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Colchester Open Meet 2009 Full results (including top twenty swimmers): Press report Chelmsford also led in the girls' competition with 117 points. Bishop's Stortford's all-girls team amassed 75 points while Harwich (57) narrowly snatched third place from Braintree (56). In the boys' competition, Rochford's 85 point haul beat Brentwood (78) into second place; Chelmsford's boys (55) could only manage third. Colchester boys scored 309 and girls 176. Philippa Davenall of Colchester won all her five races, breaking four records in the process, to win the best girl award. Colchester swimmers Matthew Lemnell (who broke two records) and Tom Vickers (who equalled one record) both scored 28 points out of a maximum 30 so the best boy award was decided on the "tie breaker" and went to Matthew as the youngest swimmer. This really was a year when the records tumbled - including four which had stood for over 10 years! Apart from those mentioned above, Arran Francis, Cameron Simpson and Sargon Youssefi of Colchester all set two records, as did Eleanor McCaffrey of Chelmsford. Ross Davy of Chelmsford and Jim Vickers of Colchester took one each while Ben Neale of Chelmsford equalled one. |
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Open Meet Sponsors 2009 Main Club Sponsor Swimshop supplier Other Sponsors (in alphabetical order):- Aqua Springs
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Colchester Open Meet - Press Report Colchester can be very proud of the swimming performance of its children, of the commitment of the many volunteers who gave their time and local businesses and individuals who that gave their financial support. Colchester Swimming Club fielded 105 swimmers and the 13 visiting swimming clubs brought an additional 219 for an exciting day at its Annual Open Meet at Leisure World on Saturday 23rd May. The event was extremely popular; it was fully subscribed several weeks ago and the gallery was packed with families and friends. The clear winners of the 'Reg Baines Cup' for the top scoring visiting club were Chelmsford with 172 points followed by Rochford with 128 and Brentwood with123. Bishops Stortford (75) narrowly claimed fourth from Harwich (74) and Braintree(62). Everyone was treated to some spectacular swimming, 16 records were broken, 14 by Colchester Club swimmers, including 4 which had stood for over 10 years. At the end of the day the 'Best Girl Cup' was awarded to Colchester's 10-year-old Philippa Davenall, who had won all 5 of her races breaking records in 4 of them. Colchester's 12-year-old, Matthew Lemnell and 14-year-old Tom Vickers, closely competed for the 'Best Boy Cup'. They achieved equal scores, Matthew breaking 2 records and Tom equalling 1 in the process, but Matthew was awarded the cup as the younger swimmer. The other Colchester record breakers this year were: Two new records for Aaran Francis (10) 50 m Backstroke and 50m Freestyle; Cameron Simpson (10) 50m Breastroke and 100m Individual Medley & Sargon Youssefi (15+) 100m Fly & 100m Freestyle. One new record for Jim Vickers (12) 50mBackstroke; &. Tom Vickers (14) equalled the 100m Fly records. Three swimmers from Chelmsford were the only swimmers from visiting clubs to break or equal existing records. Record breaking is only one aspect of the event and does not do justice to the efforts of the many Colchester swimmers who gave their all to receive an award or a medal for being in the top 6 places in each age group. Nor do the results do justice to those who did not receive awards but who swam their hearts out to cut precious seconds from their own previous personal bests. Full information and times for all swimmers can be found in the results section of this web site but of particular note in the various age ranges; Girls 9/10 yrs Lucy Coates had a good day collecting 4 awards.
Open Meet Records 2009
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