Swimming success for DARTES
THE Doncaster DARTES made a splash at the North Eastern Regional Championships by winning more than 20 medals.
Joe Litchfield, 10, Shannon Dodson, 11, and Sophie Taylor, 13, each won gold during the first weekend of competition at Ponds Forge in Sheffield - where the DARTES collected a total of nine medals.
Fourteen-year-old Max Litchfield won two silver medals and two bronze, while also figuring in the 4x100m boys freestyle team that won silver.
The second weekend of the championships had to be moved to the John Charles Sport Centre in Leeds after flooding at Ponds Forge - but the venue proved to be just as successful for the DARTES.
Max Litchfield was once again prolific in the pool achieving two gold and two silver.
His brother Joe also won two gold, one silver and a bronze, while Dodson and Taylor added a further gold each.
Richard Lee, Racheal Grainger and Jarvis Parkinson also got their hands on a silver medal.
In total the DARTES came away with 23 medals - nine gold, ten silver and four bronze - and recorded an impressive 54 top ten finishes.
Doncaster DARTES elite swimmers head to the National Championships at Ponds Forge at the end of this month for the highlight in the swimming calendar.
Qualifiers include Max Litchfield, Chloe Selman, Richard Lee, Sophie Coy, Sophie Taylor, Nik Grainger, Shannon Dodson, Joe Litchfield, Matthew Davies, Laura Hirst, Niall Wainwright and Elliot Trofimowicz.
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