ACTON Swimming club said goodbye to 105 years of history with a bang last weekend.

The club officially merged with Ealing swimming club on September 1, but the North London Graded league meeting gave one last chance for former stalwarts to swim under the ASC banner.

And they certainly made the most of the final bow with all 31 swim-mers who raced recording personal bests.

Unfortunately, under the rules of the competition swimmers are penalised if they swim faster than their graded time, so instead of winning the meeting the penalty points accrued left them third overall.

Alexandra Vangelatos had a clean sweep of freestyle wins (25, 50 and 100m), and stormed to a win in the 50m fly for good measure.

Martha Trevail and Helena Phillips also won individual freestyle races with Isabel Barnes, Kasia and Agata Krynska, Louise Walsh, Erika Hosonuma, and Anna

Szyszko all playing roles in relay successes.

Not to be outdone Max Honigsbaum destroyed the field in posting a time of 1:03.93 in winning his 100m freestyle - a staggering 11 second improvement over the year.

Tomoro Matsui, Jordan de Zoysa and Michael and Peter Vangelatos also won individual freestyle events, Matsui adding the 50m fly to Acton's string of wins.

There were strong performances too in the breaststroke where Bianca de Zoysa, Phillips, Adam and Matthew Plavsic, Alexander Dimitrijevich and Tatsuki Kawagishi were all individual winners.

Hosonuma, Barnes, Louise Walsh, Peter Vangelatos Thomas Foster and Ryan Beresford were all part of relay wins in this discipline.

Other boys relay winners included: Elliot Foster, Taketo Eguchi, Anthony Choi, Noa Schinas, Adam Aubeelack, Lewis Rodriguez, Kanro Matsui, Michael Vangelatos, Jordan de Zoysa, and Hasan and Ahmed El Masry

And keeping up Acton's proud traditions, junior captains de Zoysa

and Beresford finished the evening on a high note, leading the two squadron relay teams to resounding victories.

Elsewhere, Malcolm Munro and two other former Acton Masters, Tony Pepper and Salif Dallio, won 10 medals, six of them gold, representing ESC Acton in the South East Regional meeting in Guildford.

Munro, 62, won four golds (50, 100 and 200 backstroke and 50m breaststroke), while Pepper, 42, won gold in the 100m backstroke, silver in the 50m back and bronze in the 200 back.

Dallio, 28, like Pepper won a complete set of medals with gold in the 200m freestyle, silver in the 50m butterfly and bronze in the 100m freestyle.