Invitation to the 2013 Open Norwegian Masters Championship

Hi everybody! Let me first of all let me say that the USA and all of you who have been affected by the attack of hurricane Sandy have our thoughts and symapthy. We are sorry for your losses and impressed by the detarmination and speed with which you set about rescuing, clearing and rebuilding. And now I would like to invite you to the Open Norwegian Maters Championship. The meet takes place in Stord outside of Bergen March 8th-10th 2013! :bliss: www.svomming.no/.../Invitation Open Norwegian Masters Stord 2013_061112.pdf If you are looking in vain for events, let me explain: The Norwegian Masters community is not that big, the Championship is actually our only pure Masters meet during the year. We go abroad for meets, and some of us swim ordinary (like USA-S) meets. The record attendance for our national Masters championship is just above 500 swimmers. So, to ensure that there's more swimmers competing in each event, the longer (200+) events are alternated. The short nine (50+100) are always on the program. The other events alternate like this: Even years (like this year): 200 IM 200 fly 200 breaststroke 400 free 800 free, women 1500 free, men Odd years (like 2013) 200 back 200 free 400 IM 800 free, men 1500 free, women. That way both the swimmers in a given age bracket that is considering to swim a longer free event, will compete against each other! The meet is also arranged this way so that it can be held in three days - Fri-Sunday. I don't expect a huge rush, but you are very welcome, and, anyway, I thought some of you might be interested jsut to read about it. I like reading invitations and checking results from all over. Could be just me. Confessions of a split stalker. :blush: