Mixed Relay Team
72
yr+ 4X50m Medley Mixed Relay Team (ER)
100
yr+ 4X50m Men’s frs Relay Team (BR)
100
yr+ 4X50m Men’s Medley Relay Team (BR)
72
yr+ 4X50m Women’s Medley Relay Team (BR)
Silver:
Anthony
Clark (40-44 yrs) – 200 brs
Kath
Baker (18-24 yrs) – 100 brs
Andrea
Alleyne (18-24 yrs) – 100 IM
Chris
Jones (25-29 yrs) – 400 frs (CR)
Louise
Maynard (18-24 yrs) – 50 brs
John
Drake (30-34 yrs) – 200 fly
Bronze:
Sarah
Lock (35-39 yrs) – 100 bk, 200 bk
John
Drake (30-34 yrs) – 50 fly
Anthony
Clark (40-44 yrs) – 100 brs
Nigel
Masters (35-39 yrs) – 100 IM
Louise
Maynard (18-24 yrs) – 100 brs
Micheal
Eaton (30-34 yrs) – 100 bk
Paul
Kirk (35-39 yrs) – 200 fly
Andrea
Alleyne (18-24 yrs) – 50m frs
72
yr+ 4X50m Women’s frs Relay Team
CR
= Club Record, BR = British Record, ER = European Record,
WR
= World Record
Source:
Dolphin Press Team
