There are few more imposing figures in British swimming than 6'4" fly swimmer Steve Parry. The former European Junior Champion has stepped up to become one of Britain's top senior swimmers with European Championship bronze medals for 200 fly both long and short course and a sixth place finish in the same event at last … Continue Reading→
James Parrack was one of Britains outstanding breastroke swimmers of the late 80's and early 90's. He represented Britain at the Seoul Olympics and England at the Auckland Commonwealth Games, where he won silver in the 100m breastroke, and still holds two masters world records (for 50 and 100 breastroke) in the 25-29 … Continue Reading→
Gary VanderMeulen is a former Olympic swimmer, and is now coach (and husband!) to Commonwealth Record Holder Alison Sheppard. He was a coach to the British Olympic Swimming Team and is currently coaching Alison towards the World Championships in Fukuoka later this year. Pullbuoy caught up with him to find out his views on … Continue Reading→
2000 was certainly a watershed in the international swimming career of Heidi Earp. She had of course been an established international for some time previously, but it was her swims at the Olympic trials, where she erased Marie Hardiman's old British record over 100m breastroke, … Continue Reading→
The last county championships I swam in were nearly seven years ago. I hadn't trained for about 5 years. Over the last two weekends I competed in the Cambridgeshire County Championships after about 8 months back in the water - so what happened?