Five former Dragons Disabled Swimming Club swimmers are in action for
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
S9 100m Freestyle 9th out of 9 1:32.32
SB8 100m Breaststroke 1st out of 2 1:37.51
S9 100m Backstroke 7th out of 7 1:41.23
S9 50m Backstroke 4th out of 6 46.90
SB8 50m Breaststroke 1st out of 3 44.71
100m Breaststroke Multi-Disability Final 4th 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
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:
David came back with 4 Gold's and 1 Bronze Medal.