Congratulations to both Mark Lewis and Graham Powell who smashed long-standing records at the 30th Berks & South Bucks Masters Meet.
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Record Breaking Swims For Mark Lewis at World Masters Championships
Having added Ulster earlier in the year, Mark Lewis ensured Singapore was included in the Beds County database of locations for its Masters Long Course records.
Competing in three races over 50m, Mark set new County Masters’ figures for the 50m Butterfly whilst also smashing his own Club Long Course Breaststroke record.
Four British Transplant Gold Medals For Ian Norman
Ian Norman won four golds at the British Transplant Games held in Oxford.
Competing for Addenbrookes’ Adults, Ian competed in the 50m Butterfly and Backstroke and both the 100m & 200m Freestyle.
Three East Region Open Water Champions
The 2024/25 Competitive season for our “age group” swimmers ended with all seven of our entrants in the Beds County Open Water Champions gaining top three placings.
With ages spanning over 50 years, three also emerged from the water at Whitlingham as East Region champions. Visit the News page for the full roll of honour!
County Junior League Champions For 3rd Year
In a closely fought contest we won the Beds County Arena Junior League title for the third successive year.
Congratulations to the whole team.
All Nine Masters Rise To The Challenge At Barnet
All nine of our Masters squad who competed at the 35th Barnet Masters Distance Meet had their names added to the Beds County Masters Records with a total of five individual and four relay records being claimed. For both Rachael Donlan and Tom Burns that was their first County Masters Record recognition.
Achieving relay records was one of two principal challenges set before the Meet; the other was racing a 200m Butterfly for the first time. Read here to find who was “brave’ enough to take it on!
Multiple Medals and Records (and a bonus “meal deal”) at GB Masters
Friday 13th proved to be far from being an unlucky day for our Masters down in London at the British Masters championships. By the end of the Meet three days later, the six swimmers had brought home two gold, five silver and two bronze medals with three East Region, ten County and thirteen Club records to their name. Read here for the full details.
Flying About In Search Of County & Club Records
Our Masters are prepared to travel, be it North, South, East & West, in search of Club & County Records. Mark Lewis was even prepared to go the extra few miles. After competing with Sam Bradley at the London Aquatics Centre he left early to fly across the Irish Sea in his quest.
Alice Wins East Region’s Top Age Group Swimmer Award
Eight of our youngsters competed in the 2025 East Region Age Group championships held over various weekends, both in Norwich and in Luton.
With ten medals and ten personal best times from eleven events, Alice Buckingham won the 11/12 Year Girls’ Top Swimmer Award.
Read on for the summary report from those East Region Championships.
Masters Enjoy Mixed Relays At Newmarket Meet
Five gold, four silver and three bronze medals were won by the six of our Masters who competed at the 10th Newmarket Open Meet. They took the rare opportunity to compete in the Mixed relay events which ended each of the two sessions.
