REVISED ON & EFFECTIVE FROM 29TH DECEMBER 2023
- Records may be claimed for all strokes and for all the recognised metric distances, in both short course (25m) and long course (50m) pools. To be eligible, a competitor must have been a member of a Club affiliated to Warwickshire A.S.A. since the 1st of January in the year of the performance.
- Open age (Senior) Records shall have no age limits. Junior Records will be awarded to competitors under the age of 16 on the day of the swim, for both long course and short course categories. It is intended to replace these Junior and Senior categories with Age Group Records as soon as possible, but this is unlikely to occur until such time as the National Ranking Database is able to both identify and notify Warwickshire A.S.A. of such times automatically.
- Performances must be achieved under approved automatic electronic timing.
- A competitor who is a member of a Club affiliated to Warwickshire A.S.A., and who is eligible to represent the Association but elects to swim for another County that year, cannot be accredited with an Association record.
- The competitor or team must be entered in the name of a club affiliated to Warwickshire A.S.A. when recording the time concerned, or have been swimming in a representative team for which they have been nominated by Warwickshire A.S.A., or a club affiliated to it.
- Results in Midland Regional (WMR or combined WMR/EMR) and Warwickshire County Championships will be identified and ratified without the need for claims to be submitted. From time to time, the Records Officer will also be proactive in monitoring other results, but to be certain any records resulting are not overlooked, responsibility for identification must rest primarily with the Swimmer/Parent-Guardian/Coach. For performances at all levels of competition, the official claim form must be used. This can be accessed via this website, and must be completed and returned to the Records Officer as soon as possible after the performance, together with proof as indicated.
- Records will be credited against the club in whose name entry to the competition has been made, or:
- If achieved in representative competition*, against the name of the competitor's 'ranked' club as shown on the Swim England registration database on the day of the swim or as soon as possible thereafter. The 'ranked' club must also be affiliated to Warwickshire ASA.
- In all cases, eligibility will require the competitor's 'fee-paying club', as shown on the Swim England registration database; to be a club affiliated to Warwickshire ASA.
- Details of new records will be published via periodic updates to the County website. Once ratified and published, a record will not be replaced until bettered at a later date; other than in instances where ineligibility or error has been proven subsequent to ratification.
- All record claims will be subject to ratification by the Records Officer, who shall also decide on any issue of eligibility not covered by the above.
N.B. * Representative competition is defined as any English Schools Swimming Association (ESSA) or British Universities & Colleges Sport (BUCS) competition, any Inter-County or Inter-Regional competition, any competition anywhere in the World when competing as a member of a GB or England team; or any overseas competition when temporarily based overseas.