Action from Day 5 of the UK Swimming Championships

Another sultry night at Ponds Forge in Sheffield (straight from the Crucible so the lenses needed a bit of time to adjust) at the UK Swimming Championships.

 Lily Boseley, City of Sheffield - Womens Junior 50m Backstroke

 Georgia Davies, Loughboro Uni - Womens Open 50m Backstroke

 Elliot Clogg, City of Sheffield - Mens Junior 50m Freestyle

 Ben Proud, Plymouth Leander - Mens Open 50m freestyle

 The start of the Womens Junior 400m freestyle

 Nikki Miller, East Kilbride - Womens Junior 400m freestyle

 Isobel Grant, City of Sheffield - Womens Target Toyko 400m freestyle

 The start of the Womens Open 400m freestyle

 Jazz Carlin, Bath Uni - Womens Open 400m freestyle

Holly Hibbott, Stockport - Womens Open 400m freestyle

 The start of the Mens Junior 200m IM

  The start of the Mens Open 200m IM

Max Litchfield, City of Sheffield - Mens Open 200m IM

 The start of the Womens Junior 200m IM

 Amy Bell, City of Sheffield - Womens Junior 200m IM

The start of the Womens Target Tokyo 200m IM

 The start of the Womens Open 200m IM - Siobhan-Marie O'Connor in Lane 4 was subsequently disqaualified as she was adjudged to have moved at the start

 Siobhan-Marie O'Connor sees the DQ on the board and Hannah Miley in Lane 5 is handed the title

Rio 2016 comes to an end and so now does "Rule 40"

So, here goes....

Well done to:

Adam Peaty - GOLD - 100m breaststroke

Adam Peaty, British Gas Swimming Championships, Ponds Forge, Sheffield 2013

Jack Laugher & Chris Mears - GOLD - 3m synchronised springboard
Jack Laugher -  SILVER - Men's 3m springboard

 

Jack Laugher (top), Chris Mears, British Gas Diving Championships, Ponds Forge, Sheffield 2012

Nicola Adams - GOLD - Women's flyweight boxing

Nicola Adams, Team England Boxing - Commonwealth Games 2014

Mo Farah - GOLD - 5,000m and 10,000m

Mo Farah, British Athletics Grand Prix, NIA Birmigham 2013

Bradley Wiggins - GOLD - Men's team pursuit cycling

Bradley Wiggins, Tour of Britain, Derbyshire 2012

Ed Clancy - GOLD - Men's team pursuit cycling

Ed Clancy, Sheffield Grand Prix Cycling 2013

Jazz Carlin - SILVER - Women's 400m freestyle swimming, Women's 800m freestyle swimming

Jazz Carlin, Swim 4 Leukaemia, Ponds Forge, Sheffield 2014

Siobhan-Marie O'Connor - SILVER - Women's 200m individual medley

Siobhan-Marie O'Connor, British Gas Swimming Championships, Ponds Forge, Sheffield 2013

Joe Joyce - SILVER - Men's super heavyweight

Joe Joyce, Team England Boxing - Commonwealth Games 2014

Jessica Ennis-Hill - SILVER - Heptathlon

Jessica Ennis-Hill, London Olympics home-coming, Sheffield 2012

Tom Daley & Dan Goodfellow - BRONZE - Men's synchronised 10m platform

 Dan Goodfellow (right) and Ross Haslam, British Gas Diving Championships, Ponds Forge, Sheffield 2012

Tom Daley, British Gas Diving Championships 2012

Greg Rutherford - BRONZE - Men's long jump

Greg Rutherford, Great City Games, Manchester 2016

4x100m relay team - BRONZE - Asha Philip, Desiree Henry, Dina Asher-Smith and Daryll Neita

4x100m relay team, Anniversary Games, London 2016

4x400m relay team - BRONZE - Christine Ohuruogu, Emily Diamond, Eilidh Doyle and Anyika Anoura

Emily Diamond, British Championships, Birmingham 2016

Not forgetting Katarina Johnson-Thompson and the great performances that she has put in this year

Katarina Johnson-Thompson, Anniversary Games, London 2016

Oh, and good luck to:

Hannah Cockroft 

Hannah Cockroft, IPC Grand Prix, London 2016

Ellie Simmonds

Ellie Simmonds, British Gas Swimming Championships, Ponds Forge, Sheffield 2013

Which goes to show that you don't have to go to Rio to photograph top athletes in action. Sometimes they are there on your doorstep.  So, get out there and get shooting!