ON 16th of June, the Barry Beavers Disabled Swimming Club's swimming gala team travelled to Pontypool for the Gwent Dolphin's Swimming Clubs Gala.

The 29 strong team competed against other clubs such as Gwent Dolphins, Blaenau Gwent Otters, Towy Salmon and Rhondda Polar Bears and won overall with 7 Golds, 2 Silvers and 5 Bronzes.

The whole team swam well and a lot got through finals from there heats and others got through straight finals. The swimming club's coach Pat Finch was very proud of the whole team for doing so well on the day and for everyone's efforts resulting to the club winning again the third time so far this year.

The medal winners were:

Gold

Jamie King Boys 25m

Abby Finch Girls 50m

Jen Thomson Ladies 50m

Ffion Jones Girls 100m

Jack Kemp Boys 100m

Nicholas Cushen Mens 100m

Jnr Relay (Jack Kemp, Callum Savory, Ffion Jones and Abby Finch)

Silver

Cameron Torrance Boys 50m

Mark Eveleigh Men's 50m

Bronze

Amiya Watkins Girls 25m

Aidan Thomson Boys 25m

Brandon James Boys 50m

Andrew Sage Men's 50m

Sarah Davies Women's 100m

Also we had an new member to the team Tom Burley who swam as well on the day.

Other members who'd competed on the day were: Keira Dyne / Leah Marcus / Zack Dyer / Suzanne Haslam / Nadine Dyne / Louise Dyer/ Philip Daly / Louis Davies / Keira Richards / Holly Willis / Heather Williams / Kyle Siirak / Gareth Lloyd / Tom Burley/ Tyler Savory.