2024 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 70 swimmers participating, ranging from region level swimmers to many at their first gala. Around 10 swimmers were non-club swimmers so well done.
Highlights:
- 0.06s outside of the 2016 record in the Backstroke
- Sofia Sacoto - Year 6 Girls Freestyle
- Albert Saunders - Year 5 Boys Butterfly
- Eloise Geffin - Year 6 Girls Breaststroke
- Jessica Bedfore - Year 5 Girls Breaststroke
The winner of the St Albans District Primary Schools Championship cup for 2024, awarded for the best
performance at the 2024 Championship, went to Charles Hallam, Year 6 Boys, of Aldwickbury School. Hugo Koyanagi (Year 6) was second and Amélie Desmeules (Year 5) third.
The full list of the Championship cup best 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.
The St Albans District team for the 2024 Herts Inter-District Primary Championships is here and the gala will be held on Friday 21st June at Watford Woodside.
Andrew Ellis
St Albans District Schools Swimming Association
St Albans District Primary Schools Trials Gala cup 2024
- 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 -28.9%
2nd Hugo Koyanagi -26.8%
3rd Amélie Desmeules -26.1%
4th Olivia Daniel -21.6%
5th Clark Meanti -20.9%
6th Sofia Sacoto -14.7%
7th Julien Vannier -14.5%
8th Jorgie Bhasvi -13.0%
9th Albert Saunders -12.3%
10th Amber Smith -11.0%
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 70 swimmers participating, ranging from region level swimmers to many at their first gala. Around 10 swimmers were non-club swimmers so well done.
Highlights:
- Charles Hallam - Year 5 Boys - winner of 3 events Freestyle, Butterfly, Backstroke
- Amélie Desmeules - Year 5 Girls - winner of 3 events Freestyle, Butterfly, Backstroke
- 0.06s outside of the 2016 record in the Backstroke
- Julien Vannier - Year 5 Boys - winner of 3 events Freestyle, Breaststroke, Backstroke
- Olivia Daniel - Year 6 Girls - winner of 2 events Butterfly and Backstroke
- Winners of 1 event were:
- Sofia Sacoto - Year 6 Girls Freestyle
- Albert Saunders - Year 5 Boys Butterfly
- Eloise Geffin - Year 6 Girls Breaststroke
- Jessica Bedfore - Year 5 Girls Breaststroke
The winner of the St Albans District Primary Schools Championship cup for 2024, awarded for the best
performance at the 2024 Championship, went to Charles Hallam, Year 6 Boys, of Aldwickbury School. Hugo Koyanagi (Year 6) was second and Amélie Desmeules (Year 5) third.
The full list of the Championship cup best 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.
The St Albans District team for the 2024 Herts Inter-District Primary Championships is here and the gala will be held on Friday 21st June at Watford Woodside.
Andrew Ellis
St Albans District Schools Swimming Association
St Albans District Primary Schools Trials Gala cup 2024
- 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 -28.9%
2nd Hugo Koyanagi -26.8%
3rd Amélie Desmeules -26.1%
4th Olivia Daniel -21.6%
5th Clark Meanti -20.9%
6th Sofia Sacoto -14.7%
7th Julien Vannier -14.5%
8th Jorgie Bhasvi -13.0%
9th Albert Saunders -12.3%
10th Amber Smith -11.0%
Well done to all these swimmers.