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Swimming: A really great Knight for Liam
City of Peterborough Swimming Club (COPS) member Liam Knight put in a tremendous performance at the City of Sheffield ?No Frills? long course meet ahead of this weekend?s Regional Championships in Norwich.
City of Peterborough Swimming Club (COPS) member Liam Knight put in a tremendous performance at the City of Sheffield ?No Frills? long course meet ahead of this weekend?s Regional Championships in Norwich.Knight (14) took the gold medals in the 400m individual medley and 100m backstroke events, silver in the 200m individual medley, backstroke and breaststroke events and bronze medals in the 100m butterfly and breaststroke events.
In total Knight set eight new personal best times in the nine events he swam in and these times were also new club record times.
More importantly for Knight and the club is that seven of the times met the qualification standard for the National Swimming Championships.
Knight was one of a squad of 24 swimmers that went up to Sheffield to put in some last-minute long course preparation for the upcoming Regional Championships.
Several of them came away with honours and records, while two of the squad had the additional treat of sharing the pool with Britain?s double Olympic champion Becky Adlington.
Fourteen-year-olds Jo Longland and Ellen Williams were both in the 800m freestyle event in the heat before Becky swam.
Being the last event of the day Becky Adlington thought she would be last on poolside but she was surprised to find Longland and Williams still ?warming down? and she took time out to talk to the girls about their swimming.
Club captain Charlie Walker (18) took gold in the 200m freestyle, silver in the 100m freestyle and bronze in the 50m freestyle and backstroke events.
Walker, who is preparing to represent the Philippines at the World Short Course Championships in Rome this summer, also set five qualifying times for the National Championships.
Thirteen-year-old Zara Bailey also set National qualifying times in four of her seven events with three of those times qualifying as new club records.
COPS' other medal winners were 12-year-old Molly Norman, who took a bronze medal in the 100m butterfly and freestyle events and Mitchell Pears (11), who took silver in the 200m breaststroke in a new club record time.
Club records were also set by Charlotte Harrison (14) in the 50m butterfly, Joanne Longland in the 50m freestyle, and Gemma Simpson (17) in the 50m butterfly event.
Deepings Swimming Club member William Holland-Leavens made it into two finals at the British International Disability Swimming Championships held at Ponds Forge in Sheffield.
The championships also incorporated the selection trials for the British Gas squad that will compete at the European Championships in Reykjavik later this year.
Holland-Leavens qualified for the 100m breaststroke and 50m butterfly finals - finishing seventh and ninth respectively - and he also went on to achieve a new long course personal best in the 50m freestyle event.
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