2024 BUCS SHORT COURSE CHAMPIONSHIPS
The 2024 British Universities & Schools (BUCS) Quick Course Championships started on Friday, November fifteenth with the 3-day competitors going down at Ponds Forge.
Swimmers are vying for particular person titles however primarily for group factors of their quest to come back away with the lads’s, girls’s and general group trophies.
As a refresher, BUCS factors are awarded to the highest 4 swimmers/groups; nevertheless, solely the highest 2 swimmers from every establishment, or 1 group per establishment for relay occasions, are eligible for BUCS factors. If there usually are not sufficient eligible swimmers/groups within the prime 4 to earn factors, then the remaining factors can be awarded to the next-best eligible swimmers/groups primarily based on the remaining finals or heats outcomes.
Olympic finalist Freya Colbert did injury throughout 2 occasions to shut out her marketing campaign, with the 20-year-old clinching victories within the girls’s 100m IM and 400m free.
Within the former, Colbert led a 3-strong podium presence by Loughborough, stopping the clock in 1:00.33 for 100m IM gold. That held off teammates Lily Booker and Honey Osrin who settled for respective silver and bronze.
Booker clocked 1:01.80 whereas Osrin touched in 1:01.98.
Within the 400m free, Colbert produced a profitable effort of 4:02.32 to crush the sphere by over 7 seconds.
Swansea swimmer Aimee Monks produced 4:09.46 because the silver medalist and Loughborough’s Lucy Fox bagged bronze in 4:11.82.
For Colbert, her time checked in as a brand new lifetime greatest, overwriting the 4:02.38 logged ultimately yr’s Swim England Winter Championships. She stays the Eleventh-fastest British girl in historical past on this occasion.
Olympian Laura Stephens topped the ladies’s 200m fly area, handing over a time of two:07.65 to get to the wall over a second forward of the competitors.
18-year-old teammate Fox snagged silver in 2:08.86 whereas Shannon Stott of Sheffield Hallam rounded out the rostrum in 2:09.19.
Stephens’ private greatest of two:04.94 from 2018 retains her ranked as GBR’s 4th-quickest performer to this point.
Following up on his spectacular 1500m victory, Olympic champion Daniel Wiffen made noise within the males’s 400m free to shut out his championships.
Wiffen put up a profitable effort of three:43.22 to get to the wall narrowly forward of runner-up Tyler Melbourne-Smith, additionally of Loughborough.
Melbourne-Smith secured silver in 3:43.51 and one other Loughborough ace, Harry Wynne-Jones, collected bronze in 3:49.28.
Wiffen owns the Irish nationwide report with the lifetime greatest of three:35.47, which he notched en path to changing into European champion final yr
Extra Notes
- 24-year-old Lewis Fraser of Swansea topped the lads’s 100m IM area in 53.52, touching simply .04 forward of silver medalist Matthew Ward (53.53) and .05 forward of bronze medalist Cam Brooker (53.57), each of Tub. Of word, Olympic finalist Max Litchfield was additionally within the combine, hitting 53.82 for 4th place.
- Josh Gammon, named to the British roster for subsequent month’s Quick Course World Championshps, was the person to beat within the 200m fly. Gammon clocked 1:55.35, nicely off his PB of 1:51.88 from final yr, however sufficient to carry off Litchfield who settled for silver in 1:56.46 after his 100m IM. Loughborough teammate Charlie Hutchison bagged bronze in 1:58.19.
- Representing Loughborough, Polish swimmer Kornelia Fiedkiewicz struck gold within the girls’s 50m free, hitting the only real tine of the sphere below the 25-second barrier in 24.78.
- Calvin Fry was the highest 50m freestyler on the lads’s aspect, hitting 21.67. That was sufficient to out-touch Leeds Beck’s Jordan Cooley who registered 21.72 whereas GBR Olympian Alex Cohoon additionally landed on the rostrum in 21.81 because the bronze emedalist.
- Lauren Cox delivered a time of 27.18 to win the ladies’s 50m again by over a second.
- Oliver Morgan of Birmingham was the lads’s 50n again winner, punching 23.81 as the only real athlete below 24 seconds.
