Masters swimming booms in Scandinavia!
The typical Masters swimmer: 35 to 55 years old, happy & top fit!
The numbers at the National Masters Championships brakes all records this year leading up to the World Masters Championships in Göteborg, Sweden. Sweden, Norway and Denmark are having more starts and participants than ever. The Sedish Masters which will take place in Växsjö 19-21 of March have 433 swimmers doing 1576 individual starts and 212 Relays, Norway who have their Championships this coming weekend (12-14/3) in Stavanger have even more participants with 465 swimmers and the Danish Masters which took place in Odense, the birthtown of Hans Christian Andersen, 850 starts. Not bad for little Denmark, but now we are just waiting for the record from the Finnish Masters that is in the first weekend in April. Finnish Masters are coming strong….. SISU power!
March 10, 2010 3:14 pm
I miss those sunny days and all of these great people