Competition reports

After a covid enforced break of three years, the prestigious British Summer Championships returned this August to provide a key end-of-season competition opportunity for home nation athletes.  It was held from 22nd-28th July at Ponds Forge International Sports Centre, and the top 24 swimmers in Britain in each event and age group were invited to […]
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Twenty one of Bishop’s Stortford Swimming Club 9-12 year olds were in action recently against the best that Hertfordshire could offer.  Pre-covid, BSSC competed annually in the Hertfordshire Swimming Peanuts League against other Hertfordshire swimming clubs, but this was the first full league running since 2019.  The top division of the league consists of twelve […]
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After a gap of two years, the Swim England East Region Long Course Championships returned in 2022, with two full weekends of exhilarating competition!  Twenty nine BSSC swimmers qualified to compete against the top swimmers from the six eastern Counties of England – Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk, Suffolk. For many of these swimmers, it […]
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Early April 2022, the Swim England East Region organised a new development competition at the UEA pool in Norwich.  It ran with the same age groups as the main East Region championship competition and offered swims to those just shy of the championship qualifying times / entry standards.  Seven Bishop’s Stortford Swimming Club members met […]
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