Regional title for swimmer

Newark Swimming Club’s Alice Thomas has been crowned regional champion after a victory in the Midland Youth Championships in Coventry.

Alice won the women’s 16-years-and-over 100m breaststroke final in a time of 1-15.68.

She also competed in four other events — the 200m freestyle, 200m individual medley, 50m breaststroke and 200m breaststroke — reaching the final in three of them.

She added a second and a fourth place to her win in the 100m breaststroke.

Alice Thomas results, 16-years-and-over 100m breaststroke final: 1st, 1.15.68; 200m freestyle: 17th, 2.18.72; 200m individual medley final: 7th, 2.31.71; 50m breaststroke final: 4th, 36.06secs; 200m breaststroke final: 2nd, 2.41.54.

Alice recorded two wins for Newark Swimming Club in the final round of the Spring Competition.

The club achieved ten wins and seven personal best times to finish second overall.

Also recording individual wins were Ruth Money (2) Josh Barker (2) Lewis Illsley and Benjamin Palmer.

There were two team wins in the 12-and-under boys’ relay and the mixed cannon.

The swimmers performed well overall with a large number of second places to add to the wins.

Results, Spring Competition, Bramcote: 1 CABSC 231pts; 2 Newark 207pts; 3 Falcon 200pts; 4 Kimberley 152pts; 5 Northern 139pts.

Newark results (boys named first): Open 100m individual medley: 2 Jamie Scott 1.12.38; 1 Alice Thomas 1.11.21. Open 100m butterfly: 4 Jamie Scott 1.15.50; 5 Libby Carrington 1.28.83. Open 100m freestyle: 4 Oliver Carrington 1.08.33; 3 Charlotte Batterham 1.06.14. Open 100m backstroke: 2 Jamie Scott 1.12.25; 4 Charlotte Batterham 1.20.19. Open 100m breast-stroke: 4 Phil Nind 1.26.72; 1 Alice Thomas 1.20.66. Open 4x25m freestyle relay: 3 Jamie Scott, Ollie Carrington, Will Ballard, Phil Nind 55.6; 4 Alice Thomas, Laura Crosby, Libby Carrington, Charlotte Batterham 1.00.25.

9-years 4x25m freestyle: 3 Jacob Carrington, Joe McCallion, Matt Stevens, Elliot Snaith 1.20.55; 5 Frankie Gresswell, Olivia Whiteman, Emma Lucas, Sophie Trickett 1.29.50. Medley relay 4x25m: 2 Joe McCallion, Matt Stevens, Jacob Carrington, Elliot Snaith 1.30.11; 2 Olivia Whiteman, Emma Lucas, Frankie Gresswell, Sophie Trickett 1.36.57.

10-years 50m freestyle: 1 Lewis Illsley 36.22; 2 Olivia Mathias 35.94. 50m backstroke: 1 Josh Barker 40.6; 3 Olivia Mathias 42.61.

Ten-and-under 50m breast-stroke: 2 Lewis Illsley 51.08; 5 Laila Gane 58.47. 25m butterfly: 1 Josh Barker 18.24; 4 Laila Gane 22.32.

12-and-under 50m backstroke: 2 Simon Wathen 36.19; 1 Ruth Money 36.88. 50m breast-stroke: 1 Benjamin Palmer 44.99; 3 Grace Gourley 46.63. 50m butterfly: 3 Simon Wathen 39.72; 2 Grace Gourley 39.13. 50m freestyle: 3 Benjamin Palmer 32.91; 1 Ruth Money 32.94. 4x25m freestyle relay: 1 Lewis Illsley, Simon Wathen, Josh Barker, Benjamin Palmer 1.04.21; 3 Grace Gourley, Laila Gane, Olivia Mathias, Ruth Money 1.08.44.

14-and-under 100m breast-stroke: 2 Will Ballard 1.28.42; 4 Chloe Palmer 1.32.99. 50m butterfly: 2 Andy Sanger 33.35; 3 Libby Carrington 38.11. Freestyle 100m: 2 Andy Sanger 1.07.86; 2 Laura Crosby 1.09.52. 100m backstroke: 2 Simon Wathen 1.23.09; 4 Chloe Palmer 1.26.91. 100m individual medley: 2 Will Ballard 1.19.94; 3 Laura Crosby 1.20.05. 4x25m freestyle relay: 2 Simon Wathen, Will Ballard, Andy Sanger, Benjamin Palmer 58.57; 4 Laura Crosby, Chloe Palmer, Libby Carrington, Ruth Money 1.02.90.

Mixed-age 10x25m cannon: 1 Jacob Carrington, Josh Barker, Benjamin Palmer, Andy Sanger, Philip Nind, Frankie Gresswell, Olivia Mathias, Grace Gourley, Chloe Palmer, Charlotte Batterham 2.40.36.

Five members of Calverton and Bingham Swimming Club were in action in the Rotherham Metro Masters.

They collected five gold medals, five silver and two bronze.

Rachel Berryman won silvers in the 50m and 100m breaststroke, just missing gold in the 100m by 0.01 seconds.

Shelley Davis collected two silvers in the 50m butterfly and freestyle.

Vicki Schinagl swam in the 100m freestyle, before taking on the tough 400m freestyle where she finished fifth.

Matt Brentley, returning to competition after about 12 years, competed in five events and posted some excellent times to set the benchmark for future competitions.

He won gold in the 100m breaststroke, silver in the 50m breast-stroke, and bronze in the 200m individual medley and 50m freestyle.

Mark Patterson won four gold medals in the 100m butterfly, 200m individual medley, 50m and 200m freestyle.

Subject to approval, his 100m butterfly time is an East Midlands record.