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.
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Beds Junior County League Champions Again
Congratulations to our youngsters on retaining their Arena Junior Bedfordshire League Championship title.
Masters Debutants, Bandits & Record Breakers
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
Multiple Best Times End 2024 East Region Long Course Champs
Allow eight of our swimmers were on personal best form with Tommy Fenwick collecting a silver and a bronze medal on the final weekend in Norwich. Emily Calvert meanwhile broke a Club age group record that had been set over twenty years ago.
Five More Medals At East Region Champs
Tommy Fenwick, Lexie Sandiford, Talia Staines and Matt Wright all won medals as the second weekend of the East Region Long Course championships moved to Norwich.
Personal Best Times At 1st Weekend of East Region Long Course Championships
Matt Wright won the Men’s 100m Freestyle with four other of our swimmers also recording personal best times. Read here for a detailed report of the first weekend’s events.
Two Bronze For Karen at GB Masters
Congratulations to Karen MacKenzie who won bronze medals in both her 200m and 400m Individual Medley swims at the GB Masters held in Swansea.
Competitive Returns Yield Club Masters Records and PBTs
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.
Four Masters Club Records In One Day for Sam Bradley
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.
Counties Conclude: Over 100 Medals and 200 top 8 Placings
The final day of the 2024 County Championships brought our cumulative total for the 2024 campaign to 61 gold, 25 silver and 20 bronze medals, with over 200 top 8 placings.
Points based on individual times across the whole spectrum of swim events generated the British Age Group Awards given at the conclusion of the championships. Further congratulations are therefore due to Alice and Tommy on winning the Girls 11 years’ and Boys 13 years’ categories, Ruth, 2nd in the 10 year girls with Emily and George both third in the 14 year age group.
The day was not just about individual medal winners. More personal best times, finals reached and the last of the team events. Read here for a detailed report on Day 6.
Alice, Ruth, David & Leonn