2024 SWIM ENGLAND NATIONAL WINTER CHAMPIONSHIPS
The 2024 Swim England Nationwide Winter Championships concluded final evening from Ponds Forge in Sheffield however not earlier than Olympic finalist Freya Colbert grabbed two extra gold medals.
20-year-old Colbert of Loughborough tried the ladies’s 200m free/200m again double on for dimension and topped the rostrum in every.
Within the former, Colbert stopped the clock at a time of 1:53.91 to get to the wall practically 2 seconds forward of the pack. The versatile ace cut up 27.06/28.90/29.09/28.86 to place up one of the best time of her profession.
Coming into this competitors, Colbert had been as fast as 1:54.07 from final yr’s European Brief Course Championships so she dipped beneath the 1:54 barrier for the primary time en path to changing into the Seventh-swiftest British performer in historical past.
Behind Colbert within the race was Medi Harris who hit 1:55.85 because the runner-up whereas Leah Schlosshan posted 1:57.10 because the bronze medalist.
A number of occasions later, Colbert registered a time of two:04.78, one other new private greatest, because the winner of the 2back.
She held off Loughborough teammate Honey Osrin who hit 2:05.62 adopted by Niamh Ward of Tub who registered 2:07.29,
22-year-old Charlie Hutchison made some noise within the males’s 400m IM, reaping gold by over 9 seconds.
Hutchison stopped the clock at 4:03.33 to slice extra day off his newly minted lifetime better of 4:05.93 from final month’s British Universities & Schools (BUCS) Brief Course Championships.
Hutchison now represents GBR’s Seventh-best performer in historical past on this males’s 4IM. He already collected golds within the 200m IM and 400m free over the course of this competitors.
16-year-old Max Morgan accomplished his profitable marketing campaign with one other British Junior File, this time within the 50m breast.
The Reed’s Swim Membership staff fired off a private better of 26.83 to decrease his earlier junior commonplace of 27.10 placed on the books final yr.
He saved runner-up Greg Butler of Loughborough at bay, with the 24-year-old touching in 26.97 for silver. Birmingham’s Samuel Neeld rounded out the rostrum in 27.01.
Extra Notes
- Olympian Alexander Cohoon doubled up on his 50m free gold with one other high prize within the 100m free. The 22-year-old notched 47.19 to eke out the win over Jordan Colley who settled for silver in 47.27. Calvin Fry bagged bronze in 47.35.
- The ladies’s 800m free noticed Loughborough’s Fleur Lewis snag the win in 8:28.24. She’s been as swift as 8:21.88 in her profession.
- Manchester’s Ed Mildred already earned 200m free gold right here however the 21-year-old made it occur within the 200m fly as effectively. Mildred scored 1:54.11 to beat the sector by over 3 seconds.
- Georgina Pryer of Derby Excel turned in a time of 57.33 to take the ladies’s 100m fly over 17-year-old Flawia Kamzol of Mt. Kelly. Kamzol posted 57.84 with visiting Japanese swimmer Hiroko Makino subsequent in line at 57.91 for the bronze medal. Kamzol’s efficiency represents a big-time new British Junior File, overtaking the late Tazmin Pugh‘s former commonplace of 58.90 from 2015.