DX at British Gas Swimming Championships

Last week 6 of Derventio eXcel swim squad's 7 British Championship qualifiers took part in the prestigious championships held at Ponds Forge in Sheffield over 5 days.

The cream of British swimming talent came together to race and the Derventio swimmers were right amongst them.

Molly Renshaw won a Silver medal in the Women's 200m Breaststroke breaking the National Age group Records twice in the process.  Molly posted a time that narrowly missed the World Championship qualifying time by less than a second, but has shown that she is still up their fighting at the top of the British rankings. This swim also put Molly for the 4th time inside the selection criteria for the World Junior Championships since March.. Molly also competed in the 50m and finished 10th in the 100m Breaststroke and 200m I.M.

Sarah Vasey was also on record breaking form in qualifying for her 1st British Championships final.  Sarah posted personal best times in the heats, semi-finals and final of the 50m Breaststroke breaking the Derbyshire Senior and Junior records twice at only 16 years old to finish 6th!  Sarah, who's focus is in the National Youth Championships in July also competed in the 100m Breaststroke posting near her personal best time.


Kane Haggett was the 3rd DX swimmer in finals action at these championships progressing to 7th place in the 50m Free in a time just .15 off his best time.  Kane later in the week also qualified for the semi-finals of the 100m Free finishing 14th.

One of the you gets competitions in the whole competition was just turned 14 year old Imogen Clark.  Imogen gained valuable experience racing next to some of Britian's 2012 Olympians, and showing this didn't phase her qualified in a personal best time for the semi-final and finishing 12th, improving on her rankings from the heats. Imogen is now looking forward to the National Age Group Championships which start 3 weeks tomorrow back in Sheffield.

Derventio also had two other Breaststrokers racing in the 50m Breaststroke, both Danny Anderson and James Latham competed on Day 1, posting near personal best times and getting fired up for the Nationalal Youth Championships which start a month today in Sheffield.