Our swimmers have got off to a very promising start to the Surrey Age Group Championships 2023 held at Surrey Sports Park last weekend 21/22 January .
After first four sessions ( out of scheduled eight ) we have two new Club Records , three medals , and nine top 8 finishes .
The Club Records were set by our youngest and oldest members of the team :
Ginevra Longo in the girls 10 years age group 50m backstroke event in a time of 37.64
Giles Cunningham in the boys 17&over age group 50m butterfly event in a time of 27.66.
The medalls were won by :
Virgile Alexandre ( 17&over years age group ) – silver in 1500 Freestyle
Ginevra Longo ( 10/11 years age group ) – bronze in 50 Backstroke
Max Sochovsky ( 14 years age group ) – bronze in 200 Freestyle
Our finalists / top 8 finishers were :
Rahul Bansal ( 13 years age group ) – 5th in 100 and 200 freestyle , 6th in 400 freestyle , and 7th in 50 fly and 200 backstroke events
Max Sochovsky ( 14 years age group ) – 4th in 400 freestyle and 7th in 200 backstroke events
Ginevra Longo ( 10/11 years age group ) – 4th in 100 backstroke
Giles Cunningham ( 17&over ) – 5th in 200 backstroke
Alexandre Virgile ( 17&over ) – 6th in 400 freestyle
Well done to all our medallists , finalists and qualifiers : Declan Martin , Alessandro Yu Spagnolo, Luke Curle , George Harvey , Jack Clements , Tane Dyce-Crichlow and Oliver Cunningham for some of whom this was the very first experience of not only racing in the 50m pool but at the County level as well .
We are looking forward to the 2nd part of the Surreys on 4th / 5th February .
Let’s keep up the good work !