Swimming is a sport that can be enjoyed, either as a leisure activity or competitively at any age. The exercise helps to maintain mobility as well as helping to prevent conditions such as heart disease, osteoporosis and diabetes.

If you are a swimmer aged 18 years and over you can compete in masters competitions. Masters compete in five-year age bands (e.g. 18-24, 25-29). Competition is available in all four strokes and over all distances up to 1,500 metres. There is no upper age limit.

Session Times are Wednesday 8.00 - 9.00pm & Friday 7.30 - 8.15pm at Prince Regent.

Competitive swimmers can swim with the main squad at other times

European Masters Championships in Yalta Results

Mike Read's Placings :-

2nd  400m

3rd   800m

3rd  Open Water

4th  200m

5th  200 fly

10th 50m

British Record Broken at the Masters Champs (Report from Mike Read)

Sunday, 02 October 2011

The fifth ASA East Region Open Masters & 18-24 Age Group Championships took place on 1^st October 2011 at Newmarket Leisure Centre. These fine facilities saw a full day of excellent swimming with competitors travelling from all over the country with one swimmer making the journey from Dunfermline in Scotland.
The East Region President, David Robinson, assisted by the Norfolk President Adam Lelean, was on hand to present medals . They were joined for the last session by the ASA President Don Neate. Thirteen individual and four relay regional records were broken but the best was saved for the last individual race of the day when Marcel Scholten from Modernians Swimming Club broke the British record in the mens 45/49 years 100m breaststroke when clocking a time of 1:10.68. Marcel also recorded an East Region record in the 50m freestyle.
In the first event of the day, the 400m freestyle saw two regional records broken, Ashley Buck of Newmarket in the mens 30/34 year age group and Pat Reynolds of Beavers Masters (Bedford) in the women's 60/64 age group. Both Ashley and Pat went on to break another record, Ashley in the 200m individual medley and Pat in the 100m backstroke.
Individual female East Region Records broken were by Lynne Meale and Louise Bush both from UEA Norwich SC and Annette Thatcher of Hemel Hempstead SC while male records tumbled to Thomas Williams of Sudbury, Alan Canham of Harlow Penguins and Daniel Wardley-Smith and Garry Mavin both from Chatteris Kingfishers.
West Suffolk SC broke two East Region relay records while Chatteris Kingfishers and Diss Otters also recorded new relay record times.

Click here for 2011 Masters Champs Results

I got 5 golds, 1 silver and 2 bronzes
400m  6.32.90  1st
100 IM  1.48.90     2nd
50 Fly  49.68      3rd
200m 3.04.73    1
100 Fly  1.57.54      1 
100m 1.22.87      1
200 IM 3.52.60    1   
50m  36.93       3