Middlesbrough swimmers were in great form at the Darlington annual open meet held at the Dolphin Centre over the weekend.

Three swimmers scooped top prizes; Natasha Crawley and Chris Surtees were top senior female and male respectively and Amy Campling, 11, won top age group swimmer for the girls. The club was also top age group club and a close second to City of Newcastle in the senior category and overall points trophy.

Natasha Crawley swam to victory in five events, 100m, 200m backstroke and freestyle and women's 200m medley. She was second in the 50m freestyle by York's Amanda I'anson and also second in the 100m fly. Chris Surtees enjoyed some great races.

Chris, 17, finished with one win, the 100m, breaststroke, four second places and two third. Competition was intense with top quality swimming from City of Newcastle's Darren Wigg, Richard Savage and Andrew Thirlwell in particular.

Camy Campling powered to first place in the 10-11 years girls 50m backstroke, freestyle and 50m butterfly heats then repeated her performance in the finals and set new meet record in all three events.

Amy went on to claim first place in the 200m medley in a time of 2:44.01 and reached the final of the 50m breaststroke.

Kirsty Stephenson, 13, finished second overall in the age group swimmer points only one point behind Amy.

Kirsty swam to first place in three finals including the girls 12-13yrs 100m freestyle, 100m fly and 200m medley events.

Her time in the 100m fly of 1:09.25 was also a meet record.

Middlesbrough's Emily Surtees was third overall in the girls age group points to complete the 1-2-3 for the girls.

Emily, competing in the 14-15yrs age group to first in the 100m backstroke final with a strong swim, third in the 100m fly and two top six finishes in the 100m freestyle and 100m breaststroke finals.

Emily was also well placed in the open events achieving a great third place in the women'' 200m backstroke behind club mates Natasha Crawley and Rachael Piggett and fifth in the women's' 200m breaststroke.