Worksop Dolphin’s Gala –Sheffield (Saturday 5th September 2015)

Sadly an unfortunate clash of dates with the micro-league swim off meant a rather depleted, but very keen team of 13 swimmers travelled over the Pennines to do battle at this year’s Worksop Dolphin’s Open 50m meet in Sheffield. Considering most of the swimmers hadn’t swum in a 50m pool in a year, they fearlessly took to the water to give it their all, swimming close to their Personal Best times, with many achieving new 50m PB times :-

Kate Doughty (100 Breast)

Chloe Cottam (50 Fly)

Kiera Dunstan (50 Fly)

Ceri Ormesher (50 Free, 50 Breast)

Jack Wilson (50 Free, 50 Breast, 100 Back)

Liam Hardman (50 Fly, 100 Free)

Jordon O’Hara (50 Fly, 100 Free, 100 Fly)

Jack Hardman (50 Fly)

In addition, extra congratulations to some Trophy and Age Group Medal winners :-

Lizzie Woodcock (1st 50 Fly, 1st 100 Free, 1st 50 Back, 1st 50 Free, 5th 100 Back)

Chloe Cottam (2nd 50 Fly)

Jordon O’Hara (2nd 50 Fly, 4th 50 Back, 4th 50 Free)

Jack Hardman (3rd 50 Fly, 3rd 100 Free, 6th 50 Back, 2nd 100 Fly, 6th 50 Free, 4th 100 Back)

Liam Hardman (6th 50 Fly, 6th 50 Free)

Very well done to all those who took part.

Hard luck to George Wilson who was very poorly in the afternoon and missed his races. Hope you’ll be on form for the Marlin’s Winter meet, coming soon on 7th/8th November!

Marlin’s also entered 8 relay events, every swimmer taking part pulling out excellent swims, a lot of them in the spirit of “not letting the team down” swimming significantly faster than in their individual races. With the shortage of swimmers in attendance, many had to swim twice in a session and also up in an age group, running from one relay to the next with minimal rest! That given, we had some super results with the girls 14/under free team fractionally missing out on 3rd place, just 0.53 seconds behind. Very well done to Kate Doughty, Kiera Dunstan, Chloe Cottam & Lizzie Woodcock.

Our mixed Open Medley relay team also finished 4th, an agonising 0.29 seconds from 3rd place! Great work Lizzie Woodcock, Jack Hardman, Jordon O’Hara & Chloe Cottam.

A very special mention to Jordon O’Hara, who not only achieved his very first Regional time, managed to bag 3 others! 50 Free, 50 Fly, 100 Free & 100 Fly. Jordon has now qualified to swim at the ASA North West Winter Regionals, taking place in Liverpool on 7/8th November. Good Luck Jordon!!