This time we look at the 50m Breaststroke Event and a comparison between the female and the male top 50 is quite interesting. The gap between the top and bottom of the female rankings is just 6.19 seconds, while the gap in the male rankings is 7.42 seconds so, in [...]

Two Fins’ swimmers, Erin Taylor and Mark Scott, qualified for the prestigious Edinburgh International Swim Meet, held in the Royal Commonwealth Pool from Friday morning through to Sunday evening last week. The meet attracted a very large entry from all over the UK and Europe, including four national teams from [...]

The next event we focus on is the 1500m Freestyle and, as you will see, this will be a relatively short account. The reason for this is that up until about nineteen/twenty years ago, females did not compete in the event, at any level in World Swimming, and when it [...]

Pathway to the Top With no competition last weekend, we return to ‘Pathway to the Top’ where we will focus on the 200m Butterfly. Although the girl’s record for this event is not the oldest it is certainly one of the oldest and was set by Carole Lewis at Carnegie [...]

The second round of the Scottish East District Age Group Championships were held last Saturday and Sunday at the Bathgate Xcite Sports Centre. All the events were contested over 200m, in each of the four individual strokes. Fins had six swimmers competing, and despite a couple of misfortunes still managed [...]