After the recent successes of City of Bradford's age group swimmers it was the turn of the seniors at the North Eastern Counties Senior-Junior meet at Middlesbrough.

Bradford's top swimmer was 21-year-old Richard Shepherd who turned in a series of great swims to capture a gold, silver and two bronze medals. In the men's 400m individual medley Shepherd lowered his best time by five seconds to win in a club record 4min 29.28sec.

In the shorter 200m IM he took second place in 2-8.90 just 0.03sec behind Newcastle's David Straughan. The bronze came in the 200m backstroke. His second bronze came in the men's 4 x 100 free team where he joined Adrian Lonsdale, Jonathan Greenwood and Mark Gilhooly.

Lonsdale led the team off with a lifetime best of 54.68 seconds, Gilhooly recorded 55.50sec, Greenwood 56.97sec and Shepherd 54.37sec.

Emma Collings captured two bronze medals for the 800m and 400m free. After a disappointing 800m swim Collings, now training and studying at Loughborough University alongside Bradford's Olympian Janine Belton, bounced back to record 4-24.22 - a time that qualifies for the Winter Nationals in December. In the heats of the women's 200m back Emma produced a startling swim of 2-23.37 for a five seconds best time to better the club record set by her sister Sarah in 1996.

In the junior section for 16 and under swimmers. Mark Gilhooly, 15, won triple bronze medals for the 100m, 200m, 400m free but his best swim was the 100m back in a PB 1-5.67. Donna Simpson, 15, lowered her best time for the 50m fly to 30.62sec for fourth placed junior and fifth placed senior plus a Winter National time.

Gavin Moon, 16, captured his first top eight places at this level of competition with fifth placed junior and eighth placed senior in the 400m IM.

Alex Barnett and Charlotte Ackroyd, members of the City of Bradford Synchro Club, represented Yorkshire at the Scottish National Synchro Championships in Glasgow. Alex won gold medal in the individual event to take the Scottish Open junior title and along with Charlotte took gold in the Junior duet event. These gold medals helped Yorkshire to win the overall team gold.

At the South Yorkshire Masters Open, Bradford's Julie Beaumont, Joan Jessop, Julie Horbury and Paul Briggs came away with nine gold, three silver and one bronze medal. Top swimmer was Julie Beaumont with a tremendous six gold medals and a lifetime best of 39.82 seconds in the 40/44 years 50m breast.

Joan Jessop won three golds in the 55/59 age group and Paul Briggs 25/29 went under the magic minute for the first time with 59.71sec.