Pair have titanic tussle for club champion title

Chester-le-Street's Stephanie Proud set four meet records.

Two came in the 12-year-olds' 100m backstroke - one in the heats and one in the final - with Bradford's Katie Ford runner-up.

Stephanie's other records came in the 100m freestyle and 200m individual medley.

The contest for top male City of Bradford swimmer of the meet produced a close tussle between Richard Shepherd and Steven Broadley, with Richard taking the title after winning four golds, two silvers and two bronzes to Steven's two gold, four silver and one bronze.

In the men's 200m freestyle Richard started fast on the first 100m and hung on to win as Steven came back.

Richard took the men's 200m backstroke and 100m fly with Steven second, while Steven won the 200m fly with Richard in second place.

Richard won the men's 200m medley and with silvers in the men's 200m breaststroke and bronzes in the 100m freestyle and 100m breaststroke, he took the top award.

Bradford's other golds came in the men's 50m and 100m freestyle with sprint free specialist Adrian Lonsdale holding off a strong challenge to win.

In the 100m freestyle the home club had five swimmers in the final, with Richard Mason taking first place from team mates Steven Broadley and Richard Shepherd.

Of the nine meet records, the most impressive was Nicholas Kelsall of Birmingham who took the 12-year-olds' 200 medley by more than three seconds in a tremendous time of two minutes 23.46 seconds.

Michael Stephenson of Cocker-mouth broke the 14-year-old boys' record of Bradford's James Griffin in the 100m freestyle, finishing in 54.39 seconds for the 100m freestyle and seeing Cockermouth to the team trophy.

Top women's swimmer at the meet was Emily Crookall-Nixon of Cockermouth.

Bradford medallists were Emma Collings who took silver in the 200m backstroke and bronze in the 200m medley.

Helen Stevens and Jemma Senczyszyn both had bronze medals in the 100m breastroke.