News 2009 IPC Swimming European Championships 2009 Day 6 Saturday 24 October 2009 - Jonathan Fox gold medal and European record in the men’s S7 100m Backstroke! The British Gas Disability Swimming Team signed off from the IPC Swimming European Championships with a total of 39 gold, 32 silver and 23 bronze medals to top the medal table. On the final day of competition the British Gas swimmers won six gold, six silver and three bronze medals with the gold medallists consisting of the men’s 34 point relay team, Jonathan Fox, Sam Hynd, the women’s 34 point relay team, Louise Watkin and Nyree Lewis. The women’s 34 point 4x100m Freestyle relay saw the British Gas team, which consisted of Stephanie Millward, Eleanor Simmonds, Lauren Steadman and Louise Watkin, smash the European record by sixteen seconds. Millward got the team off to an excellent start and Simmonds looked impressive throughout her leg as she put the team within the grasp of the record. Steadman powered through the water on the penultimate leg and Watkin anchored the team and brought them home in a time of 4:35.45. “It is really amazing to have won that race,” Steadman said. “We all worked really hard as a team. We had heard what the boys had done and it really inspired us out there. We were racing the clock for a lot of that race but we got the European record and next we will look at the world record.” The silver medal was won by Russia in 4:52.18 and Germany won bronze in 4:56.78. Jonathan Fox concluded his individual swimming programme with a gold medal and a European record in the men’s S7 100m Backstroke. Fox swam a perfectly timed race and led the field early on. He had a strong turn and extended his lead through the final 50m. The British Gas swimmer lowered his own European record after touching the wall in a time of 1:12.48. “I just went out there tonight wanting to do my best and I got a two second personal best,” Fox said. “I am really pleased with the time. I tried to go for the world record but I am really proud of what I have done and I am really proud to represent the team here.” Silver was won by Mihovil Spanja (Croatia) in 1:14.10 and the bronze medal went to Dino Sinovcic (Croatia) in 1:17.80. The British Gas team secured all places on the podium for the third time in the competition in the men’s SM8 200m Individual Medley. It was Sam Hynd that took the gold after putting in an excellent Breaststroke leg to take the lead and showed his skill to extend it through the Freestyle. Hynd touched in a time of 2:28.18 and said “This is an absolutely fantastic feeling to have everyone on the podium. We all raced really well and it felt great having everyone sing the national anthem too. “That was a great finish for me and I couldn’t really ask for anymore. Having that gold medal around your neck, the rose in your hand and the national anthem playing is just something else. I can’t really explain the feelings you have when you are on the top of the podium.” It was Richard Howard that took the silver medal in a time of 2:32.17 and Thomas Young won the bronze in 2:34.34. The men’s 34 point 4x100m Freestyle relay saw the British Gas team seal an excellent gold medal. Matthew Walker, Graham Edmunds, Jonathan Fox and Robert Welbourn fought to secure the victory and were pushed all the way by the Spanish team. Through the final 50m Welbourn was challenged but held his nerve and kept his head down to touch the wall in a time of 3:58.50. “The good thing about this team is that we are always up for the big events,” Edmunds said. “We lost Dave Roberts through injury and that meant that Jonathan Fox had to step in and he more than proved himself this week with his excellent performances. “It is always brilliant hearing the national anthem and it was great hearing all of the supporters singing it with us.” The silver medal went to Spain in 4:00.00 and Ukraine won the bronze in 4:02.26. Louise Watkin won her fourth European title in the women’s S9 100m Freestyle after beating team-mate Stephanie Millward to the touch. Watkin turned in second place and it was Millward that benefitted from a strong turn and moved into the lead ahead of her team-mate. But Watkin showed an excellent back end to the race to take the victory on the wall as she finished in 1:03.44. “This is the best gold that I have won this week,” Watkin said. “This was the one that I was really hoping for. This morning didn’t go to plan but after some rest it went much better this evening.” Millward won the silver in a time of 1:03.65 and the bronze went to Sarai Gascon Moreno (Spain) in a time of 1:04.87. Lauren Steadman finished in fifth place in 1:07.24. Nyree Lewis became European Champion in the women’s S6 100m Backstroke after swimming excellently to take her first title of the competition. Lewis was behind for the first 25m but pulled it back just before the 50m mark and she capitalised on a strong turn to put more distance between herself and the field. Lewis touched in a time of 1:27.33 which was six seconds ahead of the swimmer in second place. “I am really pleased with that performance,” Lewis said. “It has been a really long week waiting for this and I really wanted to get in there and prove that I can come back from last year and get the times this year.” Anastasia Diordorova (Russia) won the silver in 1:33.68 and bronze went to Julia Castello Farre (Spain) in 1:36.55. Elizabeth Johnson finished in fifth place in 1:42.90. Heather Frederiksen and Emma Hollis won the silver and bronze respectively in the women’s SM8 200m Individual Medley. Frederiksen finished in 2:48.07 and Hollis touched in 3:06.72. Charlotte Henshaw finished in fourth in 3:09.71. Anthony Stephens finished his European Championships with silver in the men’s S5 200m Freestyle. Stephens swam well and touched in 2:42.22. Lauren Hobbins won her second medal of the competition in the women’s S13 100m Freestyle in a time of 1:06.49. Jim Anderson finished his European campaign in the men’s S2 50m Backstroke and swam to the silver medal in a time of 1:10.34. On his medal Anderson said: “I am really pleased to have won that. I was quite down after my performance last night but this has brought me right back up.” In a race that saw two swimmers tie for the gold medal, British Gas swimmer Robert Welbourn won the bronze medal. Competing in the men’s S10 100m Freestyle, Welbourn touched home in 54.91. Graham Edmunds finished in fifth place in 55.29. Sascha Kindred finished in fourth in the men’s S6 100m Backstroke in a time of 1:22.21. Head Coach Lars Humer commented on his team’s performance throughout the competition: “It was great to finish the event with the two relay performances. This has been a great result for all of us and it was down to a real team effort. “What was really pleasing is that we had a crop of youngsters that stood up here and did a good job but we also saw good performances from some of our other athletes too. “We achieved the medal target that was agreed with UK Sport and that is down to the support we receive from them and our other partners. “We are aware that the whole of Europe is moving on but we finished on the top of the medal table which shows that we are keeping ahead of the developments. Looking forward we need to make sure that our rate of improvement is as good as everyone else’s.” British Gas swimmer Matthew Whorwood summed up the evening’s performance. “The evening went very well for us,” Whorwood said. “The Ukraine team had a really good start to the night but we really worked hard and brought it back and had a one, two and three half way through the night. I think some of the swimmers may be a little disappointed but we managed to bring it back. I am really proud of my team-mates tonight.” Top IPC Swimming European Championships - BRITISH DOMINATION CONTINUES Eleanor Simmonds clinched her fourth title as Great Britain continued their dominant performance of the IPC European Swimming Championships in Reykjavik, Iceland. Heather Frederiksen, Matthew Walker, Louise Watkin and Daniel Pepper also won titles as Britain claimed five gold, six silver and three bronze medals on the fifth day of competition. Double Paralympic champion Simmonds claimed the women's S6 100 metres freestyle title in one minute 17.57 seconds, beating team-mate Natalie Jones to the wall. The 14-year-old Swansea Performance swimmer, who has Achondroplasia (dwarfism), said: "I am really happy to have won that because every time I get in to race I want to win. "It is so great to have won that. I have moved on from Beijing because I have come here and won four gold medals instead of the two." Frederiksen won the women's S9 100m butterfly title in 1min 16.33secs for her third medal of the event. Team-mate Emma Hollis won bronze. Walker touched out Jonathan Fox as Britain claimed a one-two in the men's S7 100m freestyle. Watkin took her third gold medal of the competition in the women's S9 50m freestyle, with Claire Cashmore taking bronze. Pepper won the SM14 200m individual medley, with Ben Procter taking silver and Natalie Massey was second in the corresponding women's event. Richard Howard was second in the men's S8 100m butterfly, the men's 20-point 4x50m freestyle relay team of James Anderson, Matthew Whorwood, Sascha Kindred and Anthony Stephens also took silver and Graham Edmunds took bronze in the men's S10 50m freestyle. Top IPC Swimming European Championships second day - Matt Whorwood wins a second Bronze in the 100m Breaststroke The British Gas Disability Swimming team added eleven medals to their already impressive medal tally after some strong performance on the second day of competition at the IPC Swimming European Championships. The Brits sealed an impressive gold and silver in the women’s SB6 100m Breaststroke as Charlotte Henshaw won her first European title. Henshaw was pushed all the way to her victory by team-mate Liz Johnson and after they both got off to good starts they were swimming stroke for stroke at the 25m mark but Henshaw started to move ahead as they approached the wall. After the turn Henshaw had a small advantage over the world record holder and dug in to extend it through the final quarter of the race. Henshaw finished in 1:40.50 to win her gold medal and Johnson touched in 1:41.36 to take the silver. “I lowered my personal best this morning,” Henshaw said. “It hasn’t really sunk in yet that I have won but I am really happy to have won it because it has been a long time coming. “I have moved back to Nottingham and that has really helped me because I am more relaxed and it helped me bring out that performance today.” Johnson commented: “I am disappointed for Mark [Skimming], who is my new coach, because he has worked so hard to include me in the programme in Bath. But I know that I did everything that he asked and I couldn’t thank him more. However, I couldn’t have got the medal if I hadn’t got the work under my belt with Billy [Pye].” The bronze medal went to Ukraine’s Oksana Khrul in 1:47.82. Multi Paralympic medallist Louise Watkin became European Champion for the first time in the women’s SM9 200m Individual Medley. It was Spain’s Sarai Gascon Moreno that went out fastest from the start but Watkin swam an excellent Breaststroke leg to pull back some of the lead. The British Gas Swimmer’s turn onto Freestyle was excellent as she took over the lead and she showed her strength to push ahead and win the gold in a time of 2:38.52. Poland’s Paulina Kamilla Wozniak won the silver in 2:40.85 and Emilie Gral (France) won bronze in 2:41.27. Brits Kate Grey and Lauren Steadman finished in fifth and sixth respectively. Grey touched in 2:44.22 and Steadman finished in 2:46.40. Anthony Stephens swam impressively to take the gold medal in the men’s S5 50m Butterfly and broke the British record along on the way. Stephens showed his strength from the start and although he was behind at the half way point he fought hard and dug deep as he touched the wall first to take the gold in a new personal best time of 42.15. “That was really unexpected,” Stephens said. “My main event is the 200m Freestyle and so to get the title in this event is great. “I have never been European Champion before and to hear the national anthem was brilliant. We changed my stroke technique just last week and it really seems to have paid off here.” The silver went to Spain’s Ricardo Ten Argiles in 42.79 and team-mate Xavier Torres Rami won the bronze in 47.04. Sascha Kindred and Thomas Young did battle for the medals in the men’s SB7 200m Individual Medley. Young, who is competing at his first international competition, got off to a good start and was on the world record holder’s shoulder up to the 40m mark. European silver medallist Young moved ahead of Kindred just before the turn and although they both enjoyed strong turns it was Young that remained ahead. But after a disqualification for a technical infringement Kindred took the title in a time of 1:24.15 with Iaroslav Semenenko (Ukraine) winning silver in 1:29.50. Bronze went to Rusian Sadvaksov (Russia) in 1:32.70. Eleni Papadopoulos, who won her first major international medal yesterday, went into the final of the women’s SM10 200m Individual Medley looking confident. Papadopoulos knew team-mate Emma Cattle and Elodie Lorandi (France) would put up tough competition. Lorandi secured the gold medal in the final 10m and touched home in a time of 2:42.19 and Papadopoulos won her second silver of the competition after finishing in 2:43.57. “I am really shocked,” Papadopoulos said. “I thought I was in third and I looked at the score board and I saw that it said second. I went into it ranked third and came out with silver and a personal best which is great. “To have medalled in my two main events is a real boost for me. My confidence is really growing at the moment and I am really happy.” The bronze was won by Nina Ryabova (Russia) in 2:44.18 and British Gas swimmer Emma Cattle touched in 2:45.99 in sixth place. Emma Hollis, who is making her European Championship debut, took an impressive silver medal in the women’s SB7 100m Breaststroke. Lisa Den Braber (Holland) took the lead early on and dominated the race and she had the gold medal secured after touching in 1:34.57. Hollis touched in 1:43.29 to knock two seconds off her British record and win the silver medal. The bronze went to Germany’s Annika Geller in 1:56.06. Paralympic Champion Robert Welbourn lowered the British record on his way to winning bronze in the men’s SM10 200m Individual Medley. Welbourn started the race well but as the race entered the final 50m he lay in fourth and knew he had to work hard to secure a medal. He showed his power through the Freestyle leg and touched home in third place and lowered his British record to 2:19.36. “That was pretty good,” Welbourn said. “I do the IM as a way to get the meet started for me, to get a race under my belt. I came into the event ranked in third but there are a few of us that are really close and you never know what is going to happen so I never really expected it.” The new European Champion is Lucas Ludwig of Germany after he stopped the clock in a new European record time of 2:15.95. The silver medallist is Sven Decaesstecker (Belgium) in 2:17.73. European bronze medallist Matthew Whorwood won his second bronze medal of the competition after putting in an excellent performance in the men’s SB6 100m Breaststroke. Whorwood swam a well timed race as he moved up the field in the final 50m to take the bronze medal in a time of 1:31.91. Croatia’s Milhovil Spanja won the gold ahead of Germany’s Christoph Burkard who won the silver medal. Spanja finished in 1:27.46 and Burkard touched in 1:27.56. Claire Cashmore won her first medal of the Championships in the women’s SB6 100m Breaststroke after finishing in third place in a race that knocked three seconds off the world record. Cashmore fought hard and secured her bronze after finishing in 1:23.61 just 0.12 seconds off silver medal position. The new world record holder is Olesya Vladykina (Russia) and she won the gold in 1:17.60. The silver medal went to Paulina Kamila Wozniak (Poland) in 1:23.53. European Champions James Anderson won bronze in the men’s S2 200m Freestyle to add to the gold medal that he won in the 50m Freestyle. At the half way point Anderson was behind the field but showed a good back end to the race and he moved up to third place. Anderson won the bronze in 5:10.49 with Itzhak Mamistvalov (Israel) winning the race in 5:06.67 and Dmitry Kokarev (Russia) taking bronze in 5:07.67. David Hill finished just outside of the medals in the men’s SM9 200m Individual Medley after finishing in sixth place in a time of 2:30.36. In the women’s SB13 saw Lauren Hobbins finish in eighth place overall after touching home in a time of 1:30.96. The men’s SB8 100m Breaststroke saw both Sam Hynd and Richard Howard finish outside of the medals. Hynd finished in sixth place in 1:15.44. Head Coach Lars Humer enjoyed seeing another successful day in the pool: “We saw a lot of personal bests today from a lot of athletes which shows progression and for us that is really important. “One of the things we worked hard on in the last quadrennial was the development of the race and we are seeing the benefit of that here. The finishing of a lot of races has been really strong and we are winning the really close races which is great. “We are also seeing a lot of youngsters coming through which is really good. Emma [Hollis], Eleni [Papadopoulos] and Thomas [Young] have worked really hard and performed really well. Charlotte [Henshaw] is another athlete that has showed a lot of promise through the last quadrennial and it is beginning to show through.” Top BRITISH GAS TEAM GET EUROPEAN CAMPAIGN OFF TO STRONG START 18 Oct 2009 at the IPC Swimming European Championships in Reykjavik with Jon Fox Striking Gold in the 400m Free and Matt Whorwood coming home with a bronze The British Gas Disability Swimming team that are competing at the IPC Swimming European Championships in Reykjavik enjoyed success on day one of competition as they won four gold, four silver and three bronze medals. Double Paralympic Champion Eleanor Simmonds dominated the final of the women’s S6 400m Freestyle as she won her first European title. Simmonds lay down a marker to the rest of the field in this morning’s heats as she took charge her heat after putting in a good performance. Paralympic medallists Natalie Jones and Nyree Lewis also secured their places in the final after swimming strongly in their heats. In the final, Simmonds went out quickly and she looked strong throughout the race but found Jones on her shoulder for the first 50m. Simmonds got into her rhythm and took out the lead over her team-mate. At the 100m mark, Simmonds and Jones lay in one and two and Lewis lay in fourth place behind Sarah Louise Rung (Norway). Simmonds touched home in a time of 5:37.31 to win the gold medal and secure her first European title. “I am really happy to have the title and the gold medal,” Simmonds said. “But I did want to go faster in my final because I felt really good in my heat this morning.". “I did know I was in the lead but I race better when I have someone pushing me along but it was good to win the race by that much.” Jones continued to show her strength and finished in a new personal best time of 5:54.77 to win the silver medal. The battle for bronze was won by Rung in a time of 5:55.54 and Lewis finished in fourth in 6:06.75. Jones commented: “That was a seven second personal best for me which is just great. The first 100m I was feeling it and I had pins and needles but I just told myself to push on and get through it. I am really pleased with the silver, I am so happy.” One of the closest fought races of the night was the final of the men’s S7 400m Freestyle and it saw Jonathan Fox take on Croatia’s Mihovil Spanja. Both athletes got excellent starts but it was the British Gas swimmer that touched in first place at the 50m mark. But Spanja pulled it back to take over the lead at the next turn.The next 200m saw Fox on Spanja’s shoulder as the two athletes fought to get an advantage over their rival. It was in the final 100m that the athletes were swimming stroke for stroke and Fox turned first for the final 50m. Fox touched in a time of 4:56.18 to take the gold medal and Spanja finished in second in a time of 4:56.54. “That was a tough race and winning the gold medal has left me a bit speechless,” Fox said. “I just wanted to get out there and give it a bash. I got a good start and went out there fast and just tried to hold on to my speed. “It worked for me and I feel really proud and happy to have won the title.” The bronze medal went to Nikolas Tsotras (Greece) in 5:17.41. Stephanie Millward put in a commanding performance in the final of the women’s S9 100m Butterfly as she swam close to her European record to win the gold medal. Millward swam an excellent first 50m and turned ahead of the field. Her team-mates Claire Cashmore and Elizabeth Simpkin also swam well through the first 50m but Spain’s Sarai Gascon Moreno lay in second place as the race entered the final length.Millward secured the gold medal with a time of 1:10.78 just 0.17 seconds outside of her personal best. “It was a good swim but a really tough race for me physically,” Millward said. “I went into the race worrying about the other competitors and when you let those doubts in you know it won’t necessarily go to plan.“But it was good although it would have been nice to have broken my European record but maybe another day. I am ecstatic to be champion.” Cashmore turned in third place but found the speed too much and dropped through the field to fifth as she touched in 1:15.35. Simpkin swam an impressive final 50m as she moved up to third place and as she stopped the clock on 1:13.58 to win the bronze medal.“I felt really good in the final,” Simpkin said. “My heat was really bad and I was really disappointed with my performance but I went back to the hotel and picked myself up ready for the final. “My third 25m in my heat was my worst and so I went into the final knowing that I had to improve it. So I hit that third 25m and went quicker and held it for the fourth. I really believed in myself for that final and that really helped me.” Gascon Moreno won the silver medal in a time of 1:10.88. Jim Anderson started his European campaign well after winning the gold medal in the men’s S5 50m Freestyle. Anderson didn’t get the best start but his experience showed through as he moved into the lead in the final 25m and secured his first gold medal in five years with a time of 1:09.24.“I feel wonderful,” Anderson said. “I didn’t get a great start but I knew I just had to go for it after that and I managed to pull it back. “I want more gold medals from the rest of this competition.”The silver medal went to Poland’s Jacek Czech in 1:09.59 and the bronze was won by Russia’s Dmitry Kokarev in 1:09.61 Anthony Stephens swam close to his British record in the men’s S5 50m Freestyle on his way to winning the silver medal. Stephens swam a powerful race and he touched home in time of 34.87 to secure his silver medal. “That wasn’t my best swim because I was aiming to lower my personal best,” Stephens said. “My heat was quicker than my final which made me think I was going to go quicker in the final.“I am happy with the medal and it is great to get the competition off to such a good start. I am happy to have won silver in an event that isn’t my main event.” Sebastian Rodriguez Veloso (Spain) won the gold medal in a time of 33.88 and the bronze medal went to Hayri Simsek (France) in 36.51. Eleni Papadopoulos, who is competing in her first major international competition, put in an impressive performance in the final of the women’s S10 100m Butterfly to win the silver medal.Papadopoulos moved into second place after the first 25m and knew she just had to keep her paceup to ensure her place on the podium. The British Gas swimmer worked hard over the final 50m and secured her silver medal in a time of 1:13.82. Papadopoulos said after her race: “I am really chuffed with myself. I had a really good time in the race and I have been feeling really strong over the past few days. I have three more races to come this week and I am feeling really good for them. “I am so motivated at the moment and I am really pleased to have come to my first major international and won a medal.” The gold medal was won by Elodie Lorandi (France) in a time of 1:10.89 and the bronze medal went to Anna Omielan (Poland) in 1:16.43. .The men’s S8 100m Backstroke saw two British Gas swimmers fight it out for medals alongsideRussia’s Konstantin Lisenkov. It was Lisenkov that had the better start but out the Brits Sean Fraser went out fastest. Thomas Young stole Fraser’s British record with an impressive heat swim so Fraser was out to take it back.Fraser turned ahead of Young at the 50m mark but Young brought it back through the final 25m ashe touched in second place behind Lisenkov in a new British record time of 1:08.48. “I am feeling pretty good after that,” Young said. “I had a down spell around last year’s Paralympics because I didn’t qualify and it knocked me. But I moved to Manchester and I now work with Mick [Massey] and I feel stronger and I have learnt from the mistakes I made last year.“You never know what is going to happen and so going into the final I just knew that I had a good chance of getting a medal after my heat swim and I just wanted to go for it. I am very happy to havewon my first major medal.” Fraser finished in third place just outside of his personal best time after touching in 1:09.52.Lisenkov took the gold medal in 1:07.10.Double Paralympic bronze medallist Matt Whorwood won bronze in the men’s S6 400m Freestyle after putting in a strong performance to lower the British record through the race. Whorwood got an excellent start and looked on course to break the British record early on. At the 100m mark the Brit lay in third place and although he faced an early challenge from Germany’s Swen Michaelis he proved too strong and drew out his lead.Anders Olsson had the gold medal sealed at 150m and so the battle was on for second place here Whorwood took on Ireland’s Darragh McDonald. It was McDonald that took the silver from the Brit after touching in 5:15.07 while Whorwood took bronze in the new record time of 5:16.67. “It was nice to get my personal best,” Whorwood said. “I have been trying to lower that for a while. This is my first major meet with my new coach Billy [Pye] and it was good to see how we worked here. “I went into the final ranked in third place and won bronze with a new British record there isn’t much more I can ask for. I did feel close to second but he just had a bit more than me. But it is still early into our cycle for 2012 and I won the first medal for the team which is great.”Olsson lowered his own world record and won the gold after finishing in 4:47.75. The British Gas swimmers competing in the men’s S10 100m Butterfly finished outside of the medals as they pushed to put in strong performances.Robert Welbourn took fourth place in the tough race as he touched home in 1:01.97 while Graham Edmunds finished in eighth in a time of 1:05.69. To sum up the first day of competition Head Coach Lars Humer said: “That has been a good day for us. Medal-wise we got as many as we would have expected because of the rankings. But more importantly we were seeing a lot of personal bests and season bests and it is great to have a first day like this. “The team will take a lot away from the day and after seeing such good races like Jonathan Fox’s which was such a close race I know it will install a lot of confidence in the team.” Top Carn Brea Open Meet - Golds and PB's for Cormorants Swimmers. The new swimming season got off to its usual start with the Carn Breas open swimming competition which was held at Penzance Leisure Centre. Newquay Cormorants had a fair crop of swimmers who entered the event and there was some very good individual performances. Jordan Horoyd gave a sparkling performance with 3 gold and 3 silver medals from her 6 race programme. The young 11 year old put her marker down to show her intent come the county age group championships in March. She showed a lot of maturity for one so young and like a good wine will get even better with age! Head Coach [Phil Goldman] said "Jordan has had her work cut out to step up to the next level in the last 4 weeks and it has already had a positive effect on her performances. By the time we reach the county championships she will have had a full training macro cycle and her improvement will be major". There were gold medal performances from Brogan Parsons who for the first time broke through the 1.20 barrier in the 100 meters breaststroke, and had several other medal winning performances. Cameron Russell is establishing himself as the fastest male in the county with an excellent gold medal swim in the 50 meters freestyle with a time a fraction outside his National time for next year he has set his target of making the National final next August . Jarrad Benny also showed he was looking for big improvement in March with personal best times in all his events including a gold medal swim in the 200 meters fly. Phil said the personal best performances now are telling that Jarrad is on a big upward curve. Little Jack Simmonds grabbed a clutch of silver and bronze and showed why he is a Mr Reliable! There were also some good first time swims from a number of swimmers having their first competition. Top British National Youth and Senior Swimming Championships - Best Medal Performance Ever! Newquay Cormorants club had a fantastic British National Youth and Senior Swimming Championships sponsored by British Gas and held at the the Ponds Forge pool Sheffield. The event lasted a full week and during it the Cormorants trio of Ben Procter, Jon Fox and Cameron Russell performed outstandingly, collecting many personal best times and gained 2 gold, 2 silver and 2 bronze National medals . The clubs best performance at these championships prior to this was a bronze medal position . Ben took gold in the 100 meters fly,silver in the 200 meters I M and had 2 bronze medals in both the 50 and 100 meters freestyle and was inside the British record on several swims in the multi disability events The club in the 100 meters M D 100 meters backstroke created an historical result with Jon Fox gaining gold and Ben taking the silver with a new British record with just the smallest of margins between them. Coach Phil Goldman said that It was a proud moment for us and the club to take the two top spots on the podium which was just reward for the preparation work that we put together. Cameron Russell in his first ever race at this level slashed over half a second of his personal best time smashing Callum Jarvis's Junior Cornwall County record by a massive 4 tenths of a second in the 50 meters freestyle and at 15 years old was one of the youngest competitors. He finished with a top five ranking position of the South West swimmers and Nationally gained a 23rd ranking position for his age. Phil Goldman said that it was a fine record swim and that if Cameron built on it for next year it could give him a National medal chance. The event brings to a close the swimming competition year which has been outstanding for the Newquay club starting in Beijing and finishing in Sheffield Top   Ben Procter Takes Gold and a New World Record at the Czech Republic Global Games! Newquay Cormorants 19 year old Ben Procter had a very large schedule in representing Great Britain at the Global Games held in the Czech Republic . The mini Olympic event was held over 10 days and consisted of 8 sports for sports persons with intellectual Disability. Ben was entered to swim in 8 individual events and 4. team relays for the G.B. team and with finals competed 24 times. He gained gold in both the 4 x 100 meters freestyle team and 4 x 200 meters freestyle the former in a new World Record leaving the hot favorites South Korea and South Africa to battle out for the other medals. Ben added 4 silver medals, taking second place in the 100 meters freestyle, 50 meters fly, 200 meters freestyle and the 4 x 50 meters freestyle team. Even though the young man was feeling such a heavy competition programme he added 3 bronze medals to his growing tally with resolute performances in the 200 meters I.M ,100 and the 4 x 100 meters team medley. In his other 3 events; the 50 meters freestyle, 100 meters and 50 meters back, Ben just missed the medals, finishing in all 3 events. His total of 2 gold 4 silver and 3 bronze made him the most successful swimmer at the games. Club coach [Phil Goldman] said "Ben had swam in his most competitive arena ever and and did himself, Great Britain and Newquay proud. He had a massive program and during it he had to see the Physiotherapist with a shoulder niggle. On reflection I feel that he should look towards cutting down to a one event a day plus relay schedule in future". Ben will next compete at the National Youth Championships at Sheffield where he will be joined by Newquay's Jonathan Fox, Cameron Russell and Matt Whorwood. Ben, Jon and Matt will be together again in October swimming for the G.B. Team in the European Long Course Championships in Reykjavik Iceland. Top Cormorants Summer Training Times Announcement: After Monday 24th July 2009 the summer training timetable will start, which is as follows: All groups Wednesdays only Development group 6pm to 6:30 pm Micro/Jnr/Snr Groups 6:30pm to 8pm Back to full training on the morning of Tuesday 1st September 2009. Top Work experience with the ASA... The Youth Sport Trust and ASA are looking to recruit one young person, who ideally would be between 18 and 25-years-old, to become a Young Official Development Officer within swimming – but they must get their application in by Friday 26th June 2009. Yvette Heywood, the ASA’s Volunteer Manager, said: “This is a brilliant opportunity for a young person to enhance their contacts within the swimming industry. “It will look great on their CV and will give them experience of a range of organisational skills, including time management, presentation skills and attending and conferences.” The role, which will cover approximately 30 hours per week, will begin in September 2009 for 40 weeks. Expenses of up to £60 a week are available for everyday expenses such as food, travel and subsistence, as well as up to £4,000 towards accommodation expenses. The ideal candidate would, among other attributes, have strong verbal and written communication skills and demonstrate genuine enthusiasm to work with young people. For a full job specification and more details please use this link http://asa.sportcentric.net/db/asa_front/view.php?id=1054 Top Jon and Ben Selected to Swim for GB.... Jonathan Fox and Ben Procter have both been selected to swim for Great Britain in the European Swimming Championships to take place in Reykjavik Iceland from 18th to 24th October 2009. The events that they will be competing in will be decided later in consultation with their coach [Phil Goldman] and British Swimming.. The selection was expected after their fine performance at the trials last week where they, along with club colleague Jessica Keast, all became National Champions. Phil Goldman [coach] said "Jon has a busy time with competing at the Paralympic World Cup in Manchester over the bank holiday, and then he is in Germany with the British team at the end of the week arriving back in Newquay on the 31st". Ben will be in the Czech Republic for the World Global Games between July 5th and 16th after which both boys will compete at the National Youth Championships at Sheffield from July 27th for the week. Jessica will be targeting the National Short Course Championships at the beginning of November as her next major goal, where Jon and Ben will join her after their exploits in Iceland... Top The International British D.S.E Swimming Championships. The International British D.S.E Swimming Championships at Ponds Forge, Sheffield, sponsored by the Nationwide Building Society, was a magnificent event for the Newquay Cormorants swimmers who produced a brilliant set of results. The event was also the qualifying event for the European Long Course Championships to be held in Iceland in October. Ben Procter stole the show and was unstoppable. The 19 year old broke 5 British records on his way to claiming gold in the 100 meters free, fly, back, 200 I.M.and the 50 free. Ben said his training had gone completely to plan with a good taper and he and his coach knew he was in for some very fast times. He will swim for Great Britain in the World Global Games in the Czech Republic as his next major event and will be a leading contender for the podium. Ben (Lane 4) Photo: Gordon Whorwood Jessica Keast claimed her first major gold medal with a massive swim in the 200 meters freestyle . Jess said "My coach stepped up my work since the new year to 6 sessions a week and its really starting to pay off and I was able to swim the race at even pace, having Phil with me helped me plan the race and I am delighted". Jonathan Fox, our silver medalist from Beijing in the S7 100 meters backstroke, was just half second outside his European record in claiming gold he was pleased with his performance after just coming back from Altitude training. Jon is back up to Manchester on Friday for the Paralympic World Cup and his events are scheduled to be televised Newquay's Matt Whorwood who is training at Swansea University where he is also studying, finished the programme with an excellent silver medal behind the gold medalist from Beijing Sasha Kindred in the 200 I.M. Top Highest Ever Club Points and a World Record in Bad Bergzabern... Newquay Cormorants achieved their highest ever finishing position at the very prestigious International Club Competition held for the 30th time in Bad Bergzabern Southern Germany. The Cormorants team put up the best performance from a U.K. team in the history of the event gaining 59 points and taking 10th place behind the overall winners China Swim Assn. 47 clubs took part from 27 nations, the competition providing awards for the top six swimmers in each age group event. Additionally, each swimmer in the top six gains points toward the club trophy. In previous years Cormorants had scored 7 pts 15 pts and last year 34 pts In the 11years age group Jordan Holroyd gained 4th in the freestyle clocking 1.14.86, 5th in the butterfly recording a time of 1.28.0 and 6th in the breaststroke with a 1.36.10 . Team mate Ellen Jenkins added to the points with a super freestyle swim taking 6th place in 1.15.34. Emily Harbisher in the 12 years age band took a well earned 5th place in the breaststroke, sister Natalie in the 15 years age group had a very good weekend picking up three 3rd places a 4th and a 5th . In the same age band Brogan Parsons worked hard in taking 3rd in the breaststroke. Emily Andrew had some good P.Bs without getting in the points in the 12 years band. Rhiannon Jones, Brogan Parsons and the Harbisher sisters added valuable points in the 4 x 100 medley team taking 6th. Ben Procter who although has a S14 disability class swam outstandingly in the able bodied programme smashing the World record for the 100 butterfly and also breaking the British Record for Backstroke. He PB'd in his other 3 events and collected 17 individual points! Frazer Fox in the 16 years age group pulled out a 57.33 to take 6th place in the freestyle. Frazer with team colleagues Jarrod Benny, Callum Roberts and Ben Procter gained 5th in the 4 x 100 I.M.team event, While the boys 4 x 100 free team of Procter, Fox, Roberts and Cameron Russell added more valuable points in taking 4th place. The final points score came from the 10 x 50 mixed team Fox, Procter. Roberts, Russell, and Benney with Natalie and Emily Harbisher, Brogan Parsons, Rhiannon Jones and Grace White putting up a super team performance in taking 5th place. Another honour that came Newquay's way was after the event had finished. At about 9.00 pm the Bergameister (mayor) of the town contacted coach Phil Goldman requesting that he bring the boy that broke the World Record to the Town Hall. At the town hall in the Bergameisters Office Ben was asked to sign the Golden Book a very old leather bound book that holds the signatures of persons that have historical records of note. Photgraphs were taken and we are now part of a historical record of the town. Such was the Cormorants impact on the event they have received invites to Portugal, Hungary U.S.A, Israel and Czech Republic. Top Golds for Newquay Swimmers in both the DSE British Junior Championships & the Counties... With the Cormorants swimmers competing on two different fronts over the weekend the stage was set for the Fox boys with paralympian Jonathan at the D.S.E. British Junior Swimming Championships at Sheffield, and younger brother 15 year old Frazer at the Cornwall Counties second weekend of the Swimming Championships. Jonathan was in outstanding form after his recent injury and took gold in all four events he competed in, smashing the World records in both the 50 and 100 meters backstroke. He added two lifetime best in the 50 and 100 meters freestyle to enter the world top six rankings in both. Younger brother Frazer added the 100 and 200 meters Junior County freestyle titles to his 400 and 800 meters titles from last week, again re-writing the county records book. Jarrad Benney was also in excellent shape adding the 400 I.M. County Junior title to his 200 fly title, and as a late developer is starting to show his potential. Coach Phil Goldman said that the development and improvement of the 15 to 19 years boy's age range is very pleasing and he puts the strength of this down to the the influence of the paralympic training programme that the boys are accessing. Ben Procter added a new British Record in the 200 meters freestyle and a European record in the 100 meters freestyle for the S14 disability class, and looks towards the Global Games in July as his main goal. Natalie Harbisher completely dominated the County Senior and Junior 200 meters butterfly with a massive swim, and had taken the gold and put it away before the silver medalist had finished such was her dominance. In the age groups of the same event Newquay showed their strength with Millie Sander 11 yrs & Emily Harbisher 12 yrs both taking gold, with Jordan Holroyd in the 10 yrs claiming silver. The final medal in the event went to 14 yr old Charlotte Scotland in in her first attempt at the 200 fly. She swam the race of her life to take the Senior and Junior bronze medal and looks a fine prospect for the future in the event. Brogan Parsons produced a massive personal best in claiming a Championship 100 meters breaststroke bronze and gave a performance that will threaten the opposition in Germany where she competes in the 14 yrs age group in ten days time. The brothers Angus and Dylon Scotney also got among the age group medals in the 50 metrers breast with Dylon gaining gold, and Angus the bronze in the 12yrs and 10 years ages respectively. Jack Semmonds in the 11 years age band added to the medal haul with a silver performance with a positive swim to bring the County Championships to a close. Emily Harbisher showed her class in the 100 meters 12 years age group breaststroke with a gold medal performance of maturity beyond her years. Jessica Keast who was up in Sheffield with Jon Fox contributed to the very successful weekend with a 10 second improvement in time in the 50 meters backstroke, taking gold in the S5 disability class. Her main target is the European trials and international long course British Championships in May. Top   Jon and Ben Smash World and British Records at the County Champs!... The Cormorants picked up a good quota of medals in the first half of the county swimming championships held at Penzance and Bodmin over the weekend, (28th Feb-1st Mar). Many of the performances of the team were very impressive in accumulating 10 Gold 17 Silver and 6 Bronze medal swims. Jonathan Fox was in Record breaking form taking the World and British record of 11 times Paralympic gold medallist Dave Roberts in the 50 meters backstroke class S7. Ben Procter took second place in the 100 meters Men's Championship and in so doing smashed the World record for the event for Disability class S14 and added the British record in the 50 meters backstroke. Pascal Latham S14 and Jessica Keast S5 SB4 also produced life time bests in gaining gold in their respective events. Jonathan and Jessica are at the D S E National Junior Short Course next weekend representing the South West in Sheffield. Emily Harbisher was in dominant mood collecting 5 golds and 3 silver from the 8 events she contested. Her best performances came in the multi stroke events where she completely outshone the opposition in both the 200 and 400 meters 12 years age band. Jordan Holroyd in the 10 years age group has improved alarmingly with a super 200 back gold medal performance some three and a half seconds inside last years winning time. The young lady added 2 Silver and a Bronze to her growing collection. 11 year old Millie Sander collected gold in the 400 meters I.M. with a time that says 'National Swimmer' for the event in the future. She also gained a pair of Silver and a pair of bronze medals for the mantelpiece. Frazer Fox took the 400 meters freestyle Junior title( 15 AND UNDER) and was second in the Junior 50 meters free both times will take him to the South West Regions Championships later in the year. Team mate Cameron Russell took the 50 meters Junior title with a very aggressive swim making it a one two in the event. Cameron also has a date at the Regional Champs and is looking to medal . The final gold winning performance of the weekend was produced by 11 year old Jack Semmonds who had an inspired swim in the 200 meters breaststroke and gave a clean pair of heels to his opposition . Natalie Harbisher and Ellen Jenkin also made the medal table. Natalie gained 3 silvers in the 14 and overs, and Ellen bronze in the 200 meters free in a time that would have won last year's 10 yrs event. Angus Scotney captured 2 silver and 1 bronze in the 10 years age band, brother Dylon gained 2 silver in the 12 years group. There was silver for Jarrad Benney in the 200 meters Junior Championship and bronze for Joss Boylan in the 50 meters freestyle.   Top Ben Procter selected to swim for GB in the Global Games but struggles for finance. Newquay Cormorants swimmer Ben Procter has been selected to swim for Great Britain in the Global Games which are taking place in the Czech Republic between July 5th and July 14th . The games cover a number of sports for swimmers who have learning disability and Great Britain are sending teams for swimming, athletics, table tennis, cycling and tennis. Ben who lives with his retired grand-parents in Cubert nr Newquay in Cornwall, will be competing in the 50mts 100mts and 200mts freestyle, 50mts and 100mts backstroke, 50mts and 100mts butterfly and the 200mts I.M. His Coach, Phil Goldman, said "Ben has been selected for a very busy programme with 8 individual events and 2 team events and we are looking at the balance of the event schedule and it is likely he will withdraw from the I.M. which will leave him with two events each day and hopefully two finals." Ben will be in action this weekend at the County Championships at Penzance and Bodmin. Ben has one major problem, until the World Body F.I.N.A agree to placing the learning difficulty disability back into the Paralympic Programme U.K Sport will not financially support leaving Ben and his grand-parents to find the 1300 GBP he requires for the Games. If anyone would like to help with his financial problem it would be very much appreciated by contacting his coach Phil Goldman on +44 (0)7886822190 Roll of Honour - Request for information... A ROLL of HONOUR list is being compiled by Jim Saulter for any Swimmers from Cornwall, (not just Newquay Cormorants), who have represented the U.K at International level either at Junior or Senior level during the past 50 years. The criteria is that the swimmer must have been born in Cornwall, or resident in Cornwall, and in each case been a member of a Cornish club for at least three years. If you have any information please send to: Jim@bjs.eclipse.co.uk Tel +44 (0)1736 363259 Top County Swimming Championships - A Great start for the Cormorants...! The county swimming championships got off to a very positive start for the Newquay Cormorants with just nine entries in the long distance events they climbed the podium 9 times collecting 6 gold and 3 silver, and put down a marker to the rest of the county. In the individual events there was a double gold for both Millie Sander (11 years), and Emily Harbisher (12 years), in both the 800 meters and 1500 meters events. In the latter both created new competition records! Frazer Fox came out of the shadows of his brother, the Paralympian silver medalist Jon, in taking gold in the 800 meters Junior Championship in his first major race at this distance. Natalie Harbisher picked up the sixth medal in the individual events, taking silver in the 800 meters . All four swimmers claimed their place at the South West Regional Championships with the times they recorded. The sixth gold medal came from the males 15 to 18 years age group in the 4 x 200 freestyle team, the quartet of Frazer Fox, Callum Roberts, Ben Procter and Jarrod Benney, who won an exciting race by just 7 tenths of a second from the favorites for the event, City of Truro. The boys gave in every case a super team performance knocking lumps of time off anything they had done previously. The 13 and under team sporting three 12 year olds Emily Harbisher, Emily Andrew, Ellie Vercoe and 11 year old Millie Sander, produced a fine team performance in taking silver behind the much older Truro team. Coach Phil Goldman said that the youngsters did us proud and are all young enough to swim together in the event next year with a favorites chance. Not to be over phased by their younger team mates, the Girls 14 to 17 years age group also took silver with the quartet of Rhiannon Jones, Brogan Parsons, Charlotte Scotland and Natalie Harbisher who will have another three years in the age band together. The full county championship programme gets under way on the weekends of February 28th and March 7th . March is a busy month for the Cormorants, including a competition in Germany from March 19th to 23rd in which they have 13 swimmers competing in a international club competition some 200 kilometers south of Frankfurt in Bad Bergzabern. Top Cormorants are Junior Champions of Cornwall! The Newquay Cormorants Juniors covered themselves in glory with one of the best displays of league swimming in the past 20 years of Junior League history. Phil Goldman [head coach] said "It was the smallest team I have ever coached for the event, but what they lacked in squad numbers was made up for with sheer quality." "We went into the event with the bare minimum but in every age group of the team they performed with quality and grit." The Junior League Champions of Cornwall is the most prestigious competition in Cornwall for team swimming for youngsters 9 yrs to 12yrs age groups. The winning performance broke the strangle hold that City of Truro had on the Junior League Championship which they had won for the last 5 years. Newquay had a massive 52 point turn around with Truro on last years league results to run out comfortable winners by 21 points The full result of the championship final NEWQUAY 199 TRURO 178 CARN BREA 175 LAUNCESTON 158 PENZANCE 151 WADEBRIDGE 110   Top News 2008. Thanks to our latest Sponsors 'Sola' and 'No Worries'! Sola, a major manufacturer of technically advanced wetsuits and leisureware, and 'No Worries' surfshops have just donated clothing and equipment to our swim team. Many thanks from all of us at the club for their generous support! No Worries sell the original ''Newquay Lifeguard' Hoodies and have a fantastic range of clothing on offer! They can also print on any form of clothing such as t shirts, hoodies, sweats etc shop online here..   Advanced Wetsuit and Leisureware technology   Thoughts From Matt Whorwood On His Return From The Paralympics.... An inspiration to a dream. That is what the past four years of my life were like. As I eagerly watched my fellow team mates performances at the 2004 Athens Paralympics it made me realise it was there, in 2008 where I wanted to be. Four years of hard work is most often the bit which the media do not focus much upon. It is only the few short moments of such an event like a Paralympics which the nationwide audiences view. I could talk to you about all of the sacrifices, the changes to lifestyle and the hard grind four years can play on an athlete's life to achieve a few short moments on the world's stage. However, it is those few short moments what the work is all for and so I will talk to you about them. Beijing, the 2008 Paralympics. The best athletes from all around the world gathering to compete at one venue, and what a venue it was... China certainly put on an immense show throughout the whole Paralympic experience. Thousands of volunteers were continuously offering their help and services to ensure everyone's needs were met. As for the pool itself, it was fantastic. I had never seen so many people in one place before, let alone spectators to see me (and a few other people of course) perform. Racing in front of such a massive audience is an experience which will stay with me for the rest of my life. For all you land-lovers, the bird's nest stadium was equally spectacular. Personally I was only granted the opportunity to go into this impressive structure for the closing ceremony but alike the racing that too will always stay with me. There is so much to tell from a Paralympics I can clearly see why so many athletes can write books on their memories. A Paralympic games is definitely an experience of a lifetime and for all of those budding London 2012 Paralympians reading this I have one message for you; four years of training for a few short moments are definitely worth it. Cornwall County Disability Awareness Day Newquay Cormorants took time out from the pool to exhibit at the Cornwall County Disability Awareness Day. The event was held at the Royal Cornwall Showground in Wadebridge and attracted around 50 exhibitors. It provided a very informative day for all. Pictured at the stand is Jessica Keast, one of the disabled swimmers that train with and represent the Newquay club. In attendance at the stand were club Chairman and his wife Ron and June Fullwood, Club Secretary Chris Jepson, Club Coach Phil Goldman, Jessica Keast and family. Phil Goldman said "It was a very good project that the County Council had put on, and is something that should be an annual event as there was so much positive feedback from the day. From the club's point of view, I feel we were able to portray for the remainder of the swimming clubs in the county what we can offer". Jessica at the stand. An Octet of Golds for Ben at Sheffield While Jon Fox Gets His First Race After Beijing! Eighteen year old Ben Procter led the charge for glory with a perfect 8 at the D.S.E .British Short Course Championships at Sheffield. Ben took gold in the S14 class of the championships in both the 50mts and 100mts free, back, butterfly, 100mts and 200mts IM. He was also in World Record breaking form as within the octet of gold medals he took the World Record in the 50 mts butterfly clocking 27.56! Not satisfied with that he added European Records in both the 100mts free 55.61 and the 100 mts IM. Jonathan Fox had his first race since returning from Beijing with a silver medal in the 100mts back and confirmed his dominance in Britain for the event with a gold medal performance. It would be easy to think he was slightly behind his performances in Beijing, but Phil Goldman [coach] said "It is a starting point for the plan to peak next year at the World Championships in Brazil late in 2009. Ben is further forward than Jon in his training as he needs to peak at the Global Games in the Czech Republic in July. The planning seems just about correct and will see both boys competing in the South West Regional Championships at the end of the month. Bodmin Open: The Two Emilys Dominate the Competition! Fifteen swimmers from the club competed at the Bodmin Open Age Group and collected a fair haul of medals totaling 10 gold 10 silver and 5 bronze. In the 11 yrs age group the two Emilys, Harbisher and Andrew, dominated the age band taking first and second in three of the events and Harbisher adding a further gold and silver in the remaining two. Older sister Natalie Harbisher took four of the five golds in her age band but was pushed into second place by team mate Brogan Parsons in the breaststroke. New kid on the block Calum Roberts gained his first success at open level with a very impressive 100mts breaststroke. Positive performances from Jarod Benney and Frazer Fox both in the medals in good times for this part of the year show they are both full of promise. Phil Goldman was quoted as saying "It is still early in the year, but I am very confident that the performance gains we are making from using the excellent pool facilities the Trevelgue Camp site while Waterworld is closed will show at the County Championships in March". He went on to add "...the whole swimming world is moving on and unless clubs move with it with good planned training programmes then they will be left behind at all levels." Matt & Jon on the Podium - Photos.... Jon collecting his Silver Medal.... [Photos: Gordon Whorwood] Matt collecting one of his 2 Bronze Medals.... Another Bronze for Matt in the 400m Freestyle... Britain bagged two golds, a silver and two bronze medals in Beijing to round off a historic night of Paralympic swimming in the Water Cube. Matt Whorwood and Louise Watkin clinched bronze medals to go with the golds won earlier by David Roberts and Eleanor Simmonds that took Britain past its gold medal target. Matt was third in the 400m freestyle (S6) final, a race dominated by Sweden's Anders Olsson. Olsson led from the off to win by 19 seconds in a world record 4:48.31 while Irishman Darragh McDonald was second. Matt stuck to his race plan to win his second bronze of the Games after he finishing third in the 100m backstroke. [Results] Matt Takes Bronze in the 100m Breaststroke!! Matt Whorwood led defending champion and world record holder Gareth Duke into the men's SB6 100m breaststroke final in Beijing finishing first in the heat. In the final Matt had a fantastic swim taking Bronze with a pb of 1.29.96. [Results] Jonathan Wins Silver in Exciting Men's 100m Backstroke !! News from Beijing, "Young Jonathan Fox took to the water in the final of the men’s S7 100m Backstroke ranked as second fastest for the final and after a quick heat he knew he would need to dig deep to pull the victory away from America’s Lantz Lamback. Fox looked in charge of the race at the 50m turn as he touched first but the power of Lamback was too much for him over the home straight and Fox finished in second place to win his first medal of the competition and lower the European record with a time of 1:14.34. 'I am really happy with that,” Fox said. “I am proud of what I have achieved in that race. I didn't think that Lamback would go so fast again this evening but I felt good through my race and set another personal best which was great. I am really pleased to have my first paralympic medal. In the previous days racing, Matt came in 4th in the 200m IM, just missing out on a Bronze. [Results]   Jonathan and Matt are now in Beijing awaiting the Paralympic start WATCH LIVE HERE Good Luck from all of us! Event Schedule (not confirmed) All times Beijing Local Time - currently 8hrs ahead of gmt (7hrs ahead of local UK time) Heats 09:00, Finals 17:00. Date Day Matt Jonathan 06/09/2008 Saturday Opening Ceremony 07/09/2008 Sunday 200 IM   08/09/2008 Monday 100 Freestyle 100 Freestyle 09/09/2008 Tuesday     10/09/2008 Wednesday   100 Backstroke 11/09/2008 Thursday   400 Freestyle 12/09/2008 Friday 100 Breaststroke   13/09/2008 Saturday     14/09/2008 Sunday 400 Freestyle 50 Freestyle 15/09/2008 Monday 50 Freestyle   16/09/2008 Tuesday     17/09/2008 Wednesday     Ben wins 5 Golds at the European Swimming Championships in Ostrowiec Swietokrzyski, Poland 17-21/08/08...! Newquays Ben Procter had an outstanding week at the European Swimming Championships for swimmers with Intellectual learning disabilities held in Ostrwiec Swietokrzyski Poland. Ben was the most successful member of the British team achieving the magnificent 7 in gaining 5 individual golds and 2 team relay golds. The British team topped the medal table with 21 golds in total, and were crowned European Champions. Ben produced gold medal performances in the 50 and 100 meters butterfly, 50 and 100meters backstroke and 100 meters freestyle. All his swims were personal best times and the 100 meters backstroke was a World Record! The team added World Record performances in both the 4 x 200 meters free and 4 x 100 meters Medley. Ben jetted back into Cornwall on Sunday, and coach Phil Goldman said the 18yr old had had a super championships and all the hard work he has done has paid off . The fact that he was on the same training programme as Matt and Jon gives good pointers for their performances to come in Beijing. Ben will now do some regeneration training before having some time off. Matt and Jon arrive in Macau Matt and Jon arrived in Macau at the British team holding camp on Sunday 26th August for their final prep work for the Paralympics, and will travel to Beijing on September 3rd. Paralympics on the BBC Rough Guide to TV Timings/Dates GB Paralympic Swimming Team List GB Paralympic Swimming Team Biographies BBC television coverage of the Paralympics will be more extensive than ever before, action will be streamed live for six hours a day through the red button and via broadband. There will be live terrestrial/red button coverage at the weekends and the opening and closing ceremonies will also be broadcast live including the handover to London moment on the final day Daily midweek programmes on BBC2 between 1900 and 2000 will be available on high definition (HD) and on iPlayer. Clare Balding and Steve Cram will present the programmes from the Bird's Nest stadium. There will be more live coverage than from Athens 12 different sports in all and there will be two BBC roving crews to record additional material. Athletics, swimming, cycling, wheelchair basketball and wheelchair rugby will comprise the backbone of the BBC's TV coverage throughout the Games, but will be supplemented by coverage of other sports, particularly those in which Paralympics GB have strong medal hopes like wquestrian and wheelchair tennis. GB have two football sides competing and adaptive rowing is a new Para sport. Commentators and reporters include Paul Dickenson, Bob Ballard, Eddie Butler, Ronald McIntosh, Nick Mullins, Eddie Butler, Phil Jones, Rishi Persad and Lizzie Greenwood-Hughes. They will be joined by ex-Paralympians Tanni Grey-Thompson, along with Ade Adepitan and Marc Woods as guest commentators. All the coverage will be streamed on the BBC's award-winning Disability Sport website, where there will also be a daily blog written from Beijing as well as reports and photos on all the main action, results and medal table http://www.bbc.co.uk/paralympics. BBC Radio 5 Live will bring all the news throughout the Paralympic Games with a dedicated team of reporters in Beijing. There will also be live commentary from some key events featuring strong British interest. Other programmes covering both Paralympic stories include: News, Olympic Diaries, Blue Peter and Radio Five Live to name just a few. Matt & Jon @ The National Youth Championships... The two Newquay Cormorants Paralympics Swimmers Jonathan Fox and Matt Whorwood had their final prep races at the National Youth Championships and gave all the signs they are on track for Beijing. The boys only competed in the events they will contest in Beijing . Jonathan improved his best time for 400 mts and 100 mts freestyle by 6 seconds and 2 seconds respectively and in the 100 mts backstroke has now logged the 4 fastest times of the year for the event. He goes into the Beijing games as World ranked first in the 100 mts back fourth in the 400 free and sixth in the 100 free Matt produced the second fastest time in the world this year for the 100 mts breaststroke with a massive personal best time and he will go into the games ranked in his other events 200 I M and 400 free in medal ranking positions. Coach Phil Goldman said the boys had a hard week at the Championships with good results and still did over 30,000 meters. "With 19 days to go before they fly out to the holding camp we will now reduce training volume and increase speed work to bring them upto a fine racing edge with the final sprint work done out in China I am very confident they will be in the best shape ever when they compete in Beijings National Aquatic Centre" [Phil Goldman, coach] COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIPS, AGE GROUPS, SPRINTS & RELAY GALAS 2009 - Provisional Dates Announced Provisional Dates & Info Cormorants SC and simplyswim.com You will have seen the simplyswim.com banners aound the site. SimplySwim.com are currently offering a great deal to us by advertising their website on the Cormorants website, swim club members will get 10% off their whole swim range. Plus, the swimming club will get 10% commission on sales generated through the link! Ben to Compete in Poland after massive Gold Medal Haul.... Newquays Ben Procter took the British Intellectual Disability Swimming Championships by storm with a perfect performance in taking all 8 gold medals in the events he entered. Ben also captured 3 British records and 1 European in his massive gold medal haul. He recorded gold in; 50 and 100 mts backstroke 50, 100 and 200mts freestyle 50 and 100mts butterfly and the 100mts Individual Medley Ben will be competing for Great Britain in the European Championships in Poland between the 17th and the 21st August, and with this performance he looks in fantastic shape to become European Champion. Coach Phil Goldman said Ben has been on the same training programme as Matt Whorwood and Jonathan Fox but will be brought to maximum condition 2 weeks earlier than the boys going to Beijing but the indications are that they will all perform at their best . Gloucester - Best Ever Cornish Results... [Results] The South West Regional Swimming Sprint Competition held at Gloucester over the weekend attracted a massive entry. The event is open to all swimmers that qualified for the Regional Youth and Age Group Championships and is competed for in single age bands from 10 years to 18 years plus. The rules of the event are to establish the overall top sprinters. Each swimmer competes in all four 50m stroke events, and also the 4 x 25m Individual Medley. Points are awarded in relation to time and the winner is the person with the highest combined total time from all 5 events. Newquay Cormorants had 7 swimmers who had qualified and had entered the event, but for various reasons Millie Sander 10yr, Rhiannon Jones 14yr, and Dylan Scotney 11yr did not make the journey to compete The four swimmers that did get to the starting block swam outstandingly to produce the best ever results for a Cornish club at this event Natalie Harbisher stole the show with some very aggressive swimming in the 14 years age group to take the gold medal, Newquay's first for this event. The young lady was first in the butterfly with 31.60, third in the front crawl in 29.37, fourth in the breaststroke with 38.14 and seventh in the backstroke clocking 34.01. With confidence at an all time high she made sure of the top spot with a third place in the finishing in 1.13.3 in the medley. Younger sister Emily Harbisher in the 11 year old age band was also in defiant mood and produced 5 personal best times in taking the silver medal. The starlet was second in the breaststroke 39.72, second in the front crawl 32.28 sixth in the butterfly 36.23 and seventh in the backstroke 37.23. Her medley time was 1.19.02 which gave her second in that event and consolidated her position in the silver medal spot. Ben Procter is one of the disability swimmer at the Cormorants who will be competing for Great Britain in August in the European I.N.A.S. and M.E.N.C.A.P Championships in Poland . Competing in the able-bodied event last weekend he showed his remarkable talent in taking overall second place in gaining the silver medal for the 18 years and over. Ben was first in the butterfly with 28.03 and also the backstroke in 31.71. He added a second in both the front crawl with 26.01, and the medley in 1.05.36. Bens weaker stroke the breast held up well with a fifth place in 35.73 confirming his silver medal Brogan Parsons in the 13 year old age band produced some very good personal best times with a fourth in the breast, clocking 38.32 being her highest placing, but her swims of 35.72 fly, 37.23 back and 31.73 front crawl added up to a very impressive medley of 1.16.90 placing her in a very respectable final position just outside the top ten All four will next compete at Plymouth on the weekend of 19/20 July which will be the final prep race for Ben prior to him going out to Poland on the 15th August. Beijing Preparation Update.... We are now 10 weeks out from leaving the U.K for the Beijing Paralympics games with a further 2 weeks of acclimatization once out there. On Tuesday of last week both Matt Whorwood and Jonathan Fox had a 200meters step test which is a set of 7 x 200 meter freestyle swims on a 5 minute repeat, making each one faster than the one before by 4 seconds Both boys performed this wel,l with Matt producing a British record swim on the last rep which of course can not be claimed.The test records time of swim at 100 meters and at the finish of each 200mts heartrate, blood lactic levels their R P E (estimated level of performance) are also logged. The results when analysed by a Physiologist give you the condition of the aerobic and anaerobic status of the swimmer. Saturday the boys went over to Wales for the day to compete in the Welsh Short Course Championships, and their performance in the 400 meters event was a personal best time with Matt taking the British record The shorter events they competed in were someway below their best which is in line with the recent tests confirming they have built up a good aerobic base and now have to retain this and introduce more anaerobic work and gradual speed sets. This week the boys will be going upto around 46.000 meters in the 17hrs planned at Waterworld and we have a clear six weeks of work without interruption bringing us to the Manchester Aquatic Centre for their final step test before competing in Sheffield for the rest of the week at the National Youth Champs which will be their final prep race before going out to Beijing 3 weeks later. South West Swimming Championships - Millie Makes it a Hat trick! The first weekend of a two weekend South West Age Group Swimming Championships brought together the cream of age group swimmers from the six counties of the South West, and the Newquay Cormorants had a fine weekend . Top 10yr old county swimmer Millie Sander gave a golden performance as Madam Butterfly! The Newquay starlet led the qualifiers into the final with a 15 second personal best time for the 200 meters butterfly, and in the evening final gained a standing ovation in taking the gold medal and the South West Championship with a further improved time of 5 seconds . Millie also gained Silver in the 400 meters Individual Medley chopping 9 seconds of her previous best and made it a hat trick of best performances with a 6 second improvement in taking sixth place in the 200 meters freestyle final. Phil Goldman her coach said "It was more than six years ago when Millie was only 4yrs old that we planned the capture of the 200 mts fly championship". He went on to say, "Millie first learned to swim with me at Lake View Country Club and continued her development with me at the Bedruthan Steps Hotel Pool, and, at the age of seven I brought her to the Cormorants club where she has matured into a very talented swimmer. At the end of the journey it has been team work from parents, swimmer and myself that has achieved the goal. We now look to a new journey, the National scene as the target by her 13th birthday which is a realistic goal." Emily Harbisher who is by far the best 11 year old girl swimmer in the county took a little time to adjust to the championships, but rounded off the weekend with a personal best time in reaching the 100 meters breaststroke final. With some major events to come next week she will be pushing for medals. 13 year old Brogan Parsons, the third of the trio of Cormorant girls achieved a personal best land mark in the 100 meters breaststroke, but just missed the final. 11 year old Dillon Scotney was workman-like in his 100 meters breast event, but with his training levels down for various reasons he was up on the pace until the turn but found the last quarter hard.   Cameron Strikes Gold at Millfield! Cameron Russell struck gold for the Cormorants at the Millfield pool with a super 50 meters freestyle performance in the 14 yrs age group and looks destined for greater things in the sprint event. Frazer Fox, the younger brother of Jonathan, took fourth in the event and claimed silver in the 200 meters freestyle with a massive personal best time. "Both boys performed well beyond anything they have done before." [Coach - Phil Goldman] The German International Championships in Berlin. For Jon and Matt this was the final time they would swim for the British Team before going out to Beijing in August. Jon stamped his mark on the backstroke events in taking both the 200meters and 100 meters S7 Championships. In the 200 event he smashed the existing world record by some two seconds his first half of the race was spot on but he had a poor final turn which cost him, but he came back over the last 50mts very strongly with the present World Record holder Andrew Lindsey 2.6.seconds behind. In the 100mts event Jon recorded the second fastest time ever just 3 one hundredths of a second outside his own world record. In second place was Fabtic Dejan of Slovenia nearly two seconds back, and the present Paralympics Champion Andrew Lindsey in third. Matt Whorwood was workman-like in both the 100mts breast and 400mts free, but was a little way below his best. Coach Phil Goldman said "Jon is now the swimmer in the backstroke the rest of the world have to catch, but we will not rest on our laurels. Jon and I will be working hard over the next 12 weeks to lower the World Records in Beijing with our quest for gold." He went on to say that Matt is currently mentally and physically tired due to his 'A 'level examination year for entry to university, but he will be refreshed and at his peak performance level for the Beijing date. Making a Splash in Cornwall! Disability Swimming in Cornwall: If you are involved with disability in Cornwall, or are a parent, teacher, coach or provider, come to Newquay Sports Centre 5th July 2008 at 1:30pm. contact Steve Hillman (shillman@cornwall.gov.uk) 07837 311539 or Phil Goldman (waterbaby@talktalk.net) 07886 822190 for more info. Newquay Sports Centre Location The British International D.S.E. Swimming Championships The British International D.S.E. Swimming Championships which were the final trials for selection to the team for the Beijing Paralympics saw the Newquay duo of Matt Whorwood and Jonathan Fox produced some fine performances to establish themselves as live contenders for success in Beijing. They were joined at the Championships by team mate Ben Procter who with his performances has booked his place in the G.B. Team for the I.N.A.S European Championships taking place in Poland on August 17th to 21st. The three boys all hit the gold trail, Ben was outstanding in taking the 50 meters free title a fraction outside his own British record Jon decimated a very good international field in the 100 meters backstroke with a final swim just one tenth of a second outside his own world record and is looking stronger with every swim in the event. Not to be outdone Matt took gold in the 400 meters freestyle in a time just short of his British record. Phil Goldman said the three of them performed up to what I expected and I have now given them a week off to recharge there batteries before they start a 19 week training plan up to the Beijing date with destiny Newquay's Fox breaks world record! Jon & Matt Qualify for Beijing... Newquay Cormorants' Jonathan Fox set a new world record in the S7 100m backstroke on Thursday as he booked his place at the Beijing Paralympics. The 16-year-old swam in one minute 14.86 seconds in his heat at the British Championships, adding to his record in the S7 50m backstroke. He went on to win the final, taking the British title and a Paralympic place. His coach Phil Goldman puts the record down to the Great Britain training camp Fox attended in Australia in January. "It's a big step, but he's matured quite a lot over the winter," Goldman told BBC Radio Cornwall. Goldman added that Fox has only recently been able to get strong enough to swim 100m backstroke since being at the Gold Coast camp. Fox's achievement caps a good few days for Cormorants swimmers. Matt Whorwood also qualified for Beijing in the S6 400m freestyle event. Whorwood is the second fastest in the world this year and is another good prospect for a British medal. (Getty)   World Level Swims from Ben, Matt and Jon... The County Swimming Championships had some fantastic swims from the dynamic trio of disability swimmers from the Newquay Cormorants. Between them they were performing at top World Level and for their efforts claimed numerous British Records and 4 World Records. First on the World Record breaking run was Jonathan Fox who smashed the 100 mts backstroke S7 Class clocking 1.13.81.Jon had threatened this at Sheffield last week at the D.S.E. Junior Championships when he went under 1.15 for the first time. The sixteen year old added the World 200 mts backstroke World Record with a swim of 2.38.11 to absolutely decimate the previous Record Matt Whorwood took the World 200 mts Breaststroke in the S 6 Class. The record was a massive performance in a time of 3.17.46 to add to several British Records he claimed during the 4 days of competition Ben Procter fresh from his World Best in the Butterfly at Sheffield produced a swim of sheer power in breaking the S 14 class 200 mts backstroke in a time of 2:20.48 With 3 weeks to the Paralympic trials Phil Goldman their coach said with a bit of fine tuning the boys will be spot on for the event. "We will be working right through the Easter holiday period in preparation for the week at the trials". Jonathan Fox Heads the World Rankings Jonathan Fox broke the WORLD RECORD for the 100mts back at the County Champs today (08/03/2008). He recorded a time of 1:13.81 - the previous record was 1.14.47. Jon now heads the World rankings for both the 50m and 100m backstroke events! Matt Whorwood chipped in with a British record in the 200mtrs free 2 35.03 - the previous record was 2:38.56 County Championships - First Results... 18 Golds, 3 World Records, plus British & European records! The first half of the County Swimming Championships took place over the weekend at Penzance and Bodmin and the Newquay Cormorants swimmers were in electrifying form The Cormorants racked up 18 GOLD 18 SILVER and 8 BRONZE with many South West qualifying times. Emily Harbisher led the charge for gold with 6 winning the 200 I M and 200 I.M., 100 mts free and back, 200 free and 50mts breast. She also added silver in both the 200mts back and 50mts fly to conclude a very busy weekend in the 11yrs age group. Millie Sander also hit the gold trail with a vengeance collecting 3 with top west qualifying times. The 10yr old captured the 400mts I.M. and 200 Mts I.M followed by a super swim in taking the 200 mts free. The young lady also added a bronze performance in the 200 mts back Angus Scotney performed like an old hand in the 9 yr old age group taking gold in both the 400 free and 200 breast, and added silver in the 100 I.M. and bronze in the 50 free Natalie Harbisher in the 13 age band was a bridesmaid on 7 occasions with 7 silvers but with a very determine effort grabbed gold in the 50mts fly Jordan Holroyd in the girls 9 yr age group gained a clutch of medals with Gold in the 50 fly, silver in both the 200 free and I.M. and added bronze both the 200 mts back and 50 breast Jarrad Benney 200 fly Junior Championship, Dylon Scotney 200 mts breast in 11 yr olds, Cameron Russell 14 yr 50 free, Jack Semmonds in the 200 mts breast for 10 yr old,s and Sarah Quartermain Senior Championship 50 fly all chip in with gold medal performances. Emily Andrew was the other podium performer with her first medal at County Age Group Championship level gaining bronze in the 200 mts back in the 11 yr age band. In the Disability section Jordan James, Pascal Latham, Jessica Keast and Matt Whorwood gave gold medal winning performances and Matt Whorwood put icing on the cake with New British Records in the 200 mts breast and 400 mts free The two Disability swimmers not at this weekends County events were up in Sheffield. Cormorants had sent them to the D.S.E. National Junior Championships where both Ben Procter and Jonathan fox did not disappoint Ben SMASHED 3 WORLD RECORDS in the 50mts fly 100mts free and the 200 mts I.M.and added a British record in the 100 mts I.M Team mate Jon added to the record haul with a EUROPEAN RECORD in the 400mts free taking 3.5 seconds of the previous time and he also produced the second fastest time ever in the 100mts back 2 tenths of a second outside the World record. Phil Goldman said that all the swimmers on our training training programme performed with their best ever performances in the county championships and the Disability performances give the feel that at the Olympic trials at the end of the month we well get something very special after this weekends results.   County Distance Swimming Championships - All PB's from Newquay! The County Distance Swimming Championships held at Truro produced personal best times for every swim from the Newquay Cormorants swimmers! In the 1500mts and 800mts freestyle Matt Whorwood, one of the county hopefuls for the Paralympics in Beijing in the s6 class posted two British records on his way to excellent gold medal swims. Emily Harbisher also gained double gold in winning the 1500mts and 800mts events in the 11yr age group, the former a new county record of 20.58.56 will take some toppling such was the quality of the performance Big sister Natalie produced a very strong swim in taking gold in the 800mts clocking 9.45.63 in the 13yr age band which also gave her the silver medal in the Junior Championship for under sixteen's Charlotte Danks gave two performances of real promise and for her hard work she gained the silver medal in the 1500mts logging 20.59.78 in the 13 yrs age. Rhiannon Jones gave an inspired performance lopping 21 seconds off her previous best clocking 10.16.71 in the 800mts and is getting better by the day. Club coach Phil Goldman said that all the performances were showing excellent endurance all we need to do now is to maintain the swimmers condition while increasing the speed work bringing peak performance either at the County events on the first two weekends in March or three weeks later at the trials for Beijing depending on the swimmers targets. The club also pick up silver in both the Junior 4 x 200mts relays with again personal best times all the way. The girls teams splits for each 200mts leg were Charlotte Danks 2.29.16 Brogan Parsons 2.32.11 Natalie Harbisher 2.16.96 and Charlotte Scotland 2.34.43 The boys teams splits were Frazer Fox 2.18 58 Jarrod Benney 2.26..56 Cameron Russell 2.24.02 and Fenn Woodfinden 2.55.11 The boys Youth team for 15 to 18 years age just missed the medals finishing fourth with Ben Procter 2.08.64 Jonathon Fox 2.22 50 Calum Roberts 2.23.03 and Jaaden Pugh 2.38.28 The medal tally was 5 gold and 4 silver County Junior League Championships The young Newquay Cormorants of swimmers age 9yrs to 12yrs competed in the final of the County Junior League Championship and continued their excellent performances in the annual event having never finished out of the medals since the turn of the century. Club coach Phil Goldman said "This year we fielded a very young team for the event with a majority of the team no older than ten. They performed with real promise in taking the third place bronze medal behind Truro and Carn Brea." Jordan Holroyd and Ellen Jenkins who will start their County Championships in March were unbeatable in the nine years age group, Jordan taking both the fly and backstroke races and Ellen the freestyle. Amy Purohit nearly made it a clean sweep for the nine year old girls just missing first place by nine one hundreds of a second Millie Sanders and Emily Andrew in the ten age band were electrifying with super first places in the freestyle and backstroke events, and provided a back bone to the girls team having to compete in the 10yrs ,11yrs and 12yrs age groups with a total of 10 races each with every performance of sheer quality . Emily Harbisher in the 11yrs age band gave a super performance in winning the breaststroke and was kept busy with a number of powerful performances .Team mate Ellie Vercoe in the same age group gave a good supporting effort and Diana Chalmers in her first race at this level and Katie Purohit added personal best performances to a a very determined girls team. The boys team played their part with winning performances from brothers Angus and Dylon Scotney both in the breast stroke events, Dylon in the 11yrs and Angus in the 9yrs age group Angus was the hardest worked of the boys team swimming in 9 yrs, 10yrs and 11yrs Jack Semmond also gave a breaststroke winning performance in the 10yr old age band with a very positive swim. In the 9yr old's event Myles Sargent and Owen Guy rose to the occasion with excellent personal best times and captured valuable points. Conner Boylan 10 yrs and Oliver Butler 11yrs gave good support to the team, and the 12year old's Scott Stevens, Hamish Tym and Tom Sprake added valuable points to a massive team effort in collecting 184 pts and the bronze medal Relegated from the First Div were St Austell 115pts and Caradon 126pts Promoted from the Second Div were Launceston and Penzance [Results]   News 2007.
Welsh National Disability Swimming Championships held at the National Pool Swansea Newquay Cormorants swimmers BEN PROCTOR 50m F/C in the S14 Class classification broke the British Record in a time of 26.56 sec’s. MATTHEW WHORWOOD and JONATHAN FOX Both did Personnel Best Times in the 50 m F/C MATTHEW WHORWOOD 400 m F/C Broke the British Record by 2 Sec’s. In a time of 5.21 Sec’s. JONATHAN FOX In the 100 BK/S did the Third Fastest Time in the World this Year CORMORANTS SWIM SQUAD IN THE SPEEDO LEAGUE Romped Home in First Place by 30 Pts in the Gala held at Soundwell Bristol In the Cornish Masters Championships held at the Penzance Pool: CLARE STEPHENSON led the way in the 40/44 Age Group with 4 Gold Medals in the BR/.39.7s FLY. 33.38s FR/C 30.16s.and 100m I/M. 1.16.01s. 1 Silver in the BK/S 38 75s. SHERYL TAYLOR in the 45/49 Age Group 4 Gold Medals in the BR/S.42.36s FLY 36.1s FR/C 32.25s. 100m I/M 1.20.53s. SARAH QUARTERMAINE in the 18/24 Age Group 2 Gold Medals in the FLY 31.63s FR/C.30.16s. 100m I/M 1.15.59s. 1 Silver Medal in the BR/S.41.43s. BRIDGET HOLDROYD in the 25/29 Age Group 2 Gold Medals in the FR/C. 31.61s FLY 35.64s and 100m I/M 1.21.29s. CHRISTIE JAGO in the 18/24 age Group 1 Gold Medal in the BR/S.41.43s. 2 Silver Medals in the FR/C 30.86s. and 100m I/M. 1.23.41s. EMMA FITZHENRY in the 25/29age Group 1 Gold Medal in the BK/S 36.99s. EMMA TURNER in the 35/39 Age Group 1 Gold Medal in the FR/C.35.91s. SOPHIE GRANT- COOKSTON in the 25/29 Age Group 1 Silver Medal in the FR/C. 33.16s. JULIE ANDREWS in the 45/49 Age Group 1 Bronze Medal in the FR/C 35.54s. IN THE MENS EVENTS ARON BOYLAN in the 40/44 Age Group 2 Gold Medals in the FLY 30.92s and 100m I/M.1.12.39s. 1 Silver Medal in the BK/S.33.31s 1 Bronze Medal in the FR/C. 28.45s. RORY JULIAN in the 35/39 Age Group 1 Gold Medal in the BR/S.43.95s. 3 Silver Medals in the BK/S. 41.05 FLY. FR/C 29.52s 100m I/M.1.24.57s. DAVID WRIGHT in the 35/39 Age Group 1 Silver Medal in the BR/S.44.25s. CHRIS LUXON in the 45/49 Age Group 3 Bronze Medals in the BK/S.43.7s FLY. 40.09s and 100m I/M. 1.34.49s. STEVE WOODFINDEN in the 45/59 Age Group 1 Bronze Medal in the FR/C.31.78s. MARK PRESTON in the 35/39 Age Group 1 Bronze Medal in the FR/C.32.5s. Jonathan Fox Gains Sports Journalist Association Award! Jonathan Fox joined an elite list of sports persons by being honoured by the Sports Journalist Association at their annual Lunch Sports Awards day in London. All the top sports persons honoured by the association are house hold names and for Jonathan at the age of sixteen is by far the youngest recipient of one of the top sports awards, he has been awarded the Bill McGowran Trophy for the top Sports person with Disabilities Jonathans coach at Newquay Cormorants Phil Goldman said it is a major acknowledgement to a young man that has only just started his sporting career at elite and World level I am certain he will have the ability to show he can be a top swimmer for the next decade. Phil added it also proves that from a small club environment World Class sports persons can be produced. Jonathan said he was delighted to be honoured with such an illustrious award and would do his utmost to show the people that voted for him that he was worthy of the honour. My thanks go to Phil and the club for the tremendous work and support that has got me to this level and I will do my utmost to bring back to Cornwall and Newquay history making performances. Jonathan will be training throughout the festive period with just time off for Christmas Day and Boxing Day and will be traveling out with the G.B Team to Australia on January 5th for warm weather training on the Gold Coast for 3 weeks as part of his early prep work in the Olympic year. He returns to meet up with his World record holding club team mates Matt Whorwood and Ben Procter at the end of January and the trio will be prepared by Phil for there major event in the first half of the year the International D.S..E. Swimming Championships and Paralympic Trials at Sheffield.. Jonathan Fox Wins BBC South West Disability Sports Person of the Year! Jonathan Fox won the BBC South West Disability Sports person of the year award at the Gala Dinner Awards Evening at Exeter last night and has been nominated for 2 other awards: The most improved young sportsman of the year, this takes place at Manchester United Ground on Dec 5th, and the Sports Writers Association Disability Sports person of the year award on Dec 12th in London. [Photo] Major funding Boost! £9450 lottery award from the Awards for All Lottery Fund The Newquay Cormorants’ coach, Phil Goldman, has acquired a grant of £9450 towards a budget of £15000 from the Awards For All Lottery Fund. The money will go towards a learn to swim and development programme that the Cormorants will be developing for disability and special needs children in partnership with Waterworld Leisure Centre Phil said that it was an opportunity to develop further the clubs disability swimming programme and it was an exciting time for the development for swimmers that would find difficulty in accessing a development swim programme. The funding is to establish over the coming year a programme that hopefully will be sustainable when the funding has been used . Phil went on to say that the club is the leading group in the West for Disability development and at present we have 6 swimmers who are now regularly training, and would hope that we will reach our target of 10 swimmers able to train and compete . The Cormorants at present have 3 swimmers who, in their classification, are World Record holders and are looking for medals at the Paralympics in Beijing in 2008. A further swimmer has competed at National level and 2 others are competing at Regional level. Pictured front row; Phil Goldman and club chairman Ron Fullwood holding the certificate. Second row; Jordan James, Jessica Keast, Pascal Latham Back row; the 3 World Record holders, Jonathan Fox Matt Whorwood and Ben Procter. The lessons at Waterworld will be operating on Tuesdays and Fridays in the 25 meter pool from the week commencing 14th January and on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday in the fun pool starting the week of the 16th February.The programme will accommodate 24 swimmers in the first term of lessons. To find out more about the programme or to ask for a place on the programme contact one of the following; Phil Goldman Head Coach 01637 850046 07886822190 waterbaby@talktalk.net Chris Jepson Club Sec 01637 876030 Waterworld Leisure Centre Great News From Sheffield - 3 New records!! Newquay Cormorants competed on three fronts over the weekend with swimmers competing at D.S.E British Short Course. Championships at Sheffield,The Tiverton Open and the Bodmin Open. The D.S.E. Championships at Sheffield gave the three World Class Disability swimmers that are from Newquay a chance to see how the first macro training cycle was going. Ben Procter S14 Class was in outstanding form with 8 golds and 1 silver in a very busy weekend.The 17 year old added 3 British Records and topped his weekend performance off with a WORLD RECORD in the 50mts fly clocking 27.95. Jonathan Fox and Matthew Whorwood also rewrote the record books with British Records in the 400mts freestyle Jon took 3 seconds of the record in taking his first National gold medal in the distance event and is starting to find another event to add to his backstroke for his Beijing target. Matt in the S6 class lowered the previous 400mts time by almost 4 seconds in taking gold to add to his lengthening British Record list. Coach Phil Goldman said the three boys are in heavy training and there was no easing off for the event which was taken as a swim through . The performance showed our endurance work was on track and the swimmers would be tapering at the end of the macro cycle for the Welsh Long Course Championships in 5 weeks time. Our Main objective is be in top shape for the British Championships and Olympic Trials which take place between March 30th and April 6th,that's where it all counts. The 1st Tiverton Sparkler Level 3 Open Meet.....17 golds 14 silver and 12 bronze!! The club entered 20 swimmers at Tiverton with some super performances in the 200mt events for all the swimmers The club collected 17 gold 14 silver and 12 bronze and finished second in the Top Club award to Swindon Dolphins In the 9 yr olds girls Jordan Holroyde collected 2 silver and 2 bronze and Ellen Jenkins put in some useful performances just outside the medals. The 10yr old girls were in top form Emily Harbisher taking 4 golds Emily Andrews had a full house with gold ,silver and bronze and is improving with every swim The youngest of the three ten year olds Millie Sander produce 2 excellent silver medal swims her best being her 36.11 in the 50mts free. Charlotte Danks in the 12 yrs age band is starting to get back in shape with 2 gold and 2 silver medal performances The age also saw Grace White showing her best ever performances with swims just out of the podium places Natalie Harbisher in an unfamiliar role took gold in both the 100mts and 200mts breaststrokes with outstanding times to add to her fine 100mts free gold medal swim Brogan Parsons also got in the act with an excellent bronze medal in the 200 mts breast some 3 seconds inside her best time. The third swimmer of the trio from the age band was Charlotte Scotland who put in some good times her best being her 200mts free. In the 14 age group Rhiannon Jones was also in medal form collecting 3 silver and 2 bronze in a busy day and in the 15 age band Louise Gummow gained 2 gold and Shannon Smith 3 Silver and were major contributors to the club points total. Nine year old Angus Scotney was in inspired form taking 2 golds with aplomb Brother 11 year old Dylon added to the family gold collection with a winning performance in the 200mts breast. Jarrod Benny was also in gold collection mood and was a big points scorer for the team. Callum Roberts had his first competition at this level and the 14 year old was not overawed and collected bronze in the breaststroke. 10 year old Conner Boylan and 11 year old Hamish Tym added to the team a good number of top six place points scores and will improve for their experience. The Bodmin Open - Top performances from our swimmers! A number of swimmers went to the Bodmin Open most of them it was their first introduction to competition. Top performance went to Cameron Russell who took silver in the 100mts free . Jacob Cain in the 15years age group also added to the silver collection with a double.Owen Guy in his first event did well and will come on for it. Tom Sprake and Jordan Truscott best performances came with inspired swims in the 50mts freestyle. New to Open Meet Swimming Hannah Landstrom,Abbie Dean and Abigail Cain showed promise for the future . The sisters Amy and Katie Purohit performed with some gutsy swims Amy best was her 100mts I.M. and Katie showed improve form in the 50mts free and back. Lauren Starkey in the 13yrs age group produced her best swim in the 100mts free. Carn Brea Open Meet...Saturday 6th October 2007 Newquay's Emily Harbisher was the star of the show at the Carn Brea Open Swimming Meet held at the Penzance pool. The starlet gave a perfect 8 performance in winning all four 50mts events and all four 200mts events and added to her 8 gold medals 8 new Competition Records and left all comers in the ten year age band struggling in her wake. Coach Phil Goldman said the young lady gave an exceptional performance for so early into the season and has put down her marker for the County Championships in March. Her competition planning takes her next to the Tiverton Open Meet on November 3rd and then on to the Plymouth Open at Millfield on the weekend of December 15th Big Sister Natalie also struck gold 3 times and put in three record breaking swimming performances that attained her goals for this part of her training programme which will take the same path pre Christmas as Emily. Ben Procter in his first event for the Cormorants took the 200mts freestyle for the seventeen and over in a new meet record. Phil said Ben joined the club in the summer and is a S14 disability swimmer with three world records under his belt and will be a valuable addition to the squad. In the 14yrs age group Jarrod Benney gave a gold medal performance and will be looking to improve at the Tiverton meet in which he has a busy programme. 12year old Brogan Parsons added to the gold tally with a fine effort in the 100mts butterfly and had a number of good swims. The Cormorants were rampant with a glut of silver and bronze medals from Emily Jenkins and Jordan Holroyd in the 9yr olds first major competition. Jack Semmonds, Conner Boylan and Millie Sander all had excellent medal performances in the ten year age band picking up another 8 medals between them. In the 11 years age group Hamish Tym gave a classy performance in taking silver in the 50mts butterfly and with a good balanced training programme could be a tough competitor to beat at the Counties. Rhiannon Jones in the 14yrs and Amelia Boylan in the 16 age group also gave silver medal performances in the back stroke, and Emily Andrew 10yrs and Frazier Fox for the 14 yr old's had their first taste of Level 2 swimming competition giving promising performances. Jonathan Fox Takes the World Record and Gold!! The National Swimming Championships at Sheffield provided the stage for the swim of the year from a British swimmer when Newquay Cormorants Jonathan Fox smashed the World Record for the 50mts backstroke for S7 classification in the heats of the multi disability event which is part of the National Programme. The 16 yr old, one of the youngest at the event, took the gold medal in the final again inside the old World Record from World and Olympic Champion 28yr old Andrew Lindsay of Incas who felt defeat for the first time in backstroke competition since the Olympics of Sydney 2000 Jon indicated what was to come the day before in the 100mts backstroke when taking silver just 13 hundredths of a second behind Lindsay and 9 tenths of a second outside the World Record which has stood since the Sydney Olympics. The young man showed massive maturity and confidence and is now one of Britain's best hopes for a medal in Beijing next year. Jon will be traveling out with the Matthew Whorwood the Cormorants other medal prospect for Beijing with the G. B. team on the 12th August to Macau to a training camp under conditions they will have when they go to China "The performance was not unexpected as the work in training gave all the pointers that a World Record attempt was on. The support we have had from British Swimming in the way of bio-mechanics, physiology, land work profiling and coach education has been of immense help in achieving world standards". - Coach Phil Goldman Matt Whorwood also got amongst the medals in taking Bronze behind World and Olympic Champion Sascha Kindred in the 100mts breaststroke The hotel that Manchester United have just vacated after their Far East Tour is the base for the camp and also for the holding camp next August for the Olympic s. Jon within a second of the world record at the Nationals in Sheffield! 29/07/07 Jonathan Fox took the silver medal in the 100 backstroke behind the world record holder and world champion Andrew Lindsay, with only 2 tenths of a second between them. Jon's time was a second outside the world record achieved at the Sydney Olympics, and the second fastest time in the world this year. South West Disability Swimming Committee (minutes) It was agreed at the Board Meeting 14/07/07 that Phil Goldman should be given the job of leading the South West formulation of a South West Disability Swimming Committee and with the R.D.O. put together a business plan for 2008. - More news on this to come. Truro Diddy Meet The Truro Diddy Meet for developing swimmers provided a fine stage for some of Newquay Cormorants young novices. The club has continued to maintain its strong tradition of producing top flight age group swimmers . Emily Andrews in the ten year olds age band looks like she is going to make it to the top flight in winning the overall age group with super performances in all five events .gaining 1333 points Her team mate Ellie Vercoe took the overall second spot in the age group with her best ever performance and put together 996 points A one two was also achieved in the 12 yrs age band where Grace White produced excellent set of results over the 5 events and took the age convincingly with 1650 points and was followed home by club mate Abbie Cain who had a total of 1316 points In the 9 years age band Jordan Holroyd took second spot overall with a total of 990 points and with the right preparation could be a leading player in next years County Age Group Championships.   Millfield Age Group championships The South West Swimming Age Group Championships at Millfield school got under way with half the programme last weekend and the remaining events are this weekend. The county have 21 swimmers qualified for the event 8 from Truro, 6 from Newquay, 3 from St Austell and one each from Bodmin, Carn Brea, Caradon and Bude. Top performance so far has gone to Newquay's Emily Harbisher who has produced personal best times in all the 5 events she has so far contested and her efforts have brought her 3 bronze medals. "This years qualifying times have been hardened dramatically. Just getting into the event is a major achievement and to pick up 3 medals was a super performance for Emily who I feel will add to her medal haul next weekend." - coach The young starlet took 9 seconds of her 400 I.M and in the final of the 200mts butterfly did likewise. Her other bronze medal came in the final of the 100mts breaststroke taking 2 seconds of in the final. Natalie her older sister best effort so far came in the 200 mts butterfly in which she gave a polished performance without making the final. Newquay's other swimmers in action saw Dylon Scotney give a gutsy performance in the final of the 100mts breaststroke just missing out on the medal podium. Rhiannon Jones 100 mts backstroke and Brogan Parsons 100 mts breaststroke were competitive without making the finals. Jon and Matt in Medal Positions at the World Cup Event...! Matt Whorwood gained silver in the 200mts I M and Jonathan Fox gained his first medal at world level in taking bronze in the 50mts free at the Paralympic World Cup in superb times, and have stamped themselves as live medal hopes for Beijing in 2008. Phil Goldman [Coach] said our training plan has gone well and the boys should peak at the International British Championships in Sheffield next week after a very long training macro cycle in which their training went up to 17hrs per week with a volume max at 43,000mts. The swimmers have been selected to swim in Berlin at the end of the month. More from the Paralympic World Cup Site.... Bad Bergzabern Germany 2007 - Best Results Yet! The 14 swimmers that competed at the 29th International swim club competition at Bad Bergzabern in South West Germany from the Newquay Cormorants had their best result at International club level. The event attracted 47 clubs from 27 nations including China and the U.S.A. 10 year old Emily Harbisher fresh from her domination of the County Age group Championships struck gold in the 100m freestyle clocking 1.17.04, and also collected 3 silver medals with top performances in the 100m breast [1:33.4], 100m backstroke [1:26.1] and the 100m fly [1:31.0]. She was easily the outstanding swimmer of her age at the event. Dylon Scotney also performed well in gaining bronze in the 100m breast stroke and was 4th in the fly and 6th in the backstroke. Jack Semmonds also showed his best with 4th place in all his three events and gained much from the standard of competition. Hamish Tym was thrilled to gain a well deserved 6th place certificate in the 100m fly and gained much confidence from the trip. Natalie Harbisher was the other member of the team that got among the points with a 5th in the 100m freestyle and 4th in the 100m fly. Millie Sander just missed the presentation podium with 7th place in the freestyle and Ebony Cave did likewise with an 8th place. Brogan Parsons, Rhiannon Jones, Louise Gummow, Charlotte Scotland and Shannon Smith for the girls, and Jarrod Benney and William Davies for the boys added good performances to the team that gained 44 points, a big improvement on last years 34 points and 2004's 7 points. Germany Results   Splash Awards - British Swimmer of the Year 2007 with Karen Pickering, on Saturday 28th April 2007 at Lords cricket ground in London. The Splash Awards are the inspiration of Britain's most decorated female swimmer, Karen Pickering MBE, who since her retirement has worked relentlessly to celebrate the achievements and raise the profile of British swimmers and other aquatic sports men and women. [More] More Info & Booking Form. If you would like to go, there is a reduced ticket price available to all swimming clubs at £99.00 plus vat per ticket. If 10 tickets are purchased, then two extra tickets will be included for free (to make a total of 12 places per table) The swimming clubs who purchase a table will also be given a British Swimming t-shirt signed by the Current British Swimming Squad. To make a booking please complete the attached booking form and return to us via fax or post. Please do not hesitate to contact us here at Fireball if you have any queries, and I look forward to hearing from you. Danielle Williamson Events Assistant FIREBALL LTD 1 Elysium Gate 126-128 New Kings Road London SW6 4LZ Tel:+44 (020 7736 0331) Fax+44 (020 7371 7581) www.fireballmanagement.com www.fireballpr.com www.fireballmodels.co.uk Cormorants County Medal Haul tops 100 ! The second weekend of the County Swimming Championships provided the Newquay Cormorants with an excellent stage to achieve their highest ever total haul of County medals when in the full programme they top the 100 mark for the first time . The team swam with grit and determination to finish with 50 gold 38 silver and 18 bronze which totaled 106 in all. The weekend saw the pattern of the previous week continued with Milly Sanders 9yrs taking a further 4 events, Emily Harbisher 10year age group who added a further six golds to her name and big sister Natalie who also picked up a further six golds in the 12 year age band. Jarrod Benney also got into the gold medal habit earning 3 first in the 13 year old event to add to his last weeks tally. Jack Semmonds 9 years 200 I.M and Lauren Woodfinden Senior Championship 100 I.m were also in gold collecting mood and Sarah Quartermain showed why she is queen of the butterflies in taking gold in both the 100 and 200 meters fly Senior Championships with good PB' s in dominant style and the 21 yr old is looking a serious competitor for the South West Championships In the top age group swimmer awards: Milly Sanders was top 9 yrs winner, Emily Harbisher top 10 yr old winner and Natalie Harbisher was top 12 yr old of the county. In the 13 yr age band Rhiannon Jones in her first year at County level took the overall runner up spot and the same position was earned by Jack Semmonds 9 yr boys and Dylon Scotney 10 year olds. Josh Piper in the 14 age group picked up an overall third place even though he did not compete the second weekend. The club had a further 4 swimmers who gained an overall positional award with Hamish Tym in his first Championship taking sixth in the 11 yrs age group, Conner Boylan a well deserved fourth in the 9 years section, Brogan Parsons and Charlotte Scotland who were sixth and eighth in the 12 years age band. All four disability swimmers that train at Newquay performed fantastically with both Pascal Latham and Jessica Keast doing battle . Matt Whorwood and Jonathan Fox also competed against each other both recording super times in the 200 freestyle with Matthews performance being a new British Record. The County in line with National policy are one of the forerunners of an integrated swim competition for the able bodied and disability competitors The Newquay club has 14 swimmers competing in Germany this weekend and are looking to make their mark in an event that has attracted 47 clubs from 27 countries D.S.E British Junior Swimming Championships at Sheffield Newquay had 3 swimmers in action at the D.S.E British Junior Swimming Championships at Sheffield .The competition is for Juniors age up to 18 years old. Matthew Whorwood and Jonathan Fox after their performances in the World Championships had little difficulty in disposing of the opposition at the British Junior Championships and went into the event as a train through making their target for peaking at the Senior Championships in May. Jonathan took seven golds and Matthew six and never really had to extend themselves, but this year they were joined by 13 yr old Jessica Keats the third swimmer that Coach Phil Goldman has under his training programme for disabled swimmers Jessica competed in the S5 and SB4 categories and performed outstandingly, winning gold in 3 events; the 50mts back, 100mts and 50 mts breast . Phil said Jessica is the third disabled swimmer the club has competing at National level and her training levels in the last 12 months have increased from 3 half hours a week to 2 two hrs and 3 one and a half hours giving her a total of over 8 hours per week and the increase is now showing in her performances. He went on to say the target is to get her up to the hours the two boys are doing, which is between 12 and 18 hrs per week. If anyone feels they would like to get involved in the Newquay Clubs Disability Swim Programme age from 10yrs to 30yrs all you have to do is contact Phil at Waterworld. County Swimming Championships - More Records Broken..! The County Swimming Championships went into overdrive with half an Olympic programme staged at Penzance and Bodmin over the weekend. Newquay Cormorants swimmers led the way with a record breaking swim in the first event the 200 mts freestyle when 9 year old Millie Sander completely annihilated the competition record by over five seconds recording a time of 2.53.78. The swim took her from 23rd on the national rankings up to 6th and she is looking as if she will be a name we will here a lot about The young lady who has a very mature head on her shoulders for her age added to further gold medals in dominating both the 200 meters I.M. and backstroke events. Team mate Natalie Harbisher also was in record breaking form in the 12 year age band of the 200 freestyle event clocking in with a time of 2.18.50 some 8 seconds ahead of her nearest rival. Natalie over the weekend collected a further seven gold medals and her first ever Junior County Championship when after breaking a further age group record in the 50 meters fly she went on to take the Junior Title in 33.01 and silver in the Senior Championship behind yet another Newquay swimmer Sarah Quartermaine who produced a good turn of speed over the last 15 meters to take the gold medal and championship by one second. The Newquay club put icing on the cake in the fly event when 17 year old Brogen Latham nipped in to take third place in the Senior Championship in her best ever swim in the event just four one hundredths of a second behind Natalie with the clock stopping at 33.05 giving the only clean sweep in the Ladies Senior Championships over the weekend. Natalie's younger sister Emily continued the families haul of gold medals in the 10 year age band taking 5 with wins in 200mts back, 50mts fly and breast and and the two I.M.'s 200 and 400 mts 17 year old Lauren Woodfinden took two Senior County Championships and has proved she is the best ladies backstroker in Cornwall with gold medal performances in both the 100mts and 200mts back. The opening males event saw Newquay's Dylan Scotney also produce a new Competition Record in the 10 years 200 mts breaststroke with a time that gives him a live chance of medaling at the South West Age Group Championships in June. Josh Piper added to the ever increasing gold medal total with winning performances in 100 mts fly and I.M.and adding a very positive swim in the 400 freestyle. Jack Semmonds in the 9 year old age band had three excellent swims gaining gold in the 100 mts I.M. and silver in both the 200 meters breaststroke and 50 mts back In the 13 year age group Cameron Russell put in an electrifying swim in taking gold in the 50 meters freestyle with a time of 29.13 Jarrod Benney did likewise adding the 26th gold medal to the Cormorants total when he took the 200mts fly in the 13years age group two add to his two silvers. Ebony Cave in the 9yrs age group gained silver and bronze and will be even better in time as will Amy Purohit who put in a very class performance in grabbing bronze in a blanket finish in the 50 mts breaststroke Rhiannon Jones put in some very good performances with good best times in her claiming 3 silver medals in the 13 year old age group and Amelia Boylan took bronze in the Senior 100mts backstroke to bring the total medals for the Waterworld based club to 26 gold.20 silver.10 bronze and with half the programme still to swim for the Newquay club is looking to top the 100 medals for the first time. Relay Teams Score at Counties Newquay Cormorants girls age group 4 x 200 mts freestyle team for ages up to 13yrs gave a superb performance in posting a gold medal winning time and record, clocking 10.05.2 finishing some 6 seconds ahead of their nearest rival Truro City, with Caradon in third place. The quartet of Rhiannon Jones 2.27, Brogan Parsons 2.42, Natalie Harbisher 2.18, and Charlotte Scotland 2.37, logged at time over 20 seconds inside their entry time and will now go to the South West Regions event with a live hope of gaining a medal. Coach [Phil] said the girls have earned their place at the regional event and if all goes well they could make the National Final in July. The girls Youth team for 14yrs to 17yrs gained second place with a well earned silver in their 4 x 200 mts freestyle relay event, recording a time some 13 seconds inside their entry time clocking 9.33 The team was Ellie Hargreaves 15yrs Amelia Boylan 16yrs Brogen Latham 17yrs and Lauren Woodfinden 17yrs The individual events start on 3rd and 4th March and continue the following weekend and the Cormorants are looking for some big results from their well oiled team prep. Matt and Jonathan selected to swim for the G.B.team! Fresh from their fantastic performances at the I.P.C. World Swimming Championships Newquay Cormorants Duo of Matt Whorwood and Jonathan Fox have been selected to swim for the G.B.team in the Visa Paralympic World Cup which will be held in Manchester on May 12th. Matt will be competing in the 200 I.M. 100 breaststroke and the 100mts freestyle. Jonathan will be competing in both the 50mts and 100mts freestyle. Both boys are delighted to be selected for the event in which the the male team of 10 swimmers that they are joining has 5 World Record holders. A very elite group indeed to be in a team with. This is another massive vote of confidence from the selectors who stated that the boys were by far the biggest improvers at the World Champs. Phil added "It will be a busy 2 weeks for the boys who will fly up to Manchester on the 11th May and will be up again in the North when the following week they are competing in the Senior International British Championships in Sheffield, for that event they will be joined by 13 year old team mate Jessica Keast who has made the Senior Championships for the first time." Cornwall County Swimming Champs The first session of the Cornwall County Swimming Championships took place at the Truro Pool and the event was for the 800mts female freestyle and 1500 mts male freestyle. Newquay Cormorants started the Championships off in style when the 12yr old Natalie Harbisher smashed the competition age group record, winning the age group by 21 seconds from Holly Elliott of St Austell and a massive 36 seconds in front of third placed Kay De Courcy of Truro. The young starlet proved her potential with a silver medal in the County Junior Championship and a bronze in the Senior Ladies Championship, a performance unequaled by one so young. Natalie's sister Emily Harbisher who is too young to have an age group to compete in as she was only 10yrs old at the end of January, took a very good tenth place in the Junior Championship (under 16 ) and is certainly following in her sister's footsteps. Newquay also picked up a silver medal in the Senior Ladies Championship from 17 yr old Lauren Woodfinden behind Truro's record breaker Natasha Diment and a bronze in the 13 yr old boys from Jarrod Benney in the 1500mts event.
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News 2006.

           THE     MEDALS       TABLE

CLUB                     GOLD      SILVER    BRONZE

NEWQUAY               15             7               9

ST  AUSTELL             9              9               7

CARN  BREA             8              5               6

TRURO                      7              6               8

PEZANCE                  5              4               5

CARADON                 3              9               6

WADEBRIDGE           3              3               7

HELSTON                  0              7               1 BUDE                        0              0               1 

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The Bodmin Open...

Results

Newquay Cormorants coach Phil Goldman sent a number of young swimmers to the Bodmin Open Swimming Competition to gain some competition experience.

The youngsters did not disappoint with some very good and workman like efforts.

Top performer was Rhiannon Jones in only her third ever competition, the 13 year old performed like an old hand taking gold in four events 100 mts free, back, fly and I.M and added a bronze in the 100mts breast. Her performance earned her the Top Girl of her age award, and in doing so proved that in next years County Championships she will be a force to be reckoned with.

Nine year old Emily Harbisher gained gold in three events the 100mts I.M , 50 mts breast and back and added a silver in the 50mts free. Emily who is the counties top nine year old said that she was pleased with her sprint performances as she was very much into the latter part of a heavy distance training programme and had swam the meet as a swim through with no prep.
Emily also gained the top girl award for her age group.

Milly Sander is emerging as a fine prospect for next years 9year old county events picking up 3 bronze medals in the 100 mts I.M,50mts breast and back

Emily Andrews in her first ever race claimed the silver medal in the 9 yrs 50 mts breast with a swim of great promise.

The race brought the Cormorants best result in depth with 5 of the six top places,
by way of Emily Harbisher 1st Emily Andrew 2nd Milly Sander 3rd Molly Townsend 4th and Ebony Cave 6th, a quintet that will be stars of the future

Jarrod Benney added to the growing list of medals for waterworld based club with gold in the 100mts fly silver in the 100mts I.M and bronze in the 100mts back.

Another first timer to get among the medals was 9 yr old Connor Boylan who had a very aggressive swim in taking bronze in the 50mts free.

Dylon Scotney in the 10yrs age band produced a workman like performance in taking gold in the 50mts breast with something to spare over the field.

Charlotte Scotland and Lauren Starkey in the 12 yrs and Callum Roberts also got amongst the medals with good positive performances.

Grace White 11yrs ,Katie Purohit 11yrs Sophie Hawkin 10yrs all performed with best times, and the 9yr old duo of Molly Townsend and Ebony Cave all added to the considerable medal haul that the Newquay outfit had amassed.

10 yr olds Jordan Truscott , Jordan Scotland and Hamish Tym also performed well and all look very promising prospects in the development of the club.

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WORLD DISABILITY SQUAD

Tim Reddish the British Swimming performance director announced the team for the World I.P.C. Swimming Championships to be held in Durban South Africa between November 27th and December 9th .The team will consist of 16 female and 17 male swimmers that will include the Newquay Cormorants duo of Matt Whorwood and Jonathan Fox .The two boys were delighted to be part of the British team and were looking forward to competing at the highest level..Matt is a pupil of Newquay Tretherras School and will be 17 in December ,Jonathan attends Brannel School at St Stephens and is 15 years old, the youngest member of the team which has an average age of 23.

The boys said ”...it was a dream come true and that the hard work put in with their coach Phil Goldman and been the key to their chance to win a World Championship medal.”.

Phil said ”The boys had been training for over 20 hours a week, with water and land work which could not have been achieved without the support of both Newquay Cormorants and Waterworld.”.He added “The boys will be starting their training for the World Championships as from the 19th August when they travel out to Slovenia for a weeks Training camp with the GB National Coach .The targets I have set for them in volume of work is over 40km a week at the peak of their training in the build up. We are not going there for the ride. We have our first objective to make the finals, and then attempt in claiming a medal”

Jonathan will be competing in the 50mts and 400mts freestyle and the 100mts backstroke.

Matt will be competing in the 50mts, 100mts and 400mts freestyle, 200mts I.M. and 100mts breaststroke as well as the relay teams, and will be in action every day bar the first of 7 days competition.

The World Championships take place every 4 years alternating two yearly with the Olympics.The team will travel out to Johannesburg on November 20th for a weeks training camp and then fly on to Durban on the 27th. The opening ceremony is on December 1st and the closing ceremony is on the 8th. The team will fly back to the U. K. on the 10th

The team:

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County championship dates for 2007...

Distance: 4th and 11th Feb.– youth champ. Relays on 11th.

Sessions 3-10: 3rd, 4th, 10th, 11th March

Teams and BAGCAT presentations: 24th March.

Draft schedule

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Cormorants Top the Medal Table at the
Carn Brea Open 7/10/'06!

(Full Results Here)

Newquay Cormorants had a flying success when seven of their swimmers
took gold in the butterfly events at the Carn Brea Open Swimming
Competition last Saturday.

The team had an outstanding number of medal performances and are next in action in the National Speedo League at Western Super Mare on Saturday .

The following Cormorants swimmers also made the medal podium:

Emily Harbisher Gold
Millie Sander Gold
Dylon Scotney Gold
Jack Semmonds Gold
Shannon Smith Gold
Lauren Woodfinden Gold
Ashleigh Blewett Silver
Amelia Boylan Silver
Emma Garnett Silver
Katie Purohit Silver
Charlotte Scotland Bronze
Ellie Vercoe Bronze

Out of 24 swimmers the club sent 13 achieved gold 4 achieved silver and 2 achieved bronze, giving them an outstanding set of results with many County and South West Region qualifying times recorded.

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Newquay Cormorants swimmers in top form at the Plymouth Leander Open...

Newquay Cormorants swimmers were in top form at the Plymouth Leander Open Meet which attracted a very large entry.

Coach Phil Goldman said “Our swimmers produced our best ever open meet result, with most of the team achieving personal best times in all their events, and is proof that our World Class Training programme and competition protocol that we have been following over the last 4 months is correct”.

Top performance went to 9 yr old Emily Harbisher who gained 5 golds from all the 200mts events on the programme, with new meet records in 4 of them. Emily was unbeatable and her performances have taken her to the top of the British 9 yr old rankings.

Two other Newquay 9 yr old girls, Millie Sander and Molly Townsend, made their introduction having only a few days earlier had their ninth birthday giving them the right to compete - they performed like old hands! Millie had a fantastic swim in the 400 freestyle splitting the first 200 meters in 3.11.3 some 13 seconds inside her county 200 meters qualifying time for 2007 and finished with a very impressive 6.29 .0 and took the bronze medal, she also gained medals in the 200 meters butterfly and 200meters freestyle. Molly Took bronze in the 200meters butterfly with a very strong finish for such a hard event and also gave medal winning performances in the 200 meters backstroke and 400 metres freestyle.

In the 12 yrs age group Natalie Harbisher had a very busy weekend and performed every event inside her best time picking up 3 silver and 4 bronze medals, and is looking much stronger.

The age group saw Rhyannan Jones competing in her first ever competition, producing excellent swims and times and is one to watch for the future. Brogan Parsons gave her best ever 200 breaststroke performance with a 3.15 for the event and there was an equally massive improvement in time from Charlotte Scotland who took almost five seconds off her 100 metres freestyle clocking in with a 1.16.22.

In the open age events 17 yr old Brogan Latham had her best ever open meet, gaining 2 silver medals and a host of finalist places and is maturing into a very good all round performer. 15 yr old Amelia Boylan is starting to show she has what it takes to be a top backstroke swimmer by taking silver in the 50 metres back, then put icing on the cake by taking gold for the first time in an open event in the 100 meters back clocking 1.11.6.

The boys added to the clubs performance with Jarrod Benney performing brilliantly in all his events and gaining silver and bronze in 5 of them to add to his gold medal swim in the 100 metres butterfly in the 12 yrs age band.

Dylon Scotney, the counties leading 9 yr old, took gold in the 200meters breast well inside next years South West Championships qualifying standard and also produce a very strong finish in the 200meters freestyle to take silver.
Another nine year old to have is first race in England was Jack Semmonds who pulled out all the stops to take silver in a very impressive time some 9 seconds inside next years County qualifying time for the event.

Jaaden Pugh in the 14 yr ages and Hamish Tym in the 10 yrs age band also had their first open meet swim at this level, and made a very promising introduction with good personal best times recorded.

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Matt and Jonathan Qualify for the World Championships!

The National Disability Swimming Championships and World Championships Trials were held at Sheffield over Friday Saturday and Sunday (7th 8th & 9th July). The event attracted top swimmers from over thirty National Teams with the British swimmers looking for a very hard qualifying time to be considered for selection to the GB squad.

Matt Whorwood age 16, and Jonathan Fox age 15, were by far two of the youngest male competitors to try to gain a ticket to compete in the World Championships in South Africa later in the year.

The Newquay Cormorants duo did not disappoint and produced some sparkling personal best times in their respective events. Matt achieved 3 World qualifying times in the 100mts breaststroke, 400mts freestyle and 200mts I.M. the latter taking him up to second on the world rankings. In doing so he gained 3 gold 2 silver and 2 bronze medals over these very busy three days.

Jonathan gained three silver medals, and in the 100 mts backstroke also gained his world championship qualifying time only beaten in the event by the World record holder Andrew Lindsay.

British Swimming will announce the team on August 8th after the National Youth Championships which are the second of the trials .

The two Newquay Cormorant boys are hoping they have done enough to be selected.

Cormorants head coach Phil Goldman said the boys preparation has been without a hiccup with a very high training volume of 35 to 40.000 mts per week over 10 sessions a week.

He added this preparation would not have been possible with out the support of Newquay Cormorants and the Waterworld Leisure Centre.

"The swimmers were in the finest shape I could get them to, and I feel that they have achieved all I could wish for. Its now up to the selectors". - [Phil Goldman].

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Ickle People Junior Open Meet Wolverhampton

Emily Harbisher one of the Newquay Cormorants talented 9 year olds who is the leading swimmer of her age in the county, took on some of the best swimmers in England for her age at the Ickle People Junior Open Meet in Wolverhampton. The Coach had entered her for a meet of high standard to get her prepared for next years county and South West Regional Championships.

Emily performed with some fantastic swimming gaining 2 silver and 1 bronze medals, all with super personal best times. In the 200mts freestyle she took silver with a time of
2.54.23, some 16 seconds inside the 10year old county qualifying time for next year and is well on target for the South West Championships in 2007.

Her other silver came in the 200 mts I.M. clocking 3.20.31, some 25 seconds inside the county 10 year old qualifying standard!

Emily's bronze was won in the 100mts breaststroke in one of the closest finishes of the day with a the first three separated by just 0.05 of a second her recorded time was 1.41.66.

Emily will next swim at the Plymouth Leander Open meet at the end of July .

Phil Goldman has then targeted the Worksop Open Meet at Sheffield in September, the Carn Brea Open in October and the Avalon meet in Somerset as her main goals for the remainder of 2006.

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Newquay's Jonathan Fox selected to the G B Disability Swim Team.

22 swimmers were taken to the German National Championships over 4 days as their last build up to the World Championship Trials that take place in the first week of July.
The event attracted 24 National teams to a packed venue. Jonathan, who is in heavy training of around 40km per week, performed outstandingly on a World Stage with massive pb swims in the 400 and 200 freestyle gaining silver in both . His medal haul did not stop there! He picked up a further 4 silver and 3 bronze, but left his best performance to last in taking gold in the 100mts backstroke to take the German Championship.

He jetted back to Newquay late Sunday evening and will be joining Newquay's other World Championship hopeful Matthew Whorwood back in training for their final 32 session preparation under the instruction of their coach on their attempt to make the World Championships in S Africa in Dec

The team will be announced on the 7th August after the National Championships at Sheffield

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ASA Award Head Coach Phil Goldman the Silver Pin

The Amateur Swimming Association, (ASA), has awarded Newquay Cormorants Head Coach Phil Goldman with the Silver Pin for his long service to their Technical Swimming Committee. Phil has represented the six counties of the West for the last 8 years at the highest level in the production of National Swimming Policy, and is the first person from Cornwall County to receive the long service award,

Phil’s involvement in swimming dates back over 30yrs both with coaching and in delivering the sport, the two positions leave little time in his life for outside activities .

Over this 30yr period he has been Chairman of The National Speedo League West, and
Swimming Secretary of Cornwall. He became Cornwall County President in the year 2000 and has represented the County at the Western Counties for the last 15 years.

During his time in the North of England he was a member of the North Lancashire Swimming association and the Bolton and District Association Committees

He is at present South West Region’s Swimming Secretary, a member of the Cornwall Executive and the County Secretary for Disability swimming as well as still working on the National Tech Swimming Committee

Phil became a Team manager of the Western Counties swim team in 1992 and has led them on many occasions. He is now a member of the World Class Performance Disability coaching team, in which he works at the High Performance Centre in Manchester.

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Jonathon Fox & Matthew Whorwood to represent Great Britain!

Newquay's Jonathon Fox and Matthew Whorwood have been selected to represent GB in Berlin between 1st and 4th June .

British Swimming is using the event as a build up to the World Trials to be held at Sheffield in July. Coach Phil Goldman said he was delighted to hear that both Jonathon and Matthew had been selected, and it was just reward for the work both boys have put in over the last 6 months.

In that time their work load has increased to 10 training sessions and 4 land work sessions per week, and they are now working even harder to try and make the World Championships in S Africa between Nov 22nd and Dec 10th....

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Bad Bergzabern, German Swimming Festival...

(Map Here)

Dylan strikes gold in Germany in fantastic style:
Newquay Cormorants Dylan Scotney took gold in the 100mts freestyle with a swim of positive maturity for one so young. Dylan added two silvers in the 100mts backstroke and 100mts breaststroke and has stamped his arrival on the world stage.

The competition attracted 37 clubs from 32 nations with China and the U.S.A. representing Asia and the American continents The African continent was represented by South Africa and Nigeria

Brogen Latham had a fine competition gaining a top six spot in all her five events her best being fourth in the 100mts butterfly as was a model of consistency
Natalie Harbisher gained two top six places with good swims in the 100mts butterfly and breaststroke finishing fourth in both.

Hannah Rundle is just getting over a long lasting injury but is showing she is on the mend with a sixth in the 100mts breaststroke,she said that she was pleased with the performance asa she has not done a full training session since early October.

The girls relay team of Amelia Boylan backstroke, Hannah Rundle breaststroke,Ellie Hargreaves butterfly and Brogen Latham freestyle added to the top six places in the 4 x 100 medley team.

Louise Gummow, Shannon Smith, Charlotte Danks,Emma Garnett , Jarrad Benney and Amelia

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Boylan performed well all just missing a top six spot.

 

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CCASA Age Groups Competition Results (full results here)

Point Scores Report for CCASA Teams
Top Club (Evt.22)
1 Truro City 133
2 Newquay 74
3 Bodmin 64
4 Launceston 41
5 Caradon 38
6 St Austell 29
7 Bude 26
8 Carn Brea 18
9 Penzance 17
10 Wadebridge 11
11 Camelford 2

A Star is Born...
by way of Newquay’s 11yr old Natalie Harbisher who produced one of the best performances of age group swimming in the history of Cornwall County age group championships which started some 30yrs ago.

Natalie had seven swims and made a perfect score taking seven gold medals and produced five new competition records. No event or distance seems beyond her with winning the 50mts fly and breaststroke, the 100mts freestyle and backstroke and the 200mts freestyle, backstroke and I.M.
Her young sister Emily swimming for the first time in the 9yrs age band added to the family success with three gold medals winning the 200 freestyle, 50mts breaststroke and 50mts fly.

Josh Piper in the 13yr age group also collected three gold medals and added silver and bronze in workman like fashion. Dylan Scotney, his Newquay club mate in his first venture in the nine year olds, gained two gold medals both in new competition best times and is a live contender as a future top breaststroker Dylan added two bronzes to his tally.

Shannon Smith [Newquay] in the thirteen year age band also took double gold with wins in the 400mts I.M. and 50mts breaststroke, and through in a bronze performance in the 200 I.M.

Jarrod Benney gained the eighteenth gold of the weekend in winning the 200mts fly to add to his silver and bronze.

In the senior championship Newquay’s club captain Lauren Woodfinden was very consistent taking six silver medals from six events her best performance being her 2.29.2 in the 200 mts backstroke. In the 400mts I.M. Lauren team mate Brogen Latham followed her in with a very good positive bronze medal performance, Brogen is quite a late developer and her future in the sport looks very promising.

Other Newquay swimmers who gained age group medals were Brogan Parsons silver in the 50mts breast and Charlotte Danks bronze in the 50mts fly, both girls compete in the 11yrs age group. George Pendriech silver in the 200mts 9yr breast and Cameron Russell bronze in the 50mts freestyle for 12yr olds added to the medal haul with very aggressive performances.

Serica Bawden 10yrs, Charlotte Scotland 11yrs, Amelia Boylan and Ellie Hargreaves Juniors all gave best time performances and the future looks bright for them.

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CCASA Junior Inter club Competition Results
Full Results Here

	Division 1	Division 2
1	Truro City	Bude
2	Newquay	St. Austell
3	Wadebridge	Penzance
4	Bodmin	St. Ives
5	Carn Brea	Camelford

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British Disability Awards - Matthew & Jonathon Recognized
Cornish swimming and the Newquay Swimming Club, by way of Matthew Whorwood and Jonathan Fox, received one of the most coveted awards in British swimming last weekend, when they and their coach Phil Goldman attended the first Beijing orientation camp at the high performance centre in Manchester.

The dinner that took place on the Saturday was also the event for the British Disability Swimming awards for 2005.

Jonathan Fox was named as one of the big improvers in 2005 from the six that were recognized.

Matthew Whorwood was recognized as one of the six Outstanding Performers in 2005

The most important award The Best Performance in 2005 British Disability Swimming also went to Matthew who received his Oscar like trophy from the head of British Disability swimming to a rapturous applause.

Phil commented that both boys have made alarming progress on the world scene, and if all goes well over the next two years they will not only be live contenders for the G. B. Team, but medal prospects as well. To gain these awards in a squad that boasts 10 World Records, 15 European and 49 British Records is outstanding.

The boys next target is to make the team for the World Championships in Durban at the end of November: “A lot of preparation and work is required between now and then”, added Phil, “Competing on the World Stage doesn't just happen. Team work, dedication and a lot of effort is required”.

The boys have to increase their training to 9 or 10 session water work each week with a target of around 40,000 meters in volume at the peak and do 3 land sessions each week and stretch cord work every day

The Head Coach of GB Swimming will be making regular visits to Newquay to monitor their progress and to discuss their training requirements with Phil.

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News 2005.

All Age Group Championship Results for 2005

National Disability Championships

The County's two world class performance disability swimmers, Newquay's Matthew Whorwood and Jonathan Fox, although only 15yrs and 14yrs age, took on the worlds best men at the National Championships held at Sheffield.

The event attracted over 380 swimmers from 30 countries: The countries taking part included South Africa, Hong Kong, Israel, Australia, Canada, Spain and Brazil.

More than 150 British swimmers including Matthew and Jonathan tested their talents at the Championships against over 50 paralympic medallist from Athens including Colorado Silver from Brazil 5 gold medals in Athens,Benito Huot from Canada 5 gold and 1 silver,Izhak Mamistvalov from Israel 2 gold and 1 silver, Sebastian Rodriguez from Spain 3 golds in Athens and British gold medallists James Crisp,Sacha Kindred,Dave Roberts and James Anderton.

Matthew and Jonathan produced outstanding performances in everyone of their 11 events they competed in against the highest quality competition outside Athens Paralympics.

Matthew took silver in both the 200mts I M and the 400mts freestyle with fantastic personal best times and was only beaten in both events by the Athens gold medallist.
The 15yr old added 3 bronze medals again with outstanding times in the 50mts and 100mts freestyle and the 100 mts breaststroke.
Matthew added a 4th place in the 50mts fly to round off a super 3 days of competition.

Jonathan qualified for 5 events and also produced best times in everyone of them.

The 14yr old was up against a number of world record holders who were twice his age but this did not stop him performing so brilliantly with 4th places in both the 50 freestyle and 100 mts backstroke,5th in both the 200 I,M and100 freestyle and 6th in the 400mts freestyle.

On the week of the 25th of June both boys are away on International duty.
Matthew will be representing G. B. in Berlin and Jonathan will be representing England and Wales combined team at the World C. P. Championships in the United States.

Hannah Rundle Takes Gold's at Weston Super Mare Open

The Newquay Cormorants young 13yr old Hannah Rundle fresh from her Cornwall County Senior 200mts breaststroke Championship success put in a super National Qualifying performance in the 400 mts Individual Medley, taking over 3 seconds off her best time in clocking 5.20.3 at the Western Super Mare Easter Open Meet.

Her time has taken her to the top of the Western Counties 13yr age group short course rankings and took her up to 8th on the national list for the event.

The young lady added a further 2 gold medals in the 200 breaststroke with a personal best time of 2.51.3 and in the 200mts Individual Medley.

Her coach Phil Goldman had put her into the event to try and gain the time she needed for the Nationals before she flew out to Canada on the 28th March to represent her school on a hockey tour.

Phil said as Hannah would be out of the country till the 11th of April it was important to try and get her National qualifying time before she left - this she has achieved.

Hannah commented that she felt really chuffed with the result and could now relax on her flight to Vancouver.

CCASA Relay Results 2005

Newquay Cormorants 13 and over girls produced the perfect result in taking all six events in the evening session of the County Relay Championships at Bodmin.

Senior club swimmer 38 year old Clare Stephenson led the magnificent 7 of Hannah Rundle,Ellie Hargreaves and Louise Gummow all 13 yr old, Amelia Boylan 14yrs old,
Lauren Woodfinden,Brogen Latham and Hannah Dixon 15yrs old, to the clubs outstanding performance in winning gold in the senior ladies 4x100 freestyle and medley events.
The junior ladies 4x100 freestyle and medley and the girls 13/14 yrs 4x50 freestyle and medley races.

The 7 youngsters, led by Clare, worked their socks off to produce the perfect result.

The girls swam personal best times repeatedly in their quest for perfection and the magnificent 7 recorded the following times:

Hannah Rundle
100 freestyle 1.04.77 and 1.04.85
100 backstroke 1 12.11 50 free 30.64 50 breast 39.03

Ellie Hargreaves
100 freestyle 1 .5.81 and 1.08.03
50 freestyle 30.82 and 31.33

Lauren Woodfinden
100 freestyle 1.05.76 1.03.47 1.02.93.
100 backstroke 1.10.98.

Brogen Latham 100 freestyle 1.06,80 1.05.82
and 100 butterfly 1.14.89

Amelia Boylan 50 freestyle 31.89
50 back 34.52

Louise Gummow
50 freestyle 31.77
50 butterfly 35.33

Hannah Dixon
100 breast 1.22.64 and 1.24.20

Clare Stephenson led by example with times of 1.04.85 in the 100 freestyle and a 1.14.56 for the 100 butterfly.

In the earlier session for the youngsters who are not over 12yrs, the Newquay 9/10 yr girls of Charlotte Danks 38.96, Laura Slack 38.92 Brogan Parsons 37.15 and Natalie Harbisher 33.11 added gold in the 4x50 freestyle

Mathew Whorwood Represents GB in Denmark

Newquay had further success with Mathew Whorwood in his first ever full international. He competed for the G. B. Team for Disabilities in Denmark and produced a gold medal performance in the 200mts I. M.

Matthew added a super swim in collecting silver behind the world record holder from Sweden in the 400 freestyle.

Matthew has now been selected to compete in Berlin at the end of June for the G. B. Team

With three and half years to the next Paralympics Matthew is on track to be considered for the team.

 

Western County Qualifiers 2005

The club has this year gained a record number of Western Counties qualifiers.
With the entry times hardened it is pleasing to see 15 swimmers gain the standard.

Much of the success has come from working the club programme for prospective District swimmers along the World Class programme that two of the swimmers are on.

Training times have from 14th March been increased for the swimmers that require it from 9hrs to 15 hrs to maintain the volume required at World Class level.

AGE GROUP CHAMPIONSHIPS Western County qualifiers

JUNE 4TH 5TH 11TH 12TH

BROGAN PARSONS
NATALIE HARBISHER
APRIL BLEWETT
SHANNON SMITH
HANNAH RUNDLE
JARROD BENNEY

YOUTH CHAMPIONSHIPS
APRIL 30TH MAY 1ST 2ND

LAUREN WOODFINDEN
AMELIA BOYLAN
ELLIE HARGREAVES
EMMA GARNETT
BROGEN LATHAM
HANNAH DIXON
DARREN MOUNTFORD
JONATHON FOX
MATTHEW WHORWOOD

SENIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS
NOV 25TH 26TH 27TH

LAUREN WOODFINDEN
AMELIA BOYLAN
ELLIE HARGREAVES
EMMA GARNETT
BROGEN LATHAM
HANNAH DIXON
HANNAH RUNDLE
DARREN MOUNTFORD
JONATHON FOX
MATTHEW WHORWOOD

WELL DONE NOW LETS GO FOR AS MANY FINALS AND MEDALS

County Championships 2005 - 36 Gold's This Weekend

The Cormorants continued their super form in the second half of the County Swimming Championships, picking up a further 18 gold, 18 silver and 13 bronze medal positions.

The total over both weekends was by far their best tally anyone can remember with 36 gold ,35 silver and 24 bronze positions.

Thirteen year old Hannah Rundle and ten year old Natalie Harbisher, as last week, led the medal charge, Hannah gaining a further 5 Gold's and Natalie 4 with some very impressive swimming.
The two girls have now many miles to travel in there search to take on the best of their age in the country.

The 200mts breaststroke for girls was by far the club's best event with them winning the 10yrs for Natalie. The 12yrs age group went to Shannon Smith with her finest ever performance .The 13 yrs age band went to Hannah who also produced a record breaking performance in taking over 3 seconds of Rebecca Mays 1992 age group record.
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Emma Garnett a 14yr old who we will hear a lot more about gained her first ever win with a very confident performance and Hannah Dixon made short work of her opponents in taking the 15 yrs age band.

Eleven year old April Blewett was in super form in the 100mts butterfly hacking over six seconds of her previous best time in taking gold .

Jarrod Benney gave a very mature performance in gaining gold in the 400 mts I. M. for 11yr olds with a massive improvement in time and Josh Piper took gold in the 50mts butterfly with an excellent personal best time.

Lauren Woodfinden and Brogen Latham in the 15yrs age band performed a host of best times in earning 3 silver and 2 silver positions respectively.

Silver medals were also earned by the quintet of Ellie Hargreaves,Amelia Boylan,Brogan Parsons,Ashley Taylor
and Ben Blewett all gave life time best performances and look to have a bright future.

In the open men's event Darren Mountford performed to super swims in the 100mts and 200mts freestyle gaining a top three spot in the 100mts.

In the Disability section Jonathon Fox recorded two gold medal performances with brilliant swims in both the 100mts back clocking 1.25.88 and the 100 freestyle finishing in 1.15.68 both world class times for his S7 category. Jonathon will be competing next at the Western Counties Youth Championships and National Championships at Millfield and Sheffield in May before going on to represent England and Wales in the World C.P.Games in the U.S.A. in June.

Next week is the County relay Championships and the club is looking to add a host of winning performances to an ever growing list.

Counties 2005 - Records Broken again!

Newquay Cormorants made a golden start to the Cheestrings Cornwall County Swimming Championships at Bodmin.

The team gained in the first weekend of two, 18 gold 17silver and 13 bronze positions with some of the clubs best ever performances from a very strong age group set of swimmers.
The pleasing thing was 18 swimmers managed to make a top three placing from a total of 47.
Top performers were the golden girls 13yr old Hannah Rundle and 10yr old Natalie Harbisher a duo that completely dominated their age groups taking 5 gold medals each with some outstanding times, Hannah broke 3 competition records and Natalie 2 .
Hannah has all ready established herself as one of the best all round 13yr olds in the country and it looks like Natalie will be following her.

Josh Piper in the 12yr olds picked up 2 gold's and 4 silver with some very good personal best times and with a little bit more work under his belt could easily become something special .

Ten year old Brogan Parsons produced a powerful swim in taking gold in the 50mts breaststroke too add to her 2 bronze positions.

Shannon Smith gave the performance of her life in taking gold in the 400mts I.M. for 12yr olds.

In the 15yrs age band the club had a powerful trio in Lauren Woodfinden who gained two seconds and two thirds her best being the 5.29 she clocked in the 400 I. M. in claiming second. Brogan Latham having by far her best ever championships with three third places and a host of personal best times and Hannah Dixon who gained second place in the 50mts breaststroke and also a group of best times.

The brother and sister duo of April and Ben Blewett both got among the medals with a silver and bronze each. April took silver in the 50mts fly and bronze in the 50mts breast in the 11yrs age.
Ben gained silver in the 200mts breaststroke and bronze in 100mts breaststroke in the 13yrs age all four performances were way inside anything they had done previously.

In the 14yrs age group Emma Garnett gained one second and two third places in what is looking like her best championships. Corin Dummett also gained a second and a third with gutsy performances and the age group also saw Amelia Boylan take second in the 200mts backstroke.

Nine year old Ashley Taylor and eleven year old Jarrod Benney both gained silver Ashley in the 50mts freestyle and Jarrod in the 200mts butterfly with outstanding times.

Darren Mountford in the open event gained two well earned third places with personal best time in the 100 I. M.

This year the county included disability events which is now a national policy.
Matthew Whorwood gained 3 gold and one silver with his best performance being a world class 100mts breaststroke swim and his Newquay team mate Jonathon Fox gained 1 gold and 2 silver with his best swim being a top time of 39.98 for the 50mts back.

The second half of the championships take place on 12th 13th March
Phil Goldman

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News 2003/2004.

Download All Age Group Championship Results for 2003 and more Here

Olympic Trials for Mathew Whorwood!

Matthew Whorwood the 14yr old Newquay Cormorants swimmer produced the best performance of his life in competing at the British National Long Course Championships and Olympic Trials in the senior men's mixed disabilities 400 mts freestyle Championship at Ponds Forge.

Matthew smashed the British Senior record for the event by over 12 seconds in his category of S.6 and in so doing took the gold medal for the multi category event .

The event because of the differences in disabilities in based on your closeness to the existing British record for the respective category.

The Newquay boys nearest challengers were David Roberts of Wales from S.7
and Rob

Wheldon from the South East in S.10 who took silver and bronze.

Matthew has now been selected for the World Class Potential Athlete Pro gramme and will be attending a full National Camp Program and has moved up to the top 12 in the world rankings.

Phil Goldman his coach said that Matthew is on target to make the Para Olympics in China in 2008 and the road to this is clearly defined.

I understand that I will be getting a visit from the National Performance Officer who will wish to have recorded all Matthews work which will have to increased from his present 9hrs an some 25,000 mts per week to 14hrs and around 40,000 mts per week.
This will be achieved with the help of Waterworlds managements willingness to contribute to the support of a very dedicated athlete

Good Swims in Bad Bergzabern Germany

Newquay Cormorants sent 11 girls to Germany to compete against 47 teams from 23 nations from as far a field as China and Texas .
The team had received some financial help from both Cornwall County Council ,Newquay Town Council and Imerys Ltd.

The team produced a great number of best times on their way to putting Newquay on to the world swimming map.

The two Hannah's Rundle and Dixon led the way both claiming top six positions Hannah Rundle in the 200mts I. M. with a national qualifying time of 2.38.14 and Hannah Dixon in the 100mts breaststroke . Both girls were the highest placed swimmers from Western Europe .
Hannah Rundle also gained a top six place in event she is still learning the 100mts butterfly.

Victoria Reeve also got among the top sixes with a fine swim in the 100mts butterfly for 16yr olds to add to a very good all round performance with not finishing out of the top 8 in any of her 5 events.

Amelia Boylan gave the performance of her 13yrs life in the 100mts backstroke taking 7th place in a time of 1.15.74.
April Blewett 11yrs and Shannon Smith 12yrs both just missed the top six positions but performed with credit.

Ellie Hargreaves clocked the second fastest time in the County this year with a time of 1.08.4. for the 100mts freestyle for 12yr olds finishing a very creditable 12th from the 43 competitors .

In the 15yrs age group Laurel Callender and Brogen Latham both produced life time best Laurel in the butterfly and I.M.and Brogen in the free and I. M.

Emma Garnett's best performances came in the 100mts breast and back and Kirsty Macdonald's came in the 100mts free

The team gave such a good account of themselves they have all ready received invitations to compete in Hungary, Israel, France, Ukraine and U.S.A..

Cornwall County Age Group Championship 13th / 14th March 2004

Newquay Cormorants continued their most successful year at the County Swimming Championships with a further 19 firsts twenty seconds and 19 third places in the second half of the programme.

The 200mts butterfly event gave the girls a flying performance with Victoria Reeve taking the Senior and Junior title with all three podium positions filled by Newquay swimmers.

In the age groups Natalie Harbisher and Brogan Parsons were second and third for the 9yrs band, April Blewett won the 10 yrs age group in fine style, Hannah Rundle won the 12yrs group in a competition record .
The 13yrs age band went to Kirsty Macdonald and the 14yrs gave Laurel Callender the title in a very close finish with team mate Brogen Latham who had some very good performances over the week end
Victoria Reeve took the 15yrs age group and Clare Stephenson gained the 17 plus top spot both girls broke the competition records with aplomb.


The 200 mts breaststroke yet again showed the dominance of the Newquay girls with yet another clean sweep in the Senior and Junior titles Hannah Rundle taking her first senior title at the age of twelve with a time of 2.54.01 with 14 yr old Hannah Dixon claiming second in 2.57.54 15yr old Victoria Reeve snatching third place in 2.58.74.

The age groups gave Brogan Parsons her second gold breaststroke medal for the 9yrs with a narrow win of just three one hundreds of a second.

Natalie Harbisher claimed 5 second places in the 9yrs band all in personnel best times.

Emma Garnett at last showed what she able to achieve with two second places in the 100 and 200 breaststrokes in the 13yr olds,and Ellie Hargreaves 12yrs and Amelia Boylan 13yrs had their best championship ever.
Freestyle specialist Lauren Woodfinden added silver in the 400mts and bronze in the 50mts to her gold in the 800mts senior championships.

11yr old Josh Piper gained first in both the 50mts fly and 400mts I.M.
in the tens Jarrad Benney worked well to be places first in the 400 I,M,and .third in the 200 I. M.

Nine year old Lloyd Piper in the 200 free gained third place and their was a good silver for Sam Woods in the 11yrs 50mts breast.

Ben Blewett produced his best ever set of results and collected gold in the 50mts breast,silver in the 50 mts fly and bronze in the 100mts free all with powerful performances in the 12yrs age group

Cornwall County Age Group Championship 23rd Feb. 2004

The Cornwall County Swimming Championships commenced at Truro with the distance events which produced a clean sweep in the ladies events for the Newquay Cormorants

The Restormel club took both the senior and junior 800mts with Laurel Woodfinden gaining her first ever senior title
The 14yr old clocked a winning time of 9.55.35 in a close finish with Bodmin's Laura Deerings who checked in with a time of 9.56.37

The Newquay Club also took the 800mts youth relay championship
with the only new competition record of 9.29.79 of the evening.
The girls splits were
Laurel Callender 2.24.97
Brogen Latham 2.24.78
Lauren Woodfinden 2.18.61
Victoria Reeve 2.21.43
With all 4 girls having 3 more years at youth level the chances are they will improve again next year.

St Austell's Peter Long took the 1500mts again in a close finish from Newquay's Darren Mountford Peter recorded a time of 17.58.27 and Darren clocked 18.02.49
The Junior Championship went to Felix Hinton Smith of Truro in 18.10.22
Truro's Youth team took the relay in a time of 8.47.55

Next weekend their is a full two days of competition at Bodmin

Speedo League Round 2 Frome - Cormorants still unbeaten!

Newquay Cormorants continued their unbeaten run in the National Speedo League Div 3 with an outstanding team performance in winning 28 races and finishing second 11 times out of the 50 event programme.

Five swimmers gained Double wins, Josh Piper in the 11yrs age group with times of 38.52 in the backstroke and 36.58 in the butterfly. In the 13yrs age band Hannah Rundle collected maximum points with personal best times in the breaststroke of 39.81 and in the butterfly of 35.66.
Lauren Woodfinden is gaining more confidence with every swim and completely dominated the 15yrs 100mts backstroke and freestyle.
In the senior events Clare Stephenson took the freestyle and butterfly with all the way leading performances and James Ryan did likewise in the 15yrs breast and back.

The Cormorants had a further 8 swimmers producing winning performances in the 11yrs age group Shannon Smith took the breaststroke and in the 15yrs Sam Whittaker was successful in the freestyle both in close finishes.

In the 13yr olds age group Amelia Boylan 34.86 backstroke and Ellie Hargreaves 32.53 freestyle showed tremendous aggression in giving personal best performances
to give the team a clean sweep in the age group.
A clean sweep was also made by the 15yrs girls when Victoria Reeve 1.13.3 butterfly and Hannah Dixon 1.21.9 Breaststroke performed with aplomb .
Jessica Meller added to the first places with a dominating display for the seniors in the breaststroke.

Full match result:
NEWQUAY 258. CHRISTCHURCH 192. BROCKWORTH 178
BACKWELL 151. CWNBRAN 125. FROME 120.

The final of the league will be at Western Super Mare on December 13th and the teams in the final are
NEWQUAY, ILFRACOMBE, KINGSBRIDGE, WEYMOUTH, CLEVEDON,
CHRISTCHURCH, BROCKWORTH and PENARTH.

 

WORLD RECORD FOR MATHEW WHORWOOD 02 - Nov - 2003

Mathew Whorwood gave an outstanding performance last weekend (2-Nov-2003)at the National Short Course Disabled Swimming Championships sponsored by the English Federation of Disabled Sport and was held at the Ponds Forge Pool Sheffield.

The Newquay Cormorants Swimmer gained three gold medals in the 100m Breast stroke, 100m Backstroke and the 50m Breast Stroke, adding silver in both the 200m IM and 100m Freestyle, and bronze in the 50m Butterfly - all in personal best times.

Swimming in the SM5 class he gained gold in the 100m breast stroke and was delighted to receive a standing applause in smashing the world senior record. This is Mathew's first appearance in this senior event and his performance was noted by the World Potential Start Programme selectors.

Our Coach, Phil Goldman said that the young mans talent and work rate in training had given him a massive improvement in his first year at senior level competition. Phil went on to say that Mathews target of representing Great Britain at the Disabled Olympics in China in 2008 is certainly a step nearer after last weekend. Even though Mathew had a long journey back from Sheffield on Sunday evening, he was back in the training pool Monday morning at 7am with Phil and team mates who all give him great support.

Speedo League Round 1 at Tiverton

Newquay Cormorants had a perfect start to their first ever National Speedo League contest in dominating their group at Tiverton last Saturday (11th Oct 2003).

The Newquay club gained 28 first places 8 second places and 7 third places out of the 50 event programme and finished with a massive 247 points, and lead the 18 team league from Ilfracombe and Kingsbridge.

In the 11yrs old girls Shannon Smith had a double victory in the breast and back and with maximum points in the relays the 11yr olds finished with 32 out of 36 points.

The 13yr olds also gained 32 points with wins from Amelia Boylan backstroke and from Hannah Rundle in the Breast to add to their maximum points in the relays.

The girls 15yr olds had a perfect score taking all 36 points with a double win for Lauren Woodfinden in the back and free, Hannah Dixon in the breast and Victoria Reeve in the fly also gained fine first places Laurel Callender made up the quartet that were outstanding in the two relays

The senior ladies were also in electrifying form taking 41 out of 42 points with double wins for Clare Stephenson fly and free the latter being a 1.03.94 100mts a personal best time for the young 37 year old and Jessica Meller who dominated the breast and individual medley.
The 11 year old boys won both their relays to add to a fine winning backstroke performance from Josh Piper giving them 21 points out of 36.

The 13 year boys pulled together to total 29 points from 36 with a good all round performance. The 15 year olds went even better with double wins from James Ryan in the back and breast to add to some very good team swimming from the remaining 15 year olds who gained 31 points .
The senior men kept the points totting up gaining 25 out of 42 points

Full match result
1 Newquay 247 points
2 Brockworth Glouc 200
3 Christchurch Hants 176
4 Oddicombe Devon 165
5 Tavistock Devon 151
6 Carmarthen 95

The other county teams found it hard going with Caradon and Carn Brea both from the first division and Truro from the premier unable to make their presence felt.

Other Round 1 RESULTS
1 WESTERN S MARE 210
2 TAUNTON DEAN 195
3 DINNATON 188
4 BARNSTAPLE 142
5 CARN BREA 137

1 KELLY COLLEGE 273 CITY OF CARDIFF 247
2 CITY OF NEWPORT 171 CITY OF EXETER 203
3 KEYNSHAM 171 HEREFORD 188
4 STREET 167 TORNADOES 169
5 PEMBROKE ACES 161 CARMS A 122
6 CARADON 102 TRURO 115

County Championships Dates for 2004

The County Junior Club Championship will take in January a much earlier date than normally because of the lack of dates in the calendar in the May June window.

The County Championships will take place between Feb. 18th and March 14th with the relays on the 27th.

Club to swim at Bad Bergazabern Germany in 2004

Newquay will be breaking new ground next March when they fly the flag for England and Cornwall in an international club competition, which has attracted clubs from over thirty countries. The event will take place in Germany between the 19th and 22nd of March.
The team that has qualified to compete are April Blewett, Shannon Smith,
Amelia Boylan, Hannah Rundle, Ellie Hargreaves, Emma Garnett, Kirsty Macdonald, Laurel Callender, Brogan Latham, Hannah Dixon and Victoria Reeve.

Club coach Phil Goldman said it would be a marvelous experience for the girls who have qualified to compete.
A party of twenty will fly out from Newquay to Frankfurt on the 19th March and will be met by the organisers, to be transported the 200 km to the venue.
The party has been invited to a civic reception at the local town hall on the Saturday evening and the swimmers have an end of competition disco at the civic hall on the Sunday.

 

Carn Brea Open Meet 2003

Newquay Cormorants gained 55 medals at the Carn Brea Open Meet last weekend.
Included in the total were 12 gold 24 silver and 19 bronze.
Josh Piper in the 11yrs age group gained four gold, Hannah Rundle three gold in the 12 yrs age band.
Conner Crowsen-Lings in the 10yr olds Natalie Harbisher in the 9yr olds, Brogen Latham and Hannah Dixon in the 14yrs age group and Clare Stephenson in the open all struck gold.
Hannah Dixon gave the best performance of the team and county-based swimmers with a 2.56.42 in the 200mts breaststroke, which gave her silver behind Caroline Ball of Dinnaton who clocked 2.55.96. Hannah’s performance was over four seconds inside her previous best and is the leading time in the county this season.

 

Hannah Rundle is now among the Country's Elite Swimmers

Cornwall has a new National swimmer in 11 year old Hannah Rundle of Newquay Cormorants SC. Coach Phil Goldman had targeted the Bournemouth Open national designated event for Hannah many months ago. She did not disappoint in taking Gold in both the 200m breaststroke and 100m breaststroke with times of 3:04.1 and 1:28.1 respectively. Hannah added bronze in the 200m IM clocking 2:49.2 Her performance in the 200m breaststroke was so convincing that she smashed the national qualifying time by a massive 5 seconds, putting her amongst the elite of her age in the country for this event. Hannah's next event will be the Western Counties Age group Championships at Millfield this weekend (7th - 8th June 2003). and at the University of Bath the next weekend. She will be joined by team mates Brogan Latham, Hannah Dixon, Rachel Kay and Lauren Woodfinden.

This weekend also sees Newquay's Mathew Whorwood starting his open National Disabled Programme at Sheffield. This is his first step, hopefully, on the road to the Disabled Olympics in China 2008.

Jessica Meller, Newquay's Club Captain and Bodmin's Laura Deering will join Hannah at Sheffield
in August as the other female qualifiers from the county.

Rachel Kay represented Newquay at the City of Exeter Open Meet where she collected silver and Bronze in the 200m and 50m Breaststroke.

The Cornwall County Junior League Championship

Newquay have snatched the Junior League Champions Title from Truro who have held the trophy for the last 2 years. This is the first time Newquay has won the title in the 17 years of the event being held and an enormous thanks must go out to not only the swimmers but the Coach and all the teaching staff who have worked so hard to prepare the Junior team for this event.There were some magnificent swims and many PB's. Well done to all who entered.

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The first places for the weekend were:
Newquay 14
Truro 12
Caradon 11
Bodmin 11
Penzance 2
Launceston 1

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Cornwall County Age Groups Championships Session 1
10th Feb. 2002

The County championships opened its programme with a dazzling performance from the Newquay Cormorants girls in the distance events. For a starter they took the 4x200m freestyle relay youth championship in convincing style from the favourites for the event, Truro City. Jessica Meller gave the quartet a 10 metre lead at the end of the first leg, Christie Jago held the position on the second leg. Kara law extended the lead on the third leg and Kim Sproston brought the team home on the anchor leg with a fine personal best time.

For the main course, the heats of the ladies 800m freestyle gave the Newquay club 5 first places including 2 'one twos' out of the 8 age bands. The remaining 3 age bands went to Truro with 2, and Launceston with 1.

In the 10yrs age group Hannah Rundle had 22 seconds to spare in taking the event with aplomb from her team mate Ellie Hargreaves. Hannah's points score of 489 placed her 7th out of all 30 competitors and will place her very high on the national rankings.

The 11 year age group gave Newquay's Kirsty Macdonald her first ever victory. The young lady led from the Gun and gave a very positive performance in chopping over 30 seconds off her best time for the event and beating second place Rebecca Matulewicz of Wadebridge by 15 seconds.

In the 12yrs age group the Cormorants had another 'one two' with Brogan Latham taking first place with a very positive performance from club colleague Laurel Callender. The two girls performed well above their previous best.

Kimberley Sproston added to the Newquay's winning performances with a 32 seconds improvement and having 24 seconds to spare on second place Alex Fairhurst in the 14 year age group. The event would have gone to Catherine Flitney if she had not been disqualified for missing the wall on the 10th length turn.

Jessica Meller gave her Newquay Club a nap hand in being successful in the 16yrs age band also in a personal best time for an event she does for fun.

Truro's Chloe Oxford took the 13yrs event with a fine swim, she was followed home by Newquay's Victoria Reeve who put up a spirited performance after having a number of training set backs. Jane Deards was Truro's other winner who was followed home by Newquay's Kara Law.

In sharp contrast the 1500m Men's Event was poorly supported with only 15 swimmers going to the start and only 13 finishing for 8 age groups. The most competitive event was the 13yrs age group in which 7 went to the start. Felix Hinton-Smith was a good winner for his Truro Club and he was followed home by Robin Weary (Truro), and Michael Harvey (Caradon).

 

British Age Group Categories (BagCats) now into Phase 2

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Jessica for England West Team!

The England West Team Has been selected for the Luxembourg Junior International Championship to be held in the Olympic Swimming Centre Luxembourg City, between
April 5 & 7.

Newquay's Ladies Captain, Jess, has been selected as one of the 8 members of the team. She is only the second Cornish swimmer to gain selection to the England West team for an international event.

Bodmin's Helen Kerridge was the first in 1996.

Jessica will compete in her specialist stroke, with swims in the 50m, 100m and 200m Breaststroke. She holds the county junior record in all three events.

 

IM Skill Camp at Newquay Waterworld.

Newquay Waterworld will host the Western Counties IM skill camp for 16 and 17 year old swimmers on March 9 & 10.

The squad will be organised by Amanda Booth of Plymouth Leander & Jim Saulter from Penzance.

 

Closing Date for County Entries.

The Closing date for county championship entries is January 26 and a large entry is expected. Newquay's total of nearly 400 is their largest ever!

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