Midlands short course championships 2nd and 3rd November – Harvey Hadden Pool , Nottingham

The Midlands have a wealth of talented swimmers who attended for these championships including Olympic medallists and World medallists at junior and senior levels. The event combined east and west midlands and the competition was intense.

Marlins took a team of eight to this event and this year there were both A and B finals for the 16 fastest swimmers overall.

Our top performer was Will Brookes, who narrowly missed a medal with a fantastic 4^th place in the 100 IM breaking the minute time for this twice as well as gaining 2^nd place in the 100m back  B final in another PB time.

Joshua Horobin made 2 A finals in the 50m Brs, 7^th and  100m Brs in a high-class field in both events.

Sam Brookes, although only 15, made the B finals in the 200 Brs and 100 IM improving his 100 IM time in the final  to move from 7^th to 2^nd in that final.

The results are listed below.

Well done to all those who qualified. Everyone swam well this weekend and some were exceptional.

This was not just physical skill on show but each swimmer adjusted something about their race, including pacing, trying new dives, altering turns and UW phases and stroke skills. Not only did they do that but also they executed these new skills under pressure at a quality competition.

Belper Marlin SC can be proud of your efforts!

Will Brookes

200 FC  29^th 1:57.73

100 Fly  15^th 59.36 PB Did not swim B final

100M BC   59.17  B final

50 FC 18^th 24.48 PB

100m FC 23^rd 53.59

100m BC 10^th 59.41  B Final 2^nd 59.17 PB

100 IM  4^th 59.36 PB Final 4^th  59.72

 Joshua Horobin

100m Brs 7^th 1:05.02 Final  8^th 1:05.87

50m brs 7^th 29.76  Final  7^th 29.52

50m FC 21^st 24.60

Sam Brookes

100m Brs 15^th  1:07.83 DNS B final

200 IM 41^st 2:18.11 PB

50m Brs 21^st 31.08

100 IM 16^th 1:02.30 B final 1:01.62 2nd

200m Brs 14^th 2:27.36  PB DNS B final

50m Fly 47^th 27.67

 Caitlin Oram

200 m Fly  18^th  2:29.57

100 IM 43^rd 1:11.01

50m Fly 69^th 31.38

100m Fly 31^st 1:07.17

Phoebe Barden

50m FC 37^th 28.15

100 IM 63^rd 1:13.29

50m Fly  88^th  32.56

Ryan Horobin

50m Brs 34^th 31.79

Howie Barden

50m Fly  59^th 27.91 PB

Isabel Purgavie (swimming for  DX)

100m BC  40^th  1:08.06

50m BC 29^th 31.53 PB

200m BC  27^th 2:24.35 PB

 

Mike Brett

Chief Coach