2026 St Albans District Primary Schools Championships

Please click here for a copy of the full results of the gala.
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Thank you to all the swimmers who participated in the gala. There was some excellent swims and a significant number of personal best times. We had around 60 swimmers participating, ranging from region level swimmers to many at their first gala. Around 60 swimmers were non-club swimmers so well done.

Highlights:

• Theo Rawnsley - Year 6 Boys - winner of 1 event - Butterfly and was 1s outside the record

         -  also winner of the Championship cup for Best Performance (see below)

• Stefan Sorcinelli - Year 6 Boys - winner of 1 event - Backstroke

​         - also 2nd Best Performance​

• Jonas Ting - Year 6 Boys - winner of 1 event - Breaststroke

​         - also 3rd Best Performance​

• Bronwyn Hill - Year 6 Girls - winner of 2 events - Freestyle, Butterfly (and 2nd in Breaststroke and Backstroke)
• Edward Nicoll - Year 6 Boys - winner of 1 event - Freestyle (and 3rd in all other strokes)
• Winners of 1 event were:

         - Year 5 Girls - Lara Mell, Cora Summer, Shauna Sheehan, Aveline Chantry, Lizzie Yuzbasheva
         - Year 5 Boys - Luca Filippi, Barnaby Gregson, Henry Bulloch, Serghie Creanga
         - Year 6 Girls - Imogen Douglas, Sophie Ellis

​The winner of the St Albans District Primary Schools Championship cup for 2026, awarded for the best 
performance at the 2026 Championship, went to Theo Rawnsley, Year 6 Boys, of The Grove.
​Stefan Sorcinelli, Year 6 Boys, was second and Jonas Ting,  Year 6 Boys, was third.
The full list of the Championship cup best performances are at the bottom of this page.
​Well done to all the swimmers who made it into the top 10!!

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 2026 Herts Inter-District Primary Championships will be published shortly. Generally. if a swimmer was 1st or 2nd in an event, they will be in the team. There will also be a Girls and Boys captain. This gala will be held on Friday 12th June 2026 at Watford Woodside.

Andrew Ellis
St Albans District Schools Swimming Association
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​St Albans District Primary Schools Championship Cup 2026

• ​The winner of the cup is generally that swimmer in their 2 best events (placed 1st to 3rd) had a better overall combined difference from Herts County qualification times than any other swimmer. The swimmer must have at least 1 winning event. 
• 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 (but must be 1st to 3rd place). The 2nd and 3rd places received the Best Performance awards.
• Example of Championship cup score:

           Year 6 Boys - Swimmer X with Free and Breast 2 best events (2nd place in Free and 1st place in Breast):
           Free 31.81s (v county qual time of 34.59s for Yr 6 Free) = -8.0%
           Breast 41.33s (v county qual time of 48.00s for Yr 6 Breast) = -13.9%
​              Total -21.9%