Youngsters return home with multitude of medals

The youngest swimmers from West Norfolk Swimming Club took to the pool for Dereham Otters’ Halloween Mini Meet.West Norfolk’s young guns brought home 44 medals and 56 personal best times.Oscar Tunnicliff started the meet strong for West Norfolk with a gold and PB in the first event of the day, the 10-year-old boys’ 100m butterfly.He followed this with a further three medals, another gold for the 100m breaststroke and a silver each for the 50m freestyle and 50m breaststroke, all in PB times.Charlie Bradford and Mika Verdoes both came home with an amazing haul of seven medals each.Verdoes’s collection included six golds across the 11-year boys’ age group in the 50 and 100m breaststroke, 50 and 100m freestyle, 100m backstroke and 100m IM and a silver in the 50m butterfly.Bradford clinched the gold medal in the 10-year boys’ 50m freestyle with a PB. Bradford also secured four silver medals and 1 bronze across the day, along with another four PBs. Sonny Roberts, 9, swam to four medal-winning finishes and three PBs, securing two golds (100m IM and 50m butterfly) a silver and a bronze. Anwen Jones also came home with four medals (a silver and three bronze) from some strong swims, resulting in seven PBs.Juan Verdoes took a clean sweep of golds from his races winning the 13-year boys’ 50 and 100m freestyle, 50m breaststroke and 100m backstroke.Dylan Clunan-Camp and Lacey Waterson both brought home three medals each with Clunan-Camp swimming to gold in the 9-year boys’ 50m breaststroke in a PB time. Eight-year-old Betsy Chadderton, Denis Diadko and Phillippa Reeves came home with two medals each, Diadko taking gold in the 9-year-old boys’ 50m backstroke.Other medal-winning races came from Ellie Kitt who took Gold in the 9-year girls’ 100m butterfly and Scarlett Smith who swam to Bronze in the 9-year girls’ 100m breaststroke.Further personal best times were achieved by: Isis Ferreira Da Silva (5), Ella Smith (3), Ella-Grace Codling (2), Oliver Anderson (2) and Indi Goldsmith.