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Competition reports

Golden Time at Swim Wales

Posted on: 20th April 2020

BSSC Masters competition regular, Elizabeth Bellinger, pulled out of the Febrary Sudbury Masters event with an injury, but although still in recovery, she managed to compete in the Swim Wales Masters Long Course Championships in Swansea over the St David’s Day weekend.

Lizzie took Gold in all four events she entered, bettering her entry times on three events and improving two of the East Region records she already held. Congratulations!

Gold 200m IM (2:39.04)
Gold 50m Fly (PB, 30.17)
Gold 100m Free (PB, 1:04.50)
Gold 100m Fly (PB, 1:07.15)

See also: Competition reports, Masters

Record Breaking Gold Rush for BSSC Masters at Sudbury

Posted on: 20th April 2020

On 16th Feb, four fabulous BSSC Masters headed to Sudbury for the 25th Valentines Open Meet. David Kelleway (25-29Yrs), Peter Kelleway (60-64Yrs), Helen Shingler (50-54Yrs) and Sally Winter (60-64Yrs) were all in stunning form, taking gold medals in every event they entered and also getting lots of personal best times. Having recently achieved some European Long Course records in her new age group, Sally Winter bagged a short course European Record at Sudbury, taking nearly 3 seconds off the old 200m Free record!! Congratulations to them all.

Results are below:

David Kelleway (25-29Yrs)
Gold in all 5 events
53.50 100m Free
25.25 50m Free
1:02.64 100m Fly
26.74 50m Fly
2:07.35 200m Free

Pete Kelleway (60-64Yrs)
Gold in all 5 events
33.75 50m Back
1:05.63 100m Free
2:46.13 200m IM
1:15.42 100m Back
1:15.26 100m IM

Helen Shingler (50-54Yrs)
Gold 3:04.81 200m IM

Sally Winter (60-64Yrs)
Gold (European Record!) 2:25.83 200m Free

See also: Competition reports, Masters

BSSC Swimmers Fly High at Hertfordshire County Championships

Posted on: 5th February 2020

With older swimmers and top BSSC Gold medallist after weekends 1&2 Kaia Phillips away at a meet in Sheffield, the responsibility was left with the younger BSSC swimmers for the final weekend of the Hertfordshire County Championships.  All swimmers stepped up and performed admirably, securing eight more medals and ensuring that BSSC finished fourth in the individual medals table behind the large clubs of Hatfield, Watford and City of St Albans (third if we could have counted new recruit Callum’s medals as ours!).

On Saturday the 14 year olds dominated the Butterfly events, with Gold for Jessie Fields in 50m, and Golds for Grace Mason and Callum Cox in the 200m, whilst Jago snatch Gold in the 200m Back.  Kirsty Neill (13 Years) added to her medal collection with her fourth Gold of the Championship (400m IM).

The final day of Counties wrapped up with the fast and furious freestyle and medley relays.  Twenty one BSSC swimmers were in action but it was the 14/15 year old girls who were on superb form, with both the Womens 10/15 Yrs 200m Freestyle relay team (Issy Good, Meisha Trend-Evans, Jessie Fields, Lilian Opiyo) and the Womens 10/15 Yrs 200m Medley relay team (Freya Reilly, Lauren Gore, Jessie Fields and Lilian Opiyo) storming past the Watford teams on their way to Bronze medals.  It was a great way to end a fantastic Championships.

Congratulations to all our competitors for their successes, the way they supported each other and how they represented BSSC.  Thanks to everyone who helped in some way to the running of the sessions – let’s try and get even more of us helping out next year as our attendance continues to grow.  Finally, well done parents – you survived three weeks of bag packing, food provision, snack sourcing and emergency purchases and provided lots of great encouragement and cheering.

The Weekend 3 County finalists (50/100m events), top 8 finishers (200/400/800m events) and medallists were:

  • Womens 50m Fly: Gold Jessie Fields (14 Yrs), Silver Alice Longman (13 Yrs), 4th Issy Good (15 Yrs), 5th Kirsty Neill (13 Yrs)
  • Mens 50m Back: Silver Callum Cox (14 Yrs – Ware), 4th Jago Derrington (14 Yrs), 6th Oliver Gisborne (12 Yrs)
  • Womens 200m Back: 4th Freya Reilly (15 Yrs)
  • Mens 200m Fly: Gold Callum Cox (14 Yrs), 7th George Taylor (13 Yrs)
  • Womens 200 Fly: Gold Grace Mason (14 Yrs), Silver Jess Penkul (16/Over), 8th Ellen Millar-Bond (13 Yrs)
  • Mens 200m Back: Gold Jago Derrington (14 yrs), 7th Beau Reilly (12 Yrs) & Callum Cox (14 Yrs), 8th George Grimwood (13 Yrs)
  • Womens 400m IM: Gold Kirsty Neill (13 Yrs)

The 21 relay swimmers were:

  • 11 Yrs Ethan David-Tostevin, Zoe Opiyo
  • 12 Yrs Eliza Andrews, Leo Suo-Saunders
  • 13 Yrs Ellen Millar-Bond, George Cooper, George Grimwood, George Taylor, Imogen Tang, Kirsty Neill
  • 14 Yrs David Badcock, Fergal Barry, Jago Derrington, Jessie Fields, Lauren Gore, Lilian Opiyo, Meisha Trend-Evans, Sam Carter, Seb Clark
  • 15 Yrs Freya Reilly, Issy Good

Final relay results were:

  • Bronze: Womens 10/15 Yrs 200m Freestyle Team
  • Bronze: Womens 10/15 Yrs 200m Medley Team
  • 5th place: Mens 10/13 Yrs 200m Freestyle Team
  • 5th place: Womens 10/13 Yrs 200m Freestyle Team
  • 5th place: Womens 10/13 Yrs 200m Medley Team
  • 6th place: Mixed 10/13 Yrs 200m Medley Team
  • 6th place: Mixed 10/15 Yrs 200m Freestyle Team
  • 6th place: Mens 10/13 Yrs 200m Medley Team
  • 7th place: Mixed 10/15 Yrs 200m Medley Team
  • 8th place: Mens 10/15 Yrs 200m Medley Team
  • 9th place: Mens 10/15 Yrs 200m Freestyle Team

See also: Competition reports

County Championships Weekend 2

Posted on: 27th January 2020

On a cold, stormy Tuesday evening (14th Jan), when the rest of the world were safely tucked up indoors, two intrepid Bishop’s Stortford Swimming Club members, Kaia Phillips and Eleanor Mason headed off to Borehamwood for the 800m Freestyle event of the Swim England Hertfordshire County Championships.  The trip and the 32 length swim proved worth it as both got personal best times, with Kaia taking Gold in the 14 Yrs Age Group and Eleanor placing 8th in the 16Yrs & Over age group.

They were back again this weekend, but this time as part of a 46 strong squad of swimmers who managed to match last weekend’s outstanding performances.  BSSC’s youngest two competitors, 10-year olds Ethan David-Tostevin and Zoe Opiyo, both reached multiple event finals and the squad added an amazing twenty four medals (8 Gold, 5 Silver, 11 Bronze) to the 23 from the weekend before.

The County finalists (50/100m events), top 8 finishers (200/400/800m events) and medallists were:

  • Women 800m Free: Gold Kaia Phillips (14 Yrs), 8th Eleanor Mason (16Yrs/Over)
  • Men 50m Breaststroke: Bronze James Gisborne (15 Yrs), 4th Bryn Couser (16Yrs/Over), 5th Leo Suo-Saunders (12 Yrs), 6th Oliver Gisborne (12 Yrs)
  • Women 50m Back: Gold Kaia Phillips (14 Yrs) & Mia Carter (16Yrs/Over), 5th Freya Reilly (15 Yrs), 6th Laura Hull (15 Yrs), 7th Kirsty Neill (13 Yrs)
  • Men 50m Free: Bronze Callum Cox (14 Yrs – Ware) & James Gisborne (15 Yrs), 6th Ethan David-Tostevin (10/11 Yrs), 7th Leo Suo-Saunders (12 Yrs)
  • Women 50m Free: Silver Alice Longman (13 Yrs), Bronze Kaia Phillips (14 Yrs), 5th Zoe Opiyo (10/11 Yrs) & Lilian Opiyo (14 Yrs), 6th Meisha Trend-Evans (14 Yrs)
  • Men 200m Free: 4th Callum Cox (14 Yrs) & James Gisborne (15 Yrs), 6th Tain Phillips (12 Yrs), 7th Jago Derrington (14 Yrs) & Mehdi El Mansar (16Yrs/Over), 8th Brandon Macdonald-Williams (12 Yrs)
  • Women 200m Breast: Gold Kirsty Neill (13 Yrs), 7th Hannah Robinson (12 Yrs)
  • Women 50m Breast: Silver Kirsty Neill (13 Yrs), Bronze Alice Longman (13 Yrs) & Lauren Gore (14 Yrs), 8thCatherine Clune (12 Yrs)
  • Men 50m Fly: Gold Callum Cox (14 Yrs), Bronze Callum Davis (16Yrs/Over), 8th Ethan David-Tostevin (10/11 Yrs)
  • Women 100m IM: Gold Kirsty Neill (13 Yrs), Silver Millie Fields (16Yrs/Over), Bronze Kaia Phillips (14 Yrs), 4th Jessie Fields (14 Yrs), 8th Zoe Opiyo (10/11 Yrs)
  • Men 100m IM: Bronze Leo Suo-Saunders (12 Yrs), 6th Tain Phillips (12 Yrs), 7th Callum Davis (16Yrs/Over)
  • Women 200m Free: Gold Kaia Phillips (14 Yrs), Bronze Alice Longman (13 Yrs) & Millie Fields (16Yrs/Over), 5th Meisha Trend-Evans (14 Yrs), 8th Zoe Opiyo (10/11 Yrs) & Lilian Opiyo (14 Yrs)
  • Men 200m Breast: Gold James Gisborne (15 Yrs), Silver Bryn Couser (16Yrs/Over), 5th Oliver Gisborne (12 Yrs) & Nick Botha (16Yrs/Over)
  • Women 400m Free: Silver Kaia Phillips (14 Yrs), 4th Kirsty Neill (13 Yrs)

See also: Competition reports

Winter Smashes British & European Records

Posted on: 24th January 2020

Reaching a milestone birthday can sometimes be advantageous, and BSSC Masters swimmer and Club President, Sally Winter recently proved that point.  January 1st saw Sally move up into the 60-64 years Masters age group, and at her first 2020 Long Course (50m pool) competition in Crawley on the weekend of 18/19th January she was in record smashing form.  First up was the 100m Free where she took Gold in a British Masters record time of 1:08.51, more than a second inside the existing British record and only 0.3 seconds outside the European record.  On Sunday she went one better in the 200m Free, smashing the British Masters record by 2.5 seconds and taking the European Masters record by 1 second, in a time of 2:30.78.  Focus for this season now turns to the British Nationals in April and the European Masters Championships in June.  Good luck Sally!

See also: Competition reports, Masters

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