Maxwell Quartet excel at Olympic trials
Maxwell Swimmers, Hannah Capstick, Ed Downs, Craig Gibbons and Paul Turner all achieved new lifetime bests at the recent Olympic trials held in Sheffield.
Hannah (17)
achieved 6th place in the senior women’s 100m fly in a time of 1min 02.08 secs. This outstanding performance has earned her provisional selection for a GB swimming training camp in September. Coach Janko Gojkovic commented “This could be the first step toward the international stage as her main goal is the Commonwealth Games in 2006”
Craig Gibbons went within a fraction (0.09sec) of going to Athens. Swimming the 100m Freestyle in a new personal best of 50.29 secs he finished in third position. The combined time of the first four in the event was used to calculate the entry time for the 4 x 100m freestyle relay and provided this met the stiff entry times set by Bill Sweetenham would guarantee them selection. Unfortunately, by the mearest fraction of a second, the qualification time was missed so under the strict selection policy no relay squad will be entered.
Paul Turner reached the semi-finals of the 100m backstroke. Paul was delighted with a new PB of 59.61 secs - the first time he has been below a minute.
Ed Downs (current 16 year age group 200 medley National Champion) also swam new personal bests in both the 200 and 400 medley events. Unfortunately in the 200m heats Ed was disqualified on a technicality and so missed out on the opportunity of a Final.
“All our swimmers at the trials swam outstandingly well and as a Club we finished 18th overall. This is a tremendous achievement when you consider the other Clubs and Performance centres competing” said Gojkovic.
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