Swim England Masters National Championships

26-28 October 2018, Ponds Forge, Sheffield

Yorkshire Medal Winners

Four Golds for Alistair and a British Record for Emma

Alistair Crawford of East Leeds and Emma Wills of York City were the outstanding Yorkshire performers in the Swim England National Masters Championships at Ponds Forge on 26-28 October.  Alistair, 30/34 years age group, gained four Gold and one Silver medal.  Emma gained three Gold and one Silver medal and also set a new British Record of 2:08.97 GBR for 200m Freestyle in the 35/39 years age group.

In the relays East Leeds teams gained six Gold medal places and in the Men’s 120+ years age group set new British records for the 200m Medley, 400m Medley and 400m Freestyle.  The East Leeds Men’s team, in the 72+ age group, gained Silver in the 200m Freestyle.  It was good to see the City of Bradford team, 160+ age group, gain Silver in the Mens/Womens 400m Freestyle.

Following several years when Yorkshire swimmers’ medal tally increased year on year, there were fewer medals for Yorkshire swimmers this year (61 individual and 8 team medal places compared with 82 and 9 last year).  However, congratulations to all the 53 Yorkshire swimmers who participated in the Championships.  Details of all the medal winners are given in the tables below.

LEN European Masters Swimming Championships 2018

3 – 7 September, Kranj, Slovenia

and Open Water Swimming Championships 2018

8 and 9 September, Lake Bled

Swimming Championships

Only six Yorkshire swimmers made the trip to Slovenia to compete in the LEN European Masters Swimming Championships (Long Course) on 3 – 7 September 2018.  However, there were some outstanding performances by Emma Wills of York City Baths Club, in the 35 – 39 years age group.  Emma was 1^st in the 800m Freestyle (time: 9:44.42), 1^st in the 400m Freestyle (time: 4:41.61) and 2^nd in the 200m Freestyle (time: 2:17.00).  These performances also earned Emma 37 points in the Annual Beatty Trophy competition for Yorkshire swimmers.

Other Yorkshire swimmers competing were: Carolyn Irvine of Borough of Kirklees, Lynne Dawson of Chapeltown, Jane Blizzard of Scarborough Kingfisher, Amy Hicks of East Leeds and the only male representative, Richard Royal of Hull Masters.

Open Water Swimming Championships

The men’s and women’s 3000m events took place on 8 September and the men’s and women’s 5000m events were on 9 September.

Six Yorkshire swimmers participated and the outstanding performance was again by Emma Wills of York City Baths Club, competing in the 35-39 years age group, who gained 2^nd place in the 3000m event in a time of 35:49.3.  Congratulations to Emma.

Other results were:

Men’s 3000m

45-49   Tim Hobbs, East Leeds, 9^th place, 36:51.7

45-49   Richard Witty, Scarborough, 52^nd place, 47:21.2

35-39   Richard Royal, Hull Masters, 37^th place, 48:40.2

Men’s 5000m

65-69   Bruce Goldberg, East Leeds, 6^th place, 1:26:52.7

55-59   Nickolas Parkes, East Leeds, 8^th place, 1:05:48.8

45-49   Tim Hobbs, East Leeds, 9^th place, 1:05:54.4

35-39   Richard Royal, Hull Masters, 30^th place, 1:26:05.5

Update June 2018

British Masters Long Course Championships 2018

8-10 June, Plymouth Life Centre

Yorkshire Medal Winners

Just 9 Yorkshire swimmers made the trip to Plymouth to compete in the British Masters Long Course Championships held in the Life Centre and all of them were rewarded with medals (in total 8 Gold, 8 Silver and 8 Bronze).  Congratulations to all of the swimmers who competed in the Championships.

Emma Wills of York City, 35/39 years age group, gained Gold medals in the 400m Freestyle (4:41.34) and 800m Freestyle (9:33.15).  Hilary Crick of East Leeds, 65/69 years age group, gained Gold in the 100m Breaststroke (1:57.23).

In the Men’s Events, Christopher Brown of Co Bradford, 65/69 years age group, gained Gold and set a new British Record of 2:53.73 GBR in the 200m Backstroke event.  Christopher also gained Gold medals in the 50m Backstroke (33.97) and 100m Backstroke (1:16.12).  Ryan Flannagan of East Leeds, 18/24 years age group, gained Gold medals in the 50m Butterfly (25.46) and 100m Butterfly (56.04).

Details of all the medal winners are given in the tables below.