Gisborne swimmers finish the year in style at HBPB champs

Celia Willoughby competing in the breaststroke for Comet Swimming Club at the Hawke's Bay-Poverty Bay championships.

Gisborne’s Enterprise Swim Team and Comet Swimming Club came away from the Hawke’s Bay/ Poverty Bay swimming championships at Kiwa Pools with a stack of medals.

Enterprise had their biggest team in some time at the regional champs.

“We had 48 swimmers, with many at their first meet of this calibre, and they did an outstanding job,” head coach Matt Martin said.

“First-timers Peyton Dear, Zoe Gardner, Chloe Mcphail, Chloe Menzies, Emma Menzies, Irelyn Purnell, Beauden Spriggs, Benji Thorpe and Maise Thorpe all swam fantastically well, and we look forward to the progress of our entire team in coming years.

“With great numbers in our training squads helping, these athletes challenge themselves against each other weekly.

“The future for them and their progress is exciting.”

The Comet squad also had a strong weekend, collecting 24 medals.

The club’s swimmers enjoyed success across the age groups.

The boys’ open relay won silver, AJ Kinsella won the 400m and 800m freestyle finals in his age group and Celia Willougby took gold in her age group of the 100 butterfly.

“They were the standouts of a very good meet for Comet,” head coach Glenn Hamblyn said.

“The relay team of Max Phillips/Mako Fukushima-Hall/Te Maumahara Hape and Calvin Braybrook came in second to the Sundevils of Hawke’s Bay by point-48 seconds, which was a great result for them.”

Comet's boys' relay team gave a good account of themselves, finishing second to the Sundevils of Hawke's Bay. Max Phillips (Comet cap) springs off the blocks with Mako Fukushima-Hall in the water below having completed his leg.

The Comet medal tally was three gold, 10 silver and 11 bronze.

Enterprise results:

Cole Alexander: Gold in 200 breast, 100 breast, 50 breast; bronze in 50 backstroke.

Jakob Alexander: Gold in 200 back, 50 butterfly, 100 backstroke; silver in 200 free; bronze in 400 free, 50 back.

Breana Barclay: Gold in 50 fly, 100 free; silver in 50 back; bronze in 50 free, 50 breast.

Owen Booker: Gold in 200 free, 50 free, 200 IM, 50 breast.

Xavier Booker: Bronze in 100 breast, 50 free.

Tyler Dear: Gold in 100 free.

Jacob Douglas: Gold in 200 breast, 100 breast, 200 IM; silver in 100 fly; bronze in 50 breast.

Jaimee Fisher: Gold in 800 free; silver in 400 IM, 200 fly, 100 fly; bronze in 50 fly, 200 breast.

Emmie Fitzharris-Stevens: Bronze in 50 free.

Charlotte Gray: Silver in 100 free; bronze in 50 free.

Elijah Gray: Gold in 50 free; silver in 100 free, 50 back.

Dillon Gultig: Silver in 50 fly.

Summer Hovell: Bronze in 50 breast.

Zoe Keepa: Bronze in 100 breast.

Max Latu: Silver in 400 free, 200 free, 50 back; bronze in 50 fly, 100 free.

Holli MacDonald: Gold in 400 free; Silver in 100 free, 200 free, 800 free.

Joshua Mathews-Atkins: Silver in 50 fly, 100 free, 100 back, 50 back; bronze in 200 free, 50 free.

Zeita Pattison: Bronze in 100 back.

Sophie Phelps: Silver in 50 fly.

Nikau Rudge: Silver in 200 back.

Zanja Rudge: Gold in 200 back, 100 back, 100 fly; Silver in 50 fly, 100 free, 50 free, 50 back; Bronze in 50 breast.

Kaeto Sasamoto: Gold in 400 free, 200 free; Silver in 50 fly, 100 free, 200 fly, 200 IM, 100 fly.

Rio Sasamoto: Silver in 400 free; Bronze in 400 IM, 200 free, 200 IM.

Sophie Searle: Bronze in 200 IM.

Harrison Sheldrake: Silver in 200 back, 200 IM; Bronze in 100 free, 100 back.

Ivy Stewart: Bronze in 200 free.

Lola Stewart: Gold in 50 fly, 100 free, 200 breast, 100 breast, 100 fly, 50 breast; Silver in 200 fly, 200 IM.

Bree Tibble: Silver in 100 breast.

Korbin Wigglesworth: Bronze in 200 breast, 100 breast.

Brooke Williams: Gold in 200 free, 50 free, 50 back, 100 fly; bronze in 200 fly, 200 IM.

Enterprise teams won several relays — the 10/under mixed 4x50 IM, 10/under mixed 4x50 free, 12/under female 4x50 free, 15/under female 4x50 free, 15/under female 4x50 IM.