Great Weekend for Leeds at NER Championships

City of Leeds’ BAC­GAT Swim­mers in par­tic­u­lar, dom­i­nate pro­ceed­ings at short course NER Cham­pi­onships in Sunderland. 

The first week­end in Novem­ber saw the City of Leeds Swim­ming Club take swim­mers from the Nation­al Senior, Youth, Age Group, Com­pe­ti­tion Cen­tral and Region­al Senior and Youth Squads to the Sun­der­land Aquat­ic Cen­tre for the British Gas ASA NER Cham­pi­onships (25m). The event was held over 2 days with the Senior and Junior Age Groups swim­ming in one pool and the BAG­CAT swim­mers swim­ming con­cur­rent­ly in a sec­ond pool. 

Over the week­end there were many best times swum in both pools, with the City of Leeds return­ing home hav­ing won 65 medals. The clubs top per­form­ers came in the BAG­CAT pool with Kiani Camp­bell-Grady win­ning 5 gold medals close­ly fol­lowed by Blake Ben­nett, Richard Maw­son and Jess Man­ning who all won 4 gold medals. 

Medal­lists

BAG­CAT

Gold

Blake Ben­nett (4), Jess Man­ning (4), Chloe Adams (2), Kiani Camp­bell-Grady (5), Rebekah Bir­rell (3), Lewis Evers, Richard Maw­son (4), Daniel Hall, Kather­ine Fish­er (2)

Sil­ver

Chantel Mad­den, Richard Maw­son (3), Kiani Camp­bell-Grady (3), Kather­ine Fish­er, Blake Ben­nett, Jess Manning 

Bronze

Jacob Sed­don, Balke Ben­nett (2), Jess Man­ning, Kather­ine Fish­er, Lewis Evers, Chantel Mad­den, Richard Maw­son, Har­ri­son Day 

Senior/​Junior

Gold

Gareth Mills, Danielle Hall-Jackson 

Sil­ver

Ross Glegg, Sophie Tay­lor (2), Matthew Alli­son (2), Gareth Mills (2), Alex Jones, Joe Sib­bery, Rebec­ca Whal­ing, Matthew Vose, Han­nah War­dle, Mens 800m freestyle Team 

Bronze

Matthew Vose, Chris Wilkin­son, Rebec­ca Davis, Mens 400m med­ley Team, Wom­ens 400m med­ley Team, Mens 400m freestyle Team 

Well done to everyone.