More East Region, Beds County and Club Masters records fell to Jo Mitchinson & Karen MacKenzie competing in Swansea and Bracknell.
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Smashing Start to Our Masters’ New Year
Two new East Region, four County and eight Club records with three Gold, six Silver and three Bronze medals. That’s the way to kick start the new Masters season!
Our Masters were in fine form at the South East Long Course Masters Championships.
Three National Masters Titles For Graham Powell
Graham Powell claimed six medals, three Eastern Region and five Beds Masters record from his six swims at the English National Masters.
However the ten – strong squad all produced notable performances. Dave Wright was our other medal winner as a total of seven Beds County and twelve Club Masters records were broken. Advancing years proved no obstacle as some of our Ladies swam their fastest ever times in Masters events. Read here for a detailed report.
East Region Open Water Successes
Away from the pool at Inspire, our swimmers excelled themselves at the East Region’s Open Water Championships in Norwich, with both Zara Fallon and Jo Mitchinson being crowned champions in their respective age groups. Details of everyone’s swims can be read here.
FOUR Individual British Masters Champions
The 2022 British Swimming Masters Championships held in Aberdeen saw four Team Luton members crowned individual champions.
Kelly Cooke, Karen MacKenzie, Dave Wright and Graham Powell spearheaded a weekend that saw the squad of eight competitors win 6 Gold, 5 Silver and 3 Bronze medals whilst setting 4 East Region, 15 Beds County and a total of 20 Club Masters records. Read here for a full report
Titles, Medals & Team Spirit At 2022 Beds County Championships
Eleven Senior and five Junior County titles with 32 Gold, 26 Silver and 20 Bronze Individual Age Group medals. After the Covid-pandemic induced break in 2021, the return of the County championships also saw numerous personal best times. These were achieved over a range of strokes and distances not only by our more experienced swimmers but also those having their first taste of competition in a 50m pool against youngsters from all the other Bedfordshire clubs.
Read the detailed report and go to the Beds ASA website for the full results
Welsh Medals To End Masters’ Year
Team Luton won one gold, six silver and two bronze medals at the Welsh Open Masters Championships with Kelly Cooke breaking the club’s 45 – 49 years’ 200m Freestyle record as she stormed to victory.
Best Ever National Masters’ Performance?
Our Masters won a total of 2 Gold, 6 Silver and 7 Bronze medals whilst setting 5 East Region, 15 Beds County and a further 6 Club Masters records at the Swim England National Masters Championships.
Read here for further details of the individual and relay team successes.
Regional Masters’ Record Breakers
Team Luton swimmers broke three East Region and seven County records at the East Region Masters championships held in Newmarket. Read here for a detailed report.
Great Success for Team Luton in the 2020 County Championships
This year’s County Championships saw 56 of our swimmers battle it out against the seven other clubs in the County over 3 separate weekends. All of the swimmers excelled during the competition and together they won 146 individual medals, 19 Senior and Junior Championship trophies and 6 relay trophies. In the course of the event 2 swimmers also set new County Records. For the full report please click here.
Congratulations to all of the swimmers who competed – your hard work over many months of training shone through. And huge thanks to the coaching team who prepared all of the swimmers so well.