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.
The Masters squad had its largest representation of the year (so far) at the Barnet Distance Meet, complete with “debutants” and “bandits”. Three Masters Club records were broken and a new Beds County Mixed Relay record was established. Everyone gave a good account of themselves with a theoretic* medal haul of 10 Golds, 7 Silver and 2 Bronze and three 4th place finishes.
Read here for further details.
*At Barnet’s Masters Swim Meets medals can be swapped for vouchers donating to the Teenagers Cancer Trust charity
Congratulations to Karen MacKenzie who won bronze medals in both her 200m and 400m Individual Medley swims at the GB Masters held in Swansea.
Our Masters produced a number of season or lifetime personal best times on a day which saw a total of five new Club Masters records established or beaten. Read here for details of the achievements at the Newmarket Masters and Derbyshire Masters meets.
Five new Club Masters Records were established at the annual Bracknell meet, four of which fell to Sam Bradley, whilst six of the nine medals won in eleven races by the trio representing Team Luton came from Backstroke events. Read the full report here.
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.
Congratulations to Dave Wright who claimed the gold medal in his 200m Butterfly at the Swim England National Masters. Read here for further details.
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