The British Gas Disability Swimming Team enjoyed a promising first day of competition after winning one gold and two bronze medals at the inaugural IPC Swimming World Championships (25m) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Eleanor Simmonds claimed her first World short course title after winning the women’s S6 400m Freestyle.

Simmonds, who recently showcased her swimming talent at the IPC Swimming European Championships, took the race out hard from the start and went on to dominate her race.

She had the lead from the first turn and showed her skill to extend it with a powerful back end to her race.

Simmonds touched in 5:32.45 to take the gold medal. She finished almost twenty seconds ahead of the athlete in second place, Sarah Louise Rung (Norway) who touched in 5:53.68. Erika Nara (Japan) took bronze in 6:32.36.

“That felt good tonight,” Simmonds said. “I wasn’t well last week when I raced in Sheffield but I knew that I would pick it up here. It was a hard race but I felt really good and I am happy with how that went.”

Thomas Young won the first medal of the night in the men’s S8 100m Backstroke as he moved up the field to win bronze in a new British record time.

Young swam a well timed race and finished in a time of 1:05.80 to win his first World Championship medal. Gold was won by Peter Leek (Australia) in a new world record time of 1:03.18 and silver went to Konstantin Lisenkov (Russia) who finished in 1:04.56.

“That was a tough swim for me,” Young said. “I went into the race wanting to get a medal and a personal best and I achieved both. I knocked a second off my personal best and I am pretty chuffed with that. I did want a heat swim for this event but I just got in for the final and swam hard.”

Stephanie Millward swam to the bronze medal in the women’s S8 100m Butterfly and lowered her personal best and the British record as she reached for the wall.

Millward touched home in a time of 1:09.24 to take the bronze. The gold went to Spain’s Sarai Gascon Moreni in 1:07.21. Australia’s Annabelle Williams won the silver in a time of 1:08.78.

“That performance wasn’t as good as I anticipated and I was quite tired this evening,” Millward said. “Although it isn’t a bad start to a competition.

“I had a nice race this morning and I was hoping to follow it up this evening but it wasn’t there. I am hopeful I will have it for the 100m Backstroke.”

British Gas team-mates Claire Cashmore and Elizabeth Simpkin also featured in the race and secured sixth and eighth place respectively.

In the S7 400m Freestyle, Fran O’Connor broke the British record twice in her heat and her final. She lowered the record to 5:49.85 in her final.

David Hill finished in sixth place in the S9 100m Butterfly in a time of 1:05.92 to lower his personal best.

Robert Welbourn took seventh place in the men’s S10 100m Butterfly in a time of 1:02.10.

On the day’s performances Head Coach Lars Humer said: “Overall, it has been a good day for us. We had all of our athletes reach finals and some of them were in their secondary events which is promising.

“We have proven today that we can cope with the conditions at this meet. There is unpredictable weather, it is a slow meet and the travelling is difficult but everyone has adapted well. We have absorbed the conditions and now we know what we are up against we can progress.

“The highlight of the day is Eleanor’s 400m Freestyle. She had a good time and she had a lead of 25m against a strong field. It was also good to see both Steph and Thomas getting personal bests and medals in their races.”

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For further details contact British Swimming Media Officer Gemma Field on 01509 632238, 07917 726431 or email gemma.field@swimming.org

About British Swimming
British Swimming is the National Governing Body for Swimming, Diving, Synchronised Swimming, Water Polo and Open Water in Great Britain.  It is responsible internationally for the high performance representation of the sport. The members of British Swimming are the three Home Countries national governing bodies of England (ASA), Scotland (Scottish ASA) and Wales. (Welsh ASA)  British Swimming seeks to enable its athletes to achieve gold medal success at the Olympics, Paralympics, World Championships and Commonwealth Games.

About British Gas
British Gas is Britain's favourite domestic energy supplier. As well as providing gas and electricity, it also installs and maintains central heating and gas appliances in millions of homes throughout the country. British Gas is very proud to be the principal partner of British Swimming and home countries: The ASA, Scottish Swimming and Swim Wales. British Gas is supporting the team's quest for medals on the world and Olympic stage - and giving as many people as possible the opportunity to learn to swim and use swimming as part of a healthy lifestyle. British Gas wants to ensure local pools remain at the heart of our communities. By using its expertise, it can help them reduce costs by being more energy efficient and safeguard the facilities for this and future generations. For more information visit www.britishgas.co.uk/swimming

About Speedo®
The world’s leading swimwear brand, Speedo® is passionate about life in and around the water, creating revolutionary new technologies, designs and innovations. Supporting swimming from grass-roots through to elite level, including the phenomenal Michael Phelps, Speedo® is owned by Speedo Holdings B.V and distributed in over 170 countries around the world; SPEEDO, the ARROW device, FASTSKIN, LZR PULSE, SPEEDO ENDURANCE, FLIPTURNS, FASTSKINFSII, SPEEDO BIOFUSE, SWYM and LZR RACER are registered trademarks of Speedo Holdings B.V. The LZR RACER suit has worldwide design rights and patents pending.

Jenna Randall stepped up her game in the Free Solo at the FINA World Trophy in Montreal as she secured some of her highest marks to take fifth place overall.

Commonwealth Silver medallist, Randall, has been one of Great Britain’s strongest synchronised swimmers for over four years and showed her improved synchro skills on the world stage.

British Gas athlete, Randall, was competing against Olympic silver medallist Andrea Fuentes and World Champion Natalia Ishchenko and put any nerves she had behind her as she took to the platform with confidence.

Randall showed strength and power in the water and as her routine finished she scored some her highest marks of her career. Her scores ranged between 9.2 – 9.3 and a total of 93.000 to give her fifth place.

The Thematic Team saw the British Gas Team perform well to seal eighth place ahead of their rivals Brazil.

The routine, which included Olivia Allison and Jenna Randall, saw the athletes secure marks of 8.7 – 9.2 and an overall mark of 89.667.

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For further details contact British Swimming Media Officer Gemma Field on 01509 632238, 07917 726431 or email gemma.field@swimming.org

About British Swimming
British Swimming is the National Governing Body for Swimming, Diving, Synchronised Swimming, Water Polo and Open Water in Great Britain.  It is responsible internationally for the high performance representation of the sport. The members of British Swimming are the three Home Countries national governing bodies of England (ASA), Scotland (Scottish ASA) and Wales. (Welsh ASA)  British Swimming seeks to enable its athletes to achieve gold medal success at the Olympics, Paralympics, World Championships and Commonwealth Games.

About British Gas
British Gas is Britain's favourite domestic energy supplier. As well as providing gas and electricity, it also installs and maintains central heating and gas appliances in millions of homes throughout the country. British Gas is very proud to be the principal partner of British Swimming and home countries: The ASA, Scottish Swimming and Swim Wales. British Gas is supporting the team's quest for medals on the world and Olympic stage - and giving as many people as possible the opportunity to learn to swim and use swimming as part of a healthy lifestyle. British Gas wants to ensure local pools remain at the heart of our communities. By using its expertise, it can help them reduce costs by being more energy efficient and safeguard the facilities for this and future generations. For more information visit www.britishgas.co.uk/swimming

About Speedo®
The world’s leading swimwear brand, Speedo® is passionate about life in and around the water, creating revolutionary new technologies, designs and innovations. Supporting swimming from grass-roots through to elite level, including the phenomenal Michael Phelps, Speedo® is owned by Speedo Holdings B.V and distributed in over 170 countries around the world; SPEEDO, the ARROW device, FASTSKIN, LZR PULSE, SPEEDO ENDURANCE, FLIPTURNS, FASTSKINFSII, SPEEDO BIOFUSE, SWYM and LZR RACER are registered trademarks of Speedo Holdings B.V. The LZR RACER suit has worldwide design rights and patents pending.

 

 

The British Gas Synchro Team competing in Montreal, Canada at the FINA World Trophy looked good on the first day of competition which saw them compete in the Highlight Team and Thematic Duet Routines.
 
Olympians Jenna Randall and Olivia Allison took to the water in the Thematic Duet, which is to be performed in the style of the country hosting the competition, and performed in polar bear shaped snow shoes.
 
Randall and Allison competed in Flamenco shoes at the 2008 FINA World Trophy and extended their idea this year. The routine was a crowd pleaser with most of the audience clapped along to the duo’s performance.
 
The British Gas Synchro Swimmers finished their routine to scores ranging from 9.1 – 9.3 and had a total artistic score of 91.667 to secure seventh place. They finished over a point away from Italy who took eighth place.
 
The Highlight Team saw Randall and Allison rested and also the international senior debut of Katie Clark and Yvette Baker. The Routine went well and the athletes showed their improved strength and speed in the water.
 
They received scores of 8.7 -8.9 and secured a strong eighth place with a total of 88.333 ahead of their close rivals Brazil.
 
At the top of the leader board is the home nation Canada. This is the first time that Canada has taken the top spot in a team event since 1986 and the first time that they have ever led the Duet.
 
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Everyone that would like to re-live the action that was seen at the inaugural British Gas Great London Swim will have their opportunity on Sunday 29th November as Channel 4 broadcast highlights of the event at 08:00hrs.

This exciting event saw a world class elite field, including four of the six Beijing Olympic 10k open-water medallists, line up on the start pontoon at the Royal Victoria Dock.  Don't miss out on seeing Katy Whitfield as the Elite Women's Winner.

This is followed by the British Gas Great Scottish Swim from Strathclyde Country Park on Sunday 6th December and the British Gas Great North Swim on Sunday 13th December which was held at Lake Windemere. 

The series is rounded off with the British Gas Great East Swim on Sunday 20th December when GBR's Tom Allen won the Elite Men's Race at Alton Water.

If you are inspired by what you see, entries for the 2010 British Gas Great Swim events opened today. Anyone can enter this event and have the opportunity to line up against some of the world’s best open water swimmers.

The 2010 event dates are;
British Gas Great East Swim: Saturday 19th June 2010
British Gas Great London Swim: Saturday 3rd July 2010
British Gas Great Scottish Swim: Saturday 21st August 2010
British Gas Great North Swim: Saturday and Sunday 4th and 5th September 2010

For more information please CLICK HERE

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Today marks your last chance to vote for British Gas swimmer and world champion Liam Tancock to win BBC East Midlands Sports Personality of the Year.

Loughborough-based Tancock is up against four other nominees - Carl Froch (Boxing), Hayley Turner (Equestrian). Lizzie Neave (Canoeing) and Stuart Broad (Cricket) – for the top honour of BBC East Midlands Sports Personality.

The 24-year-old has enjoyed a successful 2009 in which he took the World Championship title in the 50m Backstroke while setting a new world record of 24.04 seconds.

The winner of the awards will be announced at the BBC East Midlands Sports Awards, supported by Loughborough University, which will take place on the campus on Thursday 3rd December in front of a 'sell out' audience.

To vote for Tancock text EMT LIAM to 88822. The text vote closes at 11pm today so don't delay...

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Texts cost your standard operator rate, one entry only per person. 

Struggling to think what to get for the swimming fanatic in your life? Swimming Times makes a great Christmas gift for just £22 for a year’s subscription.

Packed full of the latest news on swimming, masters, open water, synchronised swimming, diving and water polo from the UK and abroad, Swimming Times is the best source for information on all of the aquatic disciplines.

With exclusive interviews and features, regular results, all the latest job adverts together with gala and licensed meet information as well as up-to-the-minute reports from all the regions, Swimming Times has something for everyone from elite swimmers to little dippers, pool providers and swimming teachers.

Should you choose Swimming Times as a gift, the magazine can be delivered to an address of your choice and you can arrange to start your subscription with whichever issue suits you. To subscribe or discuss your options please call Keely on 01509 632230 or to subscribe online click here.

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Presentations from the ASA's First Annual Council Conference are now online for those people who could not get to the event itself in Stratford-upon-Avon.

The ASA held its first Council Conference on October 10th 2009, entitled ‘Facing the Future Together’, to look at the current challenges it faces and to show its members and volunteers how together everyone can drive the organisation’s future development.

For more details or to view the presentations CLICK HERE.

A high level evaluation has shown the ambitious Everyday Swim project – that set out to get more people swimming over the past three years – has succeeded with a gain of over 10,000 adult swimmers across nine pilot schemes.

The report, published by the Sport Industry Research Centre at Sheffield Hallam University on behalf of the ASA and Sport England, presents key findings about how swimming participation rates have changed across the local authorities who each ran projects with a specific focus, dependent upon the needs in the community. 

Everyday Swim was a national pilot project led by the ASA and supported by Sport England and local partners which concluded its first phase at the end of March this year.  The key aim was to get more people swimming and find out ‘what works’ in getting more people into our pools. 

Two of the original Everyday Swim pilot areas were awarded the status of ‘Everyday Swim Good Practice Centres’ for a second phase of the project until March 2010. These centres, in Islington and Suffolk, will continue to build on the great work of Everyday Swim by sharing the common lessons learnt.

Everyday Swim Co-ordinators were set the target of increasing swimming participation rates by 3% in the final 18 months of the project – a very ambitious target not wholly achieved - but overall there have been positive increases in local participation rates and a gain of over 10,000 adult swimmers across the pilots.

The report states that it is clear that the projects have genuinely made a positive difference.  The Everyday Swim authorities as a whole have performed considerably better than the national average, determined by Sport England’s ‘Active People’ surveys (which interview residents in local authorities nationwide).

Of particular note is the Everyday Swim Good Practice Centre at Islington where they have succeeded in finding new ways to build an effective and entertaining pool programme of structured activities away from the traditional lane swimming, including Super Swim – events that take place over the summer holidays and include mini polo, diving, synchronised swimming, snorkelling and lifesaving. 

Islington has achieved an increase in its adult participation rate by taking a community-wide approach of ‘bringing the gym culture to the pool’.  The report states that Everyday Swim Islington has shown it is possible to increase participation in swimming, through paying attention to detail in all aspects of the business, being customer focused and responsive, marketing of the centre externally and having committed and dynamic staff on the ground driving the project forward.

Aquaterra Leisure is a charitable trust that manages Islington’s public leisure facilities in partnership with Islington Council. 

Their Chief Executive Jonathan Gibbs said: “This has been a great opportunity to develop innovative strategies to change pool culture, and measure the results. We’re excited to be able to continue our successes as a Good Practice Centre.”

The report presents three key themes which have emerged from across all of the pilots and are considered instrumental in helping to encourage more people into the pool;

• Structured sessions – particularly focused on teaching non-swimmers to swim or rebuilding the water confidence of those people who have not been swimming for a number of years.

• Culture change – changes to the way in which pool operators work such as performance management and customer service measures, establishing pool operators groups to share ideas and resources, making sure the workforce is fit for purpose and properly trained, programme analysis including assessments of unused pool time, ‘swim buddy’ schemes to give support to non swimmers and the use of swim diaries to provide feedback from pool users.

• Creative marketing -  including attracting new participants by promoting sessions outside of the leisure centre environment which are audience and context specific.

The results of the Everyday Swim evaluation are underlined by the take up rates of the Government’s Free Swimming initiative which show that more than a thousand local authority pools in England have been offering free swimming to 20 million under 16’s and over 60’s with more than 250 councils backing the scheme, including the Everyday Swim pilot areas.

David Sparkes, Chief Executive of the ASA, commented: “Careful investigation into the pilot projects run in each location, coupled with consultation with stakeholders and the public, has effectively gone a long way to prove the commonly held view that there are no ‘quick fixes’ which will lead to more people swimming. 

“To bring about a culture change in the swimming industry we need to build upon the excellent catalyst provided by the introduction of Free Swimming. We can now also use the valuable lessons learnt in Everyday Swim to release the high levels of latent demand for swimming and work with our stakeholders and partners to bring about a sustainable increase in participation.”

Lisa O'Keefe, Sport England's Director of Sport, said: "Everyday Swim is providing vital insight into what attracts people to swimming and keeps them coming back for more.

"Swimmers and the ASA have a significant contribution to make towards our goal of getting a million more people participating in regular community sport. The lessons learned from Everyday Swim will enable the ASA to focus on the most effective ways of driving up participation and satisfaction levels and ensure we get value for money from our investment."

Duncan Goodhew, Everyday Swim official ambassador, commented: “I am delighted at the continuing success of Everyday Swim and have thoroughly enjoyed my work with the pilot project schemes.  Although the main project has concluded, the Everyday Swim Good Practice Centres will continue to share their learning beyond the project areas and encourage others to emulate their successes.”

This was successfully implemented this month with more than 350 delegates attending one of the ASA’s five free national Everyday Swim Good Practice seminars to find out the lessons learnt from the pilot project.  Goodhew was a motivational and inspirational guest speaker who formed part of the Everyday Swim team who travelled to Manchester, Bristol, London, Newcastle and Birmingham as part of the second phase of the pilot project. 

The seminars were extremely well received by the audience of leisure providers, local authorities and county sport partnerships, with one attendee highlighting “the day was very informative and I found great value in being involved”.  Another stated “…fantastic examples of how we can support our pool operators in helping re-programme their pools, promote adult lessons and engage with their customers on a very real level to help entice new users into their facilities”.

The Everyday Swim Good Practice Centres will continue to build on these events by continuing to share good practice across the industry through other methods, including the offer of bespoke visitor days to the Good Practice Centre areas, Everyday Swim resources and email and phone support services.

The full Everyday Swim evaluation report can be downloaded from www.everydayswim.org or by clicking here.

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For more information contact the ASA PR Officer Claire Freeman on 01509 632265 or email claire.freeman@swimming.org

About the ASA
The ASA is the English National Governing Body for Swimming, Diving, Water Polo, Open Water and Synchronised Swimming. It organises competition throughout England, establishes the Laws of the Sport and operates comprehensive certification and education programmes for Teachers, Coaches and Officials as well as its renowned Learn to Swim Awards scheme. The ASA supports 1,220 affiliated swimming clubs through a National/Regional/County structure. The ASA aims to ensure everybody has an opportunity to learn to swim.

About Sport England
Sport England invests National Lottery and Exchequer funding in organisations and projects that will grow and sustain participation in grassroots sport and create opportunities for people to excel at their chosen sport.

Sport England is committed to creating a world-leading community sport system, and has set specific and measurable targets to achieve by 2012/13:
*       One million people doing more sport
*       A 25% reduction in the number of 16- to 18-year-olds who drop out of at least five key sports
*       Improved talent development systems in at least 25 sports
*       A measurable increase in people’s satisfaction with their experience of sport
*       A major contribution to the delivery of the five hour sports offer for children and young people.

About Kellogg’s
The Kellogg Company was founded in 1906 and today produces 40 different cereals including popular brands such as Special K, Cornflakes and Coco Pops, and 56 different snacks including brands such as Nutri-Grain and Special K snacks. Kellogg’s has been a partner of the ASA and British Swimming for 13 years, sponsoring the Kellogg’s ASA Awards and enabling over 50,000 people to take up swimming as part of an active lifestyle.

About British Gas
British Gas, the biggest energy supplier in the country, has the lowest carbon intensity of any of the major UK energy suppliers in terms of tonnes of CO2 emitted per megawatt hour of electricity supplied to customers.  The company is one of the biggest investors in renewable power generation, principally offshore wind. Its recently completed Lynn and Inner Dowsing development, off the Lincolnshire coast, is the UK's largest offshore wind development. British Gas is committed to energy efficiency.  Our Energy Savers Report provides free expert advice on how you can cut energy use in the home and, in turn, save money.  So far, the report has shown over 2 million people how they could make an average saving of £175 a year.  To complete a report go to .www.britishgas.co.uk/energy-efficiency/energy-savers-report

About Speedo®
The world’s leading swimwear brand, Speedo® is passionate about life in and around the water, creating revolutionary new technologies, designs and innovations. Supporting swimming from grass-roots through to elite level, including the phenomenal Michael Phelps, Speedo® is owned by Speedo Holdings B.V and distributed in over 170 countries around the world; SPEEDO, the ARROW device, FASTSKIN, LZR PULSE, SPEEDO ENDURANCE, FLIPTURNS, FASTSKINFSII, SPEEDO BIOFUSE, SWYM and LZR RACER are registered trademarks of Speedo Holdings B.V. The LZR RACER suit has worldwide design rights and patents pending.

A development framework to provide a world class coaching environment for England’s teachers and coaches has been launched by the ASA Coaching Systems Team at the ASA Council Conference.  

‘The ASA Development Framework for Teaching and Coaching in England 2009-2013’  will effectively create a new coaching system that delivers the right number of coaching hours, by the right coach, in the appropriate environment to achieve success.

Teachers and coaches across all the disciplines and the wider coaching workforce will benefit from the implementation of the Framework which will operate in all five key environments: beginner, talent development, high performance, participation and potential participants. 

The Framework represents a significant culture shift by delivering much more than just coach education.  Previous systems have had the education and qualification of coaches as their main focus, whereas the new Framework is all about developing the potential of participants (swimmers) by creating teachers and coaches who can promote learning through ownership, awareness and responsibility.

Bill Furniss, Head Coach, Nova Centurion SC believes the ASA’s approach to coach development will create a world class, dynamic coaching system:

“Developing a ‘high performing’ coach takes more than just education.  It involves a wide range of activities that help the coach ‘develop’ and achieve their potential. The approach of the ASA is now focusing on giving coaches ownership of their decisions and the ability to choose what they are going to do.  This will then create greater self-belief, allowing the coach to better understand and manage themselves, which in turn will positively impact upon the participants they work with.”

He added, “the ASA coach development plan will focus on changing their behaviour, as opposed to simply increasing their knowledge.”

Colin Huffen, Coaching Systems Team Manager and National Education Officer for the ASA, is excited about the changes brought about by the new strategy.

“Teachers and coaches face daily challenges and strive to be the best they can be.  The ASA have identified that to reach this goal they not only need the ASA to help them qualify, but also support to help them flourish.

“The participant is clearly the priority for all of us.  We have identified that there needs to be a move from an instructional, autocratic approach to the empowerment of coaches.  This will hone their skills so that they can follow the participants lead and develop them with the knowledge to take ownership of their own development.”

The four Key Objectives of the new Framework are:
1. Recruit: Recruit the appropriate number of coaches into swimming’s delivery system
2. Train: To qualify the appropriate number and level of coaches required
3. Support: Provide appropriate levels of support to the coaching workforce to allow them to achieve their potential in their chosen environments
4. Retain: To provide systems of recognition and reward in order to retain the coaching workforce

For further information on the work of the Coaching Systems Team and for a copy of the Development Framework, please visit CLICK HERE

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For more information contact the ASA PR Officer Claire Freeman on 01509 632265 or email claire.freeman@swimming.org

About the ASA
The ASA is the English National Governing Body for Swimming, Diving, Water Polo, Open Water and Synchronised Swimming. It organises competition throughout England, establishes the Laws of the Sport and operates comprehensive certification and education programmes for Teachers, Coaches and Officials as well as its renowned Learn to Swim Awards scheme. The ASA supports 1,220 affiliated swimming clubs through a National/Regional/County structure. The ASA aims to ensure everybody has an opportunity to learn to swim.

In order to comply with national education and training standards it has developed two separate and independent arms – the ASA Awarding Body and the Institute of Swimming (IoS) - which represent the awarding and delivery channels for all ASA qualifications.
ASA Awarding Body
The ASA Awarding Body develops, assesses, awards and quality assures all ASA qualifications. It is the equivalent of other awarding bodies such as City & Guilds and OCR (Oxford, Cambridge and RSA Examinations). The ASA Awarding Body is licensed by British Swimming to award qualifications in England and Wales. It also has the remit for quality assurance of all areas of UKCC standards.

Institute of Swimming (IoS)
The IoS is a licensed training provider, like a school or college. It is one of many ASA Awarding Body Approved Centres.  The IoS is also a membership body for qualified swimming teachers and coaches, providing insurance, advice and learning opportunities to its members.

About Kellogg’s
The Kellogg Company was founded in 1906 and today produces 40 different cereals including popular brands such as Special K, Cornflakes and Coco Pops, and 56 different snacks including brands such as Nutri-Grain and Special K snacks. Kellogg’s has been a partner of the ASA and British Swimming for 13 years, sponsoring the Kellogg’s ASA Awards and enabling over 50,000 people to take up swimming as part of an active lifestyle.

About British Gas
British Gas, the biggest energy supplier in the country, has the lowest carbon intensity of any of the major UK energy suppliers in terms of tonnes of CO2 emitted per megawatt hour of electricity supplied to customers.  The company is one of the biggest investors in renewable power generation, principally offshore wind. Its recently completed Lynn and Inner Dowsing development, off the Lincolnshire coast, is the UK's largest offshore wind development. British Gas is committed to energy efficiency.  Our Energy Savers Report provides free expert advice on how you can cut energy use in the home and, in turn, save money.  So far, the report has shown over 2 million people how they could make an average saving of £175 a year.  To complete a report go to .www.britishgas.co.uk/energy-efficiency/energy-savers-report

About Speedo®
The world’s leading swimwear brand, Speedo® is passionate about life in and around the water, creating revolutionary new technologies, designs and innovations. Supporting swimming from grass-roots through to elite level, including the phenomenal Michael Phelps, Speedo® is owned by Speedo Holdings B.V and distributed in over 170 countries around the world; SPEEDO, the ARROW device, FASTSKIN, LZR PULSE, SPEEDO ENDURANCE, FLIPTURNS, FASTSKINFSII, SPEEDO BIOFUSE, SWYM and LZR RACER are registered trademarks of Speedo Holdings B.V. The LZR RACER suit has worldwide design rights and patents pending.