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Masters Swimming

 

Swimming is a sport that can be enjoyed, either as a leisure activity or competitively at any age. The exercise helps to maintain mobility as well as helping to prevent conditions such as heart disease, osteoporosis and diabetes.

 

If you are a swimmer aged 18 years and over you can compete in masters competitions. Masters compete in five-year age bands (e.g. 18-24, 25-29). Competition is available in all four strokes and over all distances up to 1,500 metres. There is no upper age limit and In Sussex we have masters competing in the 80-85 years category.

 

Most clubs in Sussex welcome masters’ swimmers. Click Here to find local clubs.

  

For information about long-term athlete development (LTAD) Click Here.


The South East Region held their Competition for the Inter County Masters at Surrey Sports Park Ltd. Guildford.

 

The results from the South East competition were sent to the ASA and have now been collated with the other Regions to provide a National result. Sussex did exceptionally well, and as you will see came 5thNationally ahead of Middlesex.

 

The National Result is as follows.

 

31 Counties took part. The first 6 places are as follows.

 

1st Place Warwickshire  1845.5,

2nd Cheshire 1688.5,

 3rd Yorkshire 1640.5,

4th Place Hampshire 1577.5,

5th Sussex  1484.5

6th Middlesex 1481.5.

                                                                                   

Sussex had a great team competing in the South East Region of the Inter County Masters. It was an exciting and close contest throughout. Considering a number of swimmers were missing due to illness and for various other reasons they did amazingly well.

Sussex only had one swimmer in the Men’s 25+ age group, so well done to Christopher Luesley for taking part, and in particular to Martin Trott who gallantly swam down an age group into the 25+ to get the points.

We extend our thanks to our younger swimmers in the 18+ group who were experiencing and taking part in their first Masters competition. They all performed brilliantly.

Mai Alland, Katherine Harris, Zara Williams, Rachael Bowen (who came down from Loughborough to take part), Christopher Ruxton, Jonathan Blyth, Samuel Webb, James Lawton

 

Sussex had 7 first places.

The Women’s 4X50m   72+ Freestyle relay

The Women’s 4X50m 100+ Freestyle relay

The Women’s 4X50m 180+Freestyle relay

The Women’s 4X50m  72+Medley relay

                                                 

In the individual races we had 3 first places.

The Women’s 18+ Freestyle Zara Williams

The Women’s 18+ Breaststroke Mai Alland

The Women’s 35+ Breaststroke Sharon Burchell

 

We also had 2 X 2nd places and 6 X 3rd places, with some very close finishes. Well done to all swimmers, we are very proud of you.

           

It would never have gone so smoothly without the help of Jose Adams and Judith McKercher who did a brilliant job with the registration and writing the competitors cards, all 69 of them! Marion Cormie, Mark Webb and Russell Williams gave up their time to officiate. Russell also stepped in to supervise our lane in the warm up.

The parents also turned up trumps getting the swimmers to the venue on time. Everyone interacted with each other, no one was more important than anyone else. It just all added up to an excellent team, which they were.

 

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