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A whopping 81 swimmers took part in the annual Pier to Pier Swimming Race on Saturday. OnTheWight has details of the Isle of Wight winners.
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The courage and determination of five Isle of Wight children who have learned to swim against the odds or performed exceptionally was celebrated at the Southern Water Learn to Swim Achiever Awards.
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Swimmers travelled from the mainland to take part in the 18th Isle of Wight Masters International Swim Meet over the weekend. Well done to all who took part, especially the winners.
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101 individuals and 11 teams took part at the event last weekend, which involves a 600m swim in the pool, 35km bike ride along Military rode to Brighstone and a 7.5km run along the River Yar.
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Congratulations to Cadets L/Cpl Wiltshire and Carter for representing the Island at the ACF National Swimming Championships recently. They picked up two golds and two bronzes making that 22 medals each in three years.
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Roz joined the club to help improve her freestyle and has now been awarded 'Most Improved Swimmer' for 2018.
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Mild weather led to large numbers of swimmers at this year’s Ventnor Boxing Day Swim 2018. A wide variety of people taking part as you can see in the video
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The Chairs of Waterside Community Trust and West Wight Sports and Community Centre say denying an equitable distribution Public Health Funding by using it as a subsidy for council-run centres is discriminatory and potentially breaches the council’s own policy on equality.
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Well done to all the triathletes from the Isle of Wight taking part in the various events over the last couple of weeks. Liz has this report.
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The event attracted over 100 swimmers last year and as well as the help of inshore rescue teams, the services of kayakers and canoeists are needed to support the swimmers.
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Nina French and Steve Goodier travelled to Milton Keynes and Melanie Griffiths and Steve Dines competed in Bognor Regis.
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No rescues were needed as the 122 swimmers made their way from Sandown to Shanklin last weekend for the 67th Pier 2 Pier Swim Race.
