Stacey Tadd captures Women’s 100m breast-stroke gold medal - British Gas ASA National Championships
Stacey Tadd of Bath University captured the gold medal in the Women’s 100m breast-stroke meet, on day three of the 2011 British Gas ASA National Championships, held in Sheffield.
With her miraculous win, she has confirmed her berth in the Great Britain’s swimming squad to Shanghai for the 2011 World Championships, this July. The ASA meet is a second opportunity for national swimmers to prove their qualification in the British team,
as the first national selection trials were held in March, 2011.
Tadd won the gold medal of the event in a wonderful time of 1 minute and 09.14 seconds. She was followed by Edinburgh University’s Kathryn Johnstone, who was almost two seconds away from her and settled on the podium for the silver medal, with a timing of
1 minute and 11.04 seconds. The podium was completed with the presence of Georgina Heyn of Ealing, who occupied the bronze medal of the 100m event by clocking a time of 1 minute and 11.12 seconds.
The fourth spot was secured by Loughborough University’s Lowri Tynan, who appeared on the finishing wall with her gruelling effort of 1 minute and 11.20 seconds. Tynan was only 0.07 seconds faster than her following swimmer, Jodie Hawksworth of Derventio,
who touched the wall for the fifth position, by posting a time of 1 minute and 11.27 seconds.
Danielle Lowe of Wirral Metro emerged on the finishing wall as the sixth fastest swimmer. Lowe was only 0.03 seconds away from her preceding swimmer, Hawksworth, who touched the wall for sixth fastest spot with a timing of 1 minute and 11.30 seconds.
Georgina Evans of Liverpool and Rachael Wilson of Derwentside amazed the arena in an attempt to occupy the seventh fastest spot. Evans out-touched her rival by only 0.02 seconds and finished as the seventh fastest swimmer in 1 minute and 11.50 seconds. Wilson,
who failed to overcome Evans’s effort, ended her swim in the eight spot, posting a time of 1 minute an 11.52 seconds.
The championships will conclude today with the competition of all swimming events in the Men’s and Women’s group.
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