Plymouth’s top swimming stars are showing their support for a new swimming pledge that will ensure every child in the city has the opportunity to learn to swim.
The Second Chance to Swim scheme is Plymouth City Council’s pledge to ensure that any child who didn’t learn to swim during their primary school intensive swimming programme gets another opportunity to learn this essential...
A pair of Plymouth University swimmers are set to dip their toes in the water at the short course world championships in Doha in December.
Matthew Zammit and Mindaugas Sadauskas will compete alongside almost 900 swimmers from over 40 countries at the FINA World Swimming Championships (25m), a week-long event, which includes 34 individual races and 12 relays.
16-year-old from Ivybridge gets ready for Brazil honour
16-year-old Ivybridge student Megan Bowen is putting her heart and soul into training as she prepares for her biggest honour to date – competing for her school and country in the International Swimming Federation’s (ISF) World School Games in Brazil.
Megan will be swimming in the 200 and 400 metres freestyle events, and...
Plymouth-based swimming sensation Ruta Meilutyte has added more goal medals to her Olympic and World Championship titles in a World Cup event in Moscow.
The Lithuanian who is a national hero in her home country and studies at Plymouth College, won both 50m and 100m short course breaststroke titles.
The 16-year-old coached by Jon Rudd at Plymouth Leander, set a new world record...
Plymouth Leander's Jon Rudd has been unveiled as the Head Coach for the England swimming team at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow in 2014.
Rudd who is Head Coach of the highly successful Plymouth Leander Swimming Club, coached Ruta Meilutyte to her Olympic gold medal at the London 2012 Games.
The 16-year-old Lithuanian swimmer followed that performance with gold at the 2013...
Among the Olympic gold medallists taking part in the mass participation watersports event, the Ecover Blue Mile, is Plymouth kayaker and swimmer Steven Dodd.
Steven, 38, won three gold medals at the GB Special Olympics for people with learning difficulties. He claimed his trio of golds in the kayak competition in Nottingham earlier this year, winning the 200m, 500m and the tandem...
Plymouth's Ruta Meilutyte finished in silver medal position in the 50m breaststroke final at the World Championships in Barcelona on Sunday (4 August), behind Russia’s Yuliya Efimova.
The 16-year-old Lithuanian swimmer, who competes for Plymouth Leander and studies at Plymouth College, had broken her second world record in the space of a week in Saturday's 50m semi-final to follow her...
Plymouth’s golden girl Ruta Meilutyte took time out from her busy schedule to explain why she’s backing an event which gets people active in the water.
Ruta, 16, has thrown her weight behind the 2013 Ecover Blue Mile which takes place off Plymouth’s historic Barbican on 14-15 September.
Lithuanian-born Ruta shocked everyone including herself when, at the age of just 15, she won...
Plymouth's swimming sensation Ruta Meilutyte has become 100m breaststroke world champion in Barcelona to add to her Olympic gold medal, won in London last year.
The 16-year-old Lithuanian, who attends Plymouth College, won the World Aquatic Championships final in a time of 1:04.42 seconds, just outside the world record of 1:04.35 she set in her semi-final on Monday.
