ELLA Chown and Izzy Pryce struck gold as Bournemouth Collegiate School led a seven-medal haul for Dorset swimmers at the ASA English Summer National Championships.

They were among four BCS swimmers who made the podium at Sheffield, where two Poole swimmers and one from Swim Bournemouth also contributed to the county’s magnificent seven.

Pryce – a silver medallist in the 14yrs 50m breaststroke last year when she was with Swim Bournemouth – went one better this time.

She beat Charlotte Nester from Wigan by 0.38sec to win the 15yrs 50m breaststroke in 34.27.

Chown’s gold came in the last session of the five-day meet as she won the 12-13yrs 50m butterfly in 29.16.

Earlier she had reached the final of the 100m butterfly, finishing fourth in 1:06.45. She was also a creditable 16th in the 200m individual medley.

BCS’s Lottie James made the final in three of her four events, winning silver in the 16yrs 100m breaststroke in 1:15.42, placing seventh in the 50m breaststroke and withdrawing from the 200m backstroke final on the last day.

She was also 14th in the 100m backstroke.

Team-mate Ben Samuel won silver in the 15yrs 100m freestyle in 55.18.

He was also 12th in the 200m freestyle and 16th in the 100m backstroke.

Swim Bournemouth’s Oli Fairman made finals in all three of his events and won silver in the 13-14yrs 200m backstroke in 2:17.07.

He was also eighth in the 100m backstroke and ninth in the 400m IM.

Poole’s Madison Kemp was fastest qualifier for the 17/o 50m butterfly final and went on to win the silver medal in 28.64. She was fifth in the 100m butterfly.

Club-mate Thea O’Keefe powered to silver in the 16yrs 800m freestyle in 9:29.03 and was top qualifier for the 200m freestyle final in 2:07.37 but slipped to fourth in the top-10 showdown in 2:08.11.

She also made the 100m freestyle final, finishing eighth in 1:00.44.

Poole’s Jazz McCrea – a bronze medallist at the previous week’s British nationals – missed a second bronze at the English contest by 0.35sec as she came fourth in the 15yrs 200m breaststroke. She was also ninth in the 400m IM.

BCS’s Jamie Holmes was fifth in the 18/o 50m breaststroke in 29.85.

Swim Bournemouth’s Henry Stanbrook came sixth in the 17/o 50m backstroke and ninth in the 100m back while team-mate Kelvin Wong was seventh in the 16yrs 50m breaststroke and 12-year-old Amy Brown 10th in the 12-13yrs 50m backstroke.

Luke Roxburgh swam all three breaststroke events for Poole, making one 17/o final and finishing ninth, 11th and 15th in the 50m, 100m and 200m, respectively.

Jack Arnell (BCS) was ninth in the 15yrs butterfly final, 13th in the 100m fly and 17th in the 100m backstroke.

Swim Bournemouth’s Savannah Barman came ninth in the 17/o 200m fly and 11th in the 400m freestyle.

Team-mate Abigail Manns was 10th in the 15yrs 100m breaststroke final and 12th in the 200m while Morgan Long came 12th in the 50m freestyle.

Zoe Gannaway (BCS) was 14th and 15th in the 16yrs 200m and 400m freestyle while team-mate Amy Mills was 14th and 16th in the 200m breaststroke and 400m IM.

In the multi-disability events, Leo McCrea (BCS) came 17th in the 100m breaststroke and 27th in the 100m freestyle.

  • See today's Echo for a picture of gold medal winner Ella Chown