2014
Sheffield 2014
The Gloucester Masters 4 x 200 Mixed Freestyle Relay team of Jayne Ball, Tony Cherrington, Helen Kula-Przezwanski and Colin Stephenson broke the GBR & EUR record in the 240+ age group with a time of 10:12.92 at the Short Course Nationals event in Sheffield. This follows on from their Silver medal in the 4 x…
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Human Race Open Water
27th September 2014, Poole Dorset Held on the Sandbanks Peninsula apparently the 4th most expensive place to live on the planet. Team of 4 Gloucester Masters Open Water swimmers went along to race, there were varying distances 750m, 1500m and 3000m. Steve Taylor, swimming a distance of 3000m in a time of 44:20 coming first…
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LLANGORSE LAKE BIG SWIM
20th September 2014 The first time an open water event has ever been held at this privately owned lake. Part of the entry fees were being donated to help the sailing club to complete their new club house which was under construction. Despite a large amount of weeds over quite a lot of the 1500m…
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Coniston end to end
A group of Gloucester Masters members -past present and future -travelled up to Coniston Water in the Lake District to take part in the 5.25 mile end to end swim on Saturday September 6th. All successfully completed the swim within a field of 402 swimmers -and there were some amazing results: Steve Taylor stormed through…
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Dart 10k
I took part in the Dart 10k on Sunday 14 September. Time: 03:13:44. This is the furthest that I have ever swum. It was a great experience, despite the last 3k being very choppy. 800 swimmers signed up. Great organisation by the Outdoor Swimming Society with lots of volunteers. They had 2 feed stops en…
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Cotswold Open Water
Cotswold 5K and 10K 2014 A team of 3 Gloucester Masters Open Water Swimmers attended the Cotswold 5k and 10k swim on Sunday 17th August 2014 at Events Logic Lake 62, South Cerney. Firstly Tony Coleby not only taking on the challenge of the 10k distance he took up the challenge with only 4 others…
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FINA World Masters Championships – Montreal
Swimmer Age Group Event Position Time Jayne Ball 60-64 200 Free 6th 2:40.20 400 Free 4th 5:34.36 800 Free 4th 11:33.57 200 IM 4th 3:08.60 400 IM 3rd 6:43.17 3k Open Water 3rd 47:50.10 Helen…
Read MoreCinderford Birthday Bash
Cinderford Masters held their first ever open meet on 21 June 2014 to celebrate 10 years since the formation of the club. Three Gloucester Masters swimmers –Don Leatherbarrow, Janet Gwilt and Jane Brown –competed in this relaxed, friendly gala at Ross-on-Wye pool. They each won all their events and were awarded a medal and the…
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