News from the Worlds

A Team of 16 Swimmers from Aer Lingus Masters SC went to the World Masters in Riccione in June .

Everyone swam very well even Peter Conway in the 50 fly which he swam at 10.30pm under floodlights.

Special congratulations to:

• Dymphna Morris who came 2nd in 800 Free and 400 Free and 3rd in 200Free. She was placed 4th in 200 IM and 10th in the 200 Backstroke.
• Suzanne Harkins came 7th in the 400 Free and 9th in the 200 Fly.

Dymphna , Suzanne and Jeff broke Irish Records in their individual events.

4 Relays broke Irish Records:

• The Womens 200yrs + 4x50 FTR came 6th and 4x50 MTR came 8th  -- Dymphna Morris, Marie Guidon, Patricia Reilly and Ann Cummins.
• Mixed 200 yrs + 4x50 MTR  - Dymphna Morris, Patricia Reilly, Dermot Canavan and Peter Conway .
• Mixed 240 yrs + 4x50 FTR  -  Mary Fitzpatrick, Marie Guidon, Jeff Philips and Tony O'Brien.

On behalf of all the Masters Swimmers we would like to thank 

Gerry Foley 

for all his hard work in the months prior to the Worlds.

Good Luck Aer Lingus Masters!

Good luck to everyone heading off to Riccione, Italy, this week to take part in the Fina 2012 World Masters Championships! We're all behind you. 

Go team!

Postal Swim 2012 800m and/or 1500m

The objective is to encourage Swim Ireland Masters swimmers to participate in the 800 m and 1500 m events, which are often difficult to fit into a normal gala programme. This postal swim enables swimmers to swim these distances in their local pool during Club sessions without having to travel out of the island of Ireland, to obtain an official time and to compare with other swimmers from other Clubs.

Postal swims can take place at any 25m (S/C) or 50m (L/C) Pool in Ireland. No time correction will be made for long course swims.

All entries must be sent by 7^th September 2012 to Jeff Phillips

Contact your club administrator for entry forms.

1st Celtic Open LONG course Championships

After the great success of last year's 1st Celtic Open Short Course Championships, this year's championships will will be in long course format.

                  Date: Sat 20th October 2012

                  Location: NAC

Dublin Cup - Pre Olympic Water Polo Tournament

Dates: 5th - 8th July
Location: NAC





Olympic champions - Hungary, recently crowned European champions - Serbia, silver European medallists - Montenegro, World championship bronze medallists - Croatia, 5th placed at Europeans - Germany, and Olympic hosts - Great Britain, are all taking part.
See: www.dublinwaterpolo2012.com

Irish Masters European Records

Irish Masters European Records

As of 31 Dec 2011 European Masters Short Course records were held by the following Irish swimmers
Norma Cahill 1500 Free 45-49yrs 18:34.32
Aer Lingus Men 4X200 Freestyle Relay 160-199yrs 8:33.88 (Keith Lynch, Tony Morris, Conor Morris, Vivian Mongey)
Aer Lingus Mixed 4X100 Freestyle Relay 4:19.58 (Dymphna Morris, Patricia Reilly, Tony Morris, Vivian Mongey)
Congratulations to all record holders!

Provincial Masters Records released

The  Swim Ireland Masters Committee have introduced Provincial Masters records.

Provisional listings can be found on the website "www.irishmastersswimming.ie"

The criteria for being listed as a provincial record holder in this initial list is as follows:
• Current Irish records, set swimming with an Irish club;
• Recorded swims from 1st January to 31st December 2011.

In the latter case only galas swum in Ireland have been taken into account.

The listings remain provisional for two months to enable swimmers and clubs to review them. If faster times have been swum, and fall within the criteria set out above, the listings will be updated. On the 1st of March all of those listed will become the official records.

All new records will have to be applied for in the normal way with applications being made on the official claim forms which are available on the website and on the Swim Ireland site.
Rules for claiming Irish and Provincial records are attached to this email.
There are plenty of gaps in the records so go for them!