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Amateur Swimming Association


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  • Variants

    • ASA (Amateur Swimming Association)

  • Additional Information

    • Has Affiliation

    • Descriptor

        Associations, institutions, etc.

    • Associated Locale

        Great Britain

    • Associated Language

        English

    • Field of Activity

      Swimming

      (lcsh) Swimmers--Services for

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  • Sources

    • found: Modern public baths, 1938.
    • found: Its Annual report and interim accounts 2005:title page (Amateur Swimming Association) page 2 (ASA) back page (Harold Fern House, Derby Square, Loughborough LE11 5AL)
    • found: Its Annual report and accounts 2007/2008:title page (The ASA) page 2 (Amateur Swimming Association; governing body of swimming in England) ; 2009/2010: back page (Amateur Swimming Association, Pavilion 3, SportPark, 3 Oakwood Drive, Loughborough University, Leicestershire LE11 3QF)
    • found: Its Annual report 2015/16:title page (The ASA) ; 2016/17: title page (Amateur Swimming Association; Swim England) page 6 (re-brand to Swim England; while Amateur Swimming Association remains its constitutional name, from April 2017 it has been known as Swim England)
    • found: Chippenham Amateur Swimming Club, viewed 16 Jan. 2018:under Club history (CASC affiliated to the ASA, which was formed in 1869 and adopted its current title of the Amateur Swimming Association on 3rd May 1886)
    • found: A social history of swimming in England, 1900-1918, 2008:page 8 (on 7 January 1869, the Associated Metropolitan Swimming Clubs (AMSC) was formed in London to promote swimming as a sport and leisure activity; name changed to the London Swimming Association (LSA) on 24 June 1869, the Metropolitan Swimming Association (MSA) in early 1870, and the Swimming Association of Great Britain (SAGB) on 8 December 1873; it became the Amateur Swimming Association (ASA) in 1886) under Chronology of English swimming (in 1884, several clubs broke away from the SAGB and formed the Amateur Swimming Union (ASU); in 1886, the SAGB and the ASU reconciled and formed the Amateur Swimming Association)

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  • Change Notes

    • 1981-02-05: new
    • 2018-01-18: revised

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