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chris alderton - swimmer
| DOB: |
22nd July 1987 |
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Stockton-on-Tees |
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Chris is one of a small number of British swimmers to be offered a scholarship to The Southport School (TSS) in Australia where he studied for two years before staying to act as House Master and mentor to the younger British athletes. He was part of the team that saw the school win its first Great Public Schools Association (GPS) Swimming Championships in Queensland for 82 years.
A big fan of heavy metal music, Chris has taught himself to play the guitar and really likes to play classic rock. He has performed on numerous occasions at his school as well as in local bars.
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april 2007 blog
At the start of this month I went back to Australia, which was a welcome relief after enduring the weather back in England.
Right now I'm just getting back into full training in preparation for the summers competitions. I'm also looking to do some more open water swims in the next few months as I want to swim the 10km at next years Olympics as well as my pool event, the 1500m Freestyle.
march 2007 blog
This month has been one of the most hectic of my life.
It all started off fairly quiet while I was still in Australia getting ready for the British Championships, but as soon as I returned to Britain everything was just go go go!
Firstly I competed at the British Championships in Manchester, where I picked up a silver medal in the 1500m Freestyle, and two personal best times in the 400m Freestyle and 400m I.M, which I was pretty happy with.
Then, after four days at home it was down to Norwich to do another 1500m Freestyle, and then from Norwich I went back up to Sheffield to compete in the Deventio Excel meet over a weekend where I picked up two gold's in the 200m and 400m Freestyle and a 4th in the 100m Freestyle.
Now its time to go back to Australia into training again!
february 2007 blog
This month has just been all about training and getting myself ready for the British Championships at the end of March.
However this was hindered slightly because I picked up a cold virus towards the end of the month, which put me out of training for about a week. But fortunately I have managed to get over that very well and I am now training better and faster than ever.
Also I am getting together the last little bits of information that I need to apply for my new Australian Visa, the money that Kellogg's has given to me is going to help me greatly in paying for this.
january 2007 blog
Since Christmas life has been very hectic! After a three week stay at home for Christmas and New Year, I set off for two weeks of long traveling.
Our first stop was a week long training camp in Singapore, and after travelling through Singapore for so many years, it was good to finally see it. After that, we headed back to the Gold Coast where we had another week long camp before returning to the TSS.
While on this camp we raced at the Miami Super Challenge, which is a one day meet held at the pool where Grant Hackett trains. I got some really good results considering all of the travelling I had done up until that point.
Although I did not swim my main event (1500m Freestyle), I won bronze in both the 200m and 400m Freestyle. After this we returned back to TSS and we got right into the hard graft of training.
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