{"id":4929,"date":"2015-08-19T11:01:23","date_gmt":"2015-08-19T11:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perrybeechesswimming.co.uk\/site\/?p=4929"},"modified":"2015-08-19T11:02:03","modified_gmt":"2015-08-19T11:02:03","slug":"golden-week-for-masters-swimming-in-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/perrybeechesswimming.co.uk\/site\/golden-week-for-masters-swimming-in-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden week for Masters Swimming in Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Masters swimmers ended their World Championship campaign with an impressive 16\u00a0gold medals and two world records for Emma Gage.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1575 size-medium alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/british-swimming.assets.portals.s3.amazonaws.com\/2015\/08\/emma_gage-221x300.jpg\" alt=\"emma_gage_medals\" width=\"221\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the Masters Swimming, Gage posted a new 25-29yrs World Record of 56.96 to win gold in the 100m Freestyle, and a second World Record in the 50m Butterfly (27.10). The Trafford Metro swimmer then went on to add to her gold medal haul with victory in the 50m Freestyle.<\/p>\n<p>There was a strong contingent from Spencer Swim Team competing in Kazan. Diane Ford won a clean sweep of Breaststroke golds in the 70-74 years age-group, while Amanda Heath won gold in both the 55-59yrs 100m and 200m Breaststroke.<\/p>\n<p>There were also gold medals for Ivan Nechunaev in the 25-20yrs 400m IM and for Jean Howard-Jones in the 70-74yrs 50m Freestyle.<\/p>\n<p>In the Mixed 4x50m Freestyle Howards-Jones and Ford where joined by Spencer Swim teammates Tony Cherrington, who finished seconds in 70-74yrs 3km Open Water race earlier in the week, and Nigel Salsbury to win gold in the 280-319yrs combined age-group.<\/p>\n<p>In other events, Graeme Milne of Truro City won gold in the 60-64yrs 50m and 100m Butterfly, while Broomfield Park SC\u2019s Derek Parr (70-74yrs) and Eastbourne SC\u2019s David Cummings (75-79yrs) both won gold in the 100m Fly for their respective age groups. Cummings also won gold in the 75-79yrs 400m Individual Medley on the second day of competition.<\/p>\n<p>Go to the FINA website for full results from the <a href=\"http:\/\/masterskazan2015.microplustiming.com\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">World Masters Championships<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can also read about the GB\u00a0Masters <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swimming.org\/asa\/news\/competitive\/divers-land-medal-hat-trick-in-russia\/24886\">Diving<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swimming.org\/synchro\/british-masters-synchro-swimmers-take-world\/\" target=\"_blank\">Synchro<\/a> performances in Kazan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Masters swimmers ended their World Championship campaign with an impressive 16\u00a0gold medals and two world records for Emma Gage. In the Masters Swimming, Gage posted a new 25-29yrs World Record of 56.96 to win gold in the 100m Freestyle, and a second World Record in the 50m Butterfly (27.10). The Trafford Metro swimmer then went &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/perrybeechesswimming.co.uk\/site\/golden-week-for-masters-swimming-in-russia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Golden week for Masters Swimming in Russia<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/perrybeechesswimming.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/perrybeechesswimming.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/perrybeechesswimming.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/perrybeechesswimming.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/perrybeechesswimming.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4929"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/perrybeechesswimming.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4932,"href":"http:\/\/perrybeechesswimming.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929\/revisions\/4932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/perrybeechesswimming.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/perrybeechesswimming.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/perrybeechesswimming.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}