Wilmington’s Marie Atkinson took the freestyle events by storm at the British Masters Swimming Championships held in the new Welsh national 50-metre pool, in Swansea.
Despite a gruelling two-and-a-half-day schedule, she won five or her six events, winning golds and British title for the A Category (25-29 years), in the 50, 200, 400, 800 and 1,500m finals.
Her time in the latter event smashed the six-year-old British record by a staggering 27 seconds!
She was also prevented from taking the clean sweep of freestyle titles, when she was just touched off in the 100m final by teenager and former international, Penny Porter, by just three-tenths of a second!
Marie will now take a hard earned break, but will be back in full training very soon for an exciting year ahead which will begin with the National Short-Course Championships, in October, leading up to the World Championships, in Italy, next June.
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