World Masters 1996 Contact Address

World Masters 1996 Contact Address

Post by Roy L » Sun, 02 Oct 1994 11:39:10


I'm sorry if I seem ignorant, but what are the Masters? Are they just
like a major championships?


 
 
 

World Masters 1996 Contact Address

Post by John Cochra » Sat, 01 Oct 1994 11:25:59

I just got details on this from the ASA

Event Manager:  Andrew Matthews
FAX:            (44) - (0)742-736731    ( 44 is country code, 0 only in UK )
FAX after 1-8-1994      (44) - (0)114-2736731  
                ( on this date our phone company
                  screws up the phone numbers for the whole country )
Address:        VI World Masters
                Leader House
                Surrey Street
                Sheffield
                S1 2LH
                England

Dates:          Training 20/21 June 1996, Ponds Forge Sheffield
                Swimming competition 22-27 June, Ponds Forge Sheffield
                Open water competition 28 June, Holme Pierrepont Nottingham
                Water Polo 27 june (training) 28-30 (comp) Ponds Forge Sheffield
                Diving 28 June (training) 29-2 July (comp) Ponds Forge Sheffield
                Syncro 29 June (training) 30-2 July (comp) Ponds Forge Sheffield

Closing Dates   18-2-1996 ( Guranteed places )
                18-5-1996 ( If space left )

Officials       Apply by 15-1-1996
with details    Full name
                phone & FAX
                country
                recognized qualification

If you are desperate for more details I could FAX the brouchure to you or answer
questions by E-Mail.

John

 
 
 

World Masters 1996 Contact Address

Post by John Cochra » Tue, 04 Oct 1994 10:20:21

: I'm sorry if I seem ignorant, but what are the Masters? Are they just
: like a major championships?


Roy,

Masters, in swimming is just a polite way of saying vetran, maybe we
just use another word as it seems a bit silly to be a vetran at 25.

Masters events are swum in 5 year age group bands, i think the last band
is 100+ The event heats are done based on the time you submit with your
entry so you wind up swimming against people of a similar ability to
yourself, even though they may be in a different age group.

In England there are Masters competitions at all levels from Club to County
to National. Then there are European and World championships, I assume other
areas of the world have championships too.

I guess the major difference with masters competitions is that there are
no entry times, it is a totally open thing, of course that means that
potentially there may be be many, many competitors e.g. in the last
world championships I think there were over a 1000 entries in the 50M
freestyle

I'd be pleased to answer any other questions you may have.

John