British Gas Great East Swim elite race report 2010
Media release 20 June 2010 British Gas Great East Swim elite race report 2010 British world champion Kerri-Anne Payne won the elite women’s race in spectacular style at the British Gas Great East Swim yesterday (Saturday 19 June). Payne, who won silver in the 10k open water event at the Beijing Olympics, was stroke for stroke with the Czech Republic’s Jana Pechanova throughout the one-mile race at Alton Water reservoir near Ipswich. But she powered ahead with just metres remaining to win a close call against the woman who placed 8th in the Beijing 10k. Payne, who won last year’s world title,