FIXTURES 2025/26
• Winter Regionals 2025 – 31st October - 2nd November
• Winter Nationals 2025 – 11th - 14th December
• Counties 2025 Age Groups 10th -11th (Salisbury) and 31st Jan (Link). Youth 1st (Link 100 IM & Relays), 7th - 8th Feb (Bath LC) – Qualification window 18th May to 15th December (1/1/24 -15/12/25 LD Events) Regional Swimmers to train through, enter everything qualified in and swim all finals.
• Regionals 2026 Age Groups – 25th - 26th April and 9th - 10th May at Millfield. Youth 2nd - 4th May, Plymouth. Qualification window 6 months period 1st September year prior – April (2 weeks before comp starts).
• Summer Nationals 2026 - Top XX go to British next XX go to home Nations. (Window opens first weekend in March)
• British Champs 2025 14th - 19th April – Qualifying window from end of Nationals the year prior to closing date.
Target Open Meets
• October 2025
L2 (Winchester meet 4th-5th)
L3 (Tigersharks meet 18th-19th)
additional
L2 (Chelsea and Westminster 25th – 27th October) for swimmers that don’t qualify for Regional Winter Nationals
• November 2025
L3 (Calne 1st - 2nd – Development Squad Swimmers only)
L2 (Bournemouth 14th - 16th Nov)
• December 2025
L3 (Tigersharks 6th & 7th)
L3 - Long Course (Winchester 13th - 14th County Prep for Youth swimmers)
• March 2026
L1 (national window - 7th – 9th)
L3 (last chance for regionals – those that don’t have L1 times)
• April 2025
L1 (City of Bristol 3rd – 5th April) (national window)
• June 2025
L3 (Fast 5 Tigersharks 13th June)
• July 2025
L4 Club Champs (28th June, 3rd and 4th July)
Wiltshire County League Gala
• 2026
• Final – 12th September 2026 @ Bath Uni
• 2025/26
• Round 1 – Hosted with 2 other Clubs (Date TBC)
• Round 2 – Hosted with 2 other Clubs (Date TBC)
• Final – 50m Pool position taken from other 2 rounds (12th Sept 2026)
Relay Bonanza
• 31st October 2025
• 6th February 2026
Dual in the Pool
• 15th December 2025
Sprint Nights
• 24th April 2026
Development Meet
• 7th June 2026
Definition of meet levels
Level 4
Generally, a single-club competition, or an inter-club competition of no more than 8 invited clubs. Results can be
used for entry to the County Championships and other licensed meets. Eg. Tigersharks Club Championships.
Level 3
The first taste of multi-club meets with upper limit. Upper limit times are the times that swimmers cannot be faster than to enter the meet. Tigersharks run 3 of these over the year Autumn, Winter and Summer.
Can be short or long course.
Level 2
A higher level of competition held over short course with upper limit and (sometimes) lower limit entry times.
Upper limit times are the times that swimmers cannot be faster than to enter the meet. Lower limit times are the times that swimmers cannot be slower than to enter the meet.
Wiltshire County Age Group Championships are run at Level 2
Level 1
The highest level of open meet you can compete in domestically. These meets are swam long course. Results can be used for entry to all the Summer National Championships and British Championships in April. These meets have minimum qualifying time that swimmers must be faster than and rules regarding entering with official licensed times are enforced strictly.
Wiltshire County Youth Championships, Regionals, Summer Nationals and British Championships are run at a Level 1.
Qualifying Times
Competitions may have full qualifying times, or consideration times. Qualifying times may be specified as being achieved within a qualifying window, and at a certain level of licensed meet.
Regional qualifying times need to be in a level 1 to 3 meet.
National qualifying times need to be achieved in the 10-week window prior the closing date for entries and swum at a Level 1 competition.
They may be set as short course OR long course times. A consideration time means if the swimmer achieves that time – they may be able to enter, however if the competition is oversubscribed the swimmer may get ‘scratched’ from the event. The competition entry pack will tell you the rules that will be applied e.g. first come first served; slowest entries will be removed etc.
Short or Long Course?
Short Course (SC) competitions are in 25m pools and Long Course (LC)are in 50m pools.
Swimming has a short course season September to December and a long course season January to August. Some swimmers will still compete SC during LC due to the lack of LC pools.
The Swim England website has a ‘time converter’ which you can use to convert long course times to short course and vice versa.
https://www.swimmingresults.org/individualbest
