Posts by Colin
Swimmers of the Year 2017
Aimee Carter was in Golden form winning 6 golds at the GB Long course championships in Aberdeen, followed by a further 5 golds at the short course National Championships in Sheffield. Tony Cherrington was our lone representative at the World Masters Games in Aukland, New Zealand. Competing in the 75-79yrs age group Tony showed his…
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Ollie Wilkinson – 2016 swimmer of the year
The Great North Swim 2016
A strong contingent from GMSC were in the Lake District for this year’s Great North Swim, with the added bonus (?) of the new 10k event for those who don’t easily get bored or who have a Channel Swim to prep for. Friday was apparently warm and sunny, but Saturday saw the more usual drizzle…
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Serpentine – 2016
Report by Brian Armstrong Well that was a weekend!! Four Gloucester Masters open water swimmers braved the inaugural British Open Water Swimming Championships at the Swim Serpentine event on September 25th–and three came away with some hardware!! The event followed on from the mass participation swim on the Saturday where over 4000 swimmers converged on…
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Buttermere 10K swim
Report by Penny Hickson – 11 September 2016 – As the sole representative of GMSC I made my way up to the lake district to attempt my first (non-tide assisted) 10k swim. I did a ‘recccie’ of the area first – which was just as well as I hadn’t realised that it would take so…
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Big Cotswold Swim
Big Cotswold Swim (South Cerney 2 miles) July 2016-well done Alison Millward – completed in 62 min.
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LEN Masters Championships – London
These Championships were always going to be busy given that it was an opportunity to swim in the pool used in the last Olympic Games. So it was that 10000+ Masters Swimmers from descended on London between May 25th and 29th. However, such popularity brings its own problems and the organisation of the whole event…
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GMSC European record at Ponds Forge
24 October 2015 Gloucester Masters’ took a European relay record, swimming 5:06.65 in the 200+ yrs age group. Helen Kula-Przezwanski, Kate Nimmo, Sandra-Jane Jones and Jayne Ball all received a gold medal. Sandra-Jane Jones, Gloucester Team Captain, commented on their win: “We’re just absolutely delighted, we’ve trained very, very hard and we were hoping for…
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Record Channel Swim
Tony Cherrington and 5 others become the first team of septuagenarians to swim the English Channel.
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National Masters Open Water Championships
ASA Masters National Open Water Championships –Rother Valley Country Park, August 2nd 2015 The annual National Championships were, as usual, held at the central location of Rother Valley Country Park near Sheffield. This year there was a slight change to the event with the inclusion of an additional 1500m race for men and women in…
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