2016 Involve Group Masters Sport Award
John Cocks - Masters Swimming

At 80 years old, John has proved that age is not barrier to sporting success. His achievements in Masters Swimming during 2016 were nothing short of phenomenal. On moving into the 80-84 age group, he set in excess of 50 records, to be the current holder of 20 National and 30 Victorian State Records. His National records cover all four of the competitive strokes. In addition to this, on 13 March 2016 John smashed the World Record for the 200m Individual Medley in the Men's 80-84 year age group, by more than two seconds. His time of 3:27.46 now stands as the second fastest of all time in the world, for that event, in that age group.