Friday 13th proved to be far from being an unlucky day for our Masters down in London at the British Masters championships. By the end of the Meet three days later, the six swimmers had brought home two gold, five silver and two bronze medals with three East Region, ten County and thirteen Club records to their name. Read here for the full details.
Eight of our youngsters competed in the 2025 East Region Age Group championships held over various weekends, both in Norwich and in Luton.
With ten medals and ten personal best times from eleven events, Alice Buckingham won the 11/12 Year Girls’ Top Swimmer Award.
Read on for the summary report from those East Region Championships.
Five gold, four silver and three bronze medals were won by the six of our Masters who competed at the 10th Newmarket Open Meet. They took the rare opportunity to compete in the Mixed relay events which ended each of the two sessions.
Seven of our Masters tested their early season sprinting ability at the inaugural Hemel Hempstead Meet with some narrow margins determining the colour of the medals won.
Two more County Titles, seven Gold, four Silver and three Bronze Age Group Medals and numerous personal best times were secured on the fourth day of the 2025 Beds County championships.
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.
Matt Wright delivered a masterclass performance at the 2024 East Region Short Course Championships winning five titles and setting three Beds County records.
