1980s

We began with 5 swim­mers on the Nation­al Senior Squad and one on the imme­di­ate squad. Ter­ry Deni­son was appoint­ed GB Chief Coach through to the 1992 Olympic Games. 

We won the Nation­al Club Team Cham­pi­onships for the 7^th year in suc­ces­sion and went on to be placed 2^nd in Europe. 

At the Euro­pean Cham­pi­onships in Bonn we had 3 swim­mers in the GB Team – Adri­an Moor­house, Jonathan Broughton and Stephen Drons­field – and Ter­ry Deni­son was Chief Coach. Adri­an set a world record of 1.01.49 for 100m breast­stroke in win­ning the Euro­pean Cham­pi­onships and became Britain’s first world record hold­er since David Wilkie in 1976. 

In age group swim­ming, we saw a resur­gence in our for­tunes under Age Group Senior Coach Steve Pur­chase. At Nation­al Age Group Cham­pi­onships our boys fin­ished 2^nd over­all with 5 golds, 3 sil­vers and 4 bronzes. 

European Championships, Bonn

National Champions

In March our men’s team won the GB Club Team Cham­pi­onships for the 6^th year in suc­ces­sion and placed 3^rd in the Euro­pean Com­mu­ni­ty Team Championships. 

We placed a record 5 swim­mers on the GB Olympic Team – Adri­an Moor­house, James Par­rack, Jonathan Broughton, Tony Day and Helen Frank – and Ter­ry Deni­son was Team Coach. Adri­an achieved the ulti­mate by win­ning the Olympic gold medal in the 100m breaststroke. 

We also broke fresh ground in our for­eign tours by tak­ing an age group squad to Chi­na for 3 weeks – the first British team to tour Chi­na since the 1930s. 

Our team won the Nation­al Swim League Final for the 6^th occa­sion and Ter­ry Deni­son was vot­ed BSCA Coach of the Year for the 7^th time. 

Olympic Games, Seoul

National Champions

Sun­day 8^th Feb­ru­ary was a true moment in his­to­ry for us. At 4:16pm in the Franken­bad Pool, Bonn, the elec­tron­ic score­board showed 59.75 for a world best time for 100m breast­stroke and the first ever 100m breast­stroke swim under the minute – Adri­an was being acclaimed by some 500 spec­ta­tors as the Ger­man com­men­ta­tor repeat­ed over and over ​“Fan­tastiss­che, Fan­tastiss­che”. Lat­er in the year, Adri­an went on to win the Euro­pean Cham­pi­onships in August in anoth­er Euro­pean record time. 

Leeds City Coun­cil con­tin­ued its expan­sion of the City Train­ing Scheme with the appoint­ment of Steve Pur­chase, for­mer­ly Wal­sall, as full time age group coach in Feb­ru­ary and with the appoint­ment of Paul Bush, for­mer­ly Leices­ter, as Swim­ming Devel­op­ment Offi­cer in September. 

At the Euro­pean Cham­pi­onships in Stras­bourg in August, City of Leeds was rep­re­sent­ed by Adri­an Moor­house – who won gold, sil­ver and bronze medals – Tony Day, Jonathan Broughton and Ter­ry Deni­son as GB coach. 

Adri­an was select­ed as BSCA and ASA Swim­mer of the Year for 1987. Ter­ry Deni­son was select­ed as BSCA Coach of the Year for 1987 (the 6^th occa­sion since 1978). 

The final acco­lade of a high­ly suc­cess­ful year was the award­ing to Adri­an of the MBE for ser­vices to sport in the Queen’s Birth­day Hon­ours List. In team events, we won the Nation­al Team Cham­pi­onships for the 5^th con­sec­u­tive time and our men’s team rep­re­sent­ed GB in the first Euro­pean Eco­nom­ic Com­mu­ni­ty Team Cham­pi­onships, fin­ish­ing 4^th. 

World Student Games, Zagreb

European Championships, Strasbourg

National Champions

Anoth­er peak for the City of Leeds. Adri­an Moor­house won 2 gold medals and 1 sil­ver medal at the Com­mon­wealth Games and Jonathan Broughton won a bronze Medal. City of Leeds was also rep­re­sent­ed at the Games by Mur­ray Buswell, Cathy White, Ter­ry Deni­son (Eng­land) and Tony Day and Max­ine McK­in­nell (Wales).

At the World Cham­pi­onships which fol­lowed, Adri­an fin­ished first by a metre in the 100m breast­stroke final and for five min­utes the score­board showed Adri­an as Britain’s first World Cham­pi­on since 1975. Then came major dis­ap­point­ment – Adri­an had been dis­qual­i­fied for a faulty turn. 7000 spec­ta­tors hissed and whis­tled their oppo­si­tion but the dis­qual­i­fi­ca­tion stood. Adri­an was left, how­ev­er, with the sat­is­fac­tion of post­ing a Euro­pean record and the fastest time in the world in 1986 with his heat swim. 

Commonwealth Games, Edinburgh

World Championships, Madrid

European Junior Championships, Berlin

National Champions

We had 4 swim­mers rep­re­sent­ing GB in the Euro­pean Cham­pi­onships and Adri­an won Gold in the 100m breast­stroke. Tony Day went on to win Bronze in the World Stu­dent Games and the year end­ed on a high note with 5 swim­mers select­ed for the York­shire Bank senior squad and 3 for the Esso Nation­al Youth squad. 

World Student Games, Kobe

European Championships, Sofia

European Junior Championships, Geneva

National Champions

Adri­an Moor­house was 4^th in the Olympic 100m breast­stroke and Andrew Ast­bury won our first ever Olympic medal with a bronze in the Men’s 4 x 200m freestyle relay. 

Olympic Games, Los Angeles

European Junior Championships, Mulhouse

National Champions

European Championships, Rome

National Champions

Four swim­mers from Leeds Cen­tral – Andrew Ast­bury, Adri­an Moor­house, Peter Mus­grave and Louise Tate – were select­ed to rep­re­sent Eng­land in the Com­mon­wealth Games in Brisbane. 

Andrew won: 

• 2 gold medals: 200m freestyle (British record) and 400m freestyle (British record)
• 1 sil­ver medal: Men’s 4 x 200m freestyle relay
• 1 bronze medal: Men’s 1500m freestyle

Adri­an won: 

• 1 gold medal: 100m breast­stroke (British record)
• 1 sil­ver medal: Men’s 4 x 100m med­ley relay
• 1 bronze medal: 200m breaststroke

In Sep­tem­ber, the Leeds Train­ing Scheme was fur­ther devel­oped when Leeds City Cor­po­ra­tion decid­ed to employ a full time swim­ming coach for the city. The per­son appoint­ed was Ter­ry Deni­son, already coach to Leeds Cen­tral SC and Great Britain. On 14^th Octo­ber, an Extra­or­di­nary Gen­er­al Meet­ing of club mem­bers decid­ed to com­plete the union of swim­ming club and train­ing scheme by chang­ing the club name. From 1^st Jan­u­ary 1983, we became the City of Leeds Swim­ming Club. 

Commonwealth Games, Brisbane

World Championships, Guayaguil

European Junior Championships, Innsbruck

National Champions

European Championships, Split

National Champions

Olympic Games, Moscow

National Champions