- 100m Freestyle: 1:26.28 (2nd/2)
- 50m Freestyle: 36.95 (2nd/2)
- 100m Back: 1:46.78 (2nd/2)
- 50m Back: 46.68 (2nd/2)
- 50m Breast: 50.07 (1st/1)
Martin was our only representative at this meet. Due to a poor showing in the 70-74 year age group, he claimed one gold and 4 silver medals by coming last....
Teresa's full results:
Well done to all of you who took part in competitions during the year! Roy regained the trophy for 'Top Boy' and after a year without any female contenders in 2022, Karen B took the 'Top Girl' trophy. See the full results below. There is one name missing from our chart - Dan (lane 1) put in some fast swims for his 'first claim' club, The Met Police.
At our best turnout we fielded 8 swimmers at the Middlesex Masters Meet at Barnet Copthall, where we also entered a Men's and a Women's relay team. It's a lot more fun when more members enter, and this competition is open to those without 'Club Compete' membership, so please watch out for the 2024 meet details if you would like to join the fun. In lesser numbers we also attended these competitions: Barnet Copthall Distance Meet, Sprint Meet and 1500m Freestyle Meet Marlins (Isle of Wight), Newmarket, Etwall Eagles, Berks and South Bucks, SE Championships at Crawley Martin was the sole RNSC representative at this event, taking bronze with a time of 27:23.
Full meet results Roy competed in this event and came back with the following medal haul:
Congratulations to Paul C on bringing back two gold medals from the South East England Short Course Championships. It was worth the slog around the M25 to be RNSC's solo representative at this event. Good strategy resulted in good finishes in both of Paul's races. Paul was particularly pleased with his 200m race, finishing strongly and overtaking the 2nd place. He was also rewarded with PBs for both, and managed to overtake his long-standing rival in the Swim England rankings.
Well done Paul!
For those interested, the two full sessions were livestreamed and are available on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3O3mrKq5xo&t=3344s www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVCwFrZhj2o Paul's races were events 5 and 21 on the videos. After a one-man showing at last week's Berks and South Bucks meet it was good to have a team of five represent RNSC Masters at Sunday's Barnet Copthall Sprint meet.
As usual the meet was well organised and well attended. The organiser, Ian Woollard was briefly caught off-guard when, at the start of a pre-arranged event, he announced 'Over to you Referee', and the officials and competitors burst into song - Happy Birthday Ian! On to the 'serious stuff'....... Between us we did 23 races. Here's our medal haul:
Full results: Martin was the sole RNSC representative at this meet. Sadly the meet was not well supported this year, and with no challengers in his age group, he came away with 5 gold medals by beating no one!
Congratulations to our 4 swimmers who competed at this event and brought back another haul of medals! This meet draws fast swimmers from all over England. Four records were broken - 2 European and 2 British. Most notable was Edward Hoy from Shrewsbury, aged 95, who finished 800m freestyle in a time of 23:02.82 which was a new European Masters record. Here's the results from our team: *Unfortunately Paul C was disqualified in his 200m breaststroke race. Those eagle-eyed judges love spotting asymmetrical hands on the turns.
And there was more sporting action away from the swimming pool on Sunday...
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