Iceni glory for West Norfolk swimmers

West Norfolk Swimming Club swam to victory at the Iceni Open Meet in Dereham.The club brought home 139 top-three medal places, 228 personal best times along with the top club trophy from a field of nine teams.The club also swept the board for top overall male at the event, taking all three spots.First-place male went to Den Vojevoda who swam 12 medal-winning swims across the weekend (six gold, four silver and two bronze) with eight personal best times.Andrej Taplin came in as second male with nine gold-winning races, all in pb times, and Jack Baxer took third place male with nine medal-winning races and pbs (four gold, three silver and two bronze).Martha M0ore brought home the top overall female trophy from the event with Elizabeth Litvinenko taking third.Moore finished the weekend with nine medal-winning races (five gold, one silver and three bronze) and eight pbs while Elizabeth also swam to nine top three places (one gold, two silver and six bronze) with seven pbs. Noah Goodson swam to medal-winning places in seven events, five of them gold, while Oliver Veale swam to victory four times along with a third-place finish too. Harriet Wells and Kirill Ivanenco each achieved seven medals with Wells’ haul included a first place.Adam Jackson and Arabella Bishop brought home six medals each, both including a gold.Gold medals were also achieved by Ashton Busby, Bay Smith and Nikita Diadko who all swam to five medal-winning places in their races. David Roczniak and Leo Harrington both brought home four medals each with David’s including a gold medal place for one of his events.Other gold medal winners from the weekend were Mabelle Chadderton (gold and two silvers), Teddy Roberts and William Wakefield, gold and bronze each. Arya Richardson and Thomas Elsdon. Eliza Butcher, Erin Lovelock, Maya Marcinek, Joshua Norris, Oscar Tunnicliff and Poppy Peebles all secured two medals each while Alexandra Cerps, Anwen Jones, Cara Rose and Tracey Dodds bagged one medal each.Other PBs were achieved by: Alma Pattison, Amelia Rodgers, Charlie Bradford, Ella Dickens, Ellie Kitt, Freddie Wakefield, Indi Goldsmith, Lexi Foster, Milana Melinyte, Neve Haddock, Ophelia Bradney, Poppy Matthews, Regan Redman, Sarah Taylor and Scarlett Smith.Special mention to Bella-Rose Holmes (9yrs), Denis Diadko (9yrs), Eliza-Grace Codling (10yrs) and Sonny Roberts (9yrs), who all achieved some pbs across the weekend in their very first external swim meet.