West Norfolk Swimming Club’s “Purple Army” stormed the UEA SportsPark pool in Norwich for the Great Yarmouth SC Winter Wipeout Meet on the 3rd & 4th December.
78 West Norfolk swimmers put in an impressive showing over the two day event, which saw the club top the medal table with a haul of 179 medals, and with 60% of the swimmers medaling, it was a real team success.
Impressive performances were delivered by so many and leading the medals total was Jamie Wilson with 12 overall, 7 of which were gold.
Wiktoria Marcinek and Joshua Jones each achieved 6 golds while Polly Anderson and Jake Lammas returned home with 5 golds each.
Thomas Garnett won four golds, followed by Belle Ringwood, Samuel Liddell, Harvey Isle, Eloise Collins and Kristina Sutika-Totleb who all achieved 3 golds each. Kye Harrington earned 2 golds and a 1st place ranking was also enjoyed by Valeria Soldatihhina, Esmie Kidman, Daniel Grimmer, Erin Woodrow, Harry Clarke, Nedas Tkacenko, Olivia Bradford, Olivia Haddock, Juan Verdoes and Logan Greenwood.
11 swimmers fought their way high up the podium, with silver medals for Zoe Wilson, Benjamin Tennant, Marley Bellamy, Rhys Burrell, Alexander Pattison, Erin Lovelock, Rejus Mazeika, Pemberley Hornigold, Thomas-Arthur Jagger, Alex Wilson and Olivia Doig.
Eliza Butcher, Nathan Yeaman, Den Vojevoda, Sophie Doig, Charlie Hill, Harriet Reeves, Milly Johnson, Theo Ryan, Libby Collins, Lola Kidman, Chloe Liddell, Calum Wallace, Sophia Wilson all earned one or more bronze medals.
The weekend wasn’t without its challenges with the Saturday plagued by technical problems that saw a malfunctioning false start rope and most of the day run without a scoreboard. Fortunately Sunday was a new day and free from the gremlins of day one and WNSC went on to have a hugely successful event with a plethora of county qualifying and personal best times achieved.
