Chris Dunn of Hatfield Swimming Club had an amazing weekend at the Swim Wales Masters Long Course meet at Swansea on the 5th/6th March. With 9 swims he broke 4 European records which were also British records and a further 4 British records. All 9 swims were also East Region records. Chris was swimming in
Entries for the Long Course 1500m events and Development Meet have opened. The conditions for these are on the Swimming Competitions page which can be found here. Para Entries for the Development Meet have a dedicated entry page here and Para Swimmers should enter via that page rather than the main online system even if
Members whose fee paying club is suspended for not submitting a full annual renewal will not be eligible to compete in events under the jurisdiction of Swim England. This includes Regional, County and open events. Furthermore the members are not covered by the Swim England insurance policy so no training or volunteering can take place.
The Swimming Competition webpage has now been updated with the General Conditions for the Long Course Championships 2022, and the General Conditions for the Regional Development Competition 2022. Please read through before entering either event.
Entries for the forthcoming Swim England East Region Long Course Championships and Development Competition will open shortly. In the meantime, the consideration times for the development competition have been released and can be found on the last page of the Information Document. Athletes may not enter the Development Competition if they have the championship consideration
During the Covid-19 pandemic, Swim England facilitated the return to swimming competition by temporarily reducing the total number of technical officials required at each licence level. At the same time, the level of qualification required to perform certain officiating roles at some licence levels was also temporarily relaxed. This period of relaxed requirements will expire
Applications are invited from Swim England East Region members who are British Swimming Technical Officials (minimum qualification licensed Judge Level 1) and Poolside Volunteers who would like to assist at the SE East Region Long Course Championships being held in Norwich and Luton. The competition dates are: – Regional Long Course Championships (Inc. Development Events)
Swim England East Region is holding a Disability Training Session on Sunday 20th March at Great Dunmow Leisure Centre, 3pm-6pm. For more information please go to the Disability Swimming Development page
Swim England London Region is hosting Duel in the pool on Sunday 27th March at Harrow School, Harrow HA1 3HP. For more information and to find the conditions and entry pack please go to the link below. Para-Swimming competitions.
Swim England East Region Artistic Swimming held their first Grading Day of 2022. It was held on Saturday 29th January at Witham Leisure Centre, Witham. It was great to be back doing some face to face assessments and everyone involved had a great day.
Swim England East Region Water Polo held their first Club Referee course online via Zoom on Saturday 5th February 2022. It was a great turn out with 19 learners on the morning course and 20 on the afternoon course. This is the first step on the Swim England WP Referee Pathway. It gave the learners
Huge congratulations to Jordan Catchpole Paralympic gold medallist from Beccles and a member of Team Waveney on becoming one of the youngest people to be made an MBE for services to swimming in the New Year’s Honours List. Congratulations also are due to Jessica-Jane Applegate from Great Yarmouth and a member of City of Norwich
