1990s

In March, we won the GB Club Team Cham­pi­onship for the 15^th time. 

At the World Short Course Cham­pi­onships in Hong Kong, James Hick­man, Claire Hud­dart, Gavin Mead­ows, Ian Wil­son and Lin­da Hind­marsh rep­re­sent­ed Great Britain. James won 1 gold, 1 sil­ver and 2 bronze medals. Claire won 1 gold and 1 sil­ver, and Gavin 1 sil­ver, in relay teams. Ter­ry Deni­son was Team Coach and David Fod­den Team Doctor. 

Stu­art Trees rep­re­sent­ed the GB Juniors in the 6 Nations Cham­pi­onship and went on to swim in the Euro­pean Junior Cham­pi­onships in July. In April we won the Speedo Nation­al Swim League for the 15^th time. 

At the British Nation­als we won 11 gold, 2 sil­ver and 5 bronze medals. James Hick­man set a British record in the 100m fly and our girls set a British record in the 4 x 200m freestyle relay. 

At the Euro­pean Cham­pi­onships in Istan­bul, James Hick­man, Gavin Mead­ows, Claire Hud­dart, Karen Nis­bet and Lin­da Hind­marsh rep­re­sent­ed GB. Ter­ry Deni­son was Team Coach and David Fod­den Team Doc­tor. James won sil­ver in the 100m fly, and Gavin won a relay sil­ver and equalled the British record in the 100m freestyle. Claire Hud­dart won a relay bronze. 

At the Nation­al Age Groups we were top team, with our girls 1^st and our boys 4^th in their sections. 

At the Euro­pean Short Course Cham­pi­onships in Lis­bon, James Hick­man won 1 gold, 1 sil­ver and 1 bronze medal. Gavin made the final of the 200m freestyle. 

At the British Win­ter Nation­als we won 3 gold, 2 sil­ver and 4 bronze medals. 

World Short Course Championships, Hong Kong

European Championships, Istanbul

European Short Course Championships, Lisbon

European Junior Championships, Moscow

National Champions

Chief Coach Ter­ry Deni­son was award­ed the MBE in the New Year Hon­ours List. 

At the World Cham­pi­onships in Perth, Claire Hud­dart, Ian Wil­son, Gavin Mead­ows and Lin­da Hind­marsh rep­re­sent­ed Great Britain. Dur­ing the World Cup Series, James Hick­man set a world short-course record for the 200m but­ter­fly and Com­mon­wealth records for both the 200m and 100m IM. Gavin Mead­ows set a British record for the 200m freestyle. 

Our Train­ing Scheme took anoth­er step for­ward when Leeds was offi­cial­ly des­ig­nat­ed as a Great Britain Region­al High Per­for­mance Cen­tre by the ASFGB. The Cen­tre came into full oper­a­tion in May 1998. 

In Sep­tem­ber, at the Com­mon­wealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Leeds swim­mers won 10 medals. James Hick­man won gold (200m fly) and 3 sil­ver (200m IM, 400m IM and med­ley relay), Gavin Mead­ows won 2 bronze (100m freestyle and 4 x 100m freestyle relay) and 2 sil­ver (med­ley relay and 4 x 200m freestyle relay), and Claire Hud­dart won 2 sil­ver (freestyle relays). 

At the Euro­pean Short Course Cham­pi­onships in Decem­ber, James Hick­man set his sec­ond World record in the but­ter­fly with a 100m time of 51.02. Over­all he won 3 gold (100m fly, 200m fly and 200m IM) and 2 bronze (100m IM and med­ley relay). 

Commonwealth Games, Kuala Lumpur

World Championships, Perth

European Short Course Championships, Sheffield

National Champions

Gavin Mead­ows and Andrew Clay­ton won gold medals in the Euro­pean Cham­pi­onships in Seville as part of the British 4 x 200m freestyle relay team. Ian Wil­son, Claire Hud­dart, Lin­da Hind­marsh and Shel­ley Moores also swam in these Cham­pi­onships. Karen Nis­bet and Vic­ki Bar­radell rep­re­sent­ed Great Britain at the Euro­pean Junior Cham­pi­onships, with Karen win­ning a gold medal in the 4 x 100m freestyle relay. 

At the Senior Nation­als we won 14 gold, 8 sil­ver and 3 bronze medals, and set British records in both the Men’s and Wom­en’s 4 x 200m freestyle relays. In fact, by the end of 1997 we held all 6 British Club relay Team records, long and short course. We were top club for the 5^th year in suc­ces­sion at the Nation­al Age Groups. We won the Great Britain Club Cham­pi­onships for the 12^th time and the Speedo Nation­al League Cham­pi­onship for the 13^th time. 

At the World Short Course Cham­pi­onships in Gothen­burg, Claire Hud­dart, Andrew Clay­ton, Ian Wil­son, Gavin Mead­ows and Lin­da Hind­marsh rep­re­sent­ed Great Britain. Pauline Bas­nett was Assis­tant Team Man­ag­er and Ter­ry Deni­son Team Coach. 

World Short Course Championships, Gothenburg

European Championships, Seville

European Junior Championships, Glasgow

National Champions

Andrew Clay­ton and Claire Hud­dart rep­re­sent­ed Great Britain in the Atlanta Olympic Games. Ian Wil­son won a sil­ver medal in the World Short Course Cham­pi­onships in Rio De Janeiro. Karen Nis­bet won 2 sil­ver medals in relay events in the Euro­pean Junior Championships. 

At the Senior Nation­als we were top club win­ning both Men’s and Wom­en’s sec­tions with 10 gold, 4 sil­ver and 11 bronze medals. This suc­cess was repeat­ed at the Nation­al Age Groups, again win­ning both Girl’s and Boy’s sec­tions. We won the Great Britain Team Cham­pi­onship with the Ladies fin­ish­ing 1^st and the Men fin­ish­ing 2^nd. We won the Speedo Nation­al League Final. 

In August Eva Mortensen became the first City Of Leeds swim­mer to swim The Channel. 

Olympic Games, Atlanta

European Junior Championships, Copenhagen

National Champions

We won every major British Club hon­our. In April we were Great Britain Club Team Cham­pi­ons, in July we were top club at the Senior Nation­als, in August we were top club at the Nation­al Age Groups win­ning both boys and girls sec­tions, and in Sep­tem­ber we won the Speedo Nation­al League Championship. 

At the Euro­pean Cham­pi­onships in Vien­na, Andrew Clay­ton, David War­ren, Gavin Mead­ows, Claire Hud­dart and Claire Book­er all rep­re­sent­ed Great Britain. Karen Nis­bet won 2 bronze medals in relay Events at the Euro­pean Junior Championships. 

World Short Course Championships, Rio de Janeiro

World Student Games, Japan

European Championships, Vienna

European Junior Championships, Geneva

National Champions

The Club Exec­u­tive set a clear mis­sion state­ment for our club by offer­ing £1000 to any Leeds swim­mer who set a British record in the run up to the 1996 Olympic Games. 

At the Com­mon­wealth Games in Vic­to­ria, Claire Hud­dart gained 1 gold medal and 1 sil­ver medal in the relay events and Andrew Clay­ton gained 2 bronze medals in the relays. In all, 5 Leeds swim­mers made the finals. Gavin Mead­ows and Jonathan Open­shaw rep­re­sent­ed Great Britain at the Euro­pean Junior Cham­pi­onships in Pardubice. 

We were top club at the Sum­mer Senior Nation­als with 6 gold, 5 sil­ver and 5 bronze medals, with our Men’s med­ley relay team set­ting a British record. At the Win­ter Nation­als we won 5 gold, 4 sil­ver and 3 bronze medals and set British records in all 3 Men’s relays. In the Nation­al Age Group Cham­pi­onships we were top over­all team again and the girls fin­ished 1^st for the sec­ond year in succession. 

Commonwealth Games, Victoria

World Championships, Rome

European Junior Championships, Pardubice

National Champions

Fol­low­ing the Barcelona Olympics, Adri­an Moor­house MBE retired from com­pe­ti­tion swim­ming and the club staged a major tes­ti­mo­ni­al din­ner to recog­nise his achieve­ments over the pro­ceed­ing 12 years: 1 Olympic, 4 Euro­pean and 3 Com­mon­wealth gold medals, 3 World records and equalling on 2 oth­er occa­sions, numer­ous sil­ver and bronze medals at major games and numer­ous British and Eng­lish Cham­pi­onship records. 

The club con­tin­ued with it’s great tra­di­tion of pro­duc­ing inter­na­tion­al swim­mers and at the Euro­pean Cham­pi­onships in Sheffield we were rep­re­sent­ed by Claire Hud­dart, Neil Met­calfe, Andrew Clay­ton and Richard Madon. Bar­bara Lan­cast­er was Team Man­ag­er and Ter­ry Deni­son Team Coach. Claire gained a bronze medal in the Ladies 4 x 200m freestyle relay. 

At the Euro­pean Junior Cham­pi­onships in Istan­bul we were rep­re­sent­ed by Gavin Mead­ows and Ben Shaw who both gained medals in the 4 x 200m freestyle relay. David Fod­den was Team Doc­tor. At the Win­ter Nation­als we won 5 gold, 7 sil­ver and 10 bronze medals and set a British record in the Men’s 4 x 200m freestyle relay. 

In the Nation­al Age Groups we were top team over­all with our girls fin­ish­ing 1^st and the boys 2^nd. We won the Nation­al Swim League Cham­pi­onships for the 9^th time. 

World Student Games, Buffalo

European Championships, Sheffield

European Junior Championships, Istanbul

National Champions

The Olympic Games were held in Barcelona and City of Leeds had 5 swim­mers on the GB Team – Adri­an Moor­house, Stephen Akers, Rik Leish­man, Matthew O’Con­nor and Jason Hen­der. Ter­ry Deni­son was Chief Coach, Paul Bush, Team Man­ag­er, Bar­bara Lan­cast­er, Assis­tant Team Man­ag­er and Pam Smith, Phys­io­ther­a­pist for the GB Squad. Adri­an reached the final of the 100m breast­stroke and Stephen finalled in the 4 x 200m freestyle relay. 

At the Sum­mer Nation­als, James Par­rack set a Com­mon­wealth record 28.63 for 50m breast­stroke and Shar­lene Brown set an Irish senior record of 2.36.86 for the 200m breaststroke. 

In the Euro­pean Junior Cham­pi­onships held in Leeds for the 3^rd time, City of Leeds was rep­re­sent­ed by Mark Wil­son. We had 6 swim­mers on the Eng­land Senior Squad, 3 on the Eng­land Youth Squad (for­mer­ly Inter­me­di­ate Squad) and 1 on the Junior Squad (for­mer­ly Youth Squad). 

At The Nation­al Age Group Cham­pi­onships, our boys team fin­ished 1^st and our girls team were 2^nd – our best ever per­for­mance at Nation­al Age Groups. In the Club Team Cham­pi­onships we fin­ished 2^nd. 

Mas­ters swim­ming had also devel­oped strong­ly in the past 2 years coached by Mona Deni­son. At the ASA Mas­ters Cham­pi­onships in Octo­ber 1992 David Emer­son set a World record of 2:12.15 for the Men’s 30 – 34yrs 200m fly. 

In Octo­ber Paul Bush left Leeds to take up a posi­tion as Direc­tor of Swim­ming for the ASA and was replaced by Louise Watson. 

At the ASA Win­ter Nation­als in Decem­ber, we had a record 35 qual­i­fiers and gained 5 golds, 7 sil­vers and 10 bronzes. Our Men’s 4 x 200m freestyle relay set a British nation­al team record and our Men’s 4 x 100m freestyle relay set a British club team record. We were award­ed the Hen­ry Ben­jamin Tro­phy as Top Men’s Team for 1992. 

Fol­low­ing these Cham­pi­onships, James Par­rack, David War­ren, Jason Hen­der and Steve Akers were select­ed for the 1993 Nation­al Senior Squad. Neil Speed and Eli­na Arter were select­ed for the 1993 Youth Squad and Rachel Plax­ton, Stacey Wood, Adam Pren­de­gast and Ben Shaw were select­ed for the 1993 Junior Squad. 

Olympic Games, Barcelona

European Junior Championships, Leeds

National Champions

For a sec­ond year run­ning we had a major world event in the month of Jan­u­ary. The World Cham­pi­onships were held in Perth and City of Leeds were rep­re­sent­ed by Adri­an Moor­house and James Par­rack. Adri­an won sil­ver in the 100m breaststroke. 

In the Euro­pean Cham­pi­onships in Athens in August 1991 we had 3 rep­re­sen­ta­tives – Adri­an, Andrew Clay­ton and Rik Leish­man. Ter­ry Deni­son was Chief Coach, Paul Bush, Team Man­ag­er, Bar­bara Lan­cast­er, Assis­tant Team Man­ag­er, and Pam Smith, Phys­io­ther­a­pist. Adri­an won sil­ver in the 100m breaststroke. 

In the Euro­pean Junior Cham­pi­onships held in Hol­land in August, we were rep­re­sent­ed by Neil Speed who swam the 200m IM and 400m IM. 

We had 4 swim­mers on the Eng­land Senior Squad, 1 swim­mer on the Inter­me­di­ate Squad and 2 on the Youth Squad. Ter­ry Deni­son, Paul Bush, Pam Smith, Bar­bara Lan­cast­er were all team staff with the Senior Squad and David Fod­den was Med­ical Offi­cer for the Inter­me­di­ate Squad. 

In Age Group Swim­ming our boys fin­ished 2^nd over­all at Nation­al Age Group Cham­pi­onships and we won 8 golds, 8 sil­vers and 5 bronzes. We won the Nation­al Swim League Cham­pi­onships for the 8^th time and Ter­ry Deni­son was vot­ed BSCA Coach of the Year for the 10^th time. Our Men’s Team won the Nation­al Club Team Cham­pi­onships for the 9^th time in suc­ces­sion and fin­ished 4^th in Europe. 

In Sep­tem­ber 1991 our Age Group Coach, Steve Pur­chase, moved on to a Head Coach posi­tion with Nor­wich Pen­guins and Ian Greyson was appoint­ed as our Senior Age Group Coach. 

World Championships, Perth

World Student Games, Sheffield

European Championships, Athens

European Junior Championships, Antwerp

National Champions

The New Year began with the Com­mon­wealth Games in Auck­land, New Zealand in Jan­u­ary. City of Leeds had 7 swim­mers on the Eng­land team – Adri­an Moor­house, James Par­rack, Jonathan Broughton, Neil Met­calfe, John Dav­ey, Stephen Akers and Stephen Drons­field. Ter­ry Deni­son was Chief Coach and club mem­bers Paul Bush (Team Man­ag­er) and Pam Smith (Physio) were also on the Eng­land team. Tony Day rep­re­sent­ed Wales. Adri­an won gold in equalling his own World record in the 100m breast­stroke, James Par­rack gained sil­ver in the 100m breast­stroke and Neil Met­calfe and Stephen Drons­field won sil­vers in the 4 x 100m freestyle relay. 

We had 5 swim­mers on Eng­land senior squads, two on the Inter­me­di­ate Squad and one on the Youth Squad dur­ing 1990. 

In age group swim­ming, our boys team placed 3^rd at Nation­al Age Groups and we gained 3 sil­vers and 6 bronzes. We won the Nation­al Swim League Cham­pi­onships for the 7^th time and Ter­ry Deni­son was vot­ed BSCA Coach of the Year for the 9^th time. 

Our squads trav­elled exten­sive­ly and we made vis­its to Tener­ife, Bonn, Portsmouth and Stuttgart. Our men’s team were Nation­al Club Team Cham­pi­ons for the 8^th suc­ces­sive time and then went on to win the Euro­pean Com­mu­ni­ty Team Cham­pi­onship in Turin in May. A mag­nif­i­cent achievement. 

The decade 1980 – 90 had been an out­stand­ing peri­od for us. In addi­tion to the many suc­cess­es out­lined above, mem­ber­ship of our train­ing scheme had grown from less than 300 in 1980 to 650 in 1990. 

Commonwealth Games, Auckland

LEN World Cup, Rome

European Junior Championships, Dunkerque

National Champions