Master in the pool (From This Is Local London)

Master in the pool

5:02pm Thursday 9th July 2009 in

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SWIMMING: Amersham SC’s Guy Emerson won gold and silver medals at the British Masters Long Course Championships in Cardiff.

He won the 50m backstroke in a time of 31.66 seconds , which was only 0.58 seconds outside of the British Record for his age group.

And he was just a whisker away from making it double gold in the 100m backstroke.

He had to settle for silver instead though, just 0.2 seconds behind the winner, as the top five all touched in a blanket finish.

Emerson clocked a time of 1:11.10 to take second place.

Elsewhere, 15 Amersham swimmers competed in the Newbury District Open where they picked up eight silver medals and four bronze medals as the club finished in fifth place.

Andrew Beveridge, 15, was placed fourth overall for the boys after the Amersham teenager won silver in the 100m breaststroke (1:20.18); silver in the 100m backstroke (1:04.70) and bronze in the 200m IM (2:30.25). He also came fourth in the 100m freestyle and fifth in the 100m butterfly.

Marcus Hazelwood, 14, also got among the medals with silver in the 200m IM and bronze in the 100m backstroke while Matt Hazelwood won silver in the 100m breaststroke with Poppy Casterton, 10, winning silver medal in the 50m butterfly.