Venue: The BARTON POOL, Gloucester Leisure Centre, Bruton Way, Gloucester.

 Barton Pool - 6 lane, 33.3 metres.

 Electronic timing.

 AGE GROUPS: 19 - 24 years (SENIORS)
             25 - 80+ years in 5 year age bands. (MASTERS)
 Age determined as at 31.12.97.

 TEAM EVENTS: A club may enter more than one team per event.
 In mixed relays, women are to swim lengths 1 and 3; men to swim lengths 2 and 4.
 Senior swimmers may NOT swim in Masters relay teams.

 All events are heat declared.

 Medals will be awarded for lst, 2nd and 3rd place in each age group in each event.

 ENTRY FEES:
 £2.00 per individual event
 £4.00 per team event

 Please enter TEAM events on a separate form.
 Cheques to be made payable to:- GLOUCESTER MASTERS SWIMMING CLUB
 Entry forms to be sent, with a stamped, self addressed envelope, large enough for the return of
 your entry cards, to:-

 Ann Kent              Tel: 01452 610375
 65 Dinglewell
 Hucclecote
 Gloucester
 GL3 3HP.

 CLOSING DATE FOR ENTRIES:   WEDNESDAY 27TH AUGUST 1997.

 The Meet Organiser reserves the right to limit the number of entries if found necessary.

 Cards are to be posted in the boxes provided at least 15 minutes before warm up for each session.
 Cards may be posted in advance of each session.

 Swimmers entering no time will be placed in the slowest heats.

       Established 1888- Affliated to Gloucester County ASA



           ANNUAL OPEN MEET - SEPTEMBER 2OTH 1997.
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                      TOP CLUB AWARD.
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In previous years, Gloucester has held an Inter Club gala
in March, where clubs have competed for the Ray Hill
Memorial trophy.

Ray was a member of the club who enjoyed Masters swimming
so much that he kindly arranged sponsorship on many
occasions for the benefit of the club. After his death,
his widow presented a trophy to the club in his memory
which the club have competed for ever since.
This year, however, due to a number of circumstances, it
has not been possible to arrange a viable Inter club
gala and so the Committee have decided to incorporate the
trophy into this year's Open Meet. This will be done by
holding a "Top Club" competition within the Open Meet
itself. Consequently, a points system will operate on the
day of the Meet and swimmers who achieve medal positions
will be awarded points accordingly. At the end of the
Meet the accumulated total for each club will determine
the winner of the Trophy.

It is important therefore, that each club is well
represented and so I urge you to promote the event to all
your swimmers.

Also, for the first time this year, we will be holding a
19 - 24 age group category thus enabling many younger
swimmers who train regularly to compete in probably their
first Masters' event.

We look forward to seeing you all in September for what
should be a first class event.

Best Wishcs,

Mary Escolme.
Club Administrator.