Hythe Aqua masters turned up in force to compete at the team’s most important competition of the year, the annual Kent Masters swimming championships.  Twenty-one Kent swimming clubs battled against each other at Black Lion Leisure centre in Gillingham with the hope of being crowned Kent Champions.  After months of intensive training sessions at Hythe Pool, Hythe masters felt in good form.  There were hundreds of competitors at the event ranging from 18 year olds to 79 year olds and with such a diverse age range it’s not hard to see why Masters swimming is fastly becoming one of the most popular swimming disciplines.  Hythe ladies were on top form and scooped thirteen  1st places, with Debbie Burton being the star of the show bagging a massive 21 points, winning the 100m butterfly and gaining 3 silvers.  Gill Prince also swam well gaining 20 points for Hythe and showing her talent for all four strokes by winning 1st place in the 100m Individual Medley.  In the men’s, Paul Hancock and David Evans were the top point scorers for Hythe, with Hancock dominating the butterfly winning both the 50m and 100m butterfly and Evans highlight being a personal best and  silver medal in 100m butterfly!
Tim Wiseman, Hythe masters coach said “Hythe masters swam really well, it was a great team effort  despite injuries and illness on the day we narrowly missed top club by only 9 points coming 2nd overall!”
For more information about Hythe Aqua Masters section visit www.hytheaqua.org.uk

Results:

Ladies
50m free – Inguna Reinhardi 1st, Ginny Fell 2nd, Pat Ling 2nd
100m free – Gill Prince 3rd, Ginny Fell 3rd
50m Breast – Gill Prince 2nd, Inguna Reinhardi 1st, Debbie Burton 2nd, Pat Parris 2nd, Pat Ling 1st
100m Breast – Gill Prince 2nd, Inguna Reinhardi 1st
50m Butterfly – Mel Parris 1st, Donna Wickens 1st, Debbie Burton 2nd, Diana Burke 3rd
100m Butterfly- Mel Parris 1st, Donna Wickens 1st, Debbie Burton 1st
50m Back – Ginny Fell 3rd, Pat Ling 2nd
100m Back – Mel Parris 2nd
100m IM- Mel Parris 3rd, Gill Prince 1st, Donna Wickens 2nd, Debbie Burton 2nd, Diana Burke 3rd
Relay Freestyle – 120+ years (Curwood, Wickens, Prince, Hoyland)  4th,
 160+ years (Curwood, Wickens, Prince, Burton) 1st
200+ years (Ling, Parris, Reinhardi, Fell) 1st
Relay IM – 120+ years  (Curwood, Prince, Wickens, Hoyland) 2nd
   160+ years (Curwood, Prince, Wickens, Burton) 1st
   200+ years (Ling, Reinhardi, Fell, Parris)

Mens
50m free – Graham Ling 3rd
50m breast – Dave Evans 3rd
50m butterfly – Paul Hancock 1st
100m butterfly -  Paul Hancock 1st, David Evans 2nd
50m back – Stuart Read 3rd
100m back – Phillip Moo 2nd
Relay Freestyle – 160+ years (Porter, Hancock, Burch, Wiseman) 3rd
Relay IM - 160+ years (Burch, Porter, Hancock, Saunders) 2nd
200+ years (Moo, Evans, Porter, Ling) 3rd