Swimming

A team of 9 dedicated young swimmers from the Isle of Wight are preparing to represent their home at the 2025 International Island Games in Orkney next month - and they’re marking the moment with a 48-kilometre sponsored swim. The...

More than 60 members of Yarmouth Sailing Club, West Wight Swimming Club, and their families and friends recently gathered at the West Wight Sports & Community Centre for an ambitious challenge: to swim the equivalent of the Isle of Wight’s...

A team of 5 from the Ryde Swimming Club Masters team flew to Guernsey last weekend to compete in the 32nd Guernsey Masters International Swim Meet.  Held at the Beau Sejour Leisure Centre in St. Peter Port, the Island cohort...

Swimmers from 23 swimming clubs enjoyed an afternoon of rivalry at the 24th IOW Marlins Open Masters Swim Meet at the Medina Pool on Saturday (8th February). The programme included 38 events across all the swimming strokes, ranging from 800m...

The Isle of Wight Marlins Masters Open Swim Meet will take place at Medina this Saturday (8th February) from 13:45. Masters swimmers from across the Island will be competing against swimmers from the Home Counties. The afternoon's competition includes events...

Members of Ryde Swimming Club have been presented with the haul of medals attained at the Isle of Wight Club Championships, where swimmers from Ryde, Seaclose and West Wight competed against one another. Ryde's swimmers attained over 100 medals overall,...

3 Masters swimmers from Ryde Swimming Club attended the 3-day Swim England Masters National Championships event  at the Ponds Forge International Sports Centre in Sheffield last weekend. Kim Holmes and Matthew Sussmes, who both coach at the club and train...

Kim Holmes and Matthew Sussmes took a combined total of 4 gold medals at the annual short course SE Region Masters swim competition at the K2 Leisure Centre in Crawley. After an early departure from the Island - and missing...

Stef, Wendy and Christina A total love for sea swimming has enticed 3 regular Swim The Wight members to undertake the very tough STA Open Water Swimming Coach qualification. Earlier this year, Wendy De Vallancey, Stefanie Oliphant and Christina Conroy...

The 70th Pier2Pier Sea Swim Challenge from Sandown Pier to the site of the old Shanklin Pier - organised by the Isle of wight Marlins Masters Swim Club - was held at noon on Saturday (20th July). 157 swimmers -...