SOUTH east Dorset’s “big three” dominated the Dorset County Championships at Littledown, sharing the vast majority of medals and championship titles.

Between them they also accumulated more than three times as many points as the other 12 competing clubs put together.

Swim Bournemouth – Dorset’s first “super-club” following the merger of Bournemouth Dolphins and Ferndown Otters – were named top club after amassing exactly 3,000 points in the inter-club competition.

But upwardly mobile Poole were a healthy second with 1,634 points, their best county championship performance for at least 25 years.

Christchurch Seagulls, who have also made spectacular progress in recent years, were only 140 points behind Poole in third place and more than 500 ahead of the best of the rest, Weymouth-based Tornadoes of South Dorset.

It was, however, a Tornadoes swimmer who broke the only county records to fall during the four days of the championships.

After breaking two senior Dorset records over the first weekend, he added a third this week with a time of 2:06.54 in the 15-16yrs 200m backstroke.

Poole’s Courtney Rowan extended her run of form with another junior championship record, this time in the 14-15yrs 100m freestyle with 57.96.

Only Swim Bournemouth’s 17-year-old Fiona Hardie was quicker with 57.91 as she and Rowan won the senior and junior titles respectively both in national qualifying times (NQTs).

Hardie claimed six of the available eight senior titles during the second weekend, adding to the three she won the previous week.

Rowan and Bournemouth’s Sasha Stalker were inside the age group competition best time (CBT) in the 14-15yrs 50m backstroke but Tornadoes’ Jennifer Scott was quicker with 31.14.

Swim Bournemouth continued their domination of the male breaststroke events with Jack Johnson adding the senior 50m title to his 100m victory a week earlier and Jack Burton, 14, taking the senior and junior honours in the 200m.

Burton’s winning time of 2:30.03 was a junior championship record but Poole’s Dan Speers was only 0.28sec behind as he won the 13yrs title in a CBT of 2:30.31.

Swim Bournemouth’s Noah Vides, meanwhile, clocked an age group record of 32.17 in the 14yrs 50m breaststroke.

Poole’s Jacob Peters took his tally of CBTs from the championships to five as he set new figures in the 10yrs 50m backstroke (36.63) and 100m butterfly (1:20.05).

Team-mate Harry Kemp’s winning time of 2:42.02 in the 11yrs 200m individual medley was also a CBT and he set an NQT in the 200m backstroke (2:35.74).

Alan Wong – now training with Poole but still swimming under the Swim Bournemouth banner – set CBTs in the 13yrs 100m butterfly (1:04.58) and the event in which he is national age group champion, the 200m backstroke (2:13.10).

CBTs also fell to Tornadoes’ Tom Mules in the 15-16yrs 100m butterfly and Thomas John in the 15-16yrs 200m breaststroke.

Andrew Botros was Seagull’s leading medalist with six golds in the second weekend alone.

These came in the 12yrs 50m and 200m backstroke, 100m and 400m freestyle, 100m butterfly and 200m individual medley.

Team-mate Zoe Gannaway won three golds in the 10yrs category and Thomas Roxburgh, 11, and Ben Wickens, 12, two each.

Poole completed their monopoly of the 12/u relays as their girls and boys won the 4x50m freestyle races by two and three seconds respectively, both in CBTs.

Swim Bournemouth won the women’s 4x100m medley relay, Tornadoes the equivalent men’s event.