CHARLOTTE Atkinson made yet more in-roads into the island record chart recently at the Derventio Excel February Festival, held at the 50m Ponds Forge Pool in Sheffield.
The 15-year-old Isle of Man Sport Aid recipient had her usual busy schedule of races, including two of the toughest events in the programme, the 200m butterfly and 400m individual medley. However, it was in the shorter distances that her three record-breaking swims came on three different strokes.
Her time of 32.19 seconds for the 50m backstroke took just under half a second of her own senior and junior figure set in December and her 28.14s for the 50m freestyle lowered the records held by Heather Millar since 2009.
In the 100m butterfly, the stroke where she showed such sparkling form the week before at the IoM Swimming League match, her time of one minute 05.03s lowered records that have stood for several years - the junior has been held by Olivia Rawlinson at one minute 07.20s since 2005 and the senior by Emily Crookall-Nixon at one minute 06.12s since 2006.
On the medal-winning front, she came away with gold in the 200m butterfly, winning the final in two minutes 24.56s which was slightly slower than her heat time of two minutes 23.88s – just six hundredths outside her best time - and bronzes in the 50m backstroke and the 400m individual medley. The medley time was just over a second outside her best time of five minutes 04.17s.
Charlotte also qualified for the finals of the 50m freestyle and 100m butterfly, but had to leave to catch her return plane back to the island before they were held.