People of all ages and abilities seeking a New Year fitness challenge are being encouraged to sign up for Swimathon 2023 by Olympic swimming legends Duncan Goodhew MBE and Mark Foster. The event takes place from 12th to 14th May 2023, with entries now open.
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2022 was the strangest of swimming years. Never before had we seen a world championships off and then almost immediately on again, let alone in a year that already boasted a Commonwealth Games and European Championships. It all led to a cluttered calendar but one with opportunity abounding for Britain’s swimmers. From that surfeit of international competition it’s no easy task to pick the cream of the crop, but here are the pullbuoy swimmers of the year for 2022.
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British Swimming last week named the swimmers to the two world class programme funding groups for the 2022-23 season. This announcement came later than usual but marks an evolution rather than a wholesale shake up of the programme, despite the total number of funded swimmers growing by 8 since last year
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Having reached her mid twenties and with the disruption of a pandemic throwing everyone’s plans into disarray, Bella Hindley could have been forgiven for thinking her international swimming career had come to a conclusion before it had even started. But she persevered and this year made her senior international debut … Listen→
Everybody has bad days in training, but Tom Dean has opened up about how one of his worst sessions left him storming from pool deck in disgust. Speaking on his podcast The Weekly Freestyle, Dean explained how a tough session at the Bath NTC took him beyond his limits and led to an early departure.
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