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Silver City at the British Masters Championships 2023

A nine strong team of Silver City Blues Masters swimmers travelled to Sheffield this June to compete in the British Masters Championships 2023 as the defending overall team champions from the previous year. The team consisted of; Greg Smedley, Kelly McIntosh, Gill Main, Susan Jensen, Keith Dunnett, Audrey Cooper, Karen McBeath, Nickie Maasdorp, and June Falconer.

The competition was very well attended and well organized and proved to be a great opportunity for the team to turn their hard training into best times and medals. Whilst being one of the smaller groups, our team put in a great showing.

Gold
Kelly McIntosh (800m Fr), 4x50m Fr (N. Maasdorp, A. Cooper, G. Main, K. McBeath), Keith Dunnett (200m Ba)

Silver
Audrey Cooper (800m Fr, 400m IM, 400m Fr, 200m Ba, 200m IM), Greg Smedley (400m IM), Kelly McIntosh (400m IM, 200m Ba, 1500m Fr), June Falconer (400m IM), Karen McBeath (200m Fr, 100m Fl, 100m Fr), 4x200m Fr (A. Cooper, N. Maasdorp, G. Main, J. Falconer)

Bronze
Keith Dunnett (400m IM), Kelly McIntosh (100m Ba), June Falconer (100m Fl), Greg Smedley (200m IM), Karen McBeath (50m Fl)

Congratulations to Karen who broke the Scottish Masters Record in the 60 – 64 yrs LC 100m Freestyle with a time of 1:10.80. Special mention also to Gill who, on paper, broke the Scottish Masters Record in the 60 – 64 yrs LC 1500m Freestyle with a time 27:24.76. Unfortunately, due to retrospective revision of a previous time, this won’t be recorded officially. Also special mention to Kelly who again on paper broke the Scottish Masters Records in the 30 – 34 yrs LC 50m and 100m Backstroke, however these records were broken again by another swimmer at the competition.

Whilst not being able to compete to retain the Cooper trophy through shear numbers within the opposing teams, we put in a great effort which converted to an equal 12th final position within the team competition. Thanks to all our lane and teammates for your support and well wishes whilst we were at the competition.

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Silver City at the European Masters Championships 2022

A team consisting of Gill Main, Kelly McIntosh, Brian Bain and Greg Smedley from Silver City Blues participated in the European Masters Championships in Rome, Italy. SCB’s competition started in Ostia, Rome for the 3km open water in the Mediterranean consisting of a single lap of a 3km circuit. Water temperature on the day, 26 […]

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Silver City Blues win British Championships in Aberdeen

After a great weekend of swimming, fun, fitness and friendship, Silver City Blues were announced as the winners of the Cupar Trophy last night! A huge well done to all the swimmers this weekend who swam some incredible individual and relay swims. Thanks must also go to all our coaches for your hard work at […]

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Silver City Takes Home the Scottish Masters Championships 2022 Trophy

On the 9th of April 2022, a 20 strong team of swimmers from Silver City Blues journeyed south to compete in the Scottish National Open Short Course Masters and Senior Age Group Championships at Tollcross International Swimming Pool. The team consisting of; Brian Bain, Dawn Burke, Day Campbell, Audrey Cooper, Keith Dunnett, Sue Flaherty, Bill […]

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SCB Complete Virtual Tour of European Capitals

As part of their efforts to keep fit during the second national lockdown, members of the club have spent the last 12 weeks on a virtual tour of Europe. The “Silver City Blues Grand European Lockdown Tour 2021” had two objectives; Travel the distance between all the capitals of Europe (including some less obvious ones), […]

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COVID-19 Update

The club are once again in an extended period of not training due to the ongoing COVID 19 pandemic. We are looking forwarded to welcoming our swimmers back to the water when we are allowed to. If anyone is thinking of joining the club when we return to the water, please email membershipsecretary@silvercityblues.org.uk for more […]