2024 BUCS SHORT COURSE CHAMPIONSHIPS
The 2024 British Universities & Faculties (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 boys’s, ladies’s and total 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 will not be sufficient eligible swimmers/groups within the prime 4 to earn factors, then the remaining factors might be awarded to the next-best eligible swimmers/groups primarily based on the remaining finals or heats outcomes.
Following up on her 200m free and 200m IM victories from evening one, 20-year-old Olympian Freya Colbert exacted extra vengeance within the ladies’s 400m IM this night in Sheffield.
Colbert of Loughborough stopped the clock at 4:35.51 to beat the sphere by over 3 seconds en path to gold.
Teammate Lily Booker settled for silver in 4:38.59 whereas Plymouth’s Beatrice Varley rounded out the rostrum in 4:39.99.
Regardless of Colbert’s outing being dominant right here, her lifetime finest is far faster, resting on the 4:29.04 produced for silver on the 2023 European Quick Course Championships.
19-year-old Holly McGill stood her floor towards the ladies’s 200m again discipline, registering a time of two:05.30 as tonight’s gold medalist.
A pair of Loughborough aces had been behind the Stirling budding star. Honey Osrin snagged silver in 2:05.51 whereas Colbert bagged the bronze in 2:05.98 in her 2nd occasion of the session.
Further Notes
- Leeds Beck’s Jordan Cooley reached the wall first within the males’s 100m free, hitting a time of 47.93. That eked out gold forward of Birmingham’s backstroking ace Oliver Morgan who settled for silver in 47.95. Loughborough’s Calvin Fry was additionally underneath the 48-second threshold in 47.98 as tonight’s bronze medalist.
- Evie Davis logged a time of 54.54 because the winner of the ladies’s 100m free, giving her Stirling group 20 factors.
- Able to symbolize GBR subsequent month in Budapest, 21-year-old Josh Gammon of Tub turned in a time of twenty-two.96 as the only real males’s 50m butterflier underneath 23 seconds. He’s been as fast as 23.55 in his profession to rank as Nice Britain’s 4th-speediest man in historical past.
- Stirling’s Lucy Grieve received it completed for gold within the ladies’s 50m fly in 26.43, beating Olympian Laura Stephens and Tallulah Paisley who tied in 26.87 for silver.
- Loughborough’s Greg Butler posted 58.98 to win the boys’s 100m breast by nicely over half a second.
- Anna Morgan was the winner of the ladies’s 100m breast in 1:06.09, the only real performer of the sphere underneath the 1:07 barrier.
- Loughborough cleaned up the highest 3 spots of the ladies’s 800m free Fleur Lewis handily received the gold in 8:31.17 as teammate Lucie Hanquet, who represents Belgium internationally, secured silver in 8:36.04. Lucy Fox was the bronze medalist in 8:36.60.
