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Congratulations Abbie from all at Buxton Swimming Club!

Abbie Wood claimed bronze medals in the women’s 200m and 400m individual medley at the World Aquatics Short Course Championships in Budapest last week, setting a British Record in the 200m IM of 02:02.75 and a PB in the 400m IM of 04:24.34.

Great Britain’s women won silver in the 4x100m medley relay on the final day of the World Aquatics Short Course Championships in Budapest.

The United States won the race in a world record of three minutes 40.41 seconds as they dominated the field. However, it was closer behind them and the British team of Abbie Wood, Angharad Evans, Eva Okaro and Freya Anderson finished second in 3:47.84 as they narrowly beat a China team who set a time of 3:47.93.

A team of 17 swimmers recently undertook a 6 day training camp in Calella, Barcelona. Twice daily training, in an outdoor 50m pool. An excellent location and hotel supplied by Sports Abroad, complimented by swimmer fund raising and generous sponsorship. Well done all!

Entries are now open for our 3rd Autumn Open Meet! Due to demand, the meet this year being run at Level 2 to gain entry times for Short Course Nationals.

Further information, Meet Pack and Sports Systems file are available here

A team of 19 swimmers recently undertook a 5 day training camp in Torremolinos, Malaga for the first time. Training morning and evening for the first time too.

An excellent location and hotel supplied by Sports Abroad, complimented by swimmer fund raising and generous sponsorship.

Well done all!

Entries are now open for the Buxton 1st Autumn Open meet @ Matlock ARC on 19th & 20th November 2022. Further information and meet pack here

Results from our Level X round 1 competed on Sunday 20th December 2020. All results will be published to Swim England here: https://www.swimmingresults.org/levelx/

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Head of competition Andrew Stokes was full of praise for Buxton swimmers after they took on some of the biggest clubs in the Midlands at the prestigious Derventio Excel Short Course Gala.

With tough qualification times just to get into the gala, which was held at the Arc in Matlock, the Buxton club knew they would be up against some seriously good opposition.

But Stokes aaid: “Our select team showed they can achieve not only great times but also a raft of medals against the bigger clubs.

“This was a really tough gala for a small club like Buxton, but our performances will set our swimmers in the right direction as they prepare for the county championships in December.”

Seth Partridge celebrated victory in the 50m butterfly, while Ollie Ecob was second in the 50m freestyle and third in the 50m backstroke, and Matthew Foreman (50m butterfly), Chloe Montgomery White (100m individual medley) and James Ralph (100m individual medley) collected third places.

Personal-best times were recorded by Ralph, Montgomery White, Reece Bromley and Mia Stokes.

Olympic hopeful Abbie Wood returned home this week to launch a new initiative at Buxton Swimming Club in her name.

The Abbie Wood Academy has been created by the club to ensure young swimmers making their first steps into competitive swimming have the key fundamentals of racing embedded early on.

Wood, a multiple junior medalist on the international scene has gone on to represent Team GB and England across the world, started at the Buxton pool.

“I started my swimming journey here at Buxton pool and the town’s swimming club” Abbie told the younger swimmers.

Her list of honours include 400m individual medley gold, 200m individual medley bronze and 4x100m medley relay bronze at the 2015 European Games in Baku and competing at the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast in Australia.

The new academy’s head coach Liam McWee said: “Getting Abbie involved in our new academy is fantastic and it’s great to welcome her back in such a key season in the build up to next summer’s Olympics. Abbie’s skill level is so high and I’m sure our younger swimmers will be inspired by her.”

Wood is scheduled to return during the autumn term to spend time coaching and demonstrating techniques to the academy swimmers.

Richie Ralph, chairman of Buxton Swimming Club, added “We are so pleased to have Abbie involved in the club’s new section – and even more pleased when she agreed to us naming it The Abbie Wood Academy”.

With the new race season on the horizon, the club is encouraging new swimmers to sign up. Interested in joining the academy? Email membership@buxtonswimmingclub.co.uk