Daniel Wiffen, Angharad Evans & Ollie Morgan Whole Trebles As BUCS Championships Wrap Up
Daniel Wiffen, Angharad Evans and Ollie Morgan all wrapped up trebles because the BUCS Championships got here to an finish after 3 days in Sheffield.
Wiffen added the 400 unfastened at the ultimate day to the 800 and 1500 titles. The Irishman best ever led at the ultimate 50 with James Man – the 2015 international silver medallist – environment the tempo right through.
Man led by way of 2.26 at 300m and even though Wiffen ate into the deficit down the penultimate 50, the three-time Olympic champion nonetheless loved a lead of one.3secs on the ultimate flip.
Double Olympic medallist Wiffen, on the other hand, fired off a 28.16 ultimate 50 to Man’s 30.15 to move previous the Briton and take the identify in 3:49.35. Man used to be moment in 3:50.04 with Tyler Melbourne-Smith subsequent house in 3:51.45.
The BUCS Championships had been a welcome go back to pageant for the Loughborough swimmer who received the 1500 at the opening night time in 15:03.20 which he adopted with a 7:52.52 win over 800.
Evans & Morgan On Sizzling Shape
Angharad Evans: Photograph Courtesy: Angharad Evans
Evans has had a tremendous 3 days at Ponds Forge, opening her account with victory within the 50 breaststroke in 30.98 ahead of splitting 1:05.49 – then the second-swiftest in British historical past – within the combined medley relay. On Saturday, the Stirling swimmer took the 100 in 1:06.02, the fifth-fastest all-time in home waters.
The 21-year-old adopted that up with a PB of two:22.64 in a dominant victory over 200m. Lily Booker of Loughborough (2:29.19) and Edinburgh Napier’s Anna Morgan (2:29.23) had been moment and 3rd respectively.
She returned to the pool for the overall time within the ladies’s medley relay the place she break up 1:05.14 as Stirling received the identify in 3:58.66. That used to be the quickest break up in British historical past, surpassing the 1:05.40 on the Paris Olympics.
Morgan swam a PB within the 50 again, his successful time of 24.77 the eleventh quickest within the home all-time scores headed by way of Liam Tancock and his former WR of 24.04 from the 2009 worlds. Tub pair Cameron Brooker and Jack Skerry shared moment in 25.53.
With victory over one duration, the College of Birmingham swimmer finished the backstroke treble which noticed him come inside 0.01 of his British 100 document as he clocked 52.71 at the opening night time. The Paris Olympian adopted that up with the 200 identify on Saturday in 1:57.38.
Cohoon Wins Dash Freestyle Double; Cox Dominates
Alex Cohoon secured the dash freestyle double with victory within the 50 in 22.52 forward of Jordan Cooley of Leeds Beckett (22.71) and Calvin Fry who made it a Loughborough 1-3 in 22.79.
Kornelia Fiedkiewicz received the ladies’s 50 unfastened in 25.43 forward of of Stirling’s Evie Davis (25.60) with Harriet Rogers making it a Loughborough 1-3 in 25.95.
Lauren Cox: Photograph Courtesy: Peter H. Bick
Lauren Cox loved a dominant victory within the ladies’s 50 again in 27.60 to protected the 50/100 double. The 2023 international bronze medallist completed 1.42secs forward of Niamh Ward (29.02) with Sophie de Groot an additional 0.14 adrift in 29.16.
Keanna Macinnes got here from 0.73 down on the ultimate flip to overtake Laura Stephens within the 200 fly. The Stirling swimmer took the contact in 2:09.78 with international champion Stephens moment in 2:10.09 and Ciara Schlosshan 3rd in 2:11.00.
Josh Gammon received the boys’s 200 fly, the Tub swimmer forward right through to win in 2:00.81 with Hendrik van der Leest (2:01.07) and Max Litchfield (2:01.15) following him house.
Greg Butler secured the 100/200br double with a 2:12.44 win over 4 lengths to cap a a success weekend which additionally introduced silver within the 50. George Smith of Stirling (2:13.39) and Butler’s Loughborough teammate Alex Casey (2:14.28) rounded out the rostrum.
Lucy Fox led house Fleur Lewis for a Loughborough 1-2 within the 400 unfastened, clocking 4:16.78 to 4:17.59. Michaella Glenister of Stirling used to be 3rd in 4:20.51.
The lads’s medley relay wrapped up the BUCS meet with Tub taking the identify in 3:39.01.
