JACOB Peters led a feast of record-breaking as more than 400 swimmers converged on Littledown for the first weekend of the 2016 Dorset Championships.

A total of 25 county records or competition best times (CBTs) fell in two days with the 15-year-old Poole star claiming eight of them.

Peters, who already holds British junior and age group butterfly records, saved his best for the most demanding event on the programme, the 400m individual medley.

He completed 16 lengths of the pool using all four competition strokes in 4min 37.31sec, breaking not only the 16yrs and senior CBTs but the Dorset senior and junior county records, respectively held by Poole’s Todd Price and former Bournemouth Dolphin Joe Poynter.

Equally impressive was Bournemouth Collegiate School’s (BCS) Finn Trehane, like Peters a national age group champion and celebrating his 14th birthday on day one of the championships.

Trehane, 18 months Peters’ junior, won the senior silver medal and junior gold in 4:47.18.

Both were in record-breaking form in the 100m medley, Peters shaving 0.03sec off his Dorset junior record with 1:01.16, Trehane setting an age group CBT of 1:03.10 in the heats, then improving to 1:02.76 in the 14yrs final.

While the hundreds of age group medals were widely spread across the county, Poole and BCS dominated the championship titles, winning 31 of the 32 senior and junior gold medals between them.

The exception was junior 50m breaststroke champion Izzy Pryce, although even she has recently joined BCS.

Poole’s Jazz McCrea broke six records in two events, setting 15yrs and junior CBTs wth 29.04 in the 50m butterfly heats, lowering those to 28.82 in the final, then slashing the 100m medley 15yrs CBT to 1:08.10 in the heat and 1:06.82 in the final.

BCS’s Ella Chown was a five-times CBT-breaker.

Her records came in the heat and final of the 13yrs 50m butterfly (30.17 and 29.82), heat and final of the 100m medley (1:09.75 and 1:08.76) and the 200m butterfly (2:28.03).

Poole team-mates Harriet Perfect and Emily Clarke enjoyed an eight-length showdown in the 200m backstroke, 16-year-old Perfect edging the senior title in 2:14.67 to Clarke’s 2:15.20 and breaking the age group CBT in the process.

But Clarke, 18, had her moments of record-breaking glory as she set senior and 17 and over CBTs in both heat and final of the 50m butterfly (28.59 and 28.15).

Swim Bournemouth’s Amy Brown was a star in the 12yrs girls’ events, winning several age group titles and setting an age group CBT of 1:11.26 in the 100m medley.

Swim Bournemouth’s Ben Wickens, Jack Simpkins, Ollie Fairman, Hannah Stonier, Rebecca Cummings, Jess Richens and Abi Manns all made the senior or junior podium along with Seagulls’ Bethan O’Hara and Max Weeks.

RESULTS

Male

200m freestyle. Snr: 1 J Peters (P), 2 B Samuel (BCS), 3 A Botros (P). Jnr: 1 Samuel, 2 C Tai (BCS), 3 F Trehane (BCS).

200m backstroke. Snr: 1 J Peters (P), 2 A Botros (P), 3 H Bramwell-Reeks (BCS). Jnr: 1 F Trehane (BCS), 2 B Samuel (BCS), 3 J Arnell (BCS).

50m butterfly. Snr: 1 J Peters (P), 2 B Wickens (SB), 3 C Tai (BCS). Jnr: 1 Tai, 2 B Samuel (BCS), 3 J Arnell (BCS).

200m butterfly. Snr: 1 J Peters (P), 2 H Bramwell-Reeks (BCS), 3 C Tai (BCS). Jnr: 1 Tai, 2 M Weeks (S), 3 J Mowbray (ND).

50m breaststroke. Snr: 1 L Roxburgh (P), 2 F Trehane (BCS), 3 B Wickens (SB). Jnr: 1 Trehane, 2 Samuel (BCS), 3 H Kenny (P).

100m breaststroke. Snr: 1 L Roxburgh (P), 2 F Trehane (BCS), 3 J Simpkins (SB). Jnr: 1 Trehane, 2 C Tai (BCS), 3 B Samuel (BCS).

100m individual medley (IM). Snr: 1 J Peters (P), 2 B Wickens (SB), 3 F Trehane (BCS). Jnr: 1 Trehane, 2 J Arnell (BCS), 3 H Kenny (P).

400m IM. Snr: 1 J Peters (P), 2 F Trehane (BCS), 3 B Porter (P). Jnr: 1 Trehane, 2 J Arnell (BCS), 3 O Fairman (SB).

Female

200m freestyle. Snr: 1 E Clarke (P), 2 J Holmes (P), 3 T O’Keefe (P). Jnr: 1 J McCrea (P), 2 J Kelleway (P), 3 H Stonier (SB).

200m backstroke. Snr: 1 H Perfect (P), 2 E Clarke (P), 3 R Cummings (SB). Jnr: A Mills (BCS), 2 T Graham (P), 3 E Chown (BCS).

50m butterfly. Snr: 1 E Clarke (P), 2 J McCrea (P), 3 M Kemp (P). Jnr: 1 J McCrea (P), 2 E Chown (BCS), 3 I Pryce (SB).

200m butterfly. Snr: 1 E Clarke (P), 2 J Richens (SB), 3 E Chown (BCS). Jnr: 1 Chown, 2 H Stonier (SB), 3 H Davies (BCS).

50m breaststroke. Snr: 1 C James (BCS), 2 J McCrea (P), 3 M Kemp (P). Jnr: 1 McCrea, 2 A Manns (SB), 3 I Pryce (SB).

100m breaststroke. Snr: 1 C James (BCS), 2 J McCrea (P), 3 M Kemp (P). Jnr: 1 McCrea, 2 A Manns (SB), 3 I Pryce (SB).

100m IM. Snr: 1 C James (BCS), 2 J McCrea (P), 3 M Kemp (P). Jnr: 1 McCrea, 2 E Chown (BCS), 3 K Van Der Merwe (BCS).

400m IM. Snr: 1 E Clarke (P), 2 J Richens (SB), 3 B O’Hara (S). Jnr: 1 J McCrea (P), 2 A Mills (BCS), 3 E Chown (BCS).

Key to clubs: BCS=Bournemouth Collegiate School, ND=North Dorset Turbos, P=Poole, S=Seagulls, SB=Swim Bournemouth.

Age group results at: www.dorsetasa.org.