A Spooky Medal Haul for West Norfolk Youngsters
The youngest swimmers from West Norfolk Swimming Club took to the pool for Dereham Otters’ Halloween Mini Meet bringing home 44 medals and 56 personal best times.
Oscar Tunnicliff started the meet strong for West Norfolk with a gold and PB in the first event of the day, the 10 years boys’ 100m Butterfly. He followed this with a further 3 medals, another gold for the 100m Breaststroke and a silver each for the 50m Frontcrawl and 50m Breaststroke, all in PB times.
Charlie Bradford and Mika Verdoes both came home with an amazing haul of 7 medals each. Verdoes collection included 6 Golds across the 11 year boys’ age group in the 50 and 100m Breastroke, 50 and 100m Frontcrawl, 100m Backstroke and 100m IM and a Silver in the 50m Butterfly, while Bradford clinched the gold medal in the 10 year boys’ 50m Frontcrawl with a PB. Bradford also secured 4 silver medals and 1 bronze across the day, along with another 4 PBs.
9-year old Sonny Roberts swam to 4 medal winning finishes and 3 PBs, securing two Golds (100m IM and 50m Butterfly) a silver and a bronze. While Anwen Jones also came home with 4 medals (a silver and 3 bronze) from some strong swims, resulting in 7 PBs. Juan Verdoes took a clean sweep of Golds from his races winning the 13 years boys’ 50 and 100m Frontcrawl, 50m Breaststroke and 100m Backstroke.
Dylan Clunan-Camp and Lacey Waterson both brought home 3 medals each with Clunan-Camp swimming to Gold in the 9 year boys’ 50m Breaststroke in a PB time. 8-year old Betsy Chadderton, Denis Diadko and Phillippa Reeves came home with 2 medals each, Diadko taking the Gold for the 9 year old boys’ 50m Backstroke.
Other medal winning races were swam by Ellie Kitt who took Gold in the 9 year girls’ 100m Butterfly and Scarlett Smith who swam to Bronze in the 9 year girls’ 100m Breaststroke.
Further Personal Best times were achieved by: Isis Ferreira Da Silva (5), Ella Smith (3), Ella-Grace Codling (2), Oliver Anderson (2) and Indi Goldsmith.
