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TWOS' COMPANY, THREES' ALLOWED

14 year old Lewis Clifford-Stephenson completed a hat-trick of wins with two more victories in this weekends Essex Championships. He retained his title as Essex Champion in both the 100m and 200m breaststroke to add to the 50m title he picked up at an earlier meeting. After storming home by a wide margin and a new personal best in the heats of the 100m race he went even faster in the final to dominate the race from start to finish, and rounded off a fine weekend’s performance with an equally impressive 200m win.

Katinka Merchan claimed top spot for the girls with an excellent silver in the 200m backstroke in the 15 years category, whilst Henny Andrews produced a new personal best in the 200 16+ years breaststroke to end in 3rd place after a terrific swim.

One of the most consistent performers over the weekend had to be 11 year old Molly Sparks who claimed a 3^rd place in the 200 backstroke to add to her 4^th spot in the 100 event, 5^th in the 1500 freestyle and 6^th in the 100m free.

George Crow continued to impress with two top six performances over the weekend, his best in the tough 1500m where he won 4^th place in the 12 year category, marginally missing out on a podium spot with a well paced and determined swim. He later added 6^th in the 200 freestyle ahead of team mate Toby Andrews who also recorded a personal best. Jon Congdon recorded a 6^th in the 16+ age group.

Dean Smith, swimming in the 16+ age group had two top six performances taking 4^th in the 200m Breaststroke and 5^th in the 100m backstroke final.

Holly Jackson claimed a new Pb in the heats of the 15 year old 100m fly to ensure her place in the line up for the finals. Swimming in the next lane to team mate Katinka, Holly just had the edge with a powerful swim to take 5^th spot.

Harry Fox at 9 years led the charge for the young guns with a great swim and huge personal best in the 200 ‘fly, whilst older brother Charlie picked up 8^th in the same event.

There were new Pb’s too for 10 year old Connor Kearns and Mikaela Kennedy, whilst the Robinson brothers, Daniel and Aiden also improved on previous best swims by some margin to complete a successful weekend for the ‘Whales.