Final rally’s big reward - Swimming

Sponsored by

Final rally’s big reward

Published on 20/04/2012 05:47

HARBOROUGH ‘A’ secured promotion to division one of the Leicester and District Winter League with an excellent team effort as they finished second in the third and final round held at Burton.

The girls’ 15/u team led the way, winning five out of their six races.

Candice Hall was victorious in the 100m back and fly, with Olivia Weller taking the 100m breaststroke and narrowly missing out on the 100m free, finishing second. The pair were joined in the relays by Lauren Murphy and Grace Bolton to win the freestyle and Lauren Bekavac and Murphy in the medley. In the open age group they almost managed an identical outcome with Hall winning the back and Weller taking the breaststroke.

Kirsty Haynes showed some gritty swimming, winning the 100m free and taking second in the 100m fly. It was not surprising that the trio, in conjunction with Charlotte Maxfield, won both the free and medley relays by a considerable distance.

The 13/u girls’ team of Bekavac, Bolton, Rhiannon Cook and Emily Kendall gained an unexpected but deserved victory in their medley relay.

The boys’ team found victories harder to come by. But the 11/u team of Rhys Cook, Jay Newman, Josh Wellicome and Charlie Poole continued to improve, winning both their free and medley relays. Poole also took victory in the individual free. Tom Tonge secured the only other win of the night for the boys in the 15/u 100m free.

The evening was rounded off in superb fashion with the 8 x 25m freestyle canon, in which one boy and girl from each age group swim in ascending age order. Four teams were still in contention on the last leg, with the Harborough group of Kendall, Poole, Bolton, Henry Ingram, Hall, Tonge, Haynes and Harry Waddington snatching a stunning victory.

Team events aren’t just about winning races and on the night there were excellent performances throughout the entire Harborough squad. Finishing one or two places higher than the opposition makes a big difference to the overall score

Result: 1st Etwall (240), 2nd Harborough A (205), 3rd Sharks C (187), 4th Penguins D (152), 5th Burton (129), 6th Hinckley Red (101).

Sport

Looking for...

Featured advertisers

Jobs

Search for a job

Motors

Search for a car

Make Model Price from Price to

Property

Search for a house

Buy Rent

Bedrooms Price from Price from Price to Price to

What is a Cookie?
What is a Flash Cookie?
Can I opt out of receiving Cookies?
About our Cookies

Cookies are small data files which are sent to your browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome etc) from a website you visit. They are stored on your electronic device.
This is a type of cookie which is collected by Adobe Flash media player (it is also called a Local Shared Object) - a piece of software you may already have on your electronic device to help you watch online videos and listen to podcasts.
Yes there are a number of options available, you can set your browser either to reject all cookies, to allow only "trusted" sites to set them, or to only accept them from the site you are currently on.

However, please note - if you block/delete all cookies, some features of our websites, such as remembering your login details, or the site branding for your local newspaper may not function as a result.
The types of cookies we, our ad network and technology partners use are listed below:
- Revenue Science ►
  
  A tool used by some of our advertisers to target adverts to you based on pages you have visited in the past. To opt out of this type of targeting you can visit the 'Your Online Choices' website by clicking here.
- Google Ads ►
  
  Our sites contain advertising from Google; these use cookies to ensure you get adverts relevant to you. You can tailor the type of ads you receive by visiting here or to opt out of this type of targeting you can visit the 'Your Online Choices' website by clicking here.
- Webtrends / Google Analytics ►
  
  This is used to help us identify unique visitors to our websites. This data is anonymous and we cannot use this to uniquely identify individuals and their usage of the sites.
- Dart for Publishers ►
  
  This comes from our ad serving technology and is used to track how many times you have seen a particular ad on our sites, so that you don't just see one advert but an even spread. This information is not used by us for any other type of audience recording or monitoring.
- ComScore ►
  
  ComScore monitor and externally verify our site traffic data for use within the advertising industry. Any data collected is anonymous statistical data and cannot be traced back to an individual.
- Local Targeting ►
  
  Our Classified websites (Photos, Motors, Jobs and Property Today) use cookies to ensure you get the correct local newspaper branding and content when you visit them. These cookies store no personally identifiable information.
- Grapeshot ►
  
  We use Grapeshot as a contextual targeting technology, allowing us to create custom groups of stories outside out of our usual site navigation. Grapeshot stores the categories of story you have been exposed to. Their privacy policy and opt out option can be accessed here.
- Subscriptions Online ►
  
  Our partner for Newspaper subscriptions online stores data from the forms you complete in these to increase the usability of the site and enhance user experience.
- Add This ►
  
  Add This provides the social networking widget found in many of our pages. This widget gives you the tools to bookmark our websites, blog, share, tweet and email our content to a friend.
- 3rd Party Cookies ►
  
  We use Advertising agencies to provide us with some of the advertising on our websites. These include (but are not limited to) Specific Media, The Rubicon Project, AdJug, AdConion, Context Web. Please click on the provider name to visit their opt-out page.

Sponsored by
Final rally’s big reward

Top stories

Sport