Breaststroke Duo Shine at British Summer Champs

The British Summer Championships provides a key end-of-season competition opportunity for home nation athletes with the season’s fastest swimmers in Britain invited to compete.  BSSC had two local swimmers invited for the 2023 Championships, Ella Greatbatch (15 yrs) and Kirsty Neill (16 yrs), and they were joined by two swimmers from Team Bonn in Germany who were born and taught to swim in Bishop’s Stortford, Toby and William Godsell (16 & 18 yrs).

Youngest competitor Ella Greatbatch had her best performance in the 100m Breaststroke where she came 9^th in the 15 year old final in a time of 1:15.67, whilst Kirsty Neill secured her place in two 16 year old finals, coming 6^th in the 200m Breaststroke and 10^th in the 100m Breaststroke. 

Toby Godsell (Team Bonn) had a great championships, taking gold in the 16 year old 100m Backstroke and 200m IM finals and silver in the 50m & 200m Backstroke finals.  Will Godsell (Team Bonn) finalled in two of his four events, coming 5^th in 18 year old 50m Breaststroke and 7^th in 100m Breaststroke.

Huge congratulations to all four swimmers for their performances.

Full BSSC results:

• Ella Greatbatch (15 yrs): 9^th 100m Breaststroke; 11^th 50m Breaststroke; 21^st 200m Breaststroke
• Kirsty Neill (16 yrs): 6^th 200m Breaststroke; 10^th 100m Breaststroke; 16^th 50m Breaststroke
• Toby Godsell (16 yrs): 1^st 100m Backstroke & 200m IM; 2^nd 50m & 200m Backstroke
• William Godsell (18 yrs): 5^th 50m Breaststroke; 7^th 100m Breaststroke; 13^th 200m Breaststroke; 14^th 200m IM