Swim England Essex

Essex Age Group Championships

These normally take place each year in January and February, with entry closing in December.

2021 statement:

  • 22/23/24 Jan Block A at BSV
  • 6 Feb Block B at LAC
  • 7 Feb Block B at BSV
  • 19/20/21 Feb Block C at BSV

There will be NO QUALIFYING TIMES for the Essex Age Group Championships 2021.  The reason for this decision is that swimmers would not have competed for such a long period of time.  Therefore, we will use the Swim England rankings and select;

  • The top 60 swimmers for 50’s
  • 30 for 100’s
  • 15 for 200’s
  • 8 for 400’s, 800 and 1500

PER AGE GROUP

These numbers are the MINIMUM depending on social distancing.

The QUALIFYING PERIOD will be from 1stSeptember 2019 to 1stSeptember 2020.

AGE GROUPS will remain the same as 2020 with Age on Day 31stDecember 2021

SWIMMERS AGED 10YRS AS AT 31STDECEMBER 2021

We appreciate the fact that many of these swimmers might not have competed in a licensed meet.

For these swimmers ONLY – A time achieved during a ‘time trial’ swim will be able to be used

These times MUST be signed off by a committee member and an official from a club and sent to the organiser via a form that will be able to be downloaded from the website- These times will need to be achieved between 1st September 2020 and the closing date of 18th December 2020

The Age Groups schedule will change.

The Conditions and Schedule will be released on the opening date for entries – this will be 1stNovember 2020

Depending on the government and Swim England guidelines, Essex reserve the rights to change or cancel any County competition.

 

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