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Ella Greatbatch continues domination of 15-year-old breaststroke events as Bishop's Stortford Swimming Club complete Hertfordshire County Championships




Ella Greatbatch continued her domination of the 15-year-old breaststroke events when Bishop's Stortford Swimming Club completed the Hertfordshire County Championships in style.

She took the age-group gold, the Junior Championship gold and the county best time in the 50m breaststroke on the final weekend.

Her outstanding performances across the first two weekends and the addition of silver in the 200m individual medley and fourth place in the 400m freestyle helped her be crowned the county's top 15-year-old girl.

Ella Greatbatch (63082180)
Ella Greatbatch (63082180)

Stortford secured 14 more age-group medals - one gold, eight silver and five bronze - 34 top-eight finishes, two Championship relay golds and a bronze 15/under relay medal at the last meet as they ended the campaign in a superb fourth place out of the 19 Herts clubs behind big names Hatfield, Watford and City of St Albans.

Four other Stortford swimmers also had the privilege of being in the top eight in their age groups: Kirsty Neill (3rd, 16+ years), Brandon Macdonald-Williams (4th, 15 years), Callum Cox (4th, 16+ years) and Dylan Davenport (5th, 14 years).

There were more swimmers with success in the Hertfordshire Junior (15yr and under) and Open Championship (10yr and over) awards. Lucy Wheeler took gold in the 200m freestyle Championship final as did Jago Derrington Bronze in the 400m freestyle Championship. Macdonald-Williams had an outstanding 400m IM swim, dropping a whopping 29 seconds off his previous personal best, to secure Junior Championship silver, with Greatbatch doing the same in the 200m IM.

Guy Spearman-Baines (63082186)
Guy Spearman-Baines (63082186)

Guy Spearman-Baines, one of Stortford's youngest competitors, was in superb form in the 50m breaststroke as he achieved a two-second PB of 48.23sec to qualify seventh for the 10/11 final where he valiantly battled to take bronze in a new PB of 47.17.

Both 12-year-old swimmers in action also achieved PBs to reach the finals of their events as Eddy Cheng finished fifth in the 50m breaststroke (46.25) and Lois Fields sixth in the 50m backstroke (39.05).

Yet again the relays were some of the most exciting moments of the weekend and BSSC had six teams with top-eight finishes, including two gold and one bronze.

The mixed Championship 200m medley team of Niamh James, Callum Davis, Cox and Laura Burgess were chased down by Hatfield in the final leg before holding them off to take gold by less than one second.

From left, Emma Fields, Lucy Wheeler, Niamh James, Callum Cox and Callum Davis (63082184)
From left, Emma Fields, Lucy Wheeler, Niamh James, Callum Cox and Callum Davis (63082184)

The women's Championship 200m freestyle team of Wheeler, Imogen Tang, Emma Fields and Burgess pipped Hatfield by just 0.05sec as the latter kept her composure on the anchor leg.

Burgess was the club's anchor supremo as she brought three Championship relay teams home to secure gold medals.



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