The Evolution of the Specific Romanian Clubs at the World Masters Swimming Championship „Riccione 2012”

Abstract

In recent years, the Masters swimming movement gained momentum in Romania, as a necessity of health at adult age by practicing swimming, on the one hand, and as a continuation or a repetition of the competition activity of our country’s former high-level swimmers. Grouped in clubs affiliated with the Romanian Swimming and Modern Pentathlon Federation, with its own competition schedule, athletes involved in this movement are doing their best in order to train very seriously. In this paper, we will study the effort’s dosage and the efficient programming of their activity. The training contains specific means and methods and cutting edge specific aids, and all together increase efficiency and improve swimming performance. As evidence are the results obtained by the swimmers from the two big Masters clubs from Romania (Reşiţa 07 and Tribeach Braşov), which include great names of Romanian swimming: Carmen Bunaciu, Anca Pătrăşcoiu, Ştefan Gherghel, Răzvan Florea, Tudor Ignat, that competed at the World Masters Swimming Championships, which took place in Riccione, between 10-17.06.2012. The titles of world champions and vice champions, along with the top emeritus rankings, prove that this sport can be practiced until old age, and can bring satisfaction through the results obtained in national and international competitions.