For more than four decades, the Cole Classic has been a cornerstone event at the iconic Manly Beach. It’s one of the world’s most celebrated ocean swim events. And every year a number of Drummoyne Swimming Club swimmers make the trek to Manly to participate.
This summer the Cole Classic will be held on Sunday the 4th of February 2024. As usual the options are 1 km, 2 km and 5 km.
If you are thinking about doing an ocean swim this is the event for you.
This year we are hosting the 15th installment of the Battle on the Bay!
This year registration is via TeamApp. Please confirm your attendance and the strokes you wish to swim by going to the Team App Events page.
Battle on the Bay is always a great afternoon. It’s a good chance to come together as a Drummoyne team and fight it out against our neighboring clubs from Leichhardt, Ashfield and Enfield.
Event Information
Where: Drummoyne Swimming Centre
When: Saturday 17 February 2024
What time: 14:00 – 19:30 (warm-up from 13:30)
Why: So Drummoyne Swimming Club can be crowned the greatest swimming club in the universe, ever.
What races:
50m freestyle,
50m breaststroke,
50m backstroke and
50m butterfly,
30m form stroke races for youngsters (7 – 8 years),
20m form stroke races for 6 and under, plus
4 × 50m relays and the mega 10 × 50 mega relays.
Fees: $7.00 plus pool entry (pool entry to be paid on the day in the usual fashion). Event fees can be paid online – Square Online Payment.
Volunteers Needed
We will need plenty of volunteers on the day with timekeeping, selling programs and helping with the BBQ. Please put your hand up to help if you can.
Welcome back to racing in 2024! This week we have an action packed program with points races for the young and old, breaststroke heats and the George Russell 400M Freestyle handicap trophy final.
Event
Detail
Sprint
100m Freestyle ~ Molly Wark/Les Henry U/10 100m Freestyle – Week 3 ~ 35 and Over 100m Freestyle – Week 3 50M, 30M or 20M Breaststroke
After having success with adults of many different backgrounds and discovering the ‘conventional’ coaching methods weren’t working for everyone, Effortless Swimming founder Brenton began the organisation as a way to share his knowledge with people all over the world. They began sharing coaching methods on Youtube which quickly grew into millions of views. Effortless Swimming is based in Victoria but hosts regular clinics in Sydney.
A number of our swimmers have completed the Freestyle Stroke Correction Clinic at Effortless Swimming over the years and the results speak for themselves.
Just recently Duncan Lyon, Gerry Tibbertsma and Phil Hayward completed the course. After putting the learnings into practice Duncan took almost 10 seconds off his 200m Freestyle time this weekend. If he keeps that up he’ll beat the 200 second mark and qualify to swim 400M races.
Well done Duncan!
As noted above, Effortless Swimming have provided a clinic voucher and we’ll raffle it off a little later in the season.
However, if you or someone you know would benefit from the clinic check out Effortless Swimming’s website and program. Book yourself in!
For more than four decades, the Cole Classic has been a cornerstone event at the iconic Manly Beach. It’s one of the world’s most celebrated ocean swim events. And every year a number of Drummoyne Swimming Club swimmers make the trek to Manly to participate.
This summer the Cole Classic will be held on Sunday the 4th of February 2024. As usual the options are 1 km, 2 km and 5 km.
If you are thinking about doing an ocean swim this is the event for you.
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