Five former Dragons Disabled Swimming Club swimmers are in action for Great Britain this week in two international competitions. David Roberts, Nyree Lewis, Gareth Duke and Liz Johnson were competing in the Nedbank Championship for the Physically Disabled in Durban, South Africa, while Kate Arnold of Swim Swansea swam in the Danish Open in Esbjerg. The competitions gave Team GB the opportunity to begin preparing the swimmers for the IPC World Championships in Durban, South Africa in 2006 and also allowed the opportunity for some of the young, up and coming swimmers such as Kate Arnold the chance to gain experience in international competitions.

Kate Arnold who started off at the Dragons before moving on to Swim Swansea competed in her first major competition with the British team in Denmark in the Danish Open which ran from March 11^th – 13^th. Kate was swimming against swimmers from Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Sweden and Norway amongst others. 

S9 100m Freestyle              9^th out of 9              1:32.32

SB8 100m Breaststroke        1^st out of 2              1:37.51

S9 100m Backstroke            7^th out of 7              1:41.23

S9 50m Backstroke             4^th out of 6              46.90

SB8 50m Breaststroke         1^st out of 3              44.71

100m Breaststroke Multi-Disability Final      4^th out of 8    1:38.84

(Closest to their class’ World Record)

A full set of results can be found at:

http://www.swim.dhif.dk/danishopen.html

The quartet of Roberts, Duke, Lewis and Johnson are competing in the Nedbank Championship for the Physically disabled in Durban, South Africa which runs form 12^th – 20^th of March.

Results are still coming in from this competition and so far the results we have are:

Gareth Duke:

SB6 100m Breaststroke        1:36.79

Nyree Lewis:

S6 100m Freestyle              1:26.50

Liz Johnson:

SB6 100m Breaststroke        1:45.68

It is believed that David Roberts has broken the S7 800m Freestyle World Record when competing in the 1500m Freestyle after announcing that he was going for the record before the race started.

More results will be added when they are available.

Results and reports are posted on the Disability Sport South Africa website at:

http://www.dissa.co.za/

David came back with 4 Gold's and 1 Bronze Medal.

4 Golds and 1 Bronze Nedbank Championship for the Physically Disabled.