On the second week of the Kent County Championships at Canterbury, Dover’s swimmers gave a admirable performance, seeing Adam Knight and Craig Simmons in the 400m Freestyle gain 1st Senior and 1st Junior placings, with Adam Patterson taking 2nd 16 year old placing for the Dover club. Gareth Steed one of Dover’s Senior swimmers finished 4th in the Open 50m Freestyle, and 5th Senior in the 100m
Breaststroke. A very deserving swim by Mathew Basford saw him finish the 50m Freestyle as 3rd 11 year old boy.

On completion of the first weeks swimming, Dover Lifeguard club’s Men/Boys were in first place in the points total. The Ladies/Girls completed the first weeks swimming seeing them in 3rd place on the points table.

Some worthy placings for the girls added further points to the girls total this week. In the 50m Backstroke Sophie Braithwaite was 2nd Junior, Kate Mansfield 3rd 15 year old, Victoria Bates 2nd 13 year old and Holly Croft 6th 14 year old. In the 100m Butterfly, Katie Whitnall was 3rd Junior, 2nd 16 year old, Sophie Braithwaite 3rd 16 year old and Kaira Redman 6th 17/18 year old. The 200m Freestyle saw Katie Whitnall 2nd 16 year old followed by Sophie Mitchinson who took 3rd 16 year old and Kaira Redman was 4th 17/18 year old. Two of the younger girls were Victoria Bates 3rd 13year old and Kayleigh Stevenson 5th 14 year old.

Some of the other Dover swimmers did well, gaining valuable points for this weeks totals. Lauren Wraight, Laura Basford, Sarah Hill, Liam Steer , Nakai Redman, Anna Jeffery, Mark Simmons and brothers James and Lewis Bradley all did their best on the day.