City of Bradford's senior swimmers enjoyed success in the Satellite Open Meet at Macclesfield.

The squad came away with two club records plus six gold medals, two silvers, one bronze and 14 final-places.

Richard Shepherd, who has returned to train full time at Bradford after completing his degree at Portsmouth Univers-ity, broke his own record in the 400m individual medley with 4min 34.60sec for first place.

Another record-breaking swim came from Emma Collings in the 17-18-year age group. She produced a best time of 5min 6.47sec in the 400m individual medley to lower the previous record in taking third place.

Richard also took gold in the 200m individual medley while Emma landed three golds for the 200, 400 and 800m free swims.

Bradford's other gold went to Steven Broadley in the men's 1500m free in his second-best ever time of 15min 57.57sec.

Steven took silver in the 400m freestyle while Emma took silver in the 100m freestyle.

At the Rising Stars Gala, 80 seven-11-year-old swimmers treated spectators to a feast of fast swimming with many personal-best times set by the enthusiastic youngsters.

Top finisher was ten-year-old county medallist Carey Senczyszyn who won all four of her races in 50m freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke and butterfly events.

In the 11-year-old girls' event triple golds went to Holly Williams for the freestyle, backstroke and butterfly.

Kirsty Richardson won the breaststroke with Holly second.

In the boys' 11-years age group Adam Coxsell took the 50m freestyle and the backstroke. Alexander Ferguson won the breaststroke and Tomson Toch the 50m butterfly.

Golds in the ten-year-olds' competition were shared between Joseph Downey in the breaststroke and butterfly, Luke Maude in the freestyle and Brendan Watson in the backstroke.

In the seven and eight-year-olds' age group two girls shared golds for their 25m swims. Hannah Wharton won the freestyle and breaststroke, while Daisy Gomersall won the breaststroke and butterfly.

In the seven and eight-year-old boys' 25m breaststroke Luke Constantine won gold and Jack Lonsdale silver. Jack went on to win the freestyle and butterfly with Robert Watson securing the backstroke.

In the nine-year-old girls' competition Claire Pinder won the freestyle and butterfly, and Lorna Dawson the breaststroke and backstroke. In the boys' section Thomas Broadbent won the freestyle and butterfly events with Luke Gilhooly taking the breaststroke.

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