Windermere International Championships

The Windermere International Championships were a quadrennial series of races held on Lake Windermere, England. Organized by the British Long Distance Swimming Association from 1966-1990, the event attracted elite international fields with many swimmers who also competed on the professional WPMSF circuit.

Windermere International Championships route
Route Swims Fastest
Fellfoot to Waterhead 15 Bob Walter - 05:11:09 (1966)
Bowness-Fellfoot-Waterhead 90 Mary Beth Colpo - 06:10:33 (1978)

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1966 Aug 6

Men

Fellfoot to Waterhead (16.9 km)

Windermere International Championships results - 1966 - 16.9 km - Men
Place Name Gender Age Nation Time
1 Bob Walter Male 05:11:09
2 Geoffrey Lake Male 05:26:21
3 Rob Gruppelaar Male 05:28:00
4 Barry Watson Male 27 05:28:16
5 Kevin Murphy Male 17 05:38:23
6 Norman Trusty Male 33 06:00:29
7 Cornelis Haagendoorn Male 06:05:12
8 Kendall Mellor Male 06:16:08
9 Angus Smith Male 06:31:27
10 Philip Gollop Male 06:45:29
11 Robert McCaughey Male 08:42:50
12 John Earls Male 24 09:06:54

Women

Fellfoot to Waterhead (16.9 km)

Windermere International Championships results - 1966 - 16.9 km - Women
Place Name Gender Age Nation Time
1 Elaine Gray Female 19-20 05:18:40
2 Christina Genge Female 06:59:03
3 Mair Leonard Female 08:37:26

1970 Aug 8

Men

Bowness-Fellfoot-Waterhead (26.5 km)

Windermere International Championships results - 1970 - 26.5 km - Men
Place Name Gender Age Nation Time
1 Michael Read Male 29 07:35:00
2 Jan Visser Male 08:03:08
3 Tadeusz Mazur Male 08:35:00
4 Lawrence Burke Male 09:01:42
5 Mervyn Sharp Male 21 10:07:58
6 Colin Proctor Male 10:12:00
7 Francis Allen Male 10:29:09
8 Chris Carter Male 21 10:45:10
9 Robert McNae Male 10:46:35
10 Douglas Ivor Sutton Male 15:15:00

Women

Bowness-Fellfoot-Waterhead (26.5 km)

Windermere International Championships results - 1970 - 26.5 km - Women
Place Name Gender Age Nation Time
1 A.S. van der Veekin Female 07:56:01
2 Linda Nightingale Female 09:50:00
3 Carol Jeffs Female 11:50:00

1974 Aug 3

Men

Bowness-Fellfoot-Waterhead (26.5 km)

Windermere International Championships results - 1974 - 26.5 km - Men
Place Name Gender Age Nation Time
1 Piet Stegink Male 06:25:00
2 I Moustafa Male 06:40:30
3 M Amin Male 06:40:30
4 Hans Prins Male 06:44:00
5 D Khatou Male 07:05:00
6 J Cabanes Male 07:07:00
7 Michael Read Male 33 07:08:00
8 Chris Carter Male 25 07:19:00
9 Kevin Murphy Male 25 07:21:00
10 Kenneth Brewer Male 07:27:00
11 James Hamish Winter Male 07:28:00
12 Francis Allen Male 07:28:00
13 Ian Reid Male 15-16 07:35:00
14 Norman Trusty Male 41 07:41:00

Women

Bowness-Fellfoot-Waterhead (26.5 km)

Windermere International Championships results - 1974 - 26.5 km - Women
Place Name Gender Age Nation Time
1 Lottie ten Veen Female 06:45:00
2 Valerie Taylor Parsons Female 24 07:03:00
3 Gihan Ismail Female 07:29:00
4 Eira Davies Female 07:29:30
5 Suzanne Lodge Female 08:32:00

1978 Aug 5

Women

Bowness-Fellfoot-Waterhead (26.5 km)

Windermere International Championships results - 1978 - 26.5 km - Women
Place Name Gender Age Nation Time
1 Mary Beth Colpo Female 06:10:33
2 Penny Lee Dean Female 23 06:21:02
3 Irene van der Laan Female 17 06:59:42
4 Alison Roberts Female 08:07:56
5 Joke van Staveren Female 08:15:53
6 Sal Minty-Gravett Female 21 08:16:26
7 Linda Devereux Female 08:51:47
8 Jane Luscombe Female 09:05:06

Men

Bowness-Fellfoot-Waterhead (26.5 km)

Windermere International Championships results - 1978 - 26.5 km - Men
Place Name Gender Age Nation Time
1 Rudy Willems Male 06:45:31
2 Mohamed El Messery Male 19-20 06:52:17
3 Ton Brouwer Male 06:55:20
4 Al Said Fakhir Male 06:56:41
5 Alawi Mohammed Makki Al-Ibrahim Male 07:06:53
6 Mohamed Hassan Khalil Male 07:40:30
7 Yahia Zakria Al-Sattey Male 07:42:44
8 Robert Sherburn Male 07:46:49
9 Peter Stephens Male 08:53:04
10 Michael Read Male 37 09:27:18
11 Ian Reid Male 19-20 09:35:59

1982 Aug 7

Men

Bowness-Fellfoot-Waterhead (26.5 km)

Windermere International Championships results - 1982 - 26.5 km - Men
Place Name Gender Age Nation Time
1 Steven Munatones Male 20 06:11:45
2 Ton Brouwer Male 06:48:46
3 Stephen Dockery Male 07:19:06
4 Osama El Shazly Male 07:19:52
5 David Morgan Male 18 07:20:24
6 Martin Richards Male 07:48:09
7 Saleh Mandour Male 28-29 07:52:07
8 Bruce Beckett Male 08:54:12
9 James Hamish Winter Male 09:00:50
10 Michael Read Male 41 09:19:00
11 Kevin McIntosh Male 10:00:20
12 Cristos Fessas Male 10:20:12

Women

Bowness-Fellfoot-Waterhead (26.5 km)

Windermere International Championships results - 1982 - 26.5 km - Women
Place Name Gender Age Nation Time
1 Irene van der Laan Female 21 06:30:06
2 Karen Toole Female 06:34:42
3 Cindy Pattersen Female 06:50:40
4 Irena Holeniewska Female 06:54:10
5 Elizabeth Horner Female 16-17 06:55:12
6 Vera Zeitzen Female 07:25:06
7 Linda Hargreaves Female 24-25 07:44:50
8 Sara Adual Aziz Female 08:16:35
9 Julie Bradshaw Female 18 08:28:34
10 Deborah Banks Female 08:53:57

1986 Aug 9

Men

Bowness-Fellfoot-Waterhead (26.5 km)

Windermere International Championships results - 1986 - 26.5 km - Men
Place Name Gender Age Nation Time
1 Marc Newman Male 17 06:22:06
2 Mahmoud Nail Male 19-20 06:47:29
3 Ton Brouwer Male 06:55:47
4 David Morgan Male 22 08:15:57
5 Alman Mohamed El Reedy Male 08:32:15
6 John York Male 25 08:51:55
7 Phillip Reed Male 08:52:54

Women

Bowness-Fellfoot-Waterhead (26.5 km)

Windermere International Championships results - 1986 - 26.5 km - Women
Place Name Gender Age Nation Time
1 Alexa Reetz Female 16-17 06:42:00
2 Gizella Szlavitsek Female 07:07:10
3 Bridget Young Female 21 07:11:46
4 Nathalie Patenaude Female 18 07:16:27
5 Alison Streeter Female 21 07:22:58
6 Monique Slinger Female 07:29:53
7 Helen Perry Female 07:56:30
8 Alison Roberts Female 08:33:13
9 Grainne Moss Gunn Female 16-17 09:04:02
10 Margaret Kidd Female 10:04:44

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