Introducing the 2024 Open Water East Region Championships, a top-tier competition that unites the best swimmers in the area to participate in the thrilling and difficult sport of open water swimming. This year’s finals, which took place at Whitlingham Country Park, provided intense competition and an amazing experience for both competitors and spectators. This year…
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In the morning the juniors kicked off competing for the Copeman Cup, with amazing swims and an electric atmosphere with a closely fought win for City of Norwich who finished 22 points ahead of West Norfolk, 3rd Norwich Swan (244 points). In the afternoon, the seniors battled for the Christine Clark Cup, giving us another…
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The 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. Races are held over 1K, 2K, 3K and 5K and are split into age groups. For those aged 12-18, the Regional Championships also offer a chance to qualify…
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Saturday 8th June saw swimmers racing from 19 to 78 years old competing in 100 IM, 100 freestyle, 50 butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke and freestyle. Alongside 2 team male and female medley races, including competitive skins to top off the evening. In this year’s Norfolk masters event, we had swimmers from City of Cambridge; City of…
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Sunday 14th was the 1500 m distance eventsresults by age as follows:12 years Boys1st Riccardo Di Maria City of Norwich2nd Lawrence Taylor City of Norwich3rd Patrikas Garalevicius City of Norwich 12 years Girls1st Skye Freeman Norwich Swan2nd Olivia Wicks Norwich Swan3rd Matilda Sharpe City of Norwich 13 years Boys1st James O’Toole City of Norwich2nd Jake…
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Well done to all swimmers who took part in the distance events at the weekend. Norfolk were joined by Suffolk so lots of swimmers took part.Saturday saw the 800m freestyle and the results by age follow: Boys 12 years1st Riccardo Di Maria City of Norwich2nd Lawrence Taylor City of Norwich3 Patrikas Garalavicius City of Norwich…
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Nathan Wells (25) had a fantastic weekend racing at The East Region Winter Short Course Regionals at Luton (3rd-5th November 2023) Against some strong opposition and recovering from a recent injury Nathan managed to complete the hatrick winning all individual medley race Titles- 100im, 200im & 400im Nathan has achieved what no other Norfolk Male…
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The weather was a little overcast with fear of rain and thunderstorms. It did rain during the 3k however we avoided the storms luckily. Water temperature was 21.1 degrees c so no wetsuits. Open Water is a totally different swimming experience, not everyone can cope with choppy, murky water, weeds or wildlife (above and below…
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The 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. Races are held over 1K, 2K, 3K and 5K and are split into age groups. For those aged 12-18, the Regional Championships also offer a chance to qualify…
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Nathan Wells is believed to be the first Male swimmer in our region to win all 3 Mens Individual Medley Trophies at the SE East Reional Short Course Championships (Luton 4th-6th Nov 2022) 24 year old Nathan had a fantastic SE ER Winter Regional Championship making 7 finals over the weekend. Winning 3 gold and…
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