Fordyce lands four gold medals

Swimming

Faversham swimmers enjoyed success at the Maidstone Open with 11-yearold Max Fordyce claiming four gold medals.

Swimmers aged 10-17 competed against clubs including Bromley, Dover Lifeguards, Gravesend, Herne Bay, Larkfield, Thanet and the host club Maidstone.

Fordyce performed superbly to win the 100m freestyle, 50m and 100m breaststroke and 50m fly before rounding off his medal collection with silver in the 11-years 50m freestyle.

Bella Holt, 10, gained a Kent qualifying time in the 100m freestyle in a personal best 1.15.34 to claim a gold medal and also snatched glory in the 50m freestyle (35.54 PB) and a silver in the 50m backstroke (42.36 PB), gaining a Kent Consideration time (KCT). He added a bronze in the 100m backstroke (1.31.80 PB and KCT).

Eva Mcintyre claimed a silver medal in the 13-years 50m breaststroke and collected bronzes in the 50m fly (34.10 PB), 100m breaststroke and 100m individual medley. She then went on to finish fourth in the 100m freestyle and the 50m backstroke (37.95 PB) with a fifth in the 50m freestyle.

Emily Ing gained a silver medal in the 15-years 100m fly with a fifth in the 50m fly (39.68 PB) and a sixth in the 50m breaststroke.

A bronze medal swim by Harrison Scott gained him a KCT for the 50m freestyle (32.38 PB) and he had another in the 50m backstroke (38.74 PB), finishing fourth.

Continuing Faversham’s success, Emily Holt claimed silver in the 14-years 50m breaststroke, took fourth in the 100m freestyle and fifth in the 50m freestyle. Faversham’s oldest swimmer, Rebecca Crouch, came home with a bronze medal in the 16-and-over 50m freestyle and fourth in the 50m backstroke.

Mia Kirk was fifth in the 14-years 50m fly and sixth in the 50m and 100m freestyle, while Molly Fletcher-hebden was fifth in the 13-years 50m fly and 100m breaststroke and sixth in the 50m backstroke.

Lauren Scott was fourth in the 15-years 50m freestyle and fifth in the 50m backstroke, while Eliza Mills swam a PB in the 11-years 50m breaststroke (53.07).

Faversham’s penultimate event of 2016, at the Black Lion Winter Meet, is this weekend at Medway Park.

Faversham Swimming Club at the Maidstone Open

Julian Thompson celebrates a wicket for Kent at Canterbury back in 1997. From left, Matthew Fleming, Thompson, Mark Ealham, Trevor Ward and Steve Marsh