Counties Age Group weekend 1 report
16 Jan 2024
A fantastic first weekend of the Wiltshire County Championships for the 10-13 age groups held at the Five Rivers Leisure Centre saw 6 of the Stingrays swimmers crowned as County Champion. The total medal haul of 14 Gold, 20 Silver and 16 Bronze medals was an amazing achievement and there were several swimmers making finals and swimming lifetime best times.
Over the weekend Salisbury had 27 swimmers competing in 145 races. There were 90 Personal Best times and another 25 swims within 1 second of their PB’s. This also included a number of Regional championship qualifying times being achieved.
The Stingrays Gold medallists were:
- Matthew Stanford-Jason (10/11) - 100m IM, 400m FC, 100m BK, 50m FC, 100m FC, and 200m IM
- Sam Auton (10/11) – 50m BK, 50m BR
- Leo Iverson (12) – 200m BR
- Nicholas Grant (12) – 50m BK, 50m Fly, 50m BR
- Jessica Kennedy (12) – 100m BK
- Samuel Stanford-Jason (13) – 200m BR
The Stingrays Silver medallists were:
- Matthew Stanford-Jason (10/11) – 50m BK
- Sam Auton (10/11) – 100m FC
- Otis Fox (10/11) – 50m FC
- Toby Ashbridge (10/11) – 200m BR
- Alfie Mills (10/11) – 50m BR
- Nat Plummer (10/11) – 50m BR, 50m BK, 200m BK
- Freya Gosse (10/11) – 100m BK
- Leo Iverson (12) – 50m BR, 100m IM, 400m FC, 200m IM
- Jessica Kennedy (12) – 50m Fly, 200m IM, 50m BK, 200m BK, 100m IM
- Samuel Stanford-Jason (13) – 100m IM
- Hana Whitfield (13) – 200m Fly
The Stingrays Bronze medallists were:
- Matthew Stanford-Jason (10/11) – 50m Fly
- Otis Fox (10/11) – 50m BR, 100m FC, 50m BK
- Henry Grant (10/11) – 200m BR
- Leo Iverson (12) – 200m Fly
- Nicholas Grant (12) – 400m FC, 50BR, 100m FC, 200m BR
- Jessica Kennedy (12) – 50m FC, 50m BR, 400m FC
- Samuel Stanford-Jason (13) – 50m BR, 200m IM
- Erin Applegate (13) – 400m FC
In some of the events Salisbury filled all the podium places and medals were won in every age group that we had swimmers in which was a fantastic performance. With a slightly less hectic event schedule where our swimmers were competing in finals withing a few minutes of finishing an event I’m sure our swimmers would have won even more medals!
All swimmers performed their warm ups well and they executed their race plans superbly for the various distances. Seeing these put in place throughout the weekend was really pleasing and despite a couple of unfortunate DQ’s the race skills and strategies in general were executed to a really good standard.
Finally, a big thank you to Amanda, Jon and Rahsan as team managers for their hard work in getting the swimmers to their races on time and encouraging them to refuel and rehydrate. Behaviour on poolside was again exemplary through the whole weekend, and the team spirit showed by all swimmers was fantastic. We already looking forward to next weekend and some more brilliant swimming!
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