YORKSHIRE SWIMMING ASSOCIATION.
UPPER AGE GROUP CHAMPIONSHIPS 2021.
JOHN CHARLES CENTRE FOR SPORT LEEDS.
9TH/10^TH OCTOBER 2021.

City’s swimmers had a successful Upper Age Group Yorkshire Championships coming home with medals, two club records, a national qualification time and a plethora of final placings.

Swimming in the fourteen years ago group it was Gina Warrior who claimed City’s highest placings with silver medal finishes in the 50m and 100m backstroke events. Both times were new club records and her time of 30.67 in the 50m event qualified her for The Winter National Championships to be held in Sheffield in December.

Fifteen year old Rebecca Dunn claimed fourth place in the 50 breaststroke and sixth place in the 100m event. 

Next in line was Sophia Gledhill swimming as a fourteen year old. She had sixth place finishes in the 400m individual medley, 50m and 100m butterfly and 100m backstroke, seventh in the 200m individual medley and rounded off an excellent weekends swimming with an eighth place finish in 50m backstroke. 

In the boys breaststroke events thirteen year old Robbie Ambler placed 7^th in both the 50m and 100m events.

Other top ten finishes went to Katie Wiles in the sixteen years and over 50m butterfly and Alex Dunn in the boys thirteen years 50m and 10m breaststroke.

All swimmers train on the Bradford Aquatics Competition programme under the guidance of coaches Andy Pearce and Sarah Fisher.

Christine McCabe
City of Bradford Swimming Club