Two days of competition at Dereham Leisure Centre across Saturday 29th and Sunday 30th June saw West Norfolk Swimming Club (WNSC) crowned top club at Swim England Norfolk’s annual County Challenge Gala.

There were 28 events over the weekend, all ranging between 50m and 200m in all five disciplines; Backstroke, Breaststroke, Butterfly, Freestyle and Individual Medley.

Coach, Oliver Kenny alongside Sam Rose took a team of 44 West Norfolk swimmers aged between 10 and 16 to Dereham where they brought home over 130 medals between them, securing the top club spot again by over 330 points.

Den Vojevoda brought home an impressive haul of 12 medals; 5 gold, 4 silver and 3 bronze. Elizabeth Litvinenko and Martha More brought home 9 a piece; 1 gold, 4 silver, 4 bronze, 5 gold and 4 silver respectively.

Taking home 7 medals each were Ashton Busby – 3 gold, 2 silver, 2 bronze. Calleigh Welham-Smith – 1 gold, 5 silver and 1 bronze. Samuel Liddell – 6 gold, 1 silver and Thomas-Arthur Jagger – 3 gold, 1 silver, 3 bronze.

Mabelle Chadderton, Noah Goodson and Olivia Bradford earned 6 medals each, whilst Olivia Haddock and Theo Ryan secured 5 medals each.

Andrej Talapins, Junru Cai, Kirill Ivanenco, Nellie Chadderton, Oliver Norris and Teddy Roberts took home 4 medals each.

3 medals a piece went to Arabella Bishop and Layla Warby whilst Adam Jackson, Freddie Wakefield and Lexi Foster took home 2 medals each.

Arya Richardson, Bay Smith, Charlie Bradford, Charlie Hill, Cory Hill, Daisy Covell, David Roczniak, Isabelle Morris, Joshua Norris, Kari-Ella Bailey and Oscar Tunnicliff finished the WNSC medal haul by taking home 1 medal each.

Topping the leaderboard were WNSC with 876.5 points

Norwich Swans 546
Thetford Dolphins 471.5
Dereham Otters 298
Great Yarmouth 264
Diss Otters 249
City of Norwich 63

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