Triple Gold for Finn at Margate 2008

City of Canterbury’s Finn Hewett produced a stunning performance to take three gold medals at the 2008 Margate open. Swimming in the 11yr old category Finn started the day well easily winning the 50m Freestyle. He followed this up by winning the 50m butterfly.

He continued his success into the afternoon adding a 4th place medal in the 50m backstroke and finally topped a great day by taking the 50mbackstroke title. All four swims were personal best performances.

Jessica Devereux (10) also had a string of great swims taking four medals on the day. She produced Canterbury’s fourth gold of the day taking first place in the 50m backstroke, this was followed up by a great swim in the breaststroke to take the silver medal. She also took home medals from the butterfly (4th) and freestyle (6th).

Benedict Esdale gave a superb display of controlled breaststroke swimming to take 2nd place in the boys 12yr category. Daniel Westbrook (11) produced a series of excellent swims to take three bronze medals in the freestyle, butterfly and breaststroke. Heather Mitchell (13) produced a strong swim to come home third in the breaststroke, she also received a medal for the freestyle (6th).

Other top six finishes and medals were achieved by Katie French (13) 4th in the freestyle and 6 th in the butterfly, Simone Ward (11) 4th breaststroke, 5th freestyle Oliver Brawn (13) 4 th breaststroke, Keiran Stanley (12) 5th freestyle, Joseph Davies (10) 6th breaststroke and Rachel Jones (14) 5th place in the breaststroke

On an excellent day for the City of Canterbury Swimming Club there were also good personal bests swum by the following swimmers: David Jones, Samuel Wilsmhurst, Georgina Crowther, Imogen Brawn, Sophie Wilmshurst, James Hylands, Isabelle Cornfoot, Alice Mitchell, Hannah Baker-Godsal, James Hylands, Charlie Marriot and Claire Hinde