FIXTURES 2024/25
• Winter Regionals 2024 – 2nd & 3rd November
• Winter Nationals 2024 – 5th – 8th December
• Counties 2025 Age Groups 11th,12th (Salisbury) and 18th Jan (Link). Youth 1st(Link 100 IM - Relays), 8th and 9th Feb (Bath LC) – Qualification window 1st June to 18th December (1/1/24 -18/12/24 LD Events) Regional Swimmers to train through, enter everything qualified in and swim all finals.
• Regionals 2025 Age Groups – April/May dates TBC. Youth 3rd – 5th May @ Plymouth. Qualification window 6 months period 1st October year prior – April (2 weeks before comp starts).
• Summer Nationals 2025 Top 28 go to British next 30 go to home Nations. (Window opens first weekend in March)
• British Champs 2025 15th – 20th April – Qualifying window from end of Nationals the year prior to closing date.
Target Open Meets –
• October 2024
L3 (Tigersharks meet 5th & 6th)
L2 (Chelsea and Westminster 26th – 28th October) for swimmers that don’t qualify for Regional Winter Nationals
• November 2024
L3 (Calne 16th & 17th – Development Squad Swimmers only)
• December 2024
L3 (Tigersharks 7th & 8th)
• March 2025
L1 (national window. Likely to be 7th – 9th)
L3 (last chance for regionals – those that don’t have L1 times)
• April 2025
L1 (City of Bristol 4th – 6th April) (national window)
• June 2025
L3 (Tigersharks meet 21st & 22nd June)
• July 2025
L4 Club Champs (TBC)
Wiltshire County League Gala
• 2024
o Final – 15th September 2024 @ Bath Uni
• 2025
o Round 1 – Hosted with 5 other Clubs (Date TBC)
o Round 2 – Internal a chance to give the wide club chance to compete (B team, C Team if numbers allow) (Date TBC)
o Round 3 – Hosted with 5 other Clubs (Date TBC)
o Final – 50m Pool position taken from other 3 rounds (Date TBC)
Relay Bonanza
• 6th September 2024
• 20th December 2024 – Christmas themed
• 7th March 2025
• 6th June 2025
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
