Swimming: Aquabears win four golds, nine silvers and eight bronze

Date published: 19 February 2018


Rochdale Aquabears swimmers shone at the Lancashire county championships with some of the swimmers moving into the top ten of the country’s age group rankings as a result of their impressive swims.

Fifteen of the clubs swimmers swam in 35 finals winning four gold, nine silver and eight bronze medals.

The medalists were: 

  • Lauren Cusick - one gold, three silver and three bronze 
  • Xaunming Guo - three gold, one silver and a bronze.
  • Lucy Cannavan - two silver
  • Bailey Boyd-Aust  - two silver
  • Emma Blair - silver and bronze 
  • Daniel Cannavan - two bronze
  • Jessica Sunderland - bronze

There were outstanding swims from all of the swimmers competing with 100% improvement from all the competitors in all their events.

The medalists were backed up by the following swimmers:

Sam Howarth, Emily Oldham, Ethan Richards, William Armstrong, William Blair, James Boworth, Ellie Thompson and Hermione Worrall.

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