Competitive Swimming Performance Awards

Swim England Competitive Swimming Performance (CSP) Awards 

The CSP award scheme aims to reward young swimmers in their first years of competitive swimming, encouraging them to focus on their strokes, turns and finishes, as well as speed in order to achieve better swim times for each stroke.

There are 3 types of performance award which relate to the length of the swim:

• Sprint – up-to 100m for all of the strokes including IM
• Middle Distance - 200m for all strokes including IM and 400m front crawl
• Distance - 800m & 1500m front crawl and 400m IM

Times for each stroke are graded at 4 levels: Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum.  Once a swimmer achieves or breaks a time for any stroke at that level they can claim a cloth badge which relates to the distance (ie Sprint Bronze Award) and the relevant stroke flash (ie Bronze Butterfly Flash).  Swimmers can track their progress by collecting further flashes as times are achieved for each stroke at that distance.

The awards can be achieved in competition or at organized time trials.

The performance table below shows the length of the pool, distance, stroke and times required to achieve these awards.

The CSP Awards can be purchased through the club by emailing [email protected] Please can orders be submitted by 8th July

Distance Awards (certificate & woven badge) £3.50
Stroke flash £1.50

Here is an example of where and how the awards can be sewn on to the swimmers T-shirt, showing the different grades and strokes achieved by the swimmer.

PBs can be checked on Swim Manager to see if your swimmer has achieved the requirements. Times have not yet been updated with results from the recent Club championships which can be viewed here.