A teenage swimmer has struck gold three times at the Aquatics Great British Summer Championships.
Ramsbottom Swimming Club's Sammy Sutcliffe, 15, took home three gold medals, two silvers and four bronzes at the championships in Sheffield last month.
He has praised his team for his success and is looking forward to what the future holds for him in the pool.
He said: “I’m delighted to be a triple British champion. It makes all the hard work and early morning training sessions worth it.
"I must thank to Ramsbottom Swimming Club and my coach Paul Wilcock. I’m lucky to have an amazing team behind me, including family, friends, and clubmates at Rammy.
“After a short summer break, I am looking forward to getting back to training with the aim of making some British squads next year.”
Team manager Amanda Carruthers expressed how proud she was of Sammy.
She said: “To qualify for Great British Nationals is a mean feat in itself, to come away with all these medals ranking him so highly against his competitors is outstanding.
“He has always been an amazing competitor since being small and seeing how well he has done this year makes all of us immensely proud of him and his hard work but also of the club that helped him along the way.
“Sammy has been at Rammy since he was six and has never been to a squad and achieved all of this from our small club which is a massive achievement as most swimmers he is up against swim longer hours in larger 50m pools at bigger city squads."
Ramsbottom Swimming Club also had other individual swimmers qualify this year such as 17-year-old Finley Pope who made the finals in four events, and 14-year-old Owen Wilson who made the finals in two events.
The club had two relay teams who qualified too.
Amanda added: “To qualify for these champs is complex, you have to swim a qualifying time within a certain window and it’s the top 28 that go through to Aquatics GB out of all of the swimmers in the UK.
“We ranked second in the North West and 17th in the country against much bigger swimming squads and clubs.
"We have 200 swimmers and are a 52-year-old club, this is a massive achievement and we are all so very proud to be part of it.”
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