Swift Swimming attending world masters championships

Tue, Jul 22nd 2014, 12:13 AM

The 15th edition of the FINA (International Swimming Federation) World Masters Championships will take place in Montreal, Canada, from July 27 to August 10, 2014, and Swift Swimming will send a seven-member team to compete. It will be the fourth world masters championship that the Swift Swimming Club attends; the first was in San Francisco in 2006, followed by Sweden in 2010 and Italy in 2012. A total of 14,000 athletes attended the world masters championships in Italy in 2012, representing the most ever at those championships.
Competing for Swift Swimming this year will be Percy Knowles, Andy Knowles, Nancy Knowles, Bruce Knowles, Lisa Knowles, Elliott Knowles and Allie MacPhail.
Percy will compete in the 50, 100 and 200 meters (m) breaststroke events and the 50 and 100m free events. Andy will compete in the 100, 200, 400 and 800 freestyle events and the 400m individual medley (IM). Nancy will compete in the 50, 100 and 200 butterfly and the 50 and 400 free events. Bruce will compete in the 50 and 100 breast events, the 50 back, the 50 fly and the 200 IM. Lisa will compete in the 50 free and 50 back events, and Elliott will compete in the 50, 100 and 200 free events.
The FINA World Masters Championships is the federation's biggest competition in terms of participation. Every two years, swimmers, divers and water polo players aged 25 to more than 100, from all corners of the world, gather for the meet.
The vibrant masters movement actively promotes fitness, friendship, understanding and competition through its five disciplines - swimming, diving, water polo, synchronized swimming and open water swimming. FINA officially created the masters movement about 30 years ago, the first edition being held in 1986 in Tokyo, Japan.
Starting in 2015, the FINA World Masters Championships will be held in conjunction with the FINA World Championships, taking place in Kazan, Russia.
Swift has also been competing at the U.S. Masters National Championships every year since 2006; in May this year in Santa Clara, Calif., Swift Swimming won five medals at those championships. The club has a huge masters program with most adults swimming for exercise and fun.
Swift Swimming presently has three swimmers at the 20th Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland - Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace, Dustin Tynes and Joanna Evans.

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