1989

We began with 5 swim­mers on the Nation­al Senior Squad and one on the imme­di­ate squad. Ter­ry Deni­son was appoint­ed GB Chief Coach through to the 1992 Olympic Games. 

We won the Nation­al Club Team Cham­pi­onships for the 7th year in suc­ces­sion and went on to be placed 2nd in Europe. 

At the Euro­pean Cham­pi­onships in Bonn we had 3 swim­mers in the GB Team – Adri­an Moor­house, Jonathan Broughton and Stephen Drons­field – and Ter­ry Deni­son was Chief Coach. Adri­an set a world record of 1.01.49 for 100m breast­stroke in win­ning the Euro­pean Cham­pi­onships and became Britain’s first world record hold­er since David Wilkie in 1976

In age group swim­ming, we saw a resur­gence in our for­tunes under Age Group Senior Coach Steve Pur­chase. At Nation­al Age Group Cham­pi­onships our boys fin­ished 2nd over­all with 5 golds, 3 sil­vers and 4 bronzes. 

European Championships, Bonn

Jonathan Broughton 200m freestyle
400m freestyle
Steve Dronsfield 50m freestyle
100m freestyle
Adrian Moorhouse GOLD 100m breaststroke 1.01.49 WORLD RECORD
Terry Denison Team Coach
Pam Smith Team Physiotherapist

National Champions

Jonathan Broughton LC 200m freestyle
SC 200m freestyle
Steven Dronsfield SC 100m butterfly
Adrian Moorhouse LC 100m breaststroke
Men's relay LC 4 x 100m freestyle (J Broughton, N Metcalfe, R Greenwood, S Dronsfield)
4 x 100m medley (J Davey, A Moorhouse, S Dronsfield, J Broughton)
SC 4 x 100m freestyle (J Cunningham, S Dronsfield, N Metcalfe, J Broughton)
4 x 100m medley (J Davey, J Parrack, S Dronsfield, J Broughton)

1988

In March our men’s team won the GB Club Team Cham­pi­onships for the 6th year in suc­ces­sion and placed 3rd in the Euro­pean Com­mu­ni­ty Team Championships. 

We placed a record 5 swim­mers on the GB Olympic Team – Adri­an Moor­house, James Par­rack, Jonathan Broughton, Tony Day and Helen Frank – and Ter­ry Deni­son was Team Coach. Adri­an achieved the ulti­mate by win­ning the Olympic gold medal in the 100m breaststroke. 

We also broke fresh ground in our for­eign tours by tak­ing an age group squad to Chi­na for 3 weeks – the first British team to tour Chi­na since the 1930s. 

Our team won the Nation­al Swim League Final for the 6th occa­sion and Ter­ry Deni­son was vot­ed BSCA Coach of the Year for the 7th time. 

Olympic Games, Seoul

Jonathan Broughton 4 x 200m freestyle relay
Tony Day 400m freestyle
1500m freestyle
Helen Frank 200m breaststroke
Adrian Moorhouse GOLD 100m breaststroke
200m breaststroke
James Parrack 100m breaststroke
Terry Denison Team Coach
Robin Muir-Cochrane Team Doctor
Pam Smith Team Physiotherapist

National Champions

Tony Day LC 1500m freestyle
Jayne Farnworth SC Junior 200m breaststroke
James Parrack LC 100m breaststroke
Men's relay LC 4 x 100m freestyle (J Broughton, N Metcalfe, R Greenwood, S Wyer)

1987

Sun­day 8th Feb­ru­ary was a true moment in his­to­ry for us. At 4:16pm in the Franken­bad Pool, Bonn, the elec­tron­ic score­board showed 59.75 for a world best time for 100m breast­stroke and the first ever 100m breast­stroke swim under the minute – Adri­an was being acclaimed by some 500 spec­ta­tors as the Ger­man com­men­ta­tor repeat­ed over and over Fan­tastiss­che, Fan­tastiss­che”. Lat­er in the year, Adri­an went on to win the Euro­pean Cham­pi­onships in August in anoth­er Euro­pean record time. 

Leeds City Coun­cil con­tin­ued its expan­sion of the City Train­ing Scheme with the appoint­ment of Steve Pur­chase, for­mer­ly Wal­sall, as full time age group coach in Feb­ru­ary and with the appoint­ment of Paul Bush, for­mer­ly Leices­ter, as Swim­ming Devel­op­ment Offi­cer in September. 

At the Euro­pean Cham­pi­onships in Stras­bourg in August, City of Leeds was rep­re­sent­ed by Adri­an Moor­house – who won gold, sil­ver and bronze medals – Tony Day, Jonathan Broughton and Ter­ry Deni­son as GB coach. 

Adri­an was select­ed as BSCA and ASA Swim­mer of the Year for 1987. Ter­ry Deni­son was select­ed as BSCA Coach of the Year for 1987 (the 6th occa­sion since 1978). 

The final acco­lade of a high­ly suc­cess­ful year was the award­ing to Adri­an of the MBE for ser­vices to sport in the Queen’s Birth­day Hon­ours List. In team events, we won the Nation­al Team Cham­pi­onships for the 5th con­sec­u­tive time and our men’s team rep­re­sent­ed GB in the first Euro­pean Eco­nom­ic Com­mu­ni­ty Team Cham­pi­onships, fin­ish­ing 4th

World Student Games, Zagreb

Tony Day

European Championships, Strasbourg

Jonathan Broughton
Tony Day
Adrian Moorhouse GOLD 100m breaststroke EUROPEAN RECORD
SILVER 4 x 100m medley relay
BRONZE 200m breaststroke ENGLISH RECORD
Terry Denison Team Coach
Robin Muir-Cochrane Team Doctor

National Champions

Tony Day SC 1500m freestyle
Jonathan Broughton LC 200m freestyle
Helen Frank LC Junior 100m breaststroke
Junior 200m breaststroke
SC Junior 100m breaststroke
Adrian Moorhouse LC 100m breaststroke
Men's relay LC 4 x 100m freestyle (J Broughton, N Metcalfe, R Greenwood, T Day)
4 x 100m medley (C Cockroft, J Parrack, R Greenwood, J Broughton)

1986

Anoth­er peak for the City of Leeds. Adri­an Moor­house won 2 gold medals and 1 sil­ver medal at the Com­mon­wealth Games and Jonathan Broughton won a bronze Medal. City of Leeds was also rep­re­sent­ed at the Games by Mur­ray Buswell, Cathy White, Ter­ry Deni­son (Eng­land) and Tony Day and Max­ine McK­in­nell (Wales).

At the World Cham­pi­onships which fol­lowed, Adri­an fin­ished first by a metre in the 100m breast­stroke final and for five min­utes the score­board showed Adri­an as Britain’s first World Cham­pi­on since 1975. Then came major dis­ap­point­ment – Adri­an had been dis­qual­i­fied for a faulty turn. 7000 spec­ta­tors hissed and whis­tled their oppo­si­tion but the dis­qual­i­fi­ca­tion stood. Adri­an was left, how­ev­er, with the sat­is­fac­tion of post­ing a Euro­pean record and the fastest time in the world in 1986 with his heat swim. 

Commonwealth Games, Edinburgh

Jonathan Broughton BRONZE 4 x 200m freestyle relay
Murray Buswell Finalist 200m breaststroke
Tony Day Finalist 400m freestyle
Finalist 1500m freestyle
Finalist 400m IM
Maxine McKinnell
Adrian Moorhouse GOLD 200m breaststroke
GOLD 4 x 100m medley relay
SILVER 100m breaststroke
Cathy White Finalist 200m backstroke
Terry Denison Team Coach

World Championships, Madrid

Tony Day
Adrian Moorhouse 100m breaststroke EUROPEAN RECORD

European Junior Championships, Berlin

Helen Frank

National Champions

Tony Day SC 1500m freestyle
Adrian Moorhouse LC 100m breaststroke
200m breaststroke
SC 100m breaststroke
200m breaststroke
Men's relay LC 4 x 100m medley (C Cockroft, A Moorhouse, D Emerson, J Broughton)

1985

We had 4 swim­mers rep­re­sent­ing GB in the Euro­pean Cham­pi­onships and Adri­an won Gold in the 100m breast­stroke. Tony Day went on to win Bronze in the World Stu­dent Games and the year end­ed on a high note with 5 swim­mers select­ed for the York­shire Bank senior squad and 3 for the Esso Nation­al Youth squad. 

World Student Games, Kobe

Tony Day BRONZE 1500m freestyle

European Championships, Sofia

Murray Buswell Finalist 200m breaststroke
Tony Day Finalist 400m freestyle
Finalist 1500m freestyle
Adrian Moorhouse GOLD 100m breaststroke
Cathy White

European Junior Championships, Geneva

Stephen Ferriday 4th 200m butterfly

National Champions

Tony Day SC 1500m freestyle BR
Stephen Ferriday SC Junior 200m butterfly BJR
Adrian Moorhouse LC 100m breaststroke
200m breaststroke
SC 100m breaststroke WL - 1:00.58
200m breaststroke BR
Cathy White SC 100m backstroke
Men's relay LC 4 x 100m medley (P Baldasera, A Moorhouse, D Emerson, J Broughton)
SC 4 x 100m medley (P Baldasera, A Moorhouse, D Emerson, J Broughton)

1984

Adri­an Moor­house was 4th in the Olympic 100m breast­stroke and Andrew Ast­bury won our first ever Olympic medal with a bronze in the Men’s 4 x 200m freestyle relay. 

Olympic Games, Los Angeles

Andrew Astbury BRONZE 4 x 200m freestyle relay
Adrian Moorhouse 4th 100m breaststroke
Terry Denison Chief Coach

European Junior Championships, Mulhouse

Janine Illingworth

National Champions

Murray Buswell LC 200m breaststroke
Tony Day LC 1500m freestyle
SC 1500m freestyle
David Emerson LC 200m butterfly
Adrian Moorhouse SC 100m breaststroke
200m breaststroke

1983

European Championships, Rome

Adrian Moorhouse GOLD 200m breaststroke
SILVER 100m breaststroke
Andrew Astbury 400m freestyle
1500m freestyle
Terry Denison Chief Coach

National Champions

Andrew Astbury LC 1500m freestyle
Philip Baldasera SC Junior 200m IM
Junior 400m IM
Adrian Moorhouse LC 100m breaststroke
200m breaststroke
Lisa Tate SC Junior 200m breaststroke
Men's relay LC 4 x 100m medley (S Broadbent, A Moorhouse, D Emerson, A Astbury)

1982

Four swim­mers from Leeds Cen­tral – Andrew Ast­bury, Adri­an Moor­house, Peter Mus­grave and Louise Tate – were select­ed to rep­re­sent Eng­land in the Com­mon­wealth Games in Brisbane. 

Andrew won: 

  • 2 gold medals: 200m freestyle (British record) and 400m freestyle (British record)
  • 1 sil­ver medal: Men’s 4 x 200m freestyle relay
  • 1 bronze medal: Men’s 1500m freestyle

Adri­an won: 

  • 1 gold medal: 100m breast­stroke (British record)
  • 1 sil­ver medal: Men’s 4 x 100m med­ley relay
  • 1 bronze medal: 200m breaststroke

In Sep­tem­ber, the Leeds Train­ing Scheme was fur­ther devel­oped when Leeds City Cor­po­ra­tion decid­ed to employ a full time swim­ming coach for the city. The per­son appoint­ed was Ter­ry Deni­son, already coach to Leeds Cen­tral SC and Great Britain. On 14th Octo­ber, an Extra­or­di­nary Gen­er­al Meet­ing of club mem­bers decid­ed to com­plete the union of swim­ming club and train­ing scheme by chang­ing the club name. From 1st Jan­u­ary 1983, we became the City of Leeds Swim­ming Club. 

Commonwealth Games, Brisbane

Adrian Moorhouse GOLD 100m breaststroke BRITISH RECORD
SILVER 4 x 100m medley relay
BRONZE 200m breaststroke
Andrew Astbury GOLD 200m freestyle BRITISH RECORD
GOLD 400m freestyle BRITISH RECORD
SILVER 4 x 200m freestyle relay
BRONZE 1500m freestyle
Louise Tate Finalist 200m IM
Peter Musgrave 200m breaststroke

World Championships, Guayaguil

Adrian Moorhouse 100m breaststroke BRITISH RECORD
Andrew Astbury 400m freestyle
1500m freestyle
Terry Denison Chief Coach

European Junior Championships, Innsbruck

Lisa Tate Finalist 200m breaststroke
Judith Spensley
Martyn Webster

National Champions

Andrew Astbury LC 400m freestyle
1500m freestyle
SC NCAA 500yds freestyle
Adrian Moorhouse LC 100m breaststroke
200m breaststroke
SC 100m breaststroke
200m breaststroke
Louise Tate LC 400m IM

1981

European Championships, Split

Adrian Moorhouse BRONZE 200m breaststroke
Andrew Astbury 400m freestyle BRITISH RECORD
4 x 200m freestyle relay
Kaye Lovatt

National Champions

Andrew Astbury LC 200m freestyle
400m freestyle
1500m freestyle
Adrian Moorhouse LC 100m breaststroke
200m breaststroke
SC 100m breaststroke
200m breaststroke

1980

Olympic Games, Moscow

Andrew Astbury
Kay Lovatt
Terry Denison Team Coach

National Champions

Andrew Astbury LC 400m freestyle
1500m freestyle
Adrian Moorhouse LC 100m breaststroke
200m breaststroke BJR
SC Junior 100m breaststroke BJR
Junior 200m breaststroke BJR
Linda Purchon SC Junior 100m butterfly