The third and final weekend of the Swim England East Region Long Course Championships were held at the University of East Anglia’s SportsPark facility on the 11th and 12th May; with events for ‘Age Group’ swimmers aged fourteen and below.
First in the water were Valeria Soldatihhina and Milly Johnson in the 200M Butterfly. Both set personal best times and qualified for their respective finals.
Johnson went on to place sixth in the 14 Years’ age group final, further bettering her personal best to a new benchmark of 2 minutes 48.15 seconds.
Soldatihhina also improved her newly set personal best to come home in 2 minutes 49.66 seconds and take a silver medal in the 11 and 12 Years’ age group.
The 200M Breaststroke saw two West Norfolk swimmer progress into the finals, this time Harry Clarke and Alex Pattison.
Clarke set a new PB of 3 minutes 14.02 seconds on his way to a fourth place finish in the 11 and 12 Years’ final.
Pattison, who had set a new PB himself in the heats, bettered his new benchmark in the 14 Years’ final to finish in 2 minutes 51.35 seconds and fifth place.
Johnson and Soldatihhina were back in action for the 100M Breaststroke alongside Polly Anderson, who set herself a new PB of 1 minute 30.51 seconds, before Pattison and Rejus Mazeika contested the 50M Butterfly where both repeated Anderson’s feat of setting a personal best time.
Anderson, Johnson and Nellie Chadderton were West Norfolk’s representatives in the Girls’ 400M Freestyle.
Both Anderson and Chadderton set personal best times whilst Johnson achieved a top ten finish in the 14 Years’ Age Group.
Johnson and Anderson were then quickly back in the water for the 100 metre distance in the same stroke, joined by teammates Soldatihhina and Olivia Bradford.
Both Soldatihhina and Bradford set new personal best times and sent themselves through to their age group finals, where they each placed eighth in their respective age groups.
Sunday began with the Boys’ 200M Butterfly, contested by Samuel Liddell and Alex Pattison. Pattison qualified for the 14 Years’ final where he set a personal best time of 2 minutes 33.47 seconds, placing fifth.
Johnson and Anderson’s first swim of the day came in the 200M Breaststroke, where Anderson swam a personal best time en route to the final where she repeated the feat again with a time of 3 minutes 12.88 seconds, placing eighth.
The Boys’ 100M Breaststroke featured Mazeika, Pattison and Clarke. The latter two both qualified for the final, with Pattison swimming a PB in the heats to do so. Clarke finished seventh in the 11 and 12 Years’ age group, whilst Pattison placed sixth in the 14 Years’ age group.
The Girls’ 50M Butterfly was contested by Soldatihhina, Johnson and Bradford, with both Bradford and Soldatihhina booking spots in their respective finals. Soldatihhina placed eighth in her final whilst Bradford placed sixth and set a new personal best time of 31.57 seconds.
Anderson returned to the water for the 100M Backstroke alongside Soldatihhina and Belle Ringwood, both of whom scored personal bests with Soldatihhina also booking a spot in the finals.
A new personal best time of 1 minute 15.46 seconds was enough for Soldatihhina to win a bronze medal with a third place finish.
After the lunch break, Soldatihhina and Bradford took on the 50M Freestyle, each swimming personal bests and the latter making her way into the evening’s final, where she ultimately placed fourth – just four hundredths of a second away from the podium places.
Harry Clarke set a personal best of 2 minutes 52.35 seconds in the Boys’ 200M Backstroke, before Johnson, Anderson and Soldatihhina all took on the gruelling 400M Individual Medley.
Johnson set a personal best of 5 minutes 47.54 seconds, whilst Soldatihhina also set a new PB of 5 minutes 56.40 seconds on her way to winning yet another silver medal.
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