Swimming Success in Both the Essex and Suffolk County Swimming Championships

Year 9’s Tahir and Taaliah have recently competed in the Essex County Swimming Championships, while Year 7’s Jesse, Year 8’s George and Year 10’s Jack competed in the Suffolk County Swimming Championships.

Essex County Swimming Championships

Taaliah participated in two events achieving PBs in both. Tahir took part in six events, achieving four Bronze medals in four event finals, including the boys’ U14 relay. Tahir is also proud to have attained a regional time in four events, going through to represent Essex in the East Region Regional Championships which take place in May this year.

Suffolk County Swimming Championships

Following their recent qualification, Year 7’s Jesse, Year 8’s George and Year 10’s Jack took part in the Suffolk County Swimming Championships at Crown Pools.

Jesse swam in seven events, reaching the finals for all of them and achieving Gold in 50m freestyle, 100m butterfly and 100m breastroke, plus clocking PBs in the butterfly. He also achieved Silver in 100m and 200m individual medley, 50m backstroke, 200m backstroke.

George swam in five events, achieving success in 100m individual medley, with a Silver medal in his 13 years age group. Following that up with two Bronze medals in the 50m freestyle and 50m backstroke, clocking PBs in both and going under the 30 second barrier in 50m freestyle! He also reached finals for the 100m breastroke with 4th place and 200 individual medley, coming in 5th place.

Jack swam in two events, in 50m freestyle and 100m butterfly, making finals in both for the 15 years age group. Achieving a fantastic Silver medal and a super PB.

Fantastic achievements for all the swimmers, well done and good luck in the future championships.