World Masters Championships 2008
Nicola Latty won two titles at the 2008 FINA World Masters Championships in Perth, Australia. Nicola’s victories were in the women’s 35-39 200m Fly and 400m IM. Claire Foster produced an impressive swim in her first international masters competition to place fourth in the women’s 25-29 200m Breaststroke.
Midland Masters Championships 2008
Jayne O’Brien placed first in the women’s 45-49 200m Breaststroke while Barry O’Brien placed first in the men’s 50-54 200m Breaststroke.
Nick Gaggini had a busy and successful weekend winning four medals from his five events in the men’s 35-39 age group. Nick placed second in the 50m Breaststroke and 50m Backstroke and third in the 100m IM and 100m Breaststroke.
Lee Kilby placed second in the men’s 35-39 400m IM while Colin Curtis placed fifth in the men’s 40-44 100m Breaststroke.
About Oundle Swimming
Oundle and District is a small team where the masters swimmers train alongside the age group swimmers. This site features the masters swimmers. However, the team accommodates swimmers from age 10 upwards and has regular members of all ages. Swimmers select the lane which best suits their capability - which means the masters swimmers typically train together. Similarly, the younger swimmers tend to swim together.
Most of the masters swimmers only swim with the Oundle team while the majority of the age group swimmers swim with another local club. Age group swimmers from Wellingborough and Kettering make use of Oundle training sessions to increase the pool time available to them.
The team is suited to masters swimmers of district level and above although competing is not required. For the younger swimmers, the team accommodates a wide rage of abilities. We recommend you come and see if the training is what you want (and we can suggest other options if it's not).
Oundle and District is affiliated to the ASA and has an emphasis on training towards open meets and national competitions. The team swims three times per week with each training session lasting 1.5 hours.
Head coach Cliff Dedynski prepares the training programme to incorporate the various elements required with an emphasis on the middle distance events. Cliff is active on poolside and keeps a record of the times swum on many of the training sets.