Bournemouth Summer Splash Report
27 Jul 2019
Last weekend saw a large Eastleigh team of 46 swimmers competing in Swim Bournemouth's Summer Splash Open Meet.
For many of our swimmers, this was the final competition of the season and, continuing the great form they've shown this year, they won bundles of medals, broke loads of PBs and set three new butterfly Club Records.
Special congratulations to our three club record breakers. On the day that Adam Peaty became the first man under 57 seconds for 100m breaststroke, George became Eastleigh's first ever swimmer under 27 seconds for 50m butterfly, setting a new club record of 26.88 seconds with a gold medal winning performance. A sensational swim and a barrier that George had been aiming to break for a number of months. In the girls' 100m butterfly, Jodie lowered her own club record by 0.08 seconds, winning gold in a new time of 1:09.81. And Matthew smashed his PB by over 2 seconds to break Freddie's club record in the boys' 11/under 100m butterfly, setting a new time of 1:16.78, winning gold.
Top of the table for medallists was Fraser, with five golds from five events in the boys' 13 years age group. His 100m freestyle in particular was a great swim and he's edging closer to becoming our next swimmer to break the 1 minute barrier. With four golds each, we had George, Matthew, Phoebe, Evie T, Alana and Emily L. Ellena, Emily P, Mukund and Jodie won three golds each. Two golds were won by Nathan, Finlay, Freya M, Jess I and Jacob. And congratulations to Rhyseren, Aiden and Elliot who won one gold each.
In addition to our gold medal event winners, our swimmers won many silver and bronze medals. Congratulations to Jorja, Ollie, Victoria Bu, Isaac, Lolah, Isla, Jess D, Sophie and Liam for their medals.
We also had a lot of swimmers who smashed their personal best times, a reflection of the hard work they've put into training in recent months and well deserved. Its great to see those swimmers so delighted with their swims. The biggest PB demolitions were achieved by:
- Aiden smashed an amazing 24 seconds off his 100m IM PB and 16 seconds off his 100m butterfly PB.
- Jorja shattered her 100m breaststroke PB by 11 seconds
- Jennifer took a huge 10 seconds off her 100m freestyle PB
- Ffion demolished her 100m freestyle PB by 7 seconds
- Finlay took 6 seconds off both his 200m IM and 100m freestyle PBs
- Evie L broke her 50m backstroke PB by 6 seconds
- Maisie smashed 6 seconds off her 200m Breastsroke PB and 5 seconds off her 100m IM PB
- Matthew knocked 6 seconds off his 200m IM PB, going under 3 minutes for the first time, and 5 seconds off his 200m freestyle PB
- Nathan shattered his 100m butterfly PB by 3 seconds
- Zoha knocked 4 seconds off her 50m butterfly PB
- Alana took 4 seconds off her 50m backstroke PB
- Rosie beat her 200m freestyle PB by 4 seconds
- Elliot smashed his 50m breaststroke PB by 4 seconds
- Jess I knocked 3 seconds off her 100m breaststroke PB
- Emily S took 3 seconds off her 100m freestyle PB
- Evie T beat her 200m IM PB by 3 seconds
- Mali broke her 100m IM PB by 3 seconds
- Pippa took 2 seconds off her 100m backstroke PB
All these swimmers were beating personal best times they'd achieved in previous Open Meets. We also had a lot of first time swims for our younger (and some older) competitors, trying out events for the very first time and setting their very first personal bests in those events.
Finally, well done to those swimmers for whom this was their last competition with Eastleigh Swim Club. We'll miss you!