Swimming legend Adam Peaty MBE visited Suffolk’s Hot Tub Village at Stonham Barns holiday and residential park to give one-to-one coaching to six lucky junior swimmers. Adam Peaty is the greatest breaststroke swimmer in history having won three Olympic Golds, eight World Championship titles and amazingly has the top 20 fastest times for the 100m […]
Adam Peaty
Swim England has joined three of the biggest names in the sport and leading aquatic organisations in pledging its support for a major campaign to ensure all children who leave primary school by 2025 are able to swim. The Swim United campaign has been launched by swimwear brand Speedo alongside Olympic gold medallist Adam Peaty, […]
Sandon Primary Academy’s new school pool was opened officially in 2018 by Olympic Gold Medallist Adam Peaty. Sandon is the only primary academy in Stoke-on-Trent with its own state-of-the-art swimming pool. The money to fund the pool was raised entirely by the school. The school now gives its 500 pupils, aged from two to eleven, […]
Once upon a time in a deprived area of Stoke on Trent, the people running the local school had an ambition for the school to have its very own swimming pool. Now, thanks to the focus and determination of these people, led by School Principal Rachel Beckett, Sandon is the only primary academy in the […]
Team GB’s success in the pool at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games has created a wave of people taking to the water, according to the Amateur Swimming Association (ASA). Since Olympic fever took hold at the beginning of August, the association has been inundated with enquiries from people looking to get involved in pool-based sports. In […]
The eyes of the world will be on Rio de Janeiro this month as it hosts the 2016 Olympic Games. More than 17,000 athletes and officials from 206 countries will compete from August 5 to 21 in the first Olympics Games to be held in South America. Second only to Track and Field in the […]
