Lincoln Vulcans Level 2 meet 17th November

Following on from a great result at the Yorkshire Championships, some of our swimmers returned to Ponds Forge again this weekend to compete in the Lincoln Vulcans short course Level 2 meet.

Building on the previous 2 weeks, 13 swimmers competed in 34 of the events coming away with a number of medals on the day.

In the Girls 100m Breaststroke Abigail Miles achieved Gold with a 1:23:23 and Macy Yoxall 4^th.  In the 200m Butterfly Jessica Richardson came away with the 2^nd Gold of the day whislt Corinne Hill (16) achieved Silver in her age group.

Results for the youngsters continued with Macy Yoxall (9) attaining Bronze in the 400m Freestyle with a 5:46:11. With Lola Yoxall (9) gaining Silver in the 200m Free.

For the boys Lewis Baker (11) won Silver in the 200IM 2:47:18, Bronze100m Breaststroke and in the 100m Fly gained the Silver, whilst Greg Lugton (14) achived Bronze in the 100m Butterfly.

Abigail Miles hard work continued to pay off with a Silver in the 50m Free and Gold in the 200m Breaststroke.  This latter race also saw Georgia Lee (9) achieve Silver 3 and Harriet Ostrowski Jones Gold, after earlier in the day receiving a 4^th place in 100m backstroke.

Other swimmers on the day were Alanah Hill, Corrine Hill, Megan Lee, Lucy Hatfield, Ella Waller.

 

BOBSC report 11 October 2015 - Yorkshire Championships

 

Last weekend saw BOBSC return to Ponds Forge but this time for the Yorkshire Championships, with 33 of our swimmers competing that had achieved the qualifying times across all age ranges.

 

The team had a very successful meet competing in a total of 96 swims and achieved 55 personal best times which has also led to a number of our 11 years and older swimmers achieving the North East Regional times for the competition at the end of November.  Although the qualifying times related to recent swims, some of these personal bests were up to 8 seconds off previous times.

 

With a number of top 10 finishes across age groups, Carly Herbert Head Coach said ‘Well done to all our swimmers from the weekend, you have done the club proud with the strong performances’. 

 

Medalists from the weekend, Megan Sharp (9) who achieved 4 medals from her 5 swims, with Silver in 50m Fly in a fantastic 39.97 seconds, Bronze in 100m Individual Medlay, 50m Freestyle and 50m Backstroke.

 

Abigail Miles (11), who broke a number of her personal bests achieved Bronze medal in the 100m Breaststroke in a time of 1:23.63, and 4^th in the 100m Backstroke.

 

Finally, Curtis Harper (10) was awarded Gold in the 100m Backstroke with 1:23.04 through a very exciting race seeing the top 4 with a time spread of just 1.5 seconds.

 

Other competitors who entered the gala and contributed to a fantastic weekend of personal and club achievements were Lewis Baker, Jasmine Ball, Sam Charlesworth, Kloe Eade, Lucy Greatorex, Georgia Hamblett, Milly Hamby, Lucy Hatfield, Corinne Hill, Alanah Hill, Georgia Lee, Gregory Lugton, Finley McNicholas, Phoebe McNicholas, Daniel Miles, Holly Milnes, Emily Norton, Harriet Ostrowski-Jones, Jessica Richardson, Elliot Robinson, Elizabeth Safonika, Thomas Speed, Alexander Tikhonov, Libby Turner, Eleanor Valentine-Bull, Ella Waller, Neve Wilkie, Anya Yates, Lola Yoxall, Macy Yoxall.

 

BOBSC Report 6.10.15 Robin Hood & Club Champs

 

 

After a weeks break, BOBSC were back in action this week with round 2 of the club championship on Friday night, with 15 of the club records being broken, some of these have been held for in excess of 15 years.  The following swimmers are the new club record holders Abigail Miles (11) 100m Backstroke, 100m Freestyle and  100m Breaststroke, Lewis Baker (11) 100m Backstroke, Thomas Speed (15/16) 100m Backstroke & 100m Breaststroke, Megan Sharp (9) and Lola Yoxhall (10) 50m Butterfly & 50m Freestyle in their respective age groups, Libby Turner (14) 100m Breaststroke & 100m Butterfly, Alexander Tikhonov (10) 100m Breaststroke, Kalum Smart (11) 50m Butterfly, Gregory Lugton (14) 100m Butterfly and Curtis Harper (10) 50m Freestyle.

 

Saturday and Sunday saw the squad back at Ponds Forge for the Robin Hood Open Meet competing across 50m, 100m, 200m and 400m distances with teams far and wide from the UK attending. 

 

Lewis Baker was 2^nd in the top boy rankings after achieving a medal in each of his 12 events, Gold in 50m Backstroke,100m Breaststroke, 200m Breaststroke, 200m IM.  Silver in 50m Freestyle, 50m Breaststroke, 50m Butterfly, 100m Butterfly, 200m Butterfly and 3 Bronze in 100m Backstroke, 100m Freestyle, 200m Freestyle,

 

Libby Turner continued the winning streak with 6 medals from her 9 races, Gold in 100m Individual Medlay, Silver in 50m, 100 and 200m Freestyle and a Bronze in 50m Breaststroke, achieving 4ths in both 50m Backstroke and butterfly.

 

Abigail Miles returned from her North East training camp to achieve a Silver in 200m Breaststroke and 50m Freestyle.

 

A further silver was achieved by Holly Milnes in 50m Freestyle and Jessica Richardson picked up 2 Bronze medals in 400m Freestyle and 200m Butterfly.

 

A successful meet was had by all with 37 personal bests achieved outside of the medals won by the team which also comprised of Curtis Harper, Georgia Clarke, Georgia Hamblett, Gregory Lugton, Harriett Ostrowski-Jones, Holly Northam, Kalum Smart, Lucy Bratley, Lucy Greatorex, Lucy Hatfield, Lucy Redfern, Maea Hamby, Megan Lee, Millie Hamby, Nathan Billingham, Neve Wilkie and Roman Wallace.

 

The Olympic trial qualifying times were also released this weekend and BOBSC is pleased to announce that we already have Tom Speed in the line up next April with the time for the 100m Breaststroke.