Thanet Swim Club

At the Thanet Sports Award held at the Winter Gardens and presented by Academy DJ Johnny Lewis, Thanet Swim Club once again scooped up a number of awards.

Aaron Clements collected Sportsman of the Year with Ben Pond highly commended. Thanet Swim Club also picked up top honours for Team of Year and only just missed out on Club of Year to Thanet Athletics Club.

In the last 4 years, Thanet Swim Club has now won Club of the year twice and been highly commended twice.

The gold medal 4x 200m Freestyle Team of Harry Bradford, Ben Evans, Jamie O’Connor and Alexander Wilmshurst were highly commended in Young Team of the Year but with the Upton Junior Swimming Team picking up top prize. However, the Upton Junior Swimming Team included all Thanet Swimmers – Jack Baker, Alex Boyd, Alfie Bradford and Joshua Jones.

Also recognised on the night was Chelsea Jarman in the Unsung Hero category.

This event has grown considerably over the last couple of years and Jade Jones, Olympic Gold Medallist from London 2012, was also present to participate in an question and answer session.

Well done, to all our winners

This event was held in Solihull on the 17th November under the jurisdiction of Pentathlon gb. As a consequence consisted of a shoot, swim and run – 3/5ths of a moden pentathlon.

Beth Williams and Ben Pond competed with Beth finishing 2nd in her age group and Ben finishing 3rd in his age group having finished 1st and 2nd in the swim and run respectively.

Full results can be found here

Final round of the Kent Junior League was held at Crook Log Leisure Centre in Bexley and I ought to say what a marvellous facility – if only!

So in reality the League title was Sevenoaks to lose having won both Round 1 and Round 2; Sevenoaks would have needed to have finished 4th for Beckenham or Thanet to have a chance of taking top spot.

Sevenoaks never looked in danger of finishing anywhere but in 1st place on the night and at the end deservedly won Round 3 and in turn the League Title.

The real battle was for 2nd spot between Beckenham and ourselves. With Beckenham having come 2nd in Round 1 and ourselves having come 2nd in Round 2, whoever finished in 2nd place in Round 3 would end up in 2nd place behind Sevenoaks in the final league standings.

Despite missing a number of regular swimmers and continuing illness amongst some of the swimmers the team put up a tremendous fight with a number of debutants to Kent Junior League stepping up to the plate. Throughout the night it was ‘nip and tuck’ with Beckenham and it wasn’t until race 43 of 50 that our fate was finally sealed to 3rd place.

Final points on the night; Sevenoaks 236, Beckenham 217, Thanet 207, Bromley 146, Black Lion  134, Orpington Ojays 104.

Full results can be found here