Bromley Autumn Gold
A massive well done to the 58 swimmers that took part in the Bromley Autumn Gold gala at Gillingham on Sunday 2nd October
It was an early start and has probably broken the record for the longest ever single gala with warm up just after 8am and the gala finishing at 8pm. Thank you to everyone for bearing with our hosts who were beset with unfortunate issues throughout the day culminating with the starter system breaking down. Many of our swimmers were exhausted and persevered along with all our supporters up in the gallery. Our officials, team managers and coaches worked solidly without any respite and are a credit to the club and on behalf of swimmers and parents we thank you for your hard work supporting the club and swimmers.
So how did we do? Simply brilliantly!
A whopping 117 personal bests along with 9 gold medals, 21 silver and 17 bronze.
In the Fina points table we came second scoring 3497 to Bromley’s 6771 out of the 8 clubs that attended. Sounds a big difference, but accounting for the numbers of swimmers, we were averaging over 60 fina points per athlete to their 44, so overall an incredible winning performance, with a special mention to our leading points scorers Aaron Magcanan and Tania Tvardovska.
Our gold medallists were Lauren Bond, Tania Tvardovska, Samantha Jackson, Aaron Magcanan and Max Peel, but well done to everyone that brought home medals, PBs or simply swam their very best.
Again, everyone was impeccably behaved, supportive of each other and our Ojays spirit was on out show again and we had outstanding performances from every swimmer. All results are now on the system and personal bests have been updated to gala entries that have not yet closed.
Well done Team Ojays!
