Wycombe Meet March 2016

Pioneer 79 Swimmer 16 year old Niamh Robinson is celebrating after returning as ‘Top overall Girl’ at the recent Wycombe & District Swimming Club’s Long Course Premier Open Meet, held at the newly built 50m pool at Wycombe Leisure Centre.  With the competition falling within a 14 day overlap of qualifying windows for both the British Championships (Olympic Trials) and also the British Summer Championships, the competition organisers found themselves inundated with over 10,000 entries, (7,200 of which were rejected due to insufficient time constraints).  As you can imagine, the standard of competition was therefore extremely high.  As well as Niamh, Pioneer 79 had 7 further swimmers competing; Joe Murray, Ben Martin, Ben Turland, ElodieSmallwood, Meghann Leaver, Eleanor Collin, and Simone Ellson.

Elodie competed in 5 events, producing 4 top 10 places.

Meghann competed in 5 events, producing 3 top 10 places.

Simone competed in 6 events and achieved 4 new personal best times.

Ben Turland competed in 5 events, had 1 top 10 finish and achieved 3 new personal best times.

Ben Martin competed in 5 events, he won 1 gold medal and achieved another top 10 places.

Eleanor competed in 7 events and finished in the top 10 on 4 occasions.

Joe competed in 2 events, he produced 1 personal best time and finished in the top 10 in both events.

Niamh competed in 9 events, she won 6 gold and 1 silver medal, 1 top 10 placing and 2 pb's

Head Coach Mike Wilson commented:  “Our Swimmers displayed some great performances - at this stage in the competition calendar we are expecting swimmers to be close to their personal best times, however for so many new personal best times to be achieved was a great achievement and I am delighted.  Everyone is training hard and we are hoping that now the window for the Summer National Championships has opened, we will be in a position to be able to step it up and manage to send a strong squad to the nationalevents during July/August.  We currently have 2 swimmers travelling to Glasgow in April, for the British Championships, which are being used not only for the Olympic trials, but for the forthcoming European Junior Championships to be held in Hungary this June, our swimmers will be targeting places for these competitions or possibly attempting to gain a place in the ‘Target Tokyo Final’, which identifies swimmers with the potential to compete at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.  We wish both Niamh Robinson and Ben Martin the very best of luck and I’m sure many of our club members will be following their every move on livestream!”