Three Winchester City Penguins Swimming Club members shone in the top-ranked SE region winter championships at Waterlooville last weekend.

Ellie Selby, Louisa Warwick and Sophie Jenkins all competed in the junior age group (under-15), having set tough qualifying times to qualify.

Selby swam a three-second short course personal best to take third place and a bronze medal in the junior female 200m butterfly. She was also third in her junior 50m butterfly final.

Warwick, unwell in the run-up to the competition, withdrew from her other freestyle events and concentrated on the junior 1,500m freestyle, in which she was fourth.

Jenkins was sixth in the 100m butterfly, 15th in the 50m freestyle and 22nd in the 100m freestyle.

Two other Winchester City Penguins, Alex Goodman and Sophie Nash, competed at the National Short Course Championships disability swimming events in Sheffield.

In-form Goodman, 15, was an excellent second in the 400m freestyle event in his category of S8 with a seven-second personal best and a time of 5:50.00. He also took fourth place in both the 50m butterfly and 100m butterfly, fifth in 100m backstroke and 200m individual medley, sixth in 100m freestyle and seventh in 50m freestyle, with six personal bests.

Nash, 16, also swam in five events in the S6 category and achieved fifth place in the 50m backstroke and sixth in 100m IM, 200m IM, 100m backstroke and 50m butterfly.