West Norfolk swimmers enjoy a string of successes

West Norfolk Swimming Club claimed a string of successes at their annual open meet.The club hosted teams from Boston, Dereham, Huntingdon, Thetford and the Deepings.While Thetford took away the top visiting club trophy, West Norfolk took top spots in the race for Top Boy and Top Girl swimmers. Rejus Mazeika (14) won all 11 of his swims to clinch the Top Boy trophy, whilst Polly Anderson (12) brought home the Top Girl award with 13 medal-winning races.With swimmers taking part from all squad levels, West Norfolk was represented by 112 swimmers from as young as 10 through to a strong team from their growing Masters squad.In the girls’ 200m backstroke, West Norfolk dominated the 11-year age group, with Mabelle Chadderton taking gold, Martha More silver and Morgan Arthur bronze.The feat was repeated in the 16-years and over age group, with Erin Woodrow taking gold, Esmie Kidman silver and Zoe Wilson bronze.Valeria Soldatihhina and Elizabeth Litvinenko claimed gold and silver, respectively, for the 12-year-olds and Polly Anderson and Nellie Chadderton repeated it in the 13-year age group. In the 14-years age group, Madison Hicks won silverl and Ruby Baxter bronze. Belle Ringwood won gold in the 15-year-olds, with Ruby Steward-Brown winning bronze.In the same event for the boys, West Norfolk dominated the 15-years age group, Alexander Pattison claiming gold, Theo Ryan silver and Thomas Elsdon bronze.Jack Baxter won the 11-years age group, while Den Vojevoda took home gold in the 12-years age group. Harry Clarke claimed Silver for the 13-year-olds and Adam Jackson and Toby Turner claimed silver and bronze respectively in the 14 years.Tobias Oglesby and Nathan Yeaman took the top two spots for the 16 years and overs. West Norfolk brought home 325 top-three medals and over 600 PBs across the weekend, with several new qualifying times being achieved for the upcoming regional championships.After a silver in the 200m backstroke, Elizabeth Litvinenko ended the weekend with eight golds and four silvers. Jack Baxter ended with 11 medals: five gold, including a clean sweep of the backstroke events, four silvers and two bronze, while Martha More won seven gold, two silver and a bronze.Olivia Bradford (14) collected gold in the girls’ 100m freestyle, which she then added to with another eight golds, including the 50m and 200m for a freestyle clean sweep, a silver and a bronze.Tobias Oglesby, in the 16-years-and-over age group, dominated the freestyle and backstroke distances.Alexander Pattison (15) swept the board in all eight of his swims, dominating the breaststroke and butterfly distances. Millie Harris (16 and over), Milly Johnson (15) and Valeria Soldatihhina also swam to victory in all of their events.Harris took home seven golds across the weekend, while Johnson secured six and Soldatihhina, five.Harry Clarke, 13, followed up his backstroke silver with a gold in the 50m breaststroke – the first of six golds in a nine-medal haul.Other golds were secured by 10-year-old Maya Marcinek who bought home eight medals, four of them gold, Belle Ringwood, four, Den Vojevoda and Joshua Jones, three, Andrej Taplin, Erin Woodrow, Esmie Kidman, Mabelle Chadderton, Madison Hicks, Morgan Arthur, Nikita Diadko, Sarah O’Brien two and Arabella Bishop, Calleigh Welham-Smith, Ellie Kitt, Jamie Wilson, Joshua Norris, Noah Goodson, Ruby Stewardbrown, Samuel Liddell, Theo Ryan and Thomas Baxter pne. Outside of the Golds, Ruby Baxter had a dominant weekend in the 14-year-old girls’ category with nine medals (five silver, four bronze), while Nellie Chadderton added six more medals to the tally (five silver, two bronze) for the 13-years age group.Junro Cai (13) and Kirill Ivanenko (14) bagged six medals each, while Alexandra Cerps (12), Callum New (15), Harriett Wells (12), Nathan Yeaman (16 and over) and Toby Turner (14) brought home five.Ashton Busby (15), Daisy Covell (15), Ella Dickens (11), Georgia Stevenson (16 and over), Lexi Foster (13), Lily Nell (10), Pemberley Hornigold (16 and over), Race Elmer (12) and Thomas Elsdon (15) added three each with Anwen Jones (11), Bay Smith (12), Cory Hill (15), Daisy Stimpson (16 and over), Emma Wilson (11) and Oscar Tunnicliffe (11) winning two.Adam Jackson (14), Charlotte Wells (10), David Roczniak (15), Eloise Collins (16 and over), Faith Turner (15), Florence Collison (15), Freddie Wakefield (13), Harvey Isle (16 and over), Joseph Cook (11), Milana Melinyte (13), Ophelia Bradney (12), Ruby Jackson (16 and over), Thomas Garnett (16 and over) and Wiktoria Marcinek (16 and over) rounded off the tally.West Norfolk Swimming Club thanks all of the local businesses and families for sponsorship, including both the PBM Group and the College of West Anglia.