Over the past two weeks, seven YCBC swimmers from the National Squad have been competing at the two summer national championship events in Sheffield.

Please find a summary of the championships below:

British Summer Nationals

Two swimmers from YCBC competed at the British Summer Championships in Sheffield between 22nd-28th July in events over the week long meet. In order to qualify for this meet, swimmers had to be in the top 24 in Britain at the end of the national qualifying window.

Individuals

Heats

2 Swimmers – Megan Mills, Simon Robson
5 Swims
1 PB (20%)

Swim England National Summer Meet

The final competition this season for the YCBC swimmers was the Swim England Summer Meet taking place from Wednesday 2nd to Sunday 6th August in Sheffield. Seven swimmers qualified and six swimmers competed at the meet. In order to qualify, swimmers had to be in the top 20 English athletes who were outside of the top 24 in Britain from the qualifying window between the start of March and the end of May.

Heats

6 Swimmers – Raya Harrand, Eve Parkin, Simon Robson, Philip Suddes, Alex Tew, Freya Tyas
14 Swims
8 PBs (57%)

5 Finalists in 8 Finals
Raya Harrand (50 & 100 Back)
Simon Robson (100 & 200 Breast)
Alex Tew (100 Back & 400 Free)
Eve Parkin (200 Back)
Philip Suddes (50 Free)

Finals

8 Swims
6 PBs (75%)
7 Conversions (88%)

Individual Medals

2 x Gold ?
Raya Harrand – 50 Back & 100 Back

1 x Silver ?
Simon Robson – 200 Breast

2 x Bronze ?
Simon Robson – 100 Breast
Philip Suddes – 50 Free