Sporting Digest: Swimming

SPEEDO NATIONAL AGE GROUP CHAMPIONSHIPS (Leeds): BOYS: 17-18: 100m backstroke: N Willey (Barnet Copthall) 57:57sec; 2 N Skinner (Portsmouth Northsea) 1:01.33; 3 T Kirk (City of Peterborough) 1:01.66. 200m breaststroke: 1 A Ayres (City of Swansea) 2:20.48; 2 M Belcourt (Harrow and Wealdstone) 2:23.64; 3 R Birchmore (Portsmouth Northsea) 2:25.82. 16: 100m backstroke: 1 P Beck (Leatherhead) 1:01.45; 2 J Blood (Cheadle) 1:01.99; 3 D Grssby (City of Coventry) 1:02.77. 200m breaststroke: 1= D Smith (Trafford Metro) and A Turner (Manchester United Salford) 2:27.56; 3 R Wardle (City of Birmingham) 2:28.29. GIRLS: 17-18: 50m freestyle: 1 M Bates (Walsall) 27.55; 2 J Park (City of Newcastle) 28.13; 3 E Watson (Nova Centurion) 28.28. 400m: 1 A Pendrich (Beckenham) 4:20.90; 2 H Billington (St Helens) 4:23.12; 3 S Colling (Derwentside) 4:23.47. 50m freestyle: 1 N Thornley (Manchester United Salford) 27.61; 2 M Elliston (Waveney) 27.84; 3 K Burke (Cockermouth) 27.85. 400m: 1 K Goddard (Portsmouth Northsea) 4:23.66; 2 J Hipwell (Wigan Wasps) 4:25.50; 3 S Hallworth (Stockport Metro) 4:29.33.