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City of Bristol Aquatics are really proud to be the home club for Kate Shortman and Izzy Thorpe. Today they qualified for the Tokyo Olympics Duet event at the Olympic qualification tournament in Barcelona. Well done girls. Onwards and upwards.

Artistic Swimming Head Coach City of Bristol Swimming Club (COB) is looking to appoint a Head Coach to lead the Artistic Swimming section of the club. City of Bristol Swimming Club prides itself on of offering a performance programme for National and International level Artistic Swimming athletes as well as a providing a high-quality community club offer for all its swimmers. The club is centered around the modern 50m pool facility at Hengrove Park Leisure Centre to provide an excellent environment for artistic swim training. Our Core Values • T...

Our CoB olympic hopefuls, Kate and Izzy, are competing at the Olympic qualification tournament on Saturday at 9am and 4pm and on Sunday at 2pm (all BST times). Full schedules, results and links to the event live can be found at https://www.fina.org/competitions/15/fina-olympic-games-artistic-swimming-qualification-tournament-2020/schedule?phase=All In the meantime the feedback from Kate is that there is a great vibe in the pool. Everyone is super competitive and it's a very exciting place to be. Some countries have already qualified and their duets automatically qualify too. The remaining Olympic Team places will be decided...

Huge congratulations to Cerys Hughes who was selected to the travelling squad for the Senior Europeans at a training camp last weekend. Cerys joins Daniella, Iz and Kate for the Senior Europeans in Budapest, Hungary in May. Here is a little about her journey. I started synchro when I was 11 years old at a small club in my town. After watching a display by Kate and Izzy I decided to join COB in 2012. Since then I have fallen in love with the sport and everything it has given...