Congratulations to all sixteen of our swimmers who competed over the three weekends of the East Region Long Course championships. We won a total of 1 gold, 4 silver and ten bronze medals with many individual PBs. The medals total was more than any other club in Bedfordshire reflecting the breadth of talent and is testament to the time given by all of our coaches. Read here for full report.
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More Medals For Our Masters
Six gold, three silver and two bronze medals where won by our men at the Midland Masters helping them up to 17th place in the GB Masters Team Decathlon. Our Ladies are now in 76th place. Read here for further details
Juniors Qualify For Winners Gala Of M11 League
We have qualified for the Winners Gala in Division 2’s Final Round of 2018’s M11 Junior Arena League.
In Round 2 of the M11 League at Basildon our youngsters, aged 9 – 11 years old, finished third with 144.5 points, just 9.5 points ahead of the fourth placed team from Dunmow Atlantis.
The final third round of the League takes place on Sunday 24th June in Enfield where we will be competing against teams from Greenwich, Newham, Barking & Dagenham and Camden Swiss.
Our Ladies Are Vying For Places In GB Team Decathlon
After some impressive performances at Newmarket, as of 20th May, our Ladies are in 59th place out of 293 teams in the GB Women’s Team Decathlon competition. (This interim position has been achieved with just 19 out of a potential maximum 40 qualifying races.). Karen Mackenzie (aged 45), Michelle Neal (38), Sonia Bentley (50) and Sharon Thompson (51) are our top four Ladies, so far, but Lorraine Sadler (47) and Gwen Skingley (36) are not far behind with their points totals.
To date our top four for the Men’s Team competition are Alastair Gibb (58) Dave Wright (57), John O’Rourke (49) and Malcolm Barton (62). The Men are in 23rd place, having competed so far in 31 qualifying races. (The results of the EDSC Masters Meet last weekend, where Alastair, John and Malcolm had the “pleasure” of a heat of the 400IM all to themselves have yet to be included.)
The club’s position in both team competitions will undoubtedly change following swims this weekend at the Midland Masters and then the GB Masters down in Plymouth next month.
Multiple Medal Winners At Newmarket Masters
All ten of our Masters who competed at the 5th Newmarket Masters Meet each came away with at least two medals contributing to a total of 9 Gold, 12 Silver and 11 Bronze medals. Read here for a full report and how our Ladies outshone the Men.
Cracking Start To 2018 M11 National Junior League Campaign
Our junior swimmers got off to a great start in Round 1 of the Arena National Junior League at Barnet Copthall on 22nd April, finishing in 3rd place.
Round 2 takes place on 20th May.
Looking Out For Our British Swimming Championship Qualifiers….
It’s the British Swimming Championships in Edinburgh this week and the event is being streamed live via british swimming.org. In addition to the top GB swimmers honing themselves for the Commonwealth Games, look out for our home-grown talent.
First off will be Matthew Wright, representing Bath University where he is now in his second year of studies. He goes in the first event on the morning of Thursday 1st March, the 1500m F/s and is back in the pool Friday afternoon for his 400m F/s.
Chantal Smith follows Friday afternoon in her 800m F/s and 24 hours later competes in the 400m F/s.
That same Saturday afternoon (3rd March) Chiara Rogers swims in the 200m Breaststroke; an event for which Celyn Walmsley is the 2nd reserve.
Best of luck to all. We’ll be cheering you either from the spectator gallery or “on-line”.
A Golden Beds County Championships
Team Luton finished second to Modernian in the Top Club award at the 2018 Beds County championships – but came top in terms of medals with us securing 78 Gold, 47 Silver and 35 Bronze medals.
| CLUB | GOLD | SILVER | BRONZE | TOTAL |
| TEAM LUTON | 78 | 47 | 35 | 160 |
| Modernian | 67 | 71 | 55 | 193 |
With 14 Senior and 11 Junior County titles, plus one new Senior County record being set, it was a hugely successful performance.
In addition to all the medals and titles, from 350 swims across the 2 weekends we came away with 293 personal best times, a staggering personal best percentage of 84%.
Congratulations to all our swimmers and thanks to our coaches and the parents for your invaluable support and encouragement.
Read here for a detailed report.
10th Top GB Masters Club in 2017
It’s official! The final results have just been confirmed and Team Luton finished 10th in the 2017 GB Men’s Team Masters Decathlon competition. We were the highest ranked club from the Swim England East Region.
Our Ladies also claimed their highest ever position. Read here for a detailed report.
The new year has also got off to a flying start for our Masters with six gold, three silver and one bronze medal at the South East Masters and four new Beds County Masters records for Karen MacKenzie. Read here for all the details.
2018: A New Year Full Of Promise
A review of the latest club swim records shows that over 100 new figures were set in 2017. With Rikki Morris our new Head Coach now on board we eagerly look forward to the Beds County championships being held 26th – 28th January and 3rd – 4th February at Inspire. Over three dozen of our swimmers are competing, some for the first time at County level. Might we see more records broken to kick start 2018? Good luck to everyone (not forgetting the handful of older swimmers competing in Crawley at the South East Masters).