Molonglo Water Dragons
Three longstanding Molonglo Water Dragon swimmers have gone to a great many lengths to prove that they can go the distance in the pool. Marg Larkin wears her polo shirt marking her completion of 2 million metres (that’s 20 thousand lengths of a 50m pool) earlier in the year. She is flanked by Geoff Llewellyn […]
MS 24 HOUR SWIM – CANBERRA 5-6 AUGUST 2023 Fifteen enthusiastic swimmers from the Club and friends from the Tuggeranong Vikings and Lifeline joined together as the Molonglo Megasaurs and participated in the MS 24 Hour Swim at the Australian Institute of Sport on 5-6 August 2023. We swam 57.55km and raised (at last count) […]
Congratulations to Mike Peedom (79) who contested all five freestyle events at the Australian Masters Swimming Championships. Mike, who swims at Queanbeyan on Sundays and AIS on Thursdays finished with a 3rd, a 4th and three 5ths even though he is his last year as a member of the 75-79 age group. Look out next […]
Early on it looked like that nameless group frequently listed on concert flyers (Many More) would be competing at the State Championships, however most seem to have sunk along the way and just three of our senior men ventured to Homebush for the 2023 Long Course Championships. Swimming on both Saturday and Sunday of the […]
After missing the 320+ 4x50m freestyle record at the NSW Championships in October, the club’s Awesome Foursome decided to try to break it at the Campbelltown meet held on Saturday, 28th January. The current record of 3:00.45 was set by Manly Club 23 years ago in 2000 and it must be the longest standing record […]
On Saturday 15th and Sunday 26th the ACT/NSW Long Course (50m pool) Championships were held in the AIS Pool. 236 swimmers competed over the weekend coming from the Far South Coast to as far north as Yamba. 20 of the 236 came in from interstate clubs as this even was part of the National Swim […]
20 to 23 April 2022 The 2020 Tokyo Olympics may have been delayed until 2021 but we can go one better. The MSA National Championships, Sydney 2020 were delayed first until 2021 and then finally held in 2022! And the winner was Tuggeranong Vikings! With the help of three of our men Tuggeranong outscored 83 […]
In 2021, Geoff Llewellyn, then 88, completed the last of the 62 Endurance 1000 program swims on Thursday the 10th June. At the time this was Australian record time for completing this series of swims. This year, Geoff now 89, has finished all 62 swims by 10am on the 5th May. As the Endurance programs […]
At the recent Tuggeranong Time trials treasurer, Gary Stutsel, was presented with a plaque recognizing his life membership of MSA. The presentation was made by Anne Smythe at the end of the swims. When asked about when and why he became the first life member of MSA, Gary replied in 1985 in recognition of the […]
(that’s right, 1000 km) Molonglo Water Dragons’ (MWDs’) four million metres swimmers! Pictured above in their million metre polo shirts are MWD’s four million metre plus swimmers, namely left to right John Collis, Chris Hayhoe, Marg Larkin and Geoff Llewellyn. These four swimmers between them have swum at least half way around Australia and received […]