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18-12-2001, 01:38 PM
The Scots and Anglo-Scots (and even the odd non-Scot) were looking great again this year in Inverness at the Scottish Winter Open.
Jamie Salter broke the British record in the 200 free with an incredible swim of 1:44.99 (splits 51.0-53.9) and then had an excellent 400 free (3:44).
Chris Jones broke Scottish 200 fly record (1:58.69) with Todd Cooper taking the 100 fly record too (53.3). Ross Martin returned to form to swim fantastic breaststrokes of 63.0 and 2:14. Kerry Martin also looked impressive with 56 and 2:01 for free.
In the younger age groups it was the private non-funded clubs North Ayrshire, Alloa and Warrender that once again stood out against the much bigger and better funded opposition from the big city programmes. North Ayrshire's Mark Branch (14) swam outstanding breaststroke races of 31. 1:08 and 2:23 while his club colleague David Shewan (12) showed his class in the fly 1:04 and 2:22. In the same age group Alloa's Stuart Greig looks to be one for the future with his backstroke swims of 1:06 and 2:23 (went 2:21 a couple weeks ago also) plus a 58 100 free win. Warrender's Lewis Smith (13) swam great IM's at 2:16 and 4:48 plus 1:11 and 2:30 brs as well as 1:02/2:19 fly 4:18/17:02 free. His club colleague Jamie Griffiths (13) added to Scottish breaststroke depth with 1:11 and 2:31 with Chris Smith (also 13) had fly swims of 27.8 and 1:02.1.
Among others looking good were Byron Pace (14, Arbroath) 2:12 IM 1:59 free, Gemma Sutherland (14, City of Aberdeen) 58 free and 1:04, Ren96 swimmer Julie Williams (13) 2:40 breast, Fins' Ashley Warrender (12) 1:17 and 2:49 breast and City of Glasgow's Chantal Carr (11) who went 2:37 for 200 fly.
Well done to all those making Scottish swimming better every day and the hottest place to be for swimming in the UK right now.
Jamie Salter broke the British record in the 200 free with an incredible swim of 1:44.99 (splits 51.0-53.9) and then had an excellent 400 free (3:44).
Chris Jones broke Scottish 200 fly record (1:58.69) with Todd Cooper taking the 100 fly record too (53.3). Ross Martin returned to form to swim fantastic breaststrokes of 63.0 and 2:14. Kerry Martin also looked impressive with 56 and 2:01 for free.
In the younger age groups it was the private non-funded clubs North Ayrshire, Alloa and Warrender that once again stood out against the much bigger and better funded opposition from the big city programmes. North Ayrshire's Mark Branch (14) swam outstanding breaststroke races of 31. 1:08 and 2:23 while his club colleague David Shewan (12) showed his class in the fly 1:04 and 2:22. In the same age group Alloa's Stuart Greig looks to be one for the future with his backstroke swims of 1:06 and 2:23 (went 2:21 a couple weeks ago also) plus a 58 100 free win. Warrender's Lewis Smith (13) swam great IM's at 2:16 and 4:48 plus 1:11 and 2:30 brs as well as 1:02/2:19 fly 4:18/17:02 free. His club colleague Jamie Griffiths (13) added to Scottish breaststroke depth with 1:11 and 2:31 with Chris Smith (also 13) had fly swims of 27.8 and 1:02.1.
Among others looking good were Byron Pace (14, Arbroath) 2:12 IM 1:59 free, Gemma Sutherland (14, City of Aberdeen) 58 free and 1:04, Ren96 swimmer Julie Williams (13) 2:40 breast, Fins' Ashley Warrender (12) 1:17 and 2:49 breast and City of Glasgow's Chantal Carr (11) who went 2:37 for 200 fly.
Well done to all those making Scottish swimming better every day and the hottest place to be for swimming in the UK right now.