Open Water and Long Distance Swimming 2007
updated: 9th September 2007 (latest news below)
WYKEHAM GRAND PRIX EVENT - 14th July 2007 Link to Open Water from 2006
The Open water season has now started where a number of hardy swimmers will take to swimming in Lakes, Reservoirs, Locks, Canals and the Sea for the next four month's or so. The swimmers will be venturing to Wykeham Lakes on the 9th May for the first time.
The majority of our swimmers with compete in BLDSA events, with the exception of a few, more seasoned and experienced members, who will enter the British ASA Open Water Championships , as well other ASA organised events.
The 2007 season is almost upon us, and our swimmers take to the water at Wykeham Lakes for the first time on Wednesday 9th May.
Open Water News - Wykeham Lakes - 16th May 2007
Scarborough Swimming Club took to the freezing waters of Wykeham lakes for the first time this year on Wednesday evening. With the drizzle coming down from the grey sky only 3 hardy souls managed to take to the water; Adam Harvey, Sarah Roberts and Marc Slack. Emma Couch made a brave attempt to get in but the numbing cold of the water was too much.
In 2007, Scarborough Swimming Club is going to miss two of its top open water swimmers. James Sowersby joined the Army at the end of April to begin his training as a Technical Engineer. Aaron Yeoman moved to London and is now employed by Virgin Trains in the Capital. They will be missed by all and everyone wishes them the best of luck for the future.
The club have many of its swimmers competing in different Open Water events throughout the country and will be competing from now up until the end of August, with the first event taking place this forthcoming weekend.
Training is currently taking place down at Wykeham Lakes on a Wednesday evening at 6.30pm so if your interested why not come down to see for yourself or for further information speak to the front desk on a Thursday night.
23rd June 2007 - There has been a few swims completed by our swimmers, the results from Budworthmere are as follows:
Gents 3 Miles Freestyle
1 Adam Harvey 00.55.38 Scarborough SC
2 Michael Shackcloth 1.05.38 Manchester Tri
3 Graham Padgett 1.07.16 Warrington Dolphins
Ladies 3 Miles Freestyle
1 Sarah Roberts 1.00.10 Scarborough SC
2 Rebecca Lewis 1.01.53 Barrow LDSC
3 Dee Llewellyn 1.08.36 Halifax
There has also been national swims involving British Swimmers, and recently, the 'festival of Swimming' took place at London's Royal Albert Dock, and for the first time, did not involve a Scarborough Swimmer.
Results that may be interest as some of the names are familiar:
LEN (European) 5k Open Water Swimming Cup
Royal Albert Docks London (GBR)
Saturday 16th June 2007
1. Alan Bircher (81) GBR 0:56:49.24
9. Richard Charlesworth (88) GBR 0:57:35.19
17. James Leitch (75) Co Glasgow 1:02:03.82
24. Simon Panting (87) GBR 1:02:19.82
1. Cassandra Patten (87) GBR 1:02:00.72
4. Keri-Anne Payne (87) GBR 1:02:03.87
7. Rachel Jack (89) GBR 1:02:42.32
11. Alice McCall (91) GBR 1:04:42.46
21. Lynn Duncan (88) Heart Of Midlothian 1:11:22.87
Mens 10km Freestyle - 17th June 2007
2. Alan Bircher (81) GBR 1:55:52.96
14. Richard Charlesworth (88) GBR 1:57:58.94
19. Jamie Forrest (87) Bath Univ 1:58:15.35
24. James Leitch (75) Co Glasgow 2:04:14.38
Simon Panting (87) GBR DNF
ASANER Open Water Championships - 3.75Km - Wykeham Lake 14th July 2007
There was an abundance of medals won by our club swimmers in the open water event in which a dozen medals were taken home by the intrepid swimmers who did exceptionally well to battle the very un-summer like weather conditions. Due to the extremely powerful wind, the organisors decided to cut the event down from 5Km to 3.75Km (3 Laps of the Lake) The two favourites of the male and female events, James Leitch (City of Glasgow) and Erica Brown (Chesterfield) are no strangers to Wykeham, and our very own swimmers certainly gave a excellent account of themselves and indeed, Julie Owen upset the form book with a great win in the Ladies race when she forged ahead early in the race to hold off the challenge of both Brown and club mate Sarah Roberts. Julie eventually winning in 48.23, taking both the Yorkshire and Regional Gold medal and the Grand Prix's 22 points with Erica Brown taking the Silver medal in 50.02 and Sarah Roberts the Bronze Regional and Yorkshire Silver medal in 53.07 The men's race was an exciting affair with the club's Adam Harvey taking an early lead to take pole position for over half the race. James Leitch started to attack Adam at the 2Km mark, and eventually took the lead to take the Gold medal in 46.36, with Adam Harvey winning the Regional and Yorkshire Gold medals to finish in 2nd place in a time of 47.42, and collecting 19 Grand Prix points along the way.
Another winner was David Mort taking the Silver Regional medal and Yorkshire Gold in the Junior Male 1.25Km event coming home in 2nd place in 20.37, and with newcomer Tom Venner doing exceptionally well to win the Bronze Regional and Yorkshire Silver medal finishing in 3rd place with a time of 24.40. Emma Couch did very well against the elements and claimed both Regional and Yorkshire Bronze medals when she came 3rd in the Junior Female 1.25Km race in a time of 19.29.
ASA 5k Grand Prix Series Final and Age Group Championships- Holme Pierrepont Nottingham - 25th Aug 07
5k Grand Prix Final Results
10 James Leitch 1975 M City of Glasgow Swim Team 1 1:03:23.65
5 Adam Desmond 1984 M City of Coventry SC 2 1:03:30.76
2 Edward Castro 1988 M St Bedes School Dicker SC 3 1:04:29.23
8 Samuel Heard 1988 M UEA City of Norwich 4 1:04:33.71
6 Chris Eynon 1989 M Sudbury & District SC 5 1:04:40.99
7 Adam Harvey 1984 M Scarborough SC 6 1:07:39.95
11 Glenn McIntosh 1992 M City of Glasgow Swim Team 7 1:08:01.13
1 Nicholas Ayers 1991 M St Bedes School 8 1:08:44.56
4 Mark Deans 1994 M City of Glasgow Swim Team 9 1:09:32.32
9 Andrew Horsfall-Turner 1994 M St. Bede's School 10 1:11:40.81
3 Robert Cook 1988 M Cheltenham SWPC 11 1:13:56.53
13 Jack Stevenson 1993 M Nova Centurian 12 1:16:31.58
12 Matthew Stacey 1991 M Kelly College DNS
FEMALE
33 Paula Wood 1978 F Ealing SC 1 1:04:36.08
26 Alice McCall 1991 F Wigan Best SC 2 1:05:19.82
22 Erica Brown 1987 F Chesterfield SC 3 1:07:34.99
27 Julie Owen 1986 F Scarborough SC 4 1:08:21.68
31 Caroline Saxon 1991 F Market Drayton SC 5 1:08:44.56
24 Jennifer Davis 1991 F Carnegie SC 6 1:10:42.36
21 Caroline Ball 1989 F Kelly College SC 7 1:10:45.38
29 Hannah Roberts 1991 F Lydney SC 8 1:11:40.05
28 Joanne Reeks 1991 F Derventio Excel 9 1:12:30.53
35 Ailish Williams 1992 F Taunton Deane Swimming 10 1:13:57.05
25 Claire Haywood 1992 F East Dorset Open Water SC 11 1:16:03.04
34 Susan Warden 1990 F West Dorset SC 12 1:33:38.34
20 Claire Allen 1987 F Sudbury & District SC out of time
2Km 17-24 Agegroup
109 Caroline Ball 1989 Kelly College SC Devon 1 0:27:59.41
107 Sarah Roberts 1988 Scarborough SC Yorkshire 2 0:28:56.10
105 Rachel Curnock 1987 University of Bristol SC Gloucester 3 0:30:05.36
113 Alice Baker 1990 Melksham ASC Wiltshire 4 0:30:24.40
106 Harriet Parker 1989 Tewkesbury SC Gloucester 5 0:30:30.58
110 Kasha Hampson 1988 Wigan SC Lancashire 6 0:31:30.64
114 Susan Warden 1990 West Dorset SC Dorset 7 0:34:05.50
108 Claire Allen 1987 Sudbury & District SC Suffolk 8 0:34:06.15
