Open Water Swimming

Two of our older swimmers, Robert Swinburne and  Elliott Clements are taking part in a series of Open Water swims this summer.

4/7/15 – Great Manchester Swim

Both are swimming in Salford quays, Manchester doing 1500m.

5/7/15 – Midlands Open Water Championships

Robert is swimming 1500m at Bosworth Water Park, Leicestershire. Swimming 1500m

18/5/15 – Great London Swim

Both are swimming 1500m in one of the Dry Docks at Canary Wharf.

Good luck to both.

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Kimberley Swimmers at the Primary School Nationals

Three swimmers from KSC and one former member of the club represented Mornington Primary School and one KSC Swimmer, Isaac Moreledge, was in the Nottingham High School Team, in the 22nd Primary School National Competition at Ponds Forge in Sheffield. The Mornington team, comprising of Chloe Cheetham, Matthew Jackson, Lucy Middleton and Lily Orme, had previously come second in both the freestyle and medley relays in the East Midlands Region to qualify for the National Finals.  Despite improving their qualifying times in each event the finals remained out of reach against some very tough competition, but a great time was had by all both at the competition and in the curry house afterwards.  Well done to all on their efforts.

  Chloe, Matthew, Lily and Lucy pictured on the Ponds Forge Scoreboard







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Summary of the Midland Championships

Over the last two weekends, 30/31st May and the 6th/7th June, four Kimberley Swimmers, competing under the Nova banner,competed in the Midlands age group championships.
There were pLenty of medals for the boys with many finals made
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In the 200m Breaststroke Joseph Kingsland became the midlands champion taking the Gold Medal and also came joint first in the 100m Breaststroke, 2nd in the 200m I/M, 2nd in the 400m I/M, 2nd in the 200m Backstroke, 2nd in the 400m Free, 4th in the 200m Free, 4th in the 100m back, 7th in the 100m Freestyle, 6th in the 100m Fly and 7th in the 200m Fly.

                     Joseph with his medal collection

Matthew Shipley came 4th in the 100m freestyle, 4th in the 50m Free, 5th in the 200m back, 7th in the 100m back, 8th in the 400m /M, 8th in the 200m I/M, 10th in the 400m free,

Jimi Knowles was 4th in the 200m Fly, 5th in the 50m free, 5th in the 100m free,5th in the 400m I/M, 5th in the 100m Fly, 8th in the 200m I/M, 8th in the 200m Free

Bradley Francis was a finalist in the 200m Fly, 15th in the 400m I/M and also achieved p.bs in the 200m I/M and 100m Fly.

     Bradley, Jimi, Matthew and Jospeh  - Well done boys!!

Results from the qualifying window have been used to form rankings and those eligible to enter the ASA Summer Nationals have been determined.  Matthew has qualified for six events and Joseph has qualified
for one event.  Mollie Wright has also qualified for 3 events,
The championships take place from the 4-9 August 2015 at Ponds Forge in Sheffield.









   

Reminder

Just a reminder that there is NO Saturday night swimming on June 27th as we have two galas that evening.

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June Birthdays

Birthday wishes for June go to:

Emily Anthony, Alisha & Joshua Berry, Chloe Bis, Haydn Bodycomb, Lily Bramley, William Bunting, Freya Clowes, Kyle Cooper, Harriet Damion-Tivey, Matthew Fearn, Hannah Foley, Zoe Forrester, Toby Halford-Maw, Phillipa Horsley, Jimi Knowles, Alex Lowe, Paddy Mills, Evie Oldham, Amelia Peabody-Cooper, J.D. Peralta-Romand, Jessica  & Thomas Reeves, Lewis Rounce, Krishan Sabharwal, Jacob Sadler, Raul Sanghera, Caitlin Smith, Aaron Stanley, Harriet Wallbank, Aiden & Callum Williamson.

 The over 18’s are: Laura Ellis, Jonathan Knowles, Daniel Knowles and Carl Wardle.

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