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The District
Swimming Gala took place on Saturday 1 November. Once again
the District is grateful to the Licensed Victuallers School
on London Road for allowing us to use their pool for the
afternoon.
As usual the
event was split into 2 age groups with the under 9½ races
taking place first. Any
one competitor was limited to a maximum of two pointed events
plus the relay.
We entered
2 teams - Salmon and Tuna - which were made up with Cubs
from Stags and Wolves. Unfortunately on the day we were
let down by Michael Matthews and James Morgan so had to
use other team members to take their places. We were not
able to enter all the events. On a more positive side, Thomas
Freeman's suspected broken arm turned out to be a false
alarm so he was able to take part.
Before we get
to the results I'd just like to say a big thank you to everybody
that came and took part. I hope that you had an enjoyable
afternoon supporting the 2nd Bracknell teams.
Under 9½
year olds
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Salmon
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Tuna
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1
width freestyle
(crawl - start in water) |
Thomas Freeman
Came 1st with a new record
time of 6.7s
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William Hawkes
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1
length freestyle
(crawl - diving start) |
Alex Mason
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Fraser Woods (3rd)
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1
width breaststroke
(start in water) |
Ben
Lyndon (4th)
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Stuart Allen
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1
length breaststroke
(diving start) |
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| 1
width backstroke |
Thomas
Freeman (3rd)
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Jake
Ellis
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Open
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Salmon
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Tuna
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1
Length freestyle
(crawl - start in water) |
Ben
Lyndon
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Daniel
Jordan (4th)
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1
Length freestyle
(crawl - diving start) |
Daniel
Gathergood
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Dean
Harry (4th)
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1
Length breaststroke
(start in water) |
Daniel
Gathergood
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Daniel Jordan (4th)
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1
Length breaststroke
(diving start) |
Matthew
Molyneux (1st)
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| 1
Length backstroke |
Matthew
Molyneux (2nd)
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Dean
Harry
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1
Width butterfly
(no points for this event) |
-
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-
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The
Plunge
(Cub dives in, makes no stroke and glides
as far as he can) |
Alex Mason
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Fraser Woods
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The Relay
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Salmon
(3rd)
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Tuna
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| 1
Length backstroke |
Daniel
Gathergood
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Dean Harry
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1
Length freestyle
(under 9½) |
Alex
Mason
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Fraser
Woods
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| 1
Length breaststroke |
Matthew
Molyneux
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Daniel
Jordan
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| 1
Length freestyle |
Thomas
Freeman
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William
Hawkes
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In addition
there are two MEDLEY events which are not pointed for the
Palmer Shield but are for individual winners medals for
the fastest times.
- Under 9½
Medley
consists of 1 width backstroke, 1 width breaststroke and
1 width freestyle swum consecutively. Alex Mason, Ben
Lyndon, Thomas Freeman and Fraser Woods entered the heats
in this event. Alex came 4th in his heat and Fraser came
3rd in his heat. Thomas came 1st overall. Places
were decided between the two heats based on individual
times.
- The Open
Medley consists of 1 length freestyle, 1 length backstroke,
1 length breaststroke and 1 length freestyle swum consecutively.
Matthew Molyneux and Dean Harry entered this event. Matthew
came 3rd.
Palmer Shield
The points from the events excluding the Medley and
Butterfly are all added up and the winning team takes home
the Palmer Shield. The positions and points were
as follows.
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Place
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Team
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Points
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1st
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1st
Sunningdale
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58
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2nd
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1st
Binfield Wolves
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48
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3rd
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1st
Ascot (All Saints)
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48
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4th
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1st
South Ascot
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46
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5th
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2nd
Bracknell Salmon
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34
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6th
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1st
Binfield Seonee
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25
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7th
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2nd
Bracknell Tuna
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16
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Our Tuna team
were very unlucky not to get more points.
Dean and Daniel finished in 4th place for all their events.
Unfortunately points are only given for 1st, 2nd and 3rd.
This is a District
Event. For more information please contact our District
Commissioner - Carolyne Brambley
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