Bishop's Stortford Swimming Club

Affiliated to Swim England East Region

News

Breaststroke Duo Shine at British Summer Champs

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The British Summer Championships provides a key end-of-season competition opportunity for home nation athletes with the season’s fastest swimmers in Britain invited to compete.  BSSC had two local swimmers invited for the 2023 Championships, Ella Greatbatch (15 yrs) and Kirsty Neill (16 yrs), and they were joined by two swimmers from Team Bonn in Germany […]
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Jellyfish encounters in the Varsity Channel Relay

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Almost every other year since 1988, Cambridge and Oxford Universities have raced across the English Channel in the Varsity Channel Relay.  Six swimmers, three male and three female, from each university race across the English Channel in hour long rotations from Dover until the French coastline of Calais is reached. The first ever race saw […]
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2023 East Region Open Water Championships

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The East Region organises Open Water Championships in July each year and has, for successive years, had the highest swimmer entry numbers of any regional open water event.  They also serve as the individual County Championships.  Races are held over 1K, 2K, 3K and 5K and are split into gender and age groups categories. BSSC […]
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