Irish Bronze Medal for Boys Year 8 Swimming Team
After a very successful Ulster Schools Swimming Championships with Coleraine Grammar School winning both of the year 8 boys relay races and team of
boys travelled to Dublin’s National Aquatic Centre for the Irish Schools Finals.
However, 3 weeks before the competition, one of the team members broke his toe so had to be replaced by another boy from the year. These 4 boys have
been training hard both in the school pool after school on Fridays and with their respective swimming clubs to prepare for these finals.
They came home with a bronze medal in the medley relay with all of the boys preforming particularly well with a 4 second improvement on their winning
time from the Ulsters. Beating many of the top schools from Rep of Ireland.
They narrowly missed a further bronze medal when they were 4th on the freestyle relay despite an improvement of over 5secs on their winning
Ulster time.
One boy who had achieved a silver in Ulster only just missed an Irish bronze medal by 0.3 sec in the individual breaststroke event to finish up 4th overall in Ireland.
One boy came 15th in the individual freestyle race despite 1.72sec improvement in his bronze medal winning Ulster time.
Congratulations to all 4 boys who all swam personal best times over the weekend to achieve these outstanding results.
