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 Margate Swimming Club achieved a fantastic second place finish in the last round of the Kent Junior League, giving them an overall second place for the 2009 competition. Having won promotion to Division three the previous year, the swimmers faced a huge challenge, competing against the bigger clubs of Saxon Crown, Edenbridge Piranhas, Maidstone, Bromley and Ashford over three seperate galas. With true determination and team spirit, swimmers rose to the challenge and produced numerous personal best times to secure their well deserved placing. First places were achieved by Charlie Gambrill, Chelsea Jarman, Louis Thomas and Ciaren Claris with twelve second place finishes. With Saxon Crown now promoted to Division two, the fight will be on in 2010 to see if Margate can follow in their footsteps and too achieve promotion to the higher division. The Margate Swimming Club 2009 Kent Junior League squad was Ethan Bexley, Ciaren Claris, George Day, William Eaton, Charlie Eshelby, Charlie Gambrill, Bowen Goldhawk, Aaron Laxton, Josh Lewis, Charlie Pittock, Darryl Scott, Louis Thomas, William Thomas, Francesca Bedingfield, Ellen Berry- McIntosh, Hannah Dale, Hannah Denny, Chloe Gambrill, Anna Hide, Chelsea Jarman, Megan Lane, Rosie Raven, Lily Raven, Ellen Whitehead and Lily Whitehead.
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Margate Swimming Club had 31 swimmers qualify to compete at the East Invicta Championships along with swimmers from 9 other clubs across East Kent. There were several great performances with numerous personnel bests and the following individuals walking away with coveted medals: Rhys Goldhawk (15yrs and over) got silver in the 4x100m Individual Medley and the 200m breaststroke and was a finalist in the 4x25m individual medley and 200m backstroke; Bowen Goldhawk’s (9/10 years) swims earned him well deserved silver and bronze medals in the 50m and 200m breaststroke respectively; Chelsea Jarman (13/14 years) won silver in 100m butterfly and was a finalist in the 200m individual medley and 100m breaststroke; Charlie Eshelby (9/10 years) hauled in silvers in both the 4x25m individual medley, 200m backstroke plus bronze in the 50m backstroke and was a finalist in four other events: the 50m butterfly, 50m breaststroke 50m freestyle, 4x50m individual medley; Joe Spear (13/14 years) got bronze in the 50m freestyle and 100m backstroke and was a finalist in the 100m freestyle event; Lily Raven (9/10) was 4th in the 50m backstroke; Megan Lane (11/12 years) and Lewis Lintern (15yrs and over) were also finalists in the 50m and 200m breaststroke events respectively and Kirsten Cox (15yrs and over) was a finalist in the 50m breaststroke. The 9/10 boys relay team (Bowen Goldhawk, Charlie Eshelby, Ciaran Claris and Louis Thomas) pulled out all the stops to get silver medals in both the 4x50m freestyle and 4x50m medley events. 
