SWIMTAG Competitions have had a revamp with some exciting new updates for both Swimmers and Pool Operators

Pools can now upload their own custom-designed competition badges to head off their local leaderboards. Local competitions are a great way for pool operators to engage with their swimming members and see who is leading the lane in their pool. Competitions can be created for a variety of distances and stroke-type criterias, for example 800m Backstroke, 400m Freestyle etc. Swimmers can pick and choose which competitions to enter and their fastest times are posted following each swim.

Our latest update allows pool operators to manage their local competitions and upload their own badge to appear above the leaderboard, these badges (think of it like a coat-of-arms for your pool) can incorporate their branding and the competition criteria. See our examples for some AI-infused inspiraton. The competition badges will appear atop the competition results that can be shared on social media or embedded in a website or app.

In addition to this we have also updated the competition results table so swimmers can now expand their best result to show a list of their historic attempts. This is proving to be a great tool for seeing how you have progressed over the years at a specific distance and stroke style.

Interested in SWIMTAG for your pool?

If you are a swimming pool operator that wants to host swimming competitions for your members then SWIMTAG is the perfect solution, swimmers can use a SWIMTAG wristband or connect their own smart watch to take part, the results can be embedded onto your website, on digital signage or even printed off for display so that your members can compete over the podium.

Around the world in 80 challenges....

There are now 80 SWIMTAG Global Challenges to pick from spread all over the globe, some will take a few weeks to finish and some will take a team effort to complete.

We have released 4 new 'Global Challenger' swim badges to collect for completing 10, 20, 40 and all 80 challenges

We are delighted to announce that SWIMTAG is now available in Wales, after the installation of our technology in four Leisure Centres in Caerphilly.

Swimmers using leisure centres in Caerphilly, Heolddu, Newbridge and Risca can now ask for a SWIMTAG wristband at reception as part of their membership and track their swims with our award winning technology.

Business Development Manager Colin Scott said "We're delighted to introduce our technology to Wales for the first time. It's still a tough time for swimming pools, but the team at Caerphilly, led by Aquatics Manager Sian Jones are working hard to keep improving the level of service to their swimmers and SWIMTAG will form a big part of those improvements over the coming months and years. We hope that they will be rewarded by improved retention of swimmers, as has been the case at dozens of other pools throughout the country, where swimmers have gotten addicted to SWIMTAG and the fun it brings to swimming".

We have updated our personal best tool to allow tracking of Individual Medleys (both single and double lengths)

An individual medley consists of four strokes. These four strokes go in an order by Butterfly, Backstroke, Breaststroke and finally Freestyle. Swimmers can swim a single length of each stroke, or double lengths of each.

The new website feature allows swimmers to search their swim history to detect when they have previously completed a medley and calculates their fastest time, then going forward it will update their PB whenever they set a new faster time.

SWIMTAG are once again partnering with The Swimathon Foundation to support this years swim events across the UK

The Swimathon event will be returning to more than 450 pools across the country on the weekend of May 12-14 2023 with their annual fundraising swim for Cancer Research UK and Marie Curie. We wanted to support all our swimmers taking part in the event and encourage as many as possible to signup this year, so SWIMTAG users can register for any Swimathon challenge and get an exclusive 35% discount using the code SWIMTAGR2T1.

For those who wish to get a taste of the main Swimathon events, we have re-opened the Swimathon Distance Series, 4 distance competitions of 400m, 1.5km, 2.5km and 5km. The Swimathon Distance Series allows you to pick a distance and see if you are able to complete it in one swim, you can start at 400m (16 lengths in a 25m pool) and see if you are able to continue to the next. For those already signed up, they can use the competitions to help train for the event and compare your progress with others.

The competition series will be active from 20 March - 14 May at which point the results are frozen until the following year. If you are running the Swimathon events at your pool we encourage you to promote the competition series as a great introduction to the events and a way for swimmers to track their training progress and socialise with other participants.