British swimmers excel on fifth day of the British Gas Swimming Championships

British swimmers excel on fifth day of the British Gas Swimming Championships

The fifth day of the British Gas Swimming Championships featured scintillating efforts of their national stars in the events of 200m breaststroke, 100m freestyle, 200m backstroke, 200m butterfly, 100m freestyle and 200m Individual Medley (IM).

The British Gas meet serves as a selection trial for their national swimmers who want to represent Great Britain at the 2012 London Olympic Games.

At first, Bracknell’s Andrew Willis displayed his tremendous skills by clinching gold medal of the Men’s 200m breaststroke in a time of 2 minutes and 09.33 seconds.

Following that, Francesca Halsall of Loughborough University met expectations of her supporters as she dictated terms to her competitors by occupying top spot of the Women’s 100m freestyle semi-final with an effort of 53.83 seconds.

Subsequently, Bath University’s Calum Jarvis stunned the aquatic crowd by dominating the semi-final of Men’s 200m backstroke with a wonderful timing of 1 minute and 59.88 seconds.

Fourth event of the session was Women’s 200m butterfly, where none other than Britain’s specialist, Ellen Gandy defended her national title as she served notice of her talent by capturing gold medal of the event with the timing of 2 minutes and 06.01 seconds.

Afterwards, the arena saw notable efforts of Windsor’s Simon Burnett in the Men’s 100m freestyle. Burnett transpired on the victory stand for gold medal by clocking a time of 49.33 seconds.

In the meantime, Stacey Tadd of Bath University overwhelmed her challengers in the Women’s 200m breaststroke semi-final. Tadd went full throttle in the four-lap event and concluded her race in a time of 2 minutes and 27.60 seconds.

Subsequently, Ieuan Lloyd proved his mettle in the Men’s 200m IM, where he stayed comfortably ahead of his opponents and hit the finishing blockade with a timing of 1 minute and 59.39 seconds.

The British Championship will conclude on March 10 after the completion of all listed events in Men and Women’s category. Furthermore, these trials are taking place at the 2012 Olympic aquatic centre whereas the British swimmers have sent an alarming message
to their competitors with their stupendous form.

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Posted by Mursil Mehmood Butt on Mar 8 2012. Filed under Sports. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry