Hundreds of swimmers from across the Central West and Blue Mountains made the pilgrimage to Bathurst on Saturday and Sunday for the Mountains and Plains Swimming Winter Championships.
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Held at the Manning Aquatic Centre Bathurst, there was over 1600 individual entries from 17 clubs from across area, including two Bathurst clubs - the Bathurst City Amateur Swim Club and the Titanium Swim Club.
Manning Aquatic Centre Bathurst head coach Josh Stapley said his swimmers exceeded his expectations.
"It went really well. I thought coming into this carnival having competed two weeks prior and only being earlier on in our new program, I wasn't expecting two much from them," he said.
"But they all did exceptionally well. We had quite a number of new PBs.
"Even in races where we didn't get some results, they were still on par with their PBs, which was great to see."
Stapley also said some of his swimmers picked up crucial qualifying times for the upcoming country and state championships.
As well, three swimmers from the Bathurst City Amateur Swim Club won their age group, including Brooklyn Whalan (eight-year-old girls), Emily Press (17 and over) and Harry Glover (eight year old boys).
Points were awarded for each 50 metre, 100 metre and 200 metre individual medley results and the swimmer with the most points at the end of two days of swimming were awarded the title.
Bathurst City Amateur Swim Club also came second on the overall club championships.
"Kinross eventually won that," Stapley explained, with the Orange-based club managing to accumulate over 4000 points.
"We were leading for most of the weekend, which was great, but we just lost it at the end of the Sunday, but it's still a great result for the club."
All up, the Bathurst City Amateur Swim Club had 50 swimmers entered into the competition, while the Titanium Swim Club had 21 swimmers who competed in the competition.
For information of future Mountains and Plains Swimming events, visit the website at mountainsandplainsnsw.swimming.org.au.