PLYMOUTH Leander’s Laura Stephens has reached the semi-finals of the women’s 100m butterfly event at the World Junior Swimming Championships in Singapore. Stephens clocked a time of 1:00.52 to finish 14th overall out of all the heats swims on Saturday morning. The Plymouth College pupil will be hoping to go faster in the semis and … Continue reading
PLYMOUTH Leander swimmer Laura Stephens narrowly missed out on qualifying for the final of the women’s 200m butterfly event at the World Junior Championships in Singapore. Stephens finished third in her heat with a time of 2:13.26, but other heats were faster and she ended up 11th overall, with only the top eight of the … Continue reading
PLYMOUTH Leander’s Laura Stephens was unable to add another medal on the final day of swimming at the European Games in Baku. The 16-year-old Plymouth College pupil had won a bronze in the 100m butterfly event on Friday. She was back in the pool on Saturday morning and progressed through the heats and semis to … Continue reading
PLYMOUTH Leander’s Laura Stephens won a bronze medal in the 100m butterfly event at the European Games in Baku. The Plymouth College pupil clocked 1:00.54 to finish joint third with Greece’s Ilektra Lebl. Russia’s Polina Egorova won the race in 59.36 seconds, with Great Britain’s Amelia Clynes second in 1:00.12. Stephens, 16, said: “I’m overwhelmed. … Continue reading
PLYMOUTH Leander swimmers Joe Hulme and Laura Stephens will be bidding for medals at the European Games on Friday. After his disappointment of missing out on bronze by just two hundredths of a second in the 100m backstroke on Wednesday, Hulme was in determined mood in the 200m event. He eased through the heats in … Continue reading
PLYMOUTH Leander swimmers Joe Hulme and Laura Stephens have both reach European Games semi-finals today. Hulme, who agonisingly missed out on a bronze medal in the 100m backstroke by just two hundredths of a second, qualified fourth fastest for the 200m event with a time of 2:01.11. Meanwhile, Stephens (pictured) qualified fourth fastest in the … Continue reading
PLYMOUTH Leander swimmer Joe Hulme will compete in the final of the men’s 100m backstroke event at the European Games in Baku. Hulme won his heat in the morning with a time of 55.74 seconds, which ranked him third going into the semi-finals. The Plymouth College pupil swan faster in the semis, clocking 55.36 seconds, … Continue reading