Stowmarket at the Eastern Swimming Championships

Stowmarket had a representative at the first weekend of the Eastern Championships in Ryan Clay. This is the first year that Ryan has made the qualifying times for the Eastern and he had two races over the weekend. His first was the 4x100m medley. Ryan started well and was with the leaders at the end of the backstroke leg. Turning on to his front he swam and excellent breaststroke leg and was in contention for a leading place at the freestyle change over. Ryan swam a strong freestyle stroke and came home in 10th Place with a very good time of 5:20.81. The promise shown in Ryans breaststroke leg of the medley was realised in his second race of the weekend, the 200m Breaststroke. Ryan came in in 6th place and booked his place in the final. If there is a recommended time to set personal records, it would be at the final of a major gala. This is exactly what Ryan accomplished swimming a strong and focussed race to touch home in 4th Place in 2:45:24 narrowly missing a medal spot. Ryan is undoubtedly pleased with his performance so far and aims to repeat this form next weekend.