Freya Colbert & Charlie Hutchison Clinch Golden Trebles In Sheffield
The Swim England National Winter Championships (25m) wrapped up in Sheffield with golden hat-tricks for Freya Colbert and Charlie Hutchison.
After gold in the 200IM on the opening day, Colbert posted two new lifetime bests in the final session as she knocked 0.16 off her 200 back PB in 2:04.78 ahead of Olympic finalist Honey Osrin in 2:05.62.
The 400IM world champion then took more than a second off her 200 free best in 1:53.91 with Medi Harris (1:55.85) and Leah Schlosshan (1:57.10) following Colbert home.
Hutchison completed a hat-trick of gold medals as he recorded the seventh-fastest time in British history in the 400IM.
The Loughborough University swimmer beat his previous lifetime best by more than two seconds in 4:03.33 and in the process enjoyed a winning margin of more than nine seconds.
He added to his 200IM and 400 free victories to crown a successful four days at Ponds Forge.
Max Morgan went under 27 seconds for the first time in the 50m breaststroke as he clinched both junior and senior gold to add to his medal collection.
The 16-year-old stormed to the wall in a time of 26.83 to hold off Commonwealth Games medallist, Greg Butler. That performance also made it three junior golds and six medals overall for Morgan.
Ed Mildred won the 200 fly in 1:54.11, more than three seconds ahead of two-time Olympian Joe Litchfield (1:57.14) while Alexander Cohoon clinched the 50/100 free double with victory over four lengths of the Ponds Forge pool in 47.19.
Fleur Lewis won the 800 free in 8:28.24 while Georgina Pryor took the 100 fly in 57.33, a PB.
The S14 European record for the Female Multi-Classification 100m Butterfly was broken not once, but twice in the final day in Sheffield.
After setting a new European record on day three, Olivia Newman-Baronius did so again in the heats. However, Poppy Maskill lowered the record further in the final, with Newman-Baronius having withdrawn from the race.
Maskill clocked a time of 1:03.84 and 1,017 points on her way to another gold.
