Posts by Colin
Terry Ward Trophy – 2021
For services to the club, especially during lockdown hosting Zoom meetings and generally keeping the committee functional.
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Swim Wales – Swansea
Nick McDowall, Bethan Bell, Mark Partridge, Sandy Jones, Colin Stephenson, Jayne Stephenson, Tom Morrow, Nia Westlake, Rachel Curnock, Simon Wintle
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Royal Navy – Millfield
Terry Ward Trophy – 2019
Peter Smith Receiving the Terry Ward Trophy – 2019
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Swimmers of the Year 2019
Steve Taylor, swimming in the British Long Distance Swimming Association Grand Prix series travelled to twelve locations around the UK and raced an impressive total of 67.19 miles. Steve had wins at Wykeham, Torbay, Bala, Ullswater and Derwent and at seasons end Steve was crowed overall BLDSA Grand Prix Champion 2019. International highlight of the…
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Worlds Gwangju 2019
18th FINA World Masters Championships 2019 – Gwangju (South Korea) We spent the first few excting days in Seoul to acclimatise to the time zone, before taking the KTX bullet train to Yeosu to watch the 3K open water, where Tony Cherrington came 3rd in the 75-79 age group. Seoul is huge. It was very…
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LEN Masters Championships 2018 – Kranj, Slovenia
The swimming championships took place from 2 – 7 September 2018.During the week, we had the usual mix of thundershowers, heavy rain and hot sunshine. Competition took place in a very well appointed outdoor pool, and continuous warm up facilities were available in the indoor 50m pool. Slovenia is a stunningly beautiful country with high…
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British Masters Championships – Plymouth 2018
During the three days of Long Course competition at the Plymouth Life Centre, 715 athletes from 202 clubs took part. As well as the UK, athletes represented Ireland, Spain, the Netherlands, Turkey and Australia. The youngest competitor was 18 and the oldest was 92. Otter scored a total of 314 FINA points to win the…
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Nationals – Sheffield 2018
Sheffield lived up to its usual excitement with many British, European and World records broken. Gloucester Masters contributed their fair share to the haul of records and medals! Records Don Leatherbarrow, swimming in the 80-84 year age group, added another 5 GB records to his tally. He has now broken over 20 GB records this…
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Don Leatherbarrow breaks 5 British Records!
Congratulations to Don Leatherbarrow, who broke 5 British Records last weekend! Don swam at K2 Crawley last weekend (20th January), a long course meet held over 2 days. He says: “It was very well run and the number of entries was prolific. I entered 8 events, got 8 golds, but amazed myself by achieving 5…
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