CITY of Oxford siblings Lewis and Erin Gilchrist took home 13 gold medals in the Abingdon Vale level 3 open meet at Temple Cowley.

Lewis, claimed seven of the 10-11 year-old boys’ victories in the 50m butterfly (37.80secs), 100m fly (1.23.34), 200m fly (3.20.27), 50m freestyle (33.09) 100m free (1.16.05), 200m individual medley (IM) (2.58.30) and 100m backstroke (1.23.71) respectively.

His nine-year-old sister Erin collected six golds for 200m IM (3.19.44), 50m fly (47.10), 200m free (2.59.41) 50m free (37.34), 200m back (3.02.93) and 50m back (39.10).

Bicester’s Bluefins 15-year-old captain Cerys King won 12 medals, including seven golds.

King won the 200m IM (2.27.41), 50m breaststroke (38.54), 200m breast (3.04.13), 200m free (2.16.57), 100m breast (1.23.48), 50m free (29.63) and 100m IM (1.13.82).

Nienke Lijzenga, from Abingdon Vale, won four gold medals. She triumphed in the 100m and 200m IM plus 200m free and back.

Owen McDonagh, nine, won two of Wantage White Horses’ five gold medals, with victories in the 100m and 200m breaststroke.

OTHER GOLD MEDALLISTS

City of Oxford: N Armstrong (aged 14) 200m backstroke 2.27.37, 50m backstroke 31.61, 200m IM 2.27.72, 50m breaststroke 35.96, 200m butterfly 2.35.73; M Little (11) IM 200m 2.52.32, 200m butterfly 3.08.35, 100m butterfly 1.25.65, 50m butterfly 38.27; A Sharp (11) 200m freestyle 2.29.79, 100m backstroke 1.16.26, 200m backstroke 2.39.44, 100m breaststroke 1.11.37, 100m IM 1.25.16; A Vessey (16) 200m freestyle 2.10.91, 100m freestyle 1.00.27, 50m butterfly 29.28, 100m butterflyly 1.05.07; C Bryan (11) 50m breaststroke 44.15, 200m breaststroke 3.20.09; M Whitwell (11) 50m freestyle 32.61, 50m backstroke 36.41, J McLean (11) 200m freestyle 2.40.73, 100m breaststroke 1.34.20; N Fenton (9) 50m breaststroke 46.59, 200m breaststroke 3.36.33; H Beel (11) 50m breaststroke 43.53, 100m breaststroke 1.34.62; A Roberts (13); 50m breaststroke; E Sharp (9) 50m free-style 38.94; A Clarke (11) 200m breaststroke 3.20.73; L Millington 200m breaststroke 2.59.16; E Nisbet (12) 200m butterfly 2.48.88; E Wood (12) 100m breaststroke 1.25.35.

Abingdon Vale: F Beckers 200m backstroke; B Cole 100m butterfly; N Curtis 200m IM, 100m backstroke; A Fletcher-Etherington 50m backstroke; Y Girgis 50m butterfly; J Law 100m butterfly; D Mowlem 50m breaststroke, 100m freestyle; E Rennie 50m freestyle, 200m freestyle,100m freestyle; J Royal 200m backstroke, 50m backstroke; M Royal 50m butterfly.

Wantage: E Springett (11) 100m IM 1.22.30; D Springett (14) 100m freestyle 1.03.31; H James (16) 200m butterfly 2.22.85.

Bicester Bluefins: B Walker (16) 50m freestyle 27.61, 100m IM 1.16.19; J Sibun (15) 100m backstroke 1.11.99.