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...
HHSC Sprint Festival
20/10/2025
With a team of Volunteers from HHSC, on Saturday 18th October we hosted the HHSC Sprint Festival and Skins event. Consisting of two sessions, we were delighted to see 34 of our swimmers competing throughout the afternoon and evening against tough competition from Bushey, Chesham, Hatfield, Hillingdon, Hitchin, Ware and Watford. There were so many...
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...
3K Open Water Swim at Dorney Lake
08/09/2025
On Sunday morning Hilary Coulson and Edwige Fortier competed in ‘The One on the lake’ 3K Open Water race, at the Olympic Rowing venue, Dorney Lake, Windsor. Both swimmers set new Age Group PBs, taking 1st and 2nd in the 50+ Wetsuit category.
128 mile cycle, Coast to Coast
08/09/2025
Coach and Masters swimmer Matt Rafiq-Craske took on the massive endurance event of cycling the 128 mile cycle route from Whitehaven to Sunderland. Not only did Matt complete the challenge but he did it in just 10 hours! Cycling across the Pennines, Matt said ‘the main hills came after 20 and 60 miles, with 7000...
World Transplant Games Gold
04/09/2025
In August, new club member Hector Cross competed at the British Transplant Games where he won 2 Golds and 2 Silvers. He then flew off to Germany to compete in the WORLD Transplant Games, winning 4 medals including a Gold in 50 Freestyle. Huge Congratulations go out to Hector and his family.
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...