Saturday November 16 and Sunday 17, 2024, Bergerac hosts a departmental swimming competition. A big meeting for swimmers who will try to qualify for the regionals and even, for the youngest, for the nationals. Around a hundred competitors are expected at the Aqualud swimming pool in Bergerac. To discuss this Dordogne autumn-winter 2024 swimming championship, we invited in Sport en Périgord, the president of the Dordogne Swimming Committee, Laurent Pascaud.
A hundred swimmers to defend the Dordogne winter clubs
Few swimming clubs operate all year round, we call them winter clubs, there are 5 or 6 of them in Dordogne. They will undoubtedly have several representatives on the weekend of November 16 and 17, 2024 at the Aqualud swimming pool in Bergerac. Some of them, including the youngest children will try to qualify for the Nouvelle Aquitaine championships in Poitiers on December 7 and 8, 2024, the juniors and seniors in Bordeaux on December 21 and 22, but the youngest children will also have the opportunity to qualify for the French championship in Dunkirk in mid-December. This means that this weekend's meeting in Bergerac is very important for the swimmers concerned. The public is invited to come and encourage them and it is a great show.
An Olympic Games effect including for Périgord swimming
In Dordogne, Laurent Pascaudpresident of the Departmental Swimming Committee, tells us in Sport en Périgord, after the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, there was a 10% increase in requests for licenses. If we can welcome new swimmers without any problem, on the other hand, it is more complicated in Périgueux, because a swimming pool is closed for work. Listen to him in Sport en Périgord.
