Karen MacKenzie, Michelle Neal and Sam Bradley all swam personal Masters lifetime best times at the South East Long Course Master, setting three Beds County and four Club records in the process. Read here for full report.
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Five From Five At 1500M
All five swimmers competing in the 1500m Freestyle which started the 2024 Beds County Championships came home with medals.
Competing over the distance in a long course pool for the first time Nicole Cashin won gold in the Girls’ 14 years’ age group in a time of 20:11.29. In the same age group George Saunders put in a final 100m sprint to finish in third place with a long course debut time of 19:03.10, an agonising 0.08 seconds away from the silver medal position.
Just two seconds separated the first three in the Boys’ 15 years’ event with Olly (Oliver) Fenwick taking the silver in a time of 18:25.10. That time was a personal best long course time by over 37 seconds which also saw him ranked as the second fastest Junior Boy.
Talia Staines and Matt Wright both retained their Senior and 17 years & over titles from 2023 with times of 17:48.72 and 16:53.56 respectively.
Six Medals Won At East Region Short Course Championships
Six medals were won at the 2023 East Region Short Course Championships. Read here for a full report.
Dave Wright Regains National Masters Title
Congratulations to Dave Wright who claimed the gold medal in his 200m Butterfly at the Swim England National Masters. Read here for further details.
Medal Winning And Record Breaking Swims At Barnet’s Masters Meet
Michelle Neal, Karen MacKenzie, John O’Rourke and Alastair Gibb collected nine medals between them, breaking four Club Masters’ records in the process.
Karen won five of the medals with “former Borough champion” John O’Rourke our other gold medalist as detailed in the full report.
Open Water Successes Over A 50 Year Age Range
The 2023 Open Water East Region Championships saw eight of the Club’s swimmers competing. Spanning a fifty year age range, they enjoyed success at both county and regional level, over distances from 1K to 5K.
Lyla Howard and Talia Staines both qualified for the National Open Water Championships to be held at the end of July, as mentioned in the full report.
County Junior League Champions
Congratulations to our young members who won the inaugural Bedfordshire Junior League. Read here for a full report.
GB Masters Golds For Dave & Matt
A 47 year difference in age but only 37 seconds apart; both Dave & Matt were crowned 200m Fly champions at the 2023 GB Masters.
Read here for a report behind the full statistics of 6 Gold, 5 Silver, 2 Bronze medals with 6 East Region, 10 Beds and 19 Club Masters records
European Masters Top 10 Rankings for 2022
Hats off to Graham Powell with no fewer than TEN Top 10 65 – 69 years’ Masters Ranking swims (6 SC and 4 LC) in 2022, according to LEN. That included two 3rd LC places and two 4th SC places.
Congratulations also to Dave Wright for his 7th place in the European 60 – 64 years’ 200m Butterfly LC rankings.
The 240+ years combo of Graham & Dave, together with Malcolm Barton and Colin Mayes were ranked 5th in Europe for their 4 x 100 Medley relay at the 2022 GB Masters.
“Master” Medley Winners At Newmarket
All six of our competitors won Individual Medley Medals at the 9th Newmarket Masters & Seniors Meet with four new Club Masters record times being set. Full report here.
