The East Midlands Region are pleased to announce that we will be holding the 2022 Summer Festival at
Moorways Sports Village and Water Park, Derby on Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th July 2022

This will be the first Swimming Competition held at this superb purpose-built venue which has a 10 lane 50m pool.

For full information use the EventEntry tab on the menu bar.

Please note that due to technical difficulties with the planned venu the competition will now be combined with the South West Region at Lake 86 Cotswold Water Park on SATURDAY 2nd July.

The Meet Conditions can be downloaded HERE
The Distances and Awards Information can be downloaded HERE

To ENTER please use the following links to SURVEY MONKEY
1000m Swim
AGE GROUPS
MASTERS

A reminder that spectator tickets need to be purchased for all heats sessions in gala 3 from: http://swimengland-eastmidlands.eventbrite.com/

Heat withdrawals must be completed online by 6pm the evening before the swim, this is available on the gala 3 event page and the results area.

Finals withdrawals will close 20 minutes after each of the heat sessions finish, i.e. all of session 1 swims will close 20 minutes after session 1 finishes.

Relay declarations need to be submitted by 1pm on the day of the swim - forms have been send to Club Administrators and Meet Accreditation holders.

Heat swim withdrawals (including 800m and 1500m freestyle):
All heat withdrawals must be completed online by 6pm on Sunday.
https://www.emswimchamps.org.uk/withdrawals?mid=25
Fines may apply to non-withdrawals by the deadline for the 800m and 1500m freestyle.
For any heat swim withdrawals after the closing deadline please ensure the competitor steward team are aware.

Final swim withdrawals:
Final swims including reserves must notify the team on the withdrawals desk (this will also be the medals table) within 30 minutes of the completion of the 50m freestyle during the relevant session i.e.:
Heat swims during session 1 final swims must be withdrawals close 30 mins after the Mens 50m Freestyle finishes
Heat swims during session 2 final swims must be withdrawals close 30 mins after the Womens 50m Freestyle finishes

THE TEAM DECLARATION FORM CAN BE FOUND HERE Gala 2

Spectator Tickets will be released on:

Gala Two – Friday 29th April at 6pm

Gala Three – Monday 2nd May at 10pm

swimengland-eastmidlands.eventbrite.com

We request that spectators are seated in the left hand side area (as you enter the spectator area.)

All spectators must have a ticket with the exception of under 5s, no tickets will be available on the door it is via the online site only. Tickets will be available until the maximum capacity has been reached.

The final accepted entry list and time line are now available here

We are now live for the first weekend of the 2022 Regional Long Course Championships 2022. After 3 years away from this Championship we are glad to have you all back with us. Follow the action live here

All entries faster than the Lower Limit Times circulated last week to Club Administrators have been accepted and can be viewed on the Event Entry page.

A huge amount of administration has taken place with multiple files to get to this point so please ensure to check entries carefully, if any entries where submitted and were faster than the LLTs and are missing please email entries@emswimchamps.org.uk by Wednesday 20th April at 9pm.

No withdrawals will be accepted via email, these must be completed via the website. The link for withdrawals will be live after the close of reporting any errors on Wednesday, we will notify Club Administrators when this is available.

Spectator tickets will be available via Eventbrite for the Corby weekend http://swimengland-eastmidlands.eventbrite.com

Tickets will be available at the above link from 4pm on Sunday 17th April 2022, the links will also be published on the Region’s Facebook page and Twitter.
Tickets will not be required for finals.

We are very short of volunteers for this meet so we would be grateful if the below can be shared, expenses are available for volunteers:
1 23rd / 24th April 2022 Corby https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/Volunteeravailability_Corby2022

2 2nd May 2022 Ponds Forge https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/Volunteers_2ndMay2022

3 7th / 8th May 2022 Ponds Forge https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/Volunteer_7th8thMay2022

The Meet Conditions and Schedules are now avaialable on the Event Entry menu. There is a link on each Gala page for Club Coordinators to request a link to the on-line entry system. The club will also be sent a Sportsystems Entry File for secondary entries as explained in the earlier news article and in the meet conditions. It is intended that the on-line entry system will be available from 1st March.