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Get your entry in quick to win with your Commonwealth Dream Team

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With the Commonwealth Games just around the corner excitement is building and you can get involved by selecting your Home Countries Dream Team for your chance to win some fantastic prizes courtesy of the British Swimming Supporters Club.

The incredible prize up for grabs for one lucky winner includes four tickets to the Kellogg’s ASA Swimtastic Awards on November 20th (including the Swim with the Stars session and an overnight hotel stay), a Speedo LZR Racer signed by double Olympic champion Rebecca Adlington and a British Swimming Supporters Club hoodie, T-shirt and polo shirt.

The competition is only open to British Swimming Supporters Club members but the good news is you can sign up for free! For full details of the different membership options available and how to sign up go to www.swimming.org/supportus (entries will be verified as British Swimming Supporters Club members).

So why not give it a go and select your Commonwealth Dream Team?

The rules are simple:

  • Choose your Dream Team of 15 athletes in total
  • You can only select athletes competing for the home countries; England, Scotland and Wales
  • You need to pick a minimum of two athletes from swimming (including disability swimming), diving and synchronised swimming
  • You can select up to five athletes who are World/Olympic medallists and up to five European/Commonwealth medallists, the rest of your team should be made up of  athletes from the potential medallists group– see the table below for full details

World/Olympic medallists

European/Commonwealth medallists

Potential medallists

Swimming

Swimming

Swimming

Roberto Pavoni

Rebecca Adlington

Simon Burnett

Achieng Ajulu-Bushell

Stephanie Proud

Jazmin Carlin

David Carry

Robert Bale

Michael Rock

David Davies

Ross Davenport

Steven Beckerleg

Emma Saunders

Sean Fraser

Ellen Gandy

Ryan Bennett

Corrie Scott

Francesca Halsall

Kristopher Gilchrist

Anne Bochmann

Jak Scott

Jo Jackson

James Goddard

Cameron Brodie

Daniel Sliwinski

Caitlin McClatchey

Kate Haywood

Adam Brown

Lewis Smith

Stephanie Millward

Andrew Hunter

Richard Charlesworth

Danielle Stirrat

Keri-Anne Payne

Jemma Lowe

Daniel Coombs

Alys Thomas

David Roberts

Hannah Miley

Georgia Davies

Grant Turner

Gemma Spofforth

Robbie Renwick

Jessica Dickens

Rebecca Turner

Liam Tancock

Joe Roebuck

Lucy Ellis

Lowri Tynan

Robert Welbourn

Elizabeth Simmonds

Daniel Fogg

Richard Webb

Diving

Amy Smith

Megan Gilchrist

Andrew Willis

Tom Daley

Jess Sylvester

Thomas Haffield

Aimee Willmott

Peter Waterfield

Stacey Tadd

Sara Hamilton

Katherine Wyld

 

Synchronised Swimming

Chris Walker-Hebborn

Diving

 

Jenna Randall

Georgia Holderness

Sarah Barrow

 

 

Robert Holderness

Alicia Blagg

 

 

Kate Hutchinson

Max Brick

 

 

Anthony James

Tonia Couch

 

 

Michael Jamieson

Oliver Dingley

 

 

Kathryn Johnston

Carol Galashan

 

 

Ieuan Lloyd

Helen Galashan

 

 

Sara Lougher

Rebecca Gallantree

 

 

Marco Loughran

Monique Gladding

 

 

Sasha Matthews

Jack Laugher

 

 

Andrew Mayor

Chris Mears

 

 

Craig McNally

Stacie Powell

 

 

Simon Miller

Grace Reid

 

 

Sian Morgan

Nick Robinson-Baker

 

 

Jenny Oldham

 Synchronised Swimming

 

 

Thomas Parris

 Olivia Allison

   

Louise Pate

Lauren Smith

 

 

 

The better your athletes do the more points you get. You will get the following points for athletes placing eighth or above. All relays, synchronised diving events and synchronised swimming duets are included.

 

 

 

Position

Points

Gold

30

Silver

15

Bronze

10

4th place

5

5th place

4

6th place

3

7th place

2

8th place

1

How do you enter?

Please submit your entry by sending the names of your fifteen chosen athletes via email to supporters@swimming.org or via post to British Swimming Supporters Club, Commonwealth Dream Team Competition, SportPark, 3 Oakwood Drive, Loughborough, Leicestershire LE11 3QF. Entries must be received by 5pm on Friday 1st October. Please also include your name, address date of birth and British Swimming Supporters Club membership number (Deluxe members only).

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Swimming.org is home to everything you need to know about swimming. If you are a parent, a non swimmer or just want to improve your technique this is the section for you.

In British Swimming you will find information about the world of high performance sport, including the disciplines of Swimming, Diving, Synchronised Swimming, Water Polo and Disability Swimming.

The ASA is the governing body for the sport in England. In this section you will find all you need to know about joining a club or competing in England and becoming a swimming teacher or coach.

The IoS delivers the ASA’s courses and is a member organisation. Whether you are a teacher, coach, employer or club you will find everything you need to know about qualifications or educating your workforce.

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