Pershore S.C. at 3rd County Weekend
11 Mar 2011
In the third weekend of the
On the Saturday sixteen pbs were set with the boys entering the water first in the 100m Individual Medley (IM) with 10 year old Tyler McLean immediately setting about qualifying for the evening finals with a new pb and the 3rd fastest heat time of 1.24.38 with McLean turning this into a Gold medal in a fingertip finish with an even quicker time of 1.23.97 and climbing to 4th in his end of year UK rankings. Other pbs followed for 11 year olds Joseph Doyle and Drew Jones and also twelve year old Harry Sykes swimming in the 13 year old age group his birthday being before the last day of the Championships.
The girls were led out by Lizzie Vizard (12) in the 200m breaststroke recording her 1st pb of the weekend with 3.19.51, following this with 38.81 in the 50m backstroke, where Alison Seward recorded 38.68, whilst Tazmin Pugh (11) swam a pb with 34.38 climbing to 1st in the UK rankings and going on to win the finals and presented with her 3rd Gold medal of the Championships. Pugh's time was a new Competition best performance for an 11 year old.
All four boys set pbs once again in the 200m freestyle and were joined by Jack Betteridge also recording his 1st pb of the meet. For the 100m butterfly Pugh qualified for the finals in 3rd place but improved this when swimming to a new pb of 1.17.03 and a silver medal (1st in
On the second day Seward and Vizard began by once again setting two of the 17 pbs about to come from club members in the 100m IM with Pugh going on to qualify for the finals in a lowly 7th place but again making a superb comeback with a time of 1.17.81 and a silver medal in the evening finals (3rd UK rankings) . For the boys McLean not only set a 6 sec pb but secured his second Gold medal of the weekend in the 200m breaststroke in 3.09.87 (1st UK rankings) with Sykes coming in 5th. In the 100m backstroke Seward and Pugh again set pbs with Pugh going through to the finals in 1st place but even though recording an even better pb of 1.17.77 had to settle for the silver medal again in a closely fought contest with Caitlin Britt from Redditch and City of Birmingham clubs setting a new Championship best Record for 11 yr olds. This leaves Pugh once again ranked 1st in
Pugh won a silver medal in the 200m freestyle in a new pb time of 2.24.50 creeping ever nearer to within 4 secs of the National time. Pugh's ninth medal of the Championships came in the final of the 50m fly coming in to an agonising 3rd place with less than two tenths of a second separating the top three medal positions.