Bishop's Stortford Swimming Club
Affiliated to Swim England East Region
We are delighted to share that six of our Stortford based swimmers and one of our overseas members have achieved entry times for the British Swimming Championships 2022! #GoodLuck #SwimFast #HaveFun #GoStortford
Once all the racing finished, Swim England Hertfordshire crowned the best overall swimmers and three BSSC swimmers secured top spot in the County for their age group: Ella Greatbatch (14 yrs), Kirsty Neill (15 yrs) and Niamh James (18/Over yrs). Elliot Hall (12 Yrs) was 2nd in his group, whilst five other swimmers were in the top eight: 4th Dylan Davenport (13 yrs); Bella Parkus (17 yrs); 5th Ethan David-Tostevin (13 yrs), Jacob Hayes (15 yrs); 6th Brandon Macdonald-Williams (14 yrs).
The medals from the whole competition were tallied across the clubs, and BSSC came a superb 4th overall behind the large clubs of Hatfield, City of St Albans and Potters Bar. In fact, BSSC women (all ages) were ranked second, the Junior Championship women came first and both sexes came second in the Championship rankings. After the challenges faced by all the swimmers since the last Counties in 2020, it was fantastic to see such great performances.
Don’t forget to explore our other articles about 2022 Counties: Future Stars Make a Splash at Counties, BSSC Celebrates County Successes and BSSC Has “Relay” Great Team Success!
Weekend three at Hertfordshire County Championships was relay weekend. Time for club rivals from previous weeks to come together as teams and represent BSSC against the best that Hertfordshire could offer. The members of BSSC did not disappoint, with nail biting close finishes and great come backs that had spectators off their seats willing them on. The freestyle and medley relays were split into three age categories (Age Group 13yrs and under, Junior Championship 15yrs and under, and Championship 10yrs and over) with male, female and mixed teams in each. BSSC relay teams finished in the top 8 in all 18 events, and won an amazing nine medals (1 Gold, 5 Silver & 3 Bronze), seven more than in 2020. Full results are given below the fab photos taken by our Team Managers Claire and Sarah.
Don’t forget to explore our other articles about 2022 Counties: Future Stars Make a Splash at Counties, BSSC Celebrates County Successes and It’s a wrap for Counties 2022!
Full relay results for Age Group teams:
Full relay results for Junior Championship teams:
Full relay results for Championship teams:
As well as winning lots of 2022 Hertfordshire County individual age group medals (full list below photos), swimmers at Counties additionally competed to be crowned Junior (15yr and under) and Open Champions (10yr and over) and nine BSSC swimmers had great success! In the Junior Championships, Kirsty Neill secured six Gold (100m/200m/400m IM, 50m/100m/200m Breaststroke), one Silver (400m Freestyle) and one Bronze (200m Freestyle); Alice Longman won one Silver (50m Freestyle) and two Bronze (100m Freestyle, 100m IM); and 14 year old Ella Greatbatch got two Bronze (100m/200m Breaststroke).
In the Open Championships, Niamh James was dominant in backstroke taking four Gold (50m/100m/200m Backstroke, 400m IM) and one Silver (200m IM); Callum Davis took three Gold (100m IM, 50m/100m Butterfly), one Silver (200m IM), and two Bronze (50m Freestyle, 50m Breaststroke); Sami Zemzami got one Gold (200m Freestyle), one Silver (100m Butterfly) and one Bronze (100m Freestyle); Millie Fields secured one Silver (200m Freestyle) and younger sister Jessie one Bronze (100m Butterfly); 16 year old Jago Derrington stormed to two Gold (200m Backstroke, 400m Freestyle), two Silver (200m IM, 1500m Freestyle); whilst 15 year old Kirsty Neill beat off strong, and much older, competition to take Gold in 200m Breaststroke, and three Bronze (100m Breaststroke, 100m/400m IM).
Congratulations to everyone who competed! The Covid restrictions still in place meant age group medals were not handed out during Counties and the usual celebration evening was not held, so Headcoach Benoit was delighted to have the job handing out all the bling to his successful swimmers!
Don’t forget to explore our other articles about 2022 Counties: Future Stars Make a Splash at Counties, BSSC Has “Relay” Great Team Success and It’s a wrap for Counties 2022!
Full list of medalists by age group:
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After a year’s gap, the Swim England Hertfordshire County Championships kicked off 2022 with a bang for Bishop’s Stortford Swimming Club. BSSC had 47 swimmers qualify to compete and they headed to Borehamwood to take part in more than 200 individual swims over four weekends of exhilarating competition. For 11 year olds Lois Fields and Eddy Cheng it was their first experience of competing at the County Championships, but they controlled their nerves and performed brilliantly with Lois taking Bronze in the 10/11 year old 50m Backstroke and 4th in the 100m Freestyle, whilst Eddy was 6th in the 50m Breaststroke. The novice trio competing in the 12 year old age group also excelled with Molly Greatbatch taking Gold in 200m Backstroke and Silver in the 200m IM, Elliot Hall taking Silver in 200m IM & 400m Freestyle and Bronze in 200m Freestyle and Maisy Martindale Bronze in 50m Freestyle & Backstroke. It was a really successful championships with twenty six of the BSSC squad bringing home age group medals (26 Gold, 30 Silver, 20 Bronze) and more than 75% of the swims being top eight finishes.
With many of the swimmers from previous Counties now away at University, these results reflect great progression for the club and promise an exciting future. Don’t forget to explore our other articles about 2022 Counties: BSSC Celebrates County Successes, BSSC Has “Relay” Great Team Success and It’s a wrap for Counties 2022!
Full list of swimmers by age group: 11 years: Lois Fields, Eddy Cheng 12 years: Elliot Hall, Maisy Martindale, Molly Greatbatch 13 years: Charles German, Dylan Davenport, Ethan David-Tostevin, Felice Chan, Zoe Opiyo 14 years: Beau Reilly, Brandon Macdonald-Williams, Catherine Clune, Eliza Andrews, Ella Greatbatch, Hollie Heighes, Leo Suo-Saunders, Robert Gor 15 years: Alice Longman, Ellen Millar-Bond, George Grimwood, George Taylor, Imogen Tang, Jacob Hayes, Kirsty Neill 16 years: David Badcock, Emma Fields, Grace Mason, Jago Derrington, Jessica Fields, Lauren Gore, Leanne Suo-Saunders, Lilian Opiyo, Meisha Trend-Evans, Miriam Moukdad, Samuel Carter, Callum Cox 17 years: Bella Parkus, Freya Reilly, Isabella Good, Sami Zemzami 18Yrs/Over: Aoife James, Callum Davis, Eleanor Mason, Joe Collins, Millie Fields, Niamh James
