2024 SWIM ENGLAND NATIONAL WINTER CHAMPIONSHIPS
The penultimate evening of motion on the 2024 Swim England Winter Nationwide Championships noticed 22-year-old Olympian Alex Cohoon get it executed for gold within the males’s 50 free.
Cohoon of Loughborough stopped the clock at 21.30 to eke out the victory forward of teammate Calvin Fry who settled for silver simply .05 behind in 21.35. Leeds’ Jordan Cooley rounded out the rostrum in 21.55.
Cohoon’s effort checks him in because the #6 greatest British performer in historical past whereas Fry is true behind because the Seventh-swiftest.
On the opposite finish of the gap spectrum, 19-year-old Tyler Melbourne-Smith saved his win streak alive, following up his 1500m gold with the highest end within the males’s 800m free.
Melbourne-Smith of Loughborough punched a results of 7:39.37 to get to the wall over 8 seconds forward of the pack. The freestyle ace had earlier collected 400m free silver on evening one to reap fairly a haul at these championships.
He now inserts himself into the all-time British performers checklist in slot #4.
High 5 British Males’s SCM 800 Freestyle Performers All-Time
- Kieran Hen – 7:36.26, 2023
- David Davies – 7:36.47, 2009
- Timothy Shuttleworth – 7:38.92, 2016
- Tyler Melbourne-Smith – 7:39.37, 2024
- Paul Palmer – 7:42.02, 1998
All-time British rankings have been additionally rattled within the males’s 100m fly as 26-year-old Jamie Ingram ripped a brand new private greatest of fifty.22.
Opening in 23.20 and bringing it residence in 27.02, the Metropolis of Manchester Aquatics swimmer sliced .09 off his earlier PB of fifty.31 from the 2022 English Winter Championships.
Behind him on this race was the 200m free victor Ed Mildred who scored silver in 50.30, a brand new career-quickest mark for him, and 17-year-old Plymouth Leander athlete Jack Brown punched 52.14.
Ingram now ranks fifth among the many quickest British SCM 100 butterfliers ever.
High 5 British Males’s SCM 100 Butterfly Performers All-Time
- Adam Barrett – 49.21, 2016
- Joshua Gammon – 49.87, 2023
- Jacob Peters – 49.98, 2023
- Michael Rock – 50.13, 2009
- Jamie Ingram – 50.22, 2024
23-year-old Lily Booker upgraded her pair of bronze medals from the 50m and 100m breast to gold in tonight’s 200m distance.
Loughborough’s Booker turned in a time of two:21.07 to take the highest prize decisively, with 15-year-old Imogen Myles of Sevenoaks representing the next-closest swimmer in 2:25.59.
Booker was barely faster on the 2023 version of those championships, notching a private greatest final 12 months of two:20.60.
Extra Winners
- Day two’s 100m backstroke silver medalist Lauren Cox exacted revenge on that occasion’s gold medalist Medi Harris within the 50m again. Cox registered 26.57 to get the job executed whereas Harris settled for silver in 26.94. Mt. Kelly’s 17-year-old Blythe Kinsman bagged bronze in 27.28.
- 22-year-old Charlie Hutchison, already the 400m free gold medalist and 200m free silver medalist right here, wrapped up the 200m IM win in 1:56.07. That obtained him to the wall a fingernail forward of Joe Litchfield who touched in 1:56.08 whereas Evan Jones was additionally sub-1:57 with a bronze medal-worthy 1:56.26.
- The ladies’s 800m free noticed Sheffield swimmer Phoebe Cooper clock 4:07.43 for the gold.
- As they did within the males’s 200m again, the Greenbank brothers made it a 1-2 end within the 100n again dash. Luke Greenbank produced 51.91 for gold forward of Samuel Greenbank who was subsequent to the touch in 52.30.
- Flawia Kamzol, simply 17 years of age, introduced the warmth within the ladies’s 50m fly, punching 26.16 because the gold medalist. That’s a big-time British Junior File, taking down the 26.69 Lucy Grieve placed on the books in 2019.
- 15-year-old Amalie Smith was too fast to catch within the ladies’s 100m IM, hitting 1:01.01 because the gold medalist. One other teen, 17-year-old Skye Carter, put up 1:01.84 and Honey Osrin logged 1:01.94 to additionally land on the rostrum.
