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In June’s Swimming Times
Swimming Times is the official monthly magazine of the Amateur Swimming Association and the Institute of Swimming.
FEATURES
Resurgence! British swimming championships
Opportunity knocked for the youngsters at Sheffield – and many answered the call
Hatfield in the pink – National Speedo League Cup final
There’s another new name on the trophy, as Roger Guttridge reports
Away the lads! The Southport School, Queensland
Craig Lord visits Britain’s offshore training centre on Australia’s Gold Coast
Follow that boat! Channel swimmer Steve Smith
Persistence paid for the London cabbie, who tells his own tale of the Channel
Obsession! Fitness swimmer Nick Elsley
Nick swims over 1100 miles a year just for fun
Resurgence! British swimming championships
If you had to choose two finals at Ponds Forge which best summed up the current state of British swimming, the women’s 100m backstroke and the men’s 200m freestyle would be high in your thoughts. In the backstroke Katy Sexton, at the relatively ripe age of 23, was the undisputed elder stateswoman in a final in which only one of her nine fellow finalists was older than 16. Of the remaining eight, two were 16, four aged 15 and two a mere 14 years old. It was a line-up which underlined both the vacuum left by the plethora of retirements since the Athens Olympics and the army of youngsters who are beginning to fill it.
‘We are seeing the future of British swimming,’ said national performance director Bill Sweetenham. ‘We have a stockpile of talent coming through. But the really good thing is that these girls are coming not from one or two coaching programmes but from a broad base of programmes. They also have a great skill level and are doing it from finesse and not because they are big, powerful girls. Their skills reflect the great job being done by the coaches and by our sports science programme which is backing them up. It’s also good that Katy Sexton is in there giving them something to work against’.
For the full report and photographs see pages 18-21 of Swimming Times.
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Results and reports on:
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· Disability
· Masters
· Open Water
· Synchro
· Water Polo
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