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Explanatory notes on British Age Group Category Award Tables
Swimming Terms explained -
These are a UK approach to measuring and comparing the performances of swimmers across a range of age groups and events. The acronym stands for British Age Group CATegory.
In this measurement system, points are scored for particular times in individual events based on their relative performance to top 10 historic all time performances. BAGCATs are comparative performance tables adjusted for age (younger swimmers find certain events harder).
In some competitions (e.g. Essex County Age Group Championships or Eastern Region
Championships) ‘Top Boy’ or ‘Top Girl’ trophies are awarded based on the total BAGCAT
points scored by swimmers in a selection of events. The original intent of this
was to encourage younger swimmers to compete in a wide range of events and not specialise
too early. To make things more complicated events are grouped together and only
the swimmers highest point score in each group of events will count. Typically these
will be grouped as best sprint (50m), best 100m, best Individual Medley, best distance
(200m+) and best non-
See below for the event groupings for particulars ages and competition levels.
To see potential points awarded for a particular event, swimmer age and time see: BAGCAT points calculator
Form Stroke -
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British Age Group Category County Awards (BAGCATS) 25m pool | ||||
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Boys |
Girls | ||
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9 years |
Sprint Form Distance IM |
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Sprint Form Distance IM |
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10 years |
Sprint Form Distance IM |
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Sprint Form Distance IM |
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11 years |
Sprint Form Distance IM |
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Sprint 100’s Form Distance IM |
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12 years |
Sprint 100’s Form Distance IM |
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Sprint 100’s Form Distance IM |
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13 years |
Sprint 100’s Form Distance IM |
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Sprint 100’s Form Distance IM |
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14 years |
Sprint 100’s Form Distance IM |
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Girls 14 years and over plus boys 15 years and over will start to specialise in individual events which will have individual awards. | |
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British Age Group Category Regional & National Awards (BAGCATS) 25m pool | ||||
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Boys |
Girls | ||
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Regional | ||||
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10 years |
100’s Form Distance IM |
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100’s Form Distance IM |
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Regional & National | ||||
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11 years |
100’s Form Distance IM |
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100’s Form Distance IM |
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12 years |
100’s Form Distance IM |
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100’s Form Distance IM |
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13 years |
100’s Form Distance IM |
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100’s Form Distance IM |
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14 years |
100’s Form Distance IM |
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Girls 14 years and over plus boys 15 years and over will start to specialise in individual events and will swim in the Youth Championships. | |