Last weekend we saw strong performances from WNSC swimmers at The City of Cambridge Grand Prix, held at Parkside Swimming Pool in Cambridge. The 3 day event started on Friday evening (18th October) and ran through to Sunday 20th October.
Our West Norfolk Swimmers secured 36 top three places; 18 gold, 9 silver and 9 bronze medals along with plenty of PBs in this challenging high level meet.
WNSC also finished 6th of 20 in the top visiting club points table with 342.5 points behind; teamIpswich 5th, Northampton 4th, Norwich Swans 3rd, City of Peterborough 2nd and City of Coventry 1st
Congratulations to Valeria Soldatihhina who was awarded Top Girl (based on FINA points achieved over the weekend) in her age group after winning an impressive 11 gold medals.
Full medal results by age group:
11 years:
Valeria Soldatihhina gold; 50m, 100m & 200m breaststroke, 50m, 100m & 200m butterfly, 50m freestyle, 50m & 100m backstroke and 200m & 400m individual medley.
12 years:
Harry Clarke; bronze 200m individual medley.
Polly Anderson; bronze 50m backstroke.
13 years:
Rejus Mazeika; gold 50m & 100m butterfly, 50m & 100m breaststroke and 50m freestyle.
Olivia Bradford; silver 50m & 100m freestyle.
15 years:
Josh Jones; bronze 400m individual medley and 200m breaststroke.
Jamie Wilson; bronze 200m butterfly.
16 years + :
Sam Rose; silver 50m butterfly and bronze 100m freestyle.
Finlay Ryan; gold 50m freestyle, 50m breaststroke and bronze 100m breaststroke.
Millie Harris; silver 100m butterfly and 50m freestyle.
FINALS:
The event also gave swimmers the chance to medal again in a final; the top 8 seeded swimmers in the following age categories (14 and under) and (15+ years) for all 50m and 100m events had finals.
14 and under finals:
Olivia Bradford; 4th 50m freestyle and 7th 100m freestyle.
Rejus Mazeika; 8th 50m breaststroke.
Alexander Pattison; 6th 100m butterfly.
15+ finals:
Millie Harris; silver 50m & 100m butterfly and bronze 100m freestyle.
Sam Rose; silver 50m butterfly and 4th 50m & 100m freestyle
Finlay Ryan; silver 50m breaststroke and bronze 100m breaststroke.
