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 |
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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| 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.