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Sunday, 27 April, 2003
Leeds stroll to victory in Speedo Cup Final
City of Leeds regained their place at the top of the domestic tree as they took their 17th win in the National Speedo Inter-league Final at Sheffield's Ponds Forge. The Yorkshire club were overwhelming favourites leading into the gala and were simply too good for the opposition despite strong challenges from Millfield and City of Coventry. [more]
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Hull Take Speedo B final
Kingston Upon Hull comfortably lived up to their billing as favourites as they took an impressive win in the 2003 National Speedo League B final. Having won the A final last year Hull were always expected to do well and their strength in depth saw them home with some 44 points to spare from second placed City of Liverpool.
[more]Posted by Steve @ 12:47 PM BST [Link]
Monday, 14 April, 2003
Hickman to concentrate on 100
Ian Greyson, new head coach at the City of Leeds club has confirmed that James Hickman will be concentrating on the 100m fly in the run up to the Athens Olympics.
"James has already made a name for himself," says Greyson. "But he's now concentrating on the 100 fly rather than the 200 fly which means a change in his diet, his weight-training and much more sprint training rather than the endurance-type butterfly for the 200."James has set his sights on the Olympics - he's always wanted to win an Olympic medal. He set himself that goal and he knows what he wants out of his swimming career."
Posted by Steve @ 01:14 PM BST [Link]
Monday, 7 April, 2003
Second British Record For Georgina Lee
Georgina Lee set her second British record of the meet at the Conoco Philllips US National Swimming Championships, when she posted a time of 1:00.24 in the 100m butterfly.
Posted by Steve @ 04:24 PM BST [Link]
Thursday, 3 April, 2003
British Record for Lee
Georgina Lee continued what her British team mates had started in Sheffield last week as she set a new British Record for teh 200m fly at the US national championships. Lee, swimming for Southern Methodist University, clocked 2:09.40 to qualify fastest for the final which she then won, in a time only 8 one-hundredths of a second slower than her heats performance. Margeretha Peddar finshed 7th in the same final.