The small team of 5 Masters attended the British Nationals at the London Olympic Aquatic Centre over the weekend. Qualification to swim at Nationals is tough and the competition over the weekend was tougher with many World, European and British records being set. Swimming with the best of the UK’s swimmers our small team secured several top 5 placings and a team Bronze.

Liberty Regan competing in the 18-24 age group, attending her first Masters National competition, swam two events with  two Long Course PB’s in the 50 Back and 100 Frontcrawl.

Russ Simpson (60-64) also competed in two events over the weekend, just missing out on a PB in the 50 Breastroke by 0.05 seconds.

Mark Ayres  (65-69) took on 3 individual swims, with PB’s in the 50 Breastroke and 100 Butterfly, securing two 4^th and a 5^th place.

Sian MacDonald (60-64) started her weekend of swimming with the 1500 and went on to secure two Silvers, a 4^th and 6^th place swim.

Hilary Coulson (55-59) swimming the 50 Backstroke on PB, took on the 100 Back in the 4×100 Mixed Medley Relay (200+) with Sian swimming Breastroke, Mark on Butterfly and Shane Coulson bringing home the Bronze on Frontcrawl. A great result for the team with a combined age of 221 years.

Great results and a great weekend of swimming in an amazing venue. We look forward to our larger team attending Sheffield Nationals in October.