Our junior swimmers finished in second place in Division 2 of the 2019 M11 League to gain promotion to Division 1 for 2020.
In a closely fought Round 3 we ended up with 170 gala points to finish behind Camden Swiss “B” team. Only 11 points split the clubs finishing in 2nd to 6th place (Team Luton, Epping Forest, Halstead, Borough of Harrow and Enfield Swim Squad). Read here for more details and dates for 2020.
It is a busy few weeks for our Performance swimmers competing at the British Championships, English Nationals, National Open Water and the Swim Wales Summer Open.
First off it’s the British summer Championships up in Glasgow (23rd to 28th July) where Rhys, JJ and Celyn will be swimming for Team Luton and Matt and Chantal for Bath University and Sterling University. To watch the swimmers “live” each day click on the Youtube.com link.
At the English Summer Meet (31st July – 4th August) in Sheffield Rhys, Celyn, Matt and Chiara will all be swimming for Team Luton. This should also be live streamed from the Swim England website.
Download this Summer Meets Schedule to see on which day each of our swimmers are competing.
The Welsh Open meet (29th July – 2nd August) sees JJ, Menna Walmsley, Anna and Zara Fallon competing over in Swansea.
Chantal and Abbie Barnwell have also both qualified to swim on Monday 5th August at the National Open Water Championships, following their swims at the weekend’s East Region Open Water championships.
Good luck to everyone!
There will be a reduced training session schedule over the summer holidays – NO Wednesday evening training at Inspire and NO early morning sessions. (The Masters & Senior Age Group squad – who have a different competitive season- will train as normal).
Our swimmers demonstrated their prowess and versatility at the 2019 GB Masters, winning five medals – three of them in their respective age group’s 400m IM.
Malcolm Barton hung on to snatch the Silver whilst both Karen MacKenzie and John O’Rourke won Bronze medals. Malcolm and John were double medalists. After 14 years of Masters’ competitions, it was the first time that John had ever won medals on the National stage. Karen meanwhile set two new Beds County Masters records. Read here for a full report.
Thirteen of our Masters & Seniors competed in the Newmarket Masters & Seniors Open Meet with tremendous swims by everyone.
Congratulations to Graham Powell, Malcolm Barton, Dave Wright and Colin Mayes.
Their time of 5:10.46 in the 240-279 years 4 x 100m Medley relay at the National Masters last year has been confirmed as the 7th fastest recorded in the world last year.
Sharon Thompson, Karen Mackenzie and Alex Mason demonstrated last weekend that whether you are a Masters or a Seniors swimmer one is never too old to improve. Read here for a report on the achievements at the Bracknell and Essex County Masters meets.
Fantastic performances by all of our swimmers contributed to a highly successful 2019 Beds County Championships held over three weekends.
Finishing second in the points tables to Bedford Modernian, we also achieved the second highest medal tally with 87 of our 188 medals being gold. We also brought home 30 of the 68 individual championship trophies.
Head Coach Rikki Morris was particularly pleased with the progress made by the younger swimmers, including those competing in their first county championships. Read here for the full report.
Choosing a 50m pool for your first 400m Individual Medley race might seem to be a daunting prospect for any swimmer. Karen MacKenzie, Tom Lambert and Sam Bradley duly rose to the challenge at the South East Masters Long Course Championships.
Read here for a full report of how our Masters & Seniors brought home four Golds, four Silvers and one Bronze medal whilst setting two new Beds County Masters records.
It’s official. The results are finally confirmed. So massive congratulations to both our Female and Male Masters & Seniors who have achieved their best ever placings in the British Team Decathlon competitions.
The Men’s team finished 9th out of 501 teams, up one position from 2017, to once again be the highest place Men’s club in the East Region.
Our Ladies, who competed in far fewer qualifying races, meanwhile broke into the top 100 for the first time to finish 92nd out of 435 teams. They were the third highest Bedfordshire Masters club, behind South Beds Masters and Flitwick.
Read here for a full report, together with a summary of all our Masters’ individual performances.