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City’s swimmers opened their Olympic year account with some fine swims at the Borough of Kirklees Open Meet.
A small team of swimmers made the short journey to Huddersfield and came home with a handful of medals at this annual distance meet.
Fourteen years old George Mack led the medal parade with second place finishes in the boys thirteen/fourteen years 200m breaststroke, 200m individual medley and 200m freestyle. He followed that up with third places in the 400m individual medley and 1500m freestyle, fourth in the 200m backstroke and fifth in the 400m freestyle.
Youth Development squad swimmer Lucy Burnside swam to a silver place finish in the Women’s 200m individual medley and fifth place finishes in the 200m breaststroke and 200m freestyle.
In the Men’s events Michael Bonson finished in fourth place in the 1500m freestyle and 400m individual medley and fifth in the 200m medley.
City’s other finalists were Hannah Midgley in the Women’s 400m individual medley and Sam O’Donohoe in the Men’s 1500m freestyle.
All swimmers train with Sport and Leisure Service coaching and traing schema and are now preparing for the series of Yorkshire Championships which commence in early February.
Christine McCabe - Swimming Development Manager
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