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The Competitive Speed Section, including the 'learn to swim' and development programmes, is also responsible for the club's overall fitness level. This area of the site is given over to primarily to speed-related items, although this will also be useful to members of the other sections.

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Speed Section
National Qualifiers 2010

Tom Shortman (aged 12) - formerly swimming for Severnside Tritons, has this season achieved National Qualifying times for the 800m and 400m freestyle.
Finn Taylor (aged 17) has achieved National Qualifying times for the 1500m Open Water event, 400m freestyle and 200m backstroke.

Tom and Finn, who both train with the City of Bristol squad, will swim at the National Age Groups and Youth Championships respectively being held at Ponds Forge, Sheffield in July and August.

St Mary Redcliffe Sessions

The final session at St Mary Redcliffe wil be Thursday 15th July. We then finish for the summer holidays and restart on Thursday 9th September.

Bristol Central Swimmers Return Home!

Nine swimmers aged 12-14yrs who were attending a warm weather training camp in Spain were stranded in Calella for 5 days unable to get back to Bristol.  The Crol Centre in Calella kindly provided  free pool time , giving the County and Regional swimmers the opportunity to continue with their important training programme.

Unfortunately,  due to cancelled Ryanair flights and the French railway strike the team was unable to get back to Bristol until Wednesday.  The team travelled  from Calella to Lille for 12 hours overnight in two taxi's where they caught the Eurostar train to London and Bristol coach company, Peter Carol picked up the team from London and brought them back to Bristol making it a 24hour trip home.

Marion Britton would like to thank Karen Brown and Hayley Clements for their help and support and swim camp coach Richard Bryant and all the swimmers for using the problem as an  opportunity to continue training in the sunshine in the 50m Olympic size pool and for enduring the difficult journey home.

Photos from the camp can be seen here

Bristol Central Sprint Competition 2010

To be held on the 15th May 2010 - pool to be confirmed. Entry form can be downloaded from here

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