County Champs 2015
22 Mar 2015
Four swimmers from Pershore tackled the long distance events at the last weekend of the Worcester County Swimming Championships held at Redditch, coming away with three gold medals and one silver medal as well as producing massive personal bests. These latest medals increased Pershore’s total medal haul to 78 in age-group categories, with a staggering 37 gold medals, 23 silver medals and 18 bronze medals.
In the 1500m freestyle, Alexandra Barry added to her collection of gold medals in the girl’s 11 year old age group, with an impressive performance at her first competitive attempt at the distance. Barry produced a well-paced and controlled swim to take gold in 20.18.38 which was a personal best by 2 minutes 50 seconds.
Team mates Will Gearey and Simon Sweatman again battled it out in the boy’s
12 year old age group, with both swimmers digging deep and producing strong
swims. Gearey eventually took the title
after a very close race, taking the gold medal in 18:46.18 which was a 1 min 30
sec PB and also another Midland Qualifying Time. Sweatman also swam well, clocking 19:08.41 for
the silver medal and producing a massive 40 second personal best.
In the 800m freestyle, Isobel Cumming was the sole entry in the girl’s event
for Pershore. Cumming also did well with
a 14 second PB, coming sixth in the 12 year old age group with a time of 11:04.81. Gearey added a second gold medal, winning the
boy’s 12 year old 800m free in 9:53.85 and a huge 1 min 40 second PB.
Pershore coach, Ian Cumming, commented: "Big PBs in these events come as a result of hard training over many
months and from demonstrating total commitment to the sport. Today's performances in the distance events,
and those over the last two weekends in the other distances in the County
Championship were nothing short of amazing and make me really proud to be associated
with the fantastic swimmers from Pershore Swimming Club".
2015 Age-Group County Champions:-
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Megan Annis (11) – 100m IM, 100m back, 50m fly, 50m free, 50m breaststroke, 100m fly, 200m back, 100m breaststroke
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Alexandra Barry (11) – 400m free, 200m IM, 400m IM, 1500m free
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Patrick Heeks (11) – 50m back, 100m back, 100m fly, 200m back, 200m fly
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Will Gearey (12) – 50m breaststroke, 100m breaststroke, 200m breaststroke, 100m IM, 200m IM, 200m fly, 100m free, 800m free, 1500 free
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Simon Sweatman (12) – 50m back, 100m back, 200m back, 50m free, 200m free, 400m free
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Jasmine Taite (14) – 100m IM, 50m free