South Mainland’s Donnie Price, 13, competing in the championships for the first time, swam 9 events spread over four days at the Championships in the Boys 16 and under age group and successfully managed to produce PBs in all but two races. As well as improving times in nearly all his swims he moved up the rankings from his seeded position in the heats. A two second improvement in his 200m freestyle, and a time of 2.09.29, placed him in the top third of the field of 125 competitors. In another event with over 100 competitors, the 200m IM, he again took off over 2 seconds and leapt up 30 places to finish in the top half. His highest finishing position in the age group events was 31st out of 74 swimmers in the 200m Breaststroke with a very good 4 second PB of 2.50.83.
Donnie also qualified for one open event as the youngest competitor in the 1500m freestyle. Using experience gained in previous races in recent months, he swam the second half of the race faster than the first half finishing it off with a very strong final hundred resulting in an excellent 8 seconds PB with a time of 17.47.23.
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