Both our 10/11 years’ and 12/13 years’ Girls relay teams won gold medals on the third day of the 2025 Beds. County Championships.
Read here for more details of the day which saw over thirty of our swimmers competing.
The start of the 2025 Beds County championships saw the trio of Alice Buckingham, Jack Canham and Owain Roberts all win 1500m Freestyle medals, each smashing their previous best times for the long course event. They followed that with medals in the 800m Freestyle.
Mark Lewis claimed his first Beds County Masters record at the South East Region’s Masters Long Course Championships in Crawley. Alastair Gibb also claimed a County record on a weekend that saw Karen MacKenzie, Mark and Alastair set a total of 7 new Club Masters records to kick – start the new year.
Congratulations to Graham Powell on being the highest scoring Beds County Male Master in the 2024 GB Decathlon competition.
Both our Men’s and Ladies Teams improved on their 2023 placings. Read here for more details
Matt Wright delivered a masterclass performance at the 2024 East Region Short Course Championships winning five titles and setting three Beds County records.
Great times – both in the pool and outside – were the order of the days (and nights) at the National Masters in Sheffield.
Twelve medals were won, two County and a further two Club Masters records were set with all seven swimmers achieving season best times.
Our Masters demonstrated that all that glitters is not always gold at the 2024 East Region Masters Championships. The seven competitors claimed no fewer than 13 silvers out of a total medal tally of 22.
Highlights of the day may be found here.
September has come and after a brief respite for the Masters their competitive calendar year resumed with trips to Maidenhead and Barnet.
They gave a chance for some of our younger and recent recruits to lay down marker times whilst for others the opportunity to get in race practice ahead of the National Championships in late October.
Read here for details of their individual and relay successes.
In a range of distances from 7.5km down to just 50m, Talia Staines and Matt Wright both won medals at the Swim England Summer Nationals.
Unseasonably cool temperatures prevailed for the East Region Open Water 2024 Championships held at Whittlingham. All ten of the Club’s members, covering over a fifty-year age range, are to be congratulated on their endeavours away from the pool.