Annual Masters Open Meet
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Affiliated to Swim England East Midland Region & Derbyshire ASA 15th Annual Masters Open Meet 7th December 2019 Alfreton Leisure Centre, Church Street, Alfreton, DE55 7BD Kenilworth Masters receiving the Top Visiting club trophy for the 8th successive year in 2018, can anyone depose them in 2019? www.etwalleagles.co.uk WARM UP: Session 1: 9:00 – 9.25 Female 9:25 – 9.50 Male Session 2: 13.30 – 14:00 Mixed Start Lists & Results on your phone For the second year we are offering the opportunity to be able to view race results on your phone in a building that has rubbish phone reception. This guide will explain how to get to the results. If you have any feedback on the service then please come and talk to Mark in the results room behind the starting blocks. 1) Join the Wi-fi Network called “EtwallEaglesResults” 2) In your browser navigate to the page http://results It is important to include http:// at the start of the address 3) You should now see the results page, where you can view Heat sheets & results. This service doesn’t show new Meet Best Times or Derbyshire County Champions Welcome On behalf of Etwall Eagles Swimming Club, I have great pleasure in welcoming all our visiting swimmers and spectators to Alfreton Leisure Centre, for our 15th Annual Masters Meet. In spite (or maybe because of) a slightly changed date, this year has seen a bumper entry. Apologies to those who could not enter all their chosen events, my advice is to enter early next year. I would like to thank all the gala officials especially our friends from neighbouring clubs for guiding us through this event. Thank you to Jonathan Mills from Berkshire and South Bucks ASA for providing the online entry system. Finally thank you to our own masters committee and swimmers for all their efforts towards today’s meet. We hope you enjoy the event today with some good swims and personal bests. We look forward to you returning in 2020 when we host our 16th Etwall Masters Meet on 28th November (provisional date), entry forms will be available via the Etwall Eagles and British Swimming Masters websites. Janet Briggs Etwall Eagles Swimming Club COMING IN 2020: ETWALL EAGLES MASTERS OPEN DISTANCE MEET SATURDAY 13th JUNE 2020 Braunstone Leisure Centre, Leicester, 13.00 – 20.00 (provisional times) Short course 800m and 1500m freestyle events (Midland Masters Championship Events) 400m freestyle and 400m IM (non championship events) Continuous warm up / swim down facilities available. Open to all registered masters, not just Midlands. Further details will be on Swim England Masters Calendar shortly Entries due to open mid January. We are sorry that our planned distance meet didn’t happen in 2019, we are well on target to launch it in 2020. Please support our other local masters open meets in 2020: Staffordshire ASA Masters Meet, Stafford CABSC Masters Meet, Hucknall, Nottingham Midland Open Masters Championships & 18-24 Years Age Group, Venue tbc. Leicestershire Open Masters Meet, Braunstone, Leicester Dates and further information will be available from: http://www.swimming.org/masters/masters-swimming-competitions/ Results The results from today’s event will be displayed on www.etwalleagles.co.uk and submitted to British Swimming for Rankings and Decathlon. British, European & World Records Any individuals or relay teams who are planning a record attempt please inform the referee before you swim so the correct conditions can be established. Competition Awards Top Team Trophy – awarded to the top visiting team with the highest number of points. (The trophy will be presented immediately after the last event on poolside). Current holders: Kenilworth Masters. Top non Midland Team Trophy – awarded to the top visiting team from outside of the Midland region with the highest number of points. (The trophy will be presented immediately after the last event on poolside). Current holders: Banbury Masters. Paul Alderson Trophy – awarded to the swimmer who gains the highest number of points (based upon the decathlon formula) in the 50m Butterfly. (The trophy will be presented at the start of session 2). Current holder: Steve Goodall (Chesterfield) Record Breaker Trophy – awarded to the swimmer who breaks a meet record by the biggest margin in percentage terms. Current meet records are displayed in this programme. (The trophy will be presented after the last event on poolside). Current holder: Mary Holland (Long Eaton) Individual Awards – Free swims for our 2020 event will be awarded to the top 3 point scorers in each 5 year age group. (Notification will be sent out via email and results published on the websites). Derbyshire ASA Medals – The meet also doubles as the Derbyshire ASA Masters Championships. County medals will be presented to the first eligible Derbyshire swimmer in the 50m & 100m events for all age groups 25-29 years upwards. No medals will be presented for 25m and relay events. (Derbyshire medals will be available to collect from the desk on poolside during the afternoon session 14 Not Out Congratulations to the following swimmers who have appeared in all 14 of our meets to date, well done and thank you for your continued support! Janet Briggs (Etwall Eagles) Steve Goodall (Chesterfield, Matlock & Rykneld) Mark Jones (Warrington, Everton & Prescot) Clive Smith (Etwall Eagles) 3 visiting clubs have also been ever-present during the 14 years they are: City of Derby, Long Eaton (formerly Trident & Treonte) & Nottingham Leander. Today’s Competing Clubs: Adwick (Doncaster) SC; Banbury SC; Bedworth Masters; Belper Marlin SC; Black Country n Potteries Masters SC; Boldmere; Calverton & Bingham; Cardiff Masters; Chase SC; City of Coventry SC; City of Derby SC; City of Sheffield Swim Squad; Corby ASC; Deepings SC; Derby Phoenix SC; East Leeds SC; Enfield Swim Squad; Eston SC; Etwall Eagles SC; Hillingdon SC; Horwich Leisure Centre SC; Hull Masters SC; Kenilworth Masters; Kettering SC; Leicester Masters; Leicester Penguins SC; Long Eaton; SC Loughborough Town SC; Mansfield SC; Market Harborough SC; Matlock & District; Melton Mowbray SC; Modernian SC; Nantwich Seals SC; Newport and District SC; Nottingham Leander; Otter SC; Sheffield City SC; Spencer Swim Team; Spondon Masters; Stourbridge SC; Team Anglia Masters Swimming; Warrington Masters SC; Winsford Swimming Club; York City Baths Club. Total number of swimmers competing today: 204 representing 45 clubs. Event Conditions: Meet to be held under FINA Rules, the British Swimming Judicial Code and any additional conditions detailed within. Ages as of 31/12/19 & age groups for individual events will be: 18-24yrs, 25-29 yrs and then 5 year age groups as necessary. Entries may only be accepted from competitors registered as members of Swim England, SASA or WASA, or competitors from one of the countries affiliated to FINA. A competitor may compete in the name of one club only. There are no restrictions on the number of swims entered by each individual. Over the top starts will be used where possible. All 100m events will be swum with men and women seeded together, but there will be separate men’s & women’s results. Relays - Swimmers may swim in only one team in any relay event. 18-24 year olds may only swim in the 72+ band. Relay events: combined ages will be: - 72+ years / 120-159yrs / 160-199yrs / 200-239yrs 240+ years and will consist of four swimmers. A prize of 1 free relay swim in the 2020 event will be awarded to each winning team in the relay events. 15th Anniversary Fun Relay will be free event to celebrate the 15th year of the gala, On the day there will be a signing up sheet for 45 male and 45 female swimmers on a first come basis. These will be put randomly into 6 teams of 15, each swimmer will swim 25 metres freestyle. Each swimmer in the winning team will receive a small gift. A prize will be made to the top 3 male & female swimmers achieving the most points in each age group. The sum of the points from each individual’s best results in each of the four strokes plus the IM to decide the top swimmer, in the event of a tie the result from the Individual Medley will act as a “tie breaker”. The prizes will be: Swimmer achieving the highest number of points in each age group (Male & Female): 5 free swims in the 2020 Etwall Meet, second highest points scorer: 3 free swims and third highest points scorer:: 1 free swim. The top visiting club award will go to the club with the highest total of points from the gala and points will be awarded for individuals and relay teams as follows :- 1st 6 points / 2nd 5 points / 3rd 4 points / 4th 3 points / 5th 2 points / 6th and any swimmer or team who legally finishes their event 1point. A top ‘non midland’ club award will also be presented. The Paul Alderson trophy will be awarded for the best swim in the 50m fly, judged on the basis of British Swimming Decathlon Points. The Record Breaker Trophy will be presented to the individual who breaks a meet record by the biggest margin (in percentage terms). Anything not covered in the above to be at the discretion of the promoter Invitational Skins (Event 113) Conditions 1. This ‘Skins Event’ will be a continuous competition commencing with 6 competitors and over a continuous series of races over a distance of 25m. One competitor to be eliminated in each round until a winner is determined. Races in each competition will take place following an interval of 2 minutes from the start of the previous race. 2. Separate Skins competitions will be held for Male and Female swimmers.