Midlands District swimmers stood on the top of the podium five times at a Swimming Victoria all-junior sprint meet at Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre on Sunday.
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The gold medals came at the fruition of a 8-14 year series which began in Ballarat in February, when six swimmers from age group were selected to represent the district.
Ballarat Swimming Club had 24 progress to semi-finals, Ballarat Gold 23 and Ballarat GCO 22.
Ava Candy, Ben Grima, Ethan Burger, Mackenzie Crocker and Taylor Mason each took gold as Midlands earned 23 medals.
MEDALS CLUB-BY-CLUB
BALLARAT
Ava Candy: gold, nine-year girls’ 50m breaststroke
Riley James: bronze, nine- boys’ 50m breaststroke
Bosco Ju: bronze, eight-year boys’ 50m backstroke and 50m freestyle
Jonas Paar: bronze, 14-year boys’ 50m butterfly
Ava Richardson: bronze, 11-year girls’ 50m butterfly and 50m freestyle
BALLARAT GOLD
Ben Grima: gold, 14-year boys’ 50m backstroke; bronze, 50m breaststroke and 50m freestyle
Alyssia Jenkins: silver, 14-year girls’ 50m butterfly; bronze, 50m backstroke
Giles Peters: bronze, 11-year boys’ 50m breaststroke
Zoe Schnnyder: bronze, nine-year girls’ 50m butterfly
BALLARAT GCO
Ethan Burger: bronze, 14/under 50m backstroke and freestyle (multiclass); gold, 50m breaststroke (multiclass)
Mackenzie Crocker: gold, 8 year boys’ 50m butterfly and 50m backstroke; silver, 50m freestyle
Taylor Mason: gold, 11-year girls’ 50m breaststroke
Edward Meddings: silver, 11-year boys’ 50m breaststroke
Madeline Pryor: silver, 10-year girls’ 50m breaststroke
BALLARAT made its presence felt at the Tasmanian Swimming Championships in Hobart.
Ballarat GCO and Ballarat Gold clubs had representatives, with two finishing among the medals where only two non-Tasmanians could advance to finals
Giles Peters (Gold) swam his way into five finals and picked up bronze in the 11/under 100m breaststroke.
He was also fourth in the 200m individual medley and 100m butterfly, trimming 6.17 seconds off his personal best.
Taylor Mason (GCO) was Ballarat’s other medallist.
She went into the 11/under 100m breaststroke finals ranked third and produced another personal best, dropping 4.36 seconds off her original time fto finish with silver. Mason was just touched out of the medals in the 100m butterfly.
Madeline Pryor (11/under) and Justin Lang (12-13 year) also reached finals.
