HERMIONE Roe maintained her hot form by winning seven ASA North East Region Age-Group Short-Course Championship titles at Sunderland Aquatic Centre, breaking a City of Bradford club record in the process.

The 11-year-old from Addingham, who recently took seven titles in the Yorkshire Swimming Association Winter Championships at the John Charles Centre for Sport in Leeds, took north- east titles at 50 metres and 100m breaststroke, 50m backstroke, 50 and 100m butterfly and 100m and 200m individual medley.

However, it was her time of 2min 48.13sec in the longer 200m breaststroke that made heads turn as it took almost four seconds off the club record of 2min 51.58sec that has stood for 24 years.

Hermione, whose 35.09sec at Leeds in the 50m breaststroke is believed to be one of the fastest ever swims for an 11-year-old girl, also finished second in the 50m and 200m freestyle and third in the 100m freestyle at Sunderland.

However, she wasn’t the only City of Bradford member to stand on top of the podium as Cameron Green also showed himself as an emerging talent by winning richly-deserved golds in the 100m and 200m breaststroke.

He also claimed silver in the 50m breaststroke, 50m and 100m freestyle, 100m and 200m individual medley and 50m butterfly, and bronzes in the 50m backstroke and 200m freestyle.

Also in the 11-year-old age group, Sophia Basaraba took the plaudits in the 100m and 200m backstroke and was a close second in the 50m backstroke.

City’s other medallist was 13-year-old Archie Dunne, who won the 50m freestyle.

However, he also took silver in the 50m butterfly in 28.60sec, breaking a club record which has also stood since 1992 (29.63sec), and bronze in the 100m individual medley.

The quartet also had further top-ten finishes to their credit. Two other City of Bradford club records fell in the Senior and Junior Short-Course Championships that ran alongside the age-group events.

Both fell to junior Charlotte Gibbs, with 34.94sec in the 50m breaststroke and 1min 15.98sec in the 100m version.

James Lund had two fourth-place finishes in the 1500m freestyle and his favoured 200m breaststroke, and he was also ninth in the 100m breaststroke and tenth in the 400m individual medley, both in personal bests.

Maintaining the theme, Abigail Shuttleworth, Beth Meer, George Wilde and Sam Naylor also had top-ten placings in personal bests.

The women’s 4x100m freestyle team of Jovanna Lugonja, Meer, Millie Foulds and Shuttleworth finished fourth, while the medley team of Lugonja, Gibbs, Shuttleworth and Meer were fifth.

Other swimmers claiming top-ten finishes were Ella Stabler, Archie Minto and Cameron Mander.

All of the swimmers train on Bradford Council’s Aquatics Competition programme under the guidance of coaches Andy Pearce and Sarah Fisher.