Plymouth College swimmers building up to Olympic trials

With just four weeks until the GB Olympic trials in Glasgow and two weeks until a meet in Stockholm, trials for a number of other nations, Plymouth College swimmers have posted a great set of results at the Edinburgh International Meet and other events.

Ruta Meilutyte took gold in the 50m breaststroke, clocking a world no.1 time for this year.  She claimed a further gold in the 100m breaststroke in a world no.2 time for the year.

Former pupil, Ben Proud, claimed gold in the 50m freestyle and was only 0.04 outside of the British Senior Record. Gold also came in the 100m freestyle with his time placing him at no.6 in the world this year.

Gold medals also went to Federico Poggio in the 50m breaststroke, Tom Fannon in the 50m freestyle and Kregor Zirk in the 50m butterfly. Kregor also took silver in the 50m freestyle and bronze in the 100m freestyle breaking the Estonian Senior, Youth & Junior National Records.

Emma England walked away with silver in the 50m freestyle, while double bronze went to Laura Stephens in the 100m and 200m butterfly. Jessica Jackson won a bronze medal in the 100m freestyle and Federico Poggio was third in the ‘B’ Final of the 100m breaststroke, beating 2012 Olympic silver medalist Michael Jamieson in the process.

Meanwhile, in Switzerland, Erin Riordan was taking bronze in the 50m freestyle at the Swiss National Championships.  On the Isle of Wight, Grace Poynter was being presented at the island's Sports Awards with the 'Junior Girls Outstanding Achievement Award'.

In other swimming news, Sam Dailley and Ethan Harrington have received international debut call ups to represent England at the Lignano Meet in Italy in May.

“These are exciting results at a time where the swimmers are traditionally training hard,” said Plymouth College Director of Swimming, Jon Rudd.  “It is unusual to have such high performance.

“We are looking forward to a period where we will be preparing for all the big events with Great Britain and the other nations we work for.”

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