By Terin Frodyma on SwimSwam
Recently celebrating her 95th birthday, British masters swimmer Jane Asher just broke five more world records, adding to her career total, which sits well over 100.
At the 33rd Guernsey International Masters Open, a meet that Asher has competed in nearly every year since 1992, she broke five short-course World Aquatics Masters World Record marks in the 95-99 age group, including the 50 free (57.16), 100 free (2:07.10), 200 free (4:38.43), 50 backstroke (1:01.60), and 100 IM (2:34.31).
Their record marks are just another milestone in an already decorated career in the sport, which includes a British Empire Medal for her dedication to the sport and an induction into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 2004.
Since 1983, Asher has competed in nine age groups (55-59 through 95-99), and at one point in her career was the first masters swimmer to hold all freestyle world records in her age group across both short- and long-course events, simultaneously.
Asher recently moved up to the 95-99 age group and is still looking towards future competitions, eyeing the 2027 World Aquatics Masters Championships in Budapest next summer.
“I’m watching what the others are doing because I never go too fast. Pacing is the most important, especially in these long swims,” Asher said in a report published by the BBC.
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Asher was born in Zambia, but has swum all over the world, including the United States, New Zealand, and France, among many other places.
She moved to Great Britain at the age of 22 to take a post-graduate courses in personal management at Manchester University in 1953. She competed on the institution’s swim team and was even selected to compete at the World University Games, but did not attend the meet.
Following her collegiate swimming days, she began coaching in Norwich, where, at the time, in post-World War II Great Britain, access to water to train in was scarce. Asher started working as a teacher and coach for schoolchildren in her area. She began her coaching days in a pool that she and her husband, Robbie, owned, measuring just eight yards by 16 yards. In the coming years, she spent time coaching for the Norwich Penguins and later for her own team, the JETS, also known as Jane’s Extra Training School.
Parents would bring their children to learn from Asher, and rather than have her swimmers’ parents wait for their children’s training to conclude, she brought the parents into the water as well, helping launch the early days of the first Masters Swim Club of the Amateur Swimming Association in Great Britain.
She set her first Master’s World Record in 1986 and has since become one of the most accomplished master’s swimmers in history.
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