ASA EAST REGION

EAST Region water polo clubs are invited to enter this year's Junior (Under-14s) Summer Cup at Royal Hospital School, Holbrook on Saturday, June 16. Closing date for entries is June 1.

East Region Junior Summer Cup (Under-14s) Entry Form

A FORMER Hertfordshire schoolgirl has revealed her pride at being selected for Great Britain's Olympic synchronised swimming team. Olivia Federici, whose maiden name was Allison, spent her formative years in St Albans but is now based in Portsmouth. She will compete with Jenna Randall in the duet event for the second successive Olympics. Click here for full story

STEPHEN Mavin smashed two European records plus four British records in the British Gas Masters and Senior Age Group Championships at Sheffield's Ponds Forge.

The March Marlins swimmer set a new European mark of 56.28secs in the 100m butterfly of the 35-39 age group. And he joined up with club-mates Daniel Wardley-Smith, Martyn Fresher and Garry Mavin to set a new European 4x100m medley relay record (4:14.76).

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CALEB Hughes and Hatfield Swimming Club were the dominant forces at the British Gas East Region Youth Championships.

Hatfield finished miles ahead at the top of the medals table with 36 golds at Basildon Sports Village - 16-year-old Hughes weighed in with nine of them.

Hughes won the 50m backstroke, 100m freestyle, 400m freestyle, 200m medley and 1500m freestyle on Saturday before following up with first places in the 50m freestyle, 200m backstroke, 400m medley and 200m freestyle 24 hours later.

Club-mate Shauna Lee (16) won five gold medals in the 50m and 100m butterfly and the 50m, 100m and 200m freestyle.

Team Ipswich finished second overall in the medals table with eight golds (Aaron Lynch scoring a hat-trick of victories) while four golds for Liam Knight helped City of Peterborough take third spot. Katie Armitage won all three golds for Watford.

Medals Table: 1 Hatfield 36 gold, 7 silver, 13 bronze; 2 Team Ipswich 8-10-8; 3 Peterborough 6-11-6; 4 Chelmsford 4-3-3; 5 UEA Norwich 3-4-6; 6 St Felix 3-2-3; 7 Watford 3-2-2; 8 Stowmarket 2-0-0; 9 Colchester 1-3-2; 10 Deben 1-3-1; 11= Thurrock 1-1-2; 11= Southend 1-1-2; 13 Team Luton 1-0-3; 14 Mid Beds 0-5-1, 15 West Suffolk 0-4-7; 16 Modernians 0-4-4; 17= Hoddesdon 0-2-1; 17= Epping Forest 0-2-1; 19 Great Yarmouth 0-2-0; 20 West Norfolk 0-1-1.

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CAMBRIDGE diver Daniel Goodfellow claimed a hat-trick of medals in a superb performance for the Great Britain team at the International Youth Meet in Dresden, Germany.

Goodfellow, 15, struck gold with Freddie Woodward in the 3m Synchro - despite the fact they had never dived together before. He also won a silver medal in the 10m event and a bronze medal in the 3m Springboard and is now set for a place in the European Junior Diving Championships in Austria next month.

THE East Region will be well represented among the Paralympic swimming officials at the London Aquatics Centre this summer.

Bob Outtram, a member of Team Luton, has been appointed by the International Paralympic Committee as 'Control Room Supervisor' and will be in charge of all the results.

And David Metcalf (Mid Beds SC), David Harman (Royal Navy & Modernian SC) and Stephen 'Podge' Christian (Deben SC) have all been appointed by British Swimming to be technical officials.