Over the past couple of months, some of our swimmers have been competing in County and National competitions as described below.

The editor would like to congratulate all these swimmers on their selections and their achievements!!!

 

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Gloucester County Open Water Championships

Zoe Frazer and Sophie Brown braved chilling temperatures at Henleaze Lake on a miserably wet day in July to compete in the Gloucester County ASA 2007 Open Water Championships.

Both girls showed true grit completing the 1000 metres course. The weather conditions were so bad that the Senior/Masters race was reduced from the original 2000 metre course to 1600 metres.

In the 12/13 year age group Sophie came 5 th in a time of 16.50.10 and Zoe was 11th in a time of 19:50.58

Cirencester finished an amazing 9 th out of 11 clubs overall!

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Coach Swims in British Masters

Brian Ingham, one of Phoenix coaches recently competed in the British National Masters at Sheffield . Brian did very well in the four events he competed in, coming 2nd in the 50m freestyle in a time of 25.61, 5th in the 100m freestyle (56.92), 4th in the 200m freestyle (2:07.78), and 7th in the 100m IM (1:08.01).

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Club Members in National Championships

David Atkinson, a medical student and part time Club member, and Venetia Trotter competed in the National British Modern Pentathlon Championships held at Millfield in August. David finished a very creditable 7th in the Open Boys and Venetia 15th in the Youth B girls.  Venetia was especially pleased as she was the 2nd highest place non GBR team member.

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Trotters Compete

 
Venetia and Freya Trotter were both members of the winning Cotswold Pony Club team which qualified for the tetrathlon championships in August.  Venetia won the intermediate girls while Freya was third.
 
Both girls have competed recently at the Modern Triathlon qualifier at Millfield, with Venetia finishing 3rd and Freya 6th which means they both qualified for the Championships to be held in Wolverhampton later this month.
 
They have also just returned this weekend from Yorkshire having competed in the Modern Pentathlon event where Venetia was 4th and Freya 6th overall.  Venetia was 2nd in the run over 2000m and 3rd in the swim. Freya ran a personal best knocking 20 seconds of her previous time, and she won the riding section.