Nick leads the way as Bridgwater swimmers excel

Bridgwater Swimming Club produced some great results at the Weston Easter Open Meet, despite having only a small team.

Nick Constable got things started in fine fashion on the Saturday morning with a personal best in the 100m back crawl of 1:19.91. That got him into the 12 years age-group final, where he improved his best even more to 1:18.976, finishing fifth.

Next, Rachael Barr clocked an impressive pb of 1:11.76 in the 100 freestyle, almost a second quicker than her previous mark. Then, in the 100m butterfly, Constable had a great swim in the heats to reach his second final, finishing fifth again.

In the 200 back crawl, Jess Barham improved her pb by more than three seconds, which squeezed her into the top ten of the 11 years age-group. Then there was yet another fifth-place finish for Constable in his age-group in the 200 back crawl.

Barham went back into the water for the 100 freestyle. A quality swim in the heats and pb by more than a second of 1:12.83 made her seventh fastest and earned a place in the 11 years final. She went one better in that, finishing sixth.

Lucy Cornish, also in the 100 freestyle, produced a pb of 1:07.26 to reach the 12 years final, where she clocked 1:06.80 to take the bronze medal. Men's captain Greg Kyd finished things off with eighth place in the final of the 100 breaststroke.

Bridgwater were also pleased to hear that, after computation of times in the third round of the Cotswold League, they have been awarded second place and three league points. That leaves them seventh in the table, with one round and the finals to go.

3:14pm Tuesday 25th April 2006