FIXTURES 2026/27
• Winter Regionals 2026 – 6th - 8th November
• Winter Nationals 2025 – 10th - 13th December
• Counties 2027 Age Groups 9th - 10th (Salisbury) and 30th Jan (Link). Youth 31st Jan (Link 100 IM & Relays), 6th - 7th Feb (Bath LC) – Qualification window 16th May to 16th December (1/1/26 -16/12/26 LD Events) Regional Swimmers to train through, enter everything qualified in and swim all finals.
• Regionals 2027 Age Groups – 24th - 25th April and 8th - 9th May at Millfield. Youth 1st - 3rd May, Hengrove, Bristol. 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 2026
L2 (Winchester meet 2nd - 4th)
L3 (Tigersharks meet 17th - 18th)
• November 2026
L3 (Calne 31st Oct - 1st Nov – Development Squad Swimmers only)
• December 2026
L3 (Tigersharks 5th & 6th)
L3 - Long Course (Winchester 12th - 13th County Prep for Youth swimmers)
• March 2027
L1 TBC
L3 TBC
• April 2027
L1 (City of Bristol TBC (national window)
• June 2027
L3 (Fast 5 Tigersharks TBC))
• July 2027
L4 Club Champs (TBC)
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)
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
