17 March 2022

Last Friday, students competed against a myriad of other senior schools in the Bath and Otter relays, held at the London Aquatic Centre.

The first event was the 4×100 FS relay. Tough at the best of times, but extremely hard to manage in a long course pool, we were pleased with an opening time of sub 4 minutes, with everyone going well under the minute barrier with Abingdon qualifying for the final in 7th place! Abingdon rarely qualifies for this final, so it was a huge achievement for the team.

In the final, the team dived in, swam their hearts out and finished 7th in a time of 3:53.26 punching well above their weight.

The medley event in the afternoon played to our strengths as, at 4×50, it was more manageable and we felt confident about making the final. The team of Chris Skelton (backstroke), Can Tugcetin (breaststroke), Ethan Richards-Knight (butterfly) and Alex Cooper Marcos (frontcrawl) landed a new school record, ousting the previous record held by Esnouf, Teh, Law and Eccleston set at the same event back in 2014.

Going into the final, Abingdon was placed 6th and finished 6th with a time of 1:54.70 – breaking the record broken only an hour earlier!

Huge congratulations and thanks to all our team, many of whom then went on to Wycombe to compete in the National qualifiers over the weekend.

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