Thanet Swim Club

Thanet swim club had an incredible 75 strong team of swimmers enter the recent East Invicta Championships held at Kingsmead Leisure Centre, Canterbury. Up against teams from all over East Kent the competition is run over 4 days with swimmers as young as 8 taking part.

Thanet dominated the individual races and with swimmer after swimmer producing new personal best times they brought home an impressive haul of medals including 99 Gold’s from 148 events. Overall, Thanet swimmers achieved 387 new personal best times, set 26 new club records and most impressively 37 East Invicta event records were broken. But it was in the relays where Thanet really shone taking 22 of the 24 Winning trophies. It was no surprise therefore for Thanet to win both the Men’s and Women’s  Top Club Trophies, the Men having accumulated a massive total of 973 points ahead of City of Canterbury Swim Club with 327.5 points and the women  599 points ahead of Dover who came 2^nd with 398 points.

• Oscar Miles
• Olivia Miles
• Hannah Denny
• Rowan Fuss
• Maisie Macartney
• Ben Evans
• Kyri Papa – Adams
• Casey Harte
• Ben Pond

East Invicta Record Breakers were:

• Oscar Macartney
• Rowan Fuss
• Jamie O’Connor
• Casey Harte
• Hannah Denny
• Ben Evans
• Kyri Papa-Adams
• Katie Latham

Details of the Conditions and Programme can be found on our Gala page and details of the Qualifying Times on our QTs page.

This will be held on the weekend of 26th/27th January at K2, Crawley

Cameron represented Thanet AC in the Kent Cross-Country League for the first time yesterday, less than three weeks after his 11^th birthday and the first time that he has been able to compete in the U13 category.  Cameron was probably the youngest boy in the race, with many of the others two years older, and finished in fifth place.  He exceeded all expectations, and a great day was complete when Cameron was selected to represent Kent at a Southern Inter-Counties meeting in Essex on Saturday 8^th December.

Well done Cameron.

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Unfortunately we had to cancel our Level 3 Thanet County Qualifier Meet which we hoped we were going to stage on 24th November.

As a consequence we decided to support the Gravesend and Northfleet Autumn Meet on 1st and 2nd December. We are still waiting to learn whether our entries have been accepted.

In the meantime, the Committee have decided to also hold our own ‘Closed’ County Qualifier Meet on the 9th January at Ramsgate.

Full details can be found on our Gala page but in brief this is a Level 4 Meet and swimmers can enter a maximum of 3 events not exceeding 650m.

Closing date for entries is 7th December after the Gravesend and Northfleet Meet