Regional Championship report and 48 national qualifiers announced!

This year’s East Midland Regional Championships spanned across April and May in a new and extended format that involved swimming across 5 separate days in 2 different venues. With heats and finals for all events of 400m and shorter, this provided some great opportunities for Repton Swimmers to make progress with their race skills in the arena.

Over the course of the 5 days, Repton secured 60 Gold, 34 Silver and 27 Bronze medals, which included some impressive age group relay success.

Many of the medallists listed below secured their first regional medals, illustrating the progress made with the support of the coaching team this year and as a result of some exceptionally hard work over the season.

Full results from the East Midlands Regional Championships: SEEM Long Course Champs 2024 - SPORTSYSTEMS Meet Results Service (emswimchamps.org.uk)

This meet also fell in the final stages of this year’s national qualifying window, which is the period swimmers have to qualify for the Summer’s national competitions. In addition to the previously announced international selections, we are delighted to announce the 47 qualifiers for the British Championships, now known as the Aquatics GB Summer Championships and the Swim England and Swim Wales Summer Meets.

The following have qualified for national and international competitions this Summer:

Team GB at the Paris Olympic Games: Eva Okaro

Paralympics GB at the Paris Paralympic Games: Megan Neave

Great Britian Juniors at the European Junior Championships: Izabella Okaro

Aquatics GB Summer Championships

13/14 age group: Austyn Manley, Dominik Bartoletti, Lydia Cordle, Olivia McCall, Isabella Parsons-Loades.

15 age group: Joe Lauda, Hannah Capron, Elodie Pearcey, Jasmine Vaartjes

16 age group: Martin Iankov, Harry Milne, Fenella Wooddisse, Erin Gent, Mabli Collyer

17 age group: Cameron Jamieson, Finn Cordle, Jessica Smelt, Madison Emment, Mabel Walker, Annabel Crees

18 & over age group: Izabella Okaro, Laurie Devine, Harriet Oxley, Holly Marshall, Holly Robinson, Hannah Hodgkiss, Ellie Broughton, Jude Denning, Leo Pollock.

Swim England National Summer Meet

12/13 age group: Elsie Hatton, Stephen Iankov.

14/15 age group: Seth Hems Gillson, Miles Willetts, Thomas Townsend, Reuben Hubinger, Joe Helps, Billy Harding, Maisie Simpson-Dawson, Annabel Blackbird, Isabella Jones.

16 age group: Connie Rennard

17 age group: Connie Palmer

18 & over age group: Nathan Morgan, George Rennals, Olivia Hann

Swim Wales Summer Championships

Idena Grimes

British Championships Relay Team qualifiers

14-16 years Girls: 4x100m Freestyle, 4x200m Freestyle, 4x100m Medley

17 years and over Girls: 4x100m Freestyle, 4x200m Freestyle, 4x100m Medley

14-16 years Boys: 4x100m Freestyle, 4x200m Freestyle, 4x100m Medley

Congratulations to all our swimmers on their selection and we wish them well for these major events!

(*Please note that some swimmers have qualified for both the British Championships and Swim England meet but we have only listed the highest ranking event)

The Aquatics GB British Championships 2024: Aquatics GB Summer Championships 2024 | Events and Tickets | Aquatics GB (britishswimming.org)

Swim England Summer Meets 2024: National Summer Meet | Event Information and Results (swimming.org)

Swim Wales Summer Meets 2024: Find an Event – Swim Wales