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 upto what I expected
and I have now given them a week off to recharge there batteries
before they start a 19 week training plan upto 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)
Listen
to BBC Radio Cornwall Interview with Matt Whorwood (1st April
2008)
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, Jesica
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 perfomed 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]
