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Open Water Successes Over A 50 Year Age Range

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.

GB Masters Golds For Dave & Matt

A 47 year difference in age but only 37 seconds apart; both Dave & Matt were crowned 200m Fly champions at the 2023 GB Masters.

Both 2023 GB Masters 200m Fly Champions

Read here for a report behind the full statistics of 6 Gold, 5 Silver, 2 Bronze medals with 6 East Region, 10 Beds and 19 Club Masters records

European Masters Top 10 Rankings for 2022

Hats off to Graham Powell with no fewer than TEN Top 10 65 – 69 years’ Masters Ranking swims (6 SC and 4 LC) in 2022, according to LEN. That included two 3rd LC places and two 4th SC places.

Congratulations also to Dave Wright for his 7th place in the European 60 – 64 years’ 200m Butterfly LC rankings.

The 240+ years combo of Graham & Dave, together with Malcolm Barton and Colin Mayes were ranked 5th in Europe for their 4 x 100 Medley relay at the 2022 GB Masters.

Top East Region Male Team In GB Masters 2022 Decathlon

Congratulations to Graham Powell, Dave Wright, Alastair Gibb and John O’Rourke who collectively achieved 23rd position in the 2022 Decathlon Male Masters’ Team competition to finish as the top placed team in the East Region

L-R: Dave, Alastair, Malcolm, John & Graham

Our Ladies team came 71st out of 374 clubs despite only participating in just 23 out of a potential maximum 40 qualifying place.

Read here for further details.