2024 SCOTTISH NATIONAL OPEN SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS
The ultimate day of motion on the 2024 Scottish Nationwide Open Swimming Championships unfolded final evening with further {hardware} on the road.
Keanna MacInnes of Stirling wasted no time making her presence identified, with the 23-year-old Paris-bound athlete stopping the clock at 58.01 to take the ladies’s 100m fly.
MacInnes led a 1-2 Stirling punch, with teammate and 50m fly winner right here Lucy Grieve coming into the wall in 58.78 as the one different sub-minute performer of the sphere.
Ciara Schlosshan of Edinburgh rounded out the rostrum in 1:00.51.
MacInnes and Grieve positioned within the high 2 slots at this 12 months’s British Olympic Trials, with MacInnes incomes gold final April in 57.92 whereas Grieve posted 58.31. Each outings represented their best-ever performances.
After the race, MacInnes advised Scottish Swimming, “I’m actually, actually stunned with that.
My boyfriend [Angus Allison] swam a 58.1 100 fly this morning and he stated, ‘do you suppose you may go quicker than that tonight?’ and I believed it wasn’t very possible, so I’m positive he’ll be a bit gutted about that!
“I positively discovered that having Lucy subsequent to me within the race pushed me on and there actually is a pleasant competitiveness there – Brad [Hay] is all the time joking round with it and it actually pushes us each.
“I’m normally quicker to 50 than Lucy however she catches up actually sturdy so I knew I needed to maintain her off – I can’t imagine how effectively that swim went to be honest!”
Edinburgh swept the ladies’s 50m breaststroke podium, led by nationwide file holder Kara Hanlon.
Hanlon produced a mark of 30.96 to high the sphere, with Anna Morgan and Katie Goodburn following the 27-year-old. The previous hit 31.82 for silver and the latter registered 32.11 because the bronze medalist.
Hanlon owns the Scottish commonplace at 30.50, a outcome she placed on the books on the 2023 British Championships.
As for the boys’s 50m breast, we reported how 23-year-old Archie Goodburn acquired it executed for gold in 28.13, a outstanding feat simply days after he revealed his inoperable mind tumor analysis.
Goodburn additionally raced the breaststroke leg on Edinburgh’s title-winning blended 4x50m medley relay, hitting a cut up of 27.88.
You possibly can see the race video in addition to Goodburn’s post-race interview right here:
Olympic qualifier Katie Shanahan registered considered one of two sub-2:10 swims within the ladies’s 200m backstroke remaining.
The 20-year-old Stirling standout punched a results of 2:08.86 to get the job executed, beating teammate Holly McGill by almost a second.
McGill posted 2:09.74 because the silver medalist and Stirling additionally captured bronze, courtesy of Caitlin Ebbage‘s time of two:17.03.
Shanahan is the reigning Scottish nationwide file holder on this ladies’s 2back, proudly owning a lifetime greatest of two:07.45 from the 2023 World Championships. At this 12 months’s Olympic Trials, the 2022 European Championships silver medalist clocked 2:08.53 for her effort right here was lower than a second away from that outcome.
Further Notes
Michaella Glenister posted a time of 4:15.85 to win the ladies’s 400m free. George Smith topped the boys’s version in 3:51.20.
The ladies’s 50m free noticed Evelyn Davis rating a mark of 26.10 for the gold. David Cumberlidge of Edinburgh produced 22.18, the only real effort of the pack underneath 23 seconds, to high the boys’s podium.
Jamie Robertson logged a results of 53.17 to win the boys’s 100m fly. That was inside placing distance of his best-ever outing of 53.06 put up eventually 12 months’s British Summer time Championships.
