Thame swimmers shine in regional championships

FANTASTIC swimming was in evidence across the whole of the Swim England South East Regional Championships across May 2017, so a massive congratulations to all the Thame Swimming Club swimmers.

The 15 & over events were held for the first time at the Wycombe 50m pool and proved to be hugely successful for the swimmers:

 Jo Hewett was queen of the pool winning a fantastic five Gold medals out of her five races: 100 Free; 100 Breaststroke; 50 Free; 100 Back and 200
Free.
 Marcus Birmingham swam up a storm in his 200 Fly to reach the final and PB’d with a fantastic time of 2.19.67. Marcus also came 7th in the region
for his 400 IM and was reserve for the 200m Breaststroke final.
 Rory Pridmore was swimming for the first ever time at the Regional Championships and secured great times for his 200m Free and 400m Free
races – no mean feat given it was also the first time Rory had swum these events long course.
 Elizabeth Humphreys swam strongly in her 50 Free race to gain a great PB of 29.52.
 Elliot Riley-Brown achieved a fabulous PB in his 50 Backstroke with a time of 31.43.
 Josh Williams, whilst swimming for Wycombe still has dual registration with Thame so it feels only right to mention his achievements. Josh won
Gold in his 400 Free and is currently 18th in GB for his achievement. He also won Gold in the 4 x 200 Free relay; Silver in the 4 x 100 Medley relay;
Bronze in the 1500m (with a 52 second PB), 200 Free and 100 Free events and reached the finals for 100 Back and 50 Back.
 Lucy Block was absolutely on fire qualifying for 3 finals out of 3 races – no mean feat  Lucy achieved 4th and 5th place in the finals for the 200
Back and 100 Back finals and 6th in the 50 Back, taking a massive 4 seconds off her previous PB. Awesome swimming.
 Oscar North was also swimming at Regionals for the first time and swam strongly with great times in his 200 Free, 200 Back and 400 Free – all of
which Oscar was swimming Long Course for the first time. Well done.

Thank you to Sue Hewett for officiating at this meet.

Thank you to Head Coach Ian Blyth who supported each and every swimmer across the whole of the Championships.

SOURCE: Contributed by Will Hard