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.

With twenty-four more age group medals and a further nine County Senior or Junior top three placings, Day 5 was arguably our best performance so far in the 2024 championships. Alice Buckingham and Matt Wright both won three more individual events. It was also the time for others to experience Championship competition for the first time as the relays once again saw medals won and lost by the narrowest of margins.

A detailed report may be read here.

14 Gold, 9 Silver and 5 Bronze medals were won on Day 4 of the County championships with personal best times too numerous to mention. Read here for a catch – up/ reminder of the Club’s successes.

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 were won at the 2023 East Region Short Course Championships. Read here for a full report.

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.

Congratulations to our young members who won the inaugural Bedfordshire Junior League. Read here for a  full report.