On Sunday 9th November a small team of HHSC masters joined the Hertfordshire team, at the Swim England East Region Inter Counties Masters Championships in Biggleswade. Competing against teams from Bedfordshire, Essex, Norfolk and Cambridge, the event was a huge success with the Hertfordshire team winning for the time since 2011. Congratulations to all those...
Our Masters swimmers put on an outstanding display at the Masters British National Short Course Championships in Sheffield this weekend, returning home with an impressive haul of medals, Age Group personal bests, and 13 new club records. The team spirit was electric throughout the meet, with the ladies leading the team from across the age...
6k Sea swim in Turkey
19/10/2025
Last week, Masters swimmer JoJo Lee took on her longest swim at the annual Kalkan Coastal Community, 6k Charity swim. Starting at Lures in Kalamar the swimmers headed out and around Kalamar Bay, into Firnaz Bay, and back to Lures before continuing on to Kalkan Public Beach. Jojo completed the swim in an impressive 1hr...
Ironman Barcelona
07/10/2025
On Sunday 5th October, Masters swimmer Ellie O’keeffe took part in the Barcelona Ironman event. The event starts with a 3.86 km Open water swim in the bay, followed by a 180 km bike course and finishing with a Marathon run of 42.2 km. Ellie, competing in the 25-29 Age group, finished the swim in...
13.40 km Cannes SWIMRUN
07/10/2025
On Saturday 4th October, Masters swimmer Dom Kelly competed in the Otillo Cannes France, Swimrun event. A challenging course that took the athletes on a grand tour through and around the beautiful City of Cannes. They had to complete a total race distance of 13.4 km combining 10,350 km of trail running and 3,050 km...
Recently published WORLD Aquatics Masters results, show our Masters relay teams securing 4 top 10 placings in the WORLD! The men’s team of Mark Ayres, Dave Pirrie, Mark Strakosch and Dan Capozzi, competing in the 240-279 year age group took 3 top 10 placings. The Long Course 4 x200 Freestyle team secured 6th place...
On Saturday, our masters Matthew Rafiq-Craske and Hilary Coulson took on London’s most iconic swim event, the Dock2Dock event at London’s Royal Docks. Swimming alongside the London City Airport, this years event was celebrating its 10 year anniversary. Both swimming the 5K Half Marathon, Matt improved his podium place of last year by finishing in...
On Sunday 27th July our Masters swimmer Hilary Coulson, joined over 250 masters from across the Country to attend the Swim England Open Water National Masters Championship, held at Rother Valley County Park near Sheffield. Competing in the 5K event for the first time at Nationals, Hilary swam 11 minutes quicker than her 2023 swim...
A team of 4 HHSC masters attended the East Region Open Water event at Whitlingham Country Park, Norwich. The results are broken out for each of the 6 Counties competing and then for the overall East Region. Competing at his first 5k event, Oliver Brawn had an outstanding swim at 1hr 29 mins taking a...
Jo Lea-Pearce was the sole HHSC Master swimmer attending the weekends Distance Meet at Barnet Copthall. Swimming for National qualification times, Jojo (45-49 age group) won Golds in both the 200 Back and 400 IM, with Silvers in the 100 Back and 400 Freestyle. A great result JoJo, Congratulations.