A Golden Day for Andrew and St Bede's

This time the St Bede’s Swimming squad travelled further afield to the City of Cambridge Open Meet to seek out new competition. On the back of the great results from Brighton the squad were in determined mood and in particular, Andrew Horsfall-Turner seemed unstoppable as he took an amazing five gold medals and sent his personal best times tumbling! Andrew’s sister Katherine also added to the family collection as she added a further two gold medals. All the squad were making personal best times and the medals were coming in with every race – Cristina Richards and Rebekah Chapman had a good tussle for 1st place in the 400m IM with Cristina just edging it to take the gold.
Head Coach Kevin Ayers commented, “We had some excellent swims and lots of personal best times were made. Nearly all the squad came home with a medal and it was a very worthwhile journey”.

Medals were taken as follows:

Katherine Horsfall-Turner (12): Gold 400m IM 5.47.15, 200m Fly 2.47.10; Silver 100m Fly 1.19.77; Bronze 400m Free 4.58.42
Eve Carless (13): Bronze 100m Free 1.04.82, 200m Free 2.20.00
Cristina Richards (14): Gold 400m IM 5.30.01
Rebekah Chapman (14): Silver 400m IM 5.32.17; 400m Free 4.46.60
Mary Carless (15): Bronze 100m Free 1.02.14, 200m Free 2.14.70, 400m Free 4.38.87, 100m Breast 1.22.47, 200m IM 2.32.56
Will Brown (12): Silver 100m Breast 1.27.86
Evan Draper (13): Gold 50m Free 28.03; Silver 100m Back 1.08.23, 200m Back 2.29.27, 100m Free 1.00.90; Bronze 100m Breast 1.20.43
Will Condron (14): Silver 100m Breast 1.15.33, 200m Breast 2.42.17, 50m Free 26.65
Andrew Horsfall-Turner (15): Gold 200m IM 2.20.67, 400m IM 4.52.09, 100m Fly 1.06.03, 200m Fly 2.18.53, 200m Free 2.02.75; Silver 100m Back 1.04.68, 100m Free 57.63, 400m Free 4.22.32
Ben Jones (15): Gold 100m Breast 1.15.60, 200m Breast 2.43.60; Bronze 200m IM 2.24.03, 400m IM 5.06.33

Just out of the medals on this occasion were Charlotte Chapman (11), Amelia Mitchell (14) and Alex Fenwick (16).