2023 St Albans District Primary Schools Championships
Please click here for a copy of the full results of the gala.
Thank you to all the swimmers who participated in the gala. We saw some excellent swims and a significant number of personal best times. We had around 85 swimmers participating, ranging from region level swimmers to many at their first gala. Around 30 swimmers were non-club swimmers so well done.
Highlights:
- Amber Smith - Year 5 Girls Butterfly
- Elijah Bennett - Year 6 Boys Butterfly
The winner of the St Albans District Primary Schools Championship cup for 2023, awarded for the best
performance at the 2023 Championship, went to Charles Hallam, Year 5 Boys, of Aldwickbury School. Mark Bansaghi was second and Ching Yau third.
The full list of the Championship cup performances are at the bottom of this page.
We thank all the officials and helpers who gave up their time to make this gala such a successful one.
We will be selecting the St Albans District team for the 2023 Herts Inter-District Primary Championships in the next couple of days and will e-mail those swimmers who have been successful. As a general rule, any swimmer that has come first or second in a particular event will be selected in the team.
The Herts Inter-District Primary Championships are on Friday 23th June at Watford Woodside.
Andrew Ellis
St Albans District Schools Swimming Association
St Albans District Primary Schools Trials Gala cup 2023
- The winner of the cup is generally that swimmer in their 2 best events had a better overall combined difference from Herts County qualification times than any other swimmer. The swimmer must have at least 2 winning events. Where a swimmer had more than 2 winning events then the 2 best events (relative to the Herts qual times) are used.
- The Herts county qualification times used are: 10 years for Year 5's and 11 years for Year 6's (the 2015 qualification times for counties have been used as these are set at March and are used to approximate 1/2 way through the school year (Sept to Aug)).
- It has to be recognised that this methodology is not completely foolproof and the performances over all events are looked at.
- The Herts County qualification times are used as this currently is the best method to equalise the swimmers across years and boys/girls. Note that the 2015 times are used as after this Herts had only a combined age 10 and 11 years.
- The 2nd to 10th places are calculated on the best two events irrespective if these were winning events. The 2nd and 3rd places received the Best Performance awards.
1st Charles Hallam -13%
2nd Mark Bansaghi -10.31%
3rd Ching Yau -10.30%
4th Eloise Geffin -9%
5th Charlotte Douglas -7%
6th Mylo Molloy -5%
7th Amber Smith -4%
8th Sofia Sacoto -3%
9th Ted Fisher -1%
10th Aoife Blessing 0%
Well done to all these swimmers.
Thank you to all the swimmers who participated in the gala. We saw some excellent swims and a significant number of personal best times. We had around 85 swimmers participating, ranging from region level swimmers to many at their first gala. Around 30 swimmers were non-club swimmers so well done.
Highlights:
- Charles Hallam - Year 5 Boys - winner of 3 events Freestyle, Butterfly, Backstroke
- Ching Yau - Year 6 Boys - winner of 3 events Freestyle, Breaststroke, Backstroke
- Eloise Geffin - Year 5 Girls - winner of 3 events Freestyle, Breaststroke, Backstroke
- Charlotte Douglas - Year 6 Girls - winner of all 4 events Freestyle, Breaststroke, Butterfly, Backstroke
- Winners of 1 event were:
- Amber Smith - Year 5 Girls Butterfly
- Elijah Bennett - Year 6 Boys Butterfly
The winner of the St Albans District Primary Schools Championship cup for 2023, awarded for the best
performance at the 2023 Championship, went to Charles Hallam, Year 5 Boys, of Aldwickbury School. Mark Bansaghi was second and Ching Yau third.
The full list of the Championship cup performances are at the bottom of this page.
We thank all the officials and helpers who gave up their time to make this gala such a successful one.
We will be selecting the St Albans District team for the 2023 Herts Inter-District Primary Championships in the next couple of days and will e-mail those swimmers who have been successful. As a general rule, any swimmer that has come first or second in a particular event will be selected in the team.
The Herts Inter-District Primary Championships are on Friday 23th June at Watford Woodside.
Andrew Ellis
St Albans District Schools Swimming Association
St Albans District Primary Schools Trials Gala cup 2023
- The winner of the cup is generally that swimmer in their 2 best events had a better overall combined difference from Herts County qualification times than any other swimmer. The swimmer must have at least 2 winning events. Where a swimmer had more than 2 winning events then the 2 best events (relative to the Herts qual times) are used.
- The Herts county qualification times used are: 10 years for Year 5's and 11 years for Year 6's (the 2015 qualification times for counties have been used as these are set at March and are used to approximate 1/2 way through the school year (Sept to Aug)).
- It has to be recognised that this methodology is not completely foolproof and the performances over all events are looked at.
- The Herts County qualification times are used as this currently is the best method to equalise the swimmers across years and boys/girls. Note that the 2015 times are used as after this Herts had only a combined age 10 and 11 years.
- The 2nd to 10th places are calculated on the best two events irrespective if these were winning events. The 2nd and 3rd places received the Best Performance awards.
1st Charles Hallam -13%
2nd Mark Bansaghi -10.31%
3rd Ching Yau -10.30%
4th Eloise Geffin -9%
5th Charlotte Douglas -7%
6th Mylo Molloy -5%
7th Amber Smith -4%
8th Sofia Sacoto -3%
9th Ted Fisher -1%
10th Aoife Blessing 0%
Well done to all these swimmers.