Super six golds among 17-medal haul for University of Bath swimmers at 2023 British Swimming Summer Championships
Kieran Bird and Joshua Gammon won double gold and Jemima Hall claimed a medal of each colour as University of Bath-based swimmers enjoyed an excellent British Summer Championships 2023 in Sheffield.
British Swimming Performance Centre Bath swimmer Bird claimed victory in both the 200m freestyle (1:48.87) and 400m freestyle (3:53.24) at Ponds Forge, while Sports Performance student Gammon stormed to butterfly gold over 50m (23.53) and 100m (52.20). He narrowly missed out on a hat-trick of titles, having to settle for silver in the 200m butterfly (1:58.16).
Business student Hall – who, like Gammon, is coached by Andrei Vorontsov with the University of Bath Swimming Club – had a busy and successful week of freestyle competition as she won 200m gold (2:00.39), silver over 100m (55.91) and 400m (4:15.99), and 50m bronze (25.87).
She also placed sixth in a 100m backstroke race that saw training partner Niamh Ward win bronze (1:01.45) to add to her 200m backstroke silver (2:12.16). Ward missed out on a third medal in the 50m final by just one-hundredth of a second (28.90).
Fresh from making her debut at the World Championships in Japan, Economics and Mathematics student Leah Crisp – supported by a Santander Scholarship – won 800m freestyle gold (8:41.97) and 1,500m freestyle bronze (16:44.18).
There were four medals for Oscar Barlow in the men’s 18-years finals – silver in the 200m backstroke (2:04.10), 200m individual medley (2:05.99) and 400m IM (4:28.94) plus bronze in the 100m backstroke (57.76).
Sport and Exercise Science student Ekaterina Price was fourth in the 200m butterfly and Economics student Miles Drabwell was fifth in both the 200m IM (2:03.40) and 200m backstroke (2:03.41). Tobi Sijuade (22.95) and Reid Jones (22.97), in his last race for the University, were sixth and seventh respectively in the 50m freestyle.
In total, members of the University of Bath Swimming Club reached 32 finals in Sheffield and recorded 23 personal bests.
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Pictured top (from left): Niamh Ward, Jemima Hall, Joshua Gammon, Leah Crisp and Oscar Barlow all enjoyed successful weeks at the 2023 British Swimming Summer Championships.
