ipsThe British Disability Swimming Team bagged themselves 13 gold medals after four days of competing in Eindhoven at the IPC Swimming World Championships.
Eleanor Simmonds, double Paralympic champion took her third world title on the fourth day of the competition last week in the women’s SM6 200m Individual Medley. At the 100m point Simmonds was laying in sixth place and knew she had to stay with the leaders of the pack if she had any chance of winning the race.
As Simmonds entered the breaststroke leg of the race, she used her skill to gain third place and in the last 50 metres she powered through, impressing the spectators with her speed.
She finished the race in 3:09.24, shedding two seconds off the world record. Simmonds said “ It was such a hard race. I am really happy to be on top of the podium again. I went into it thinking I was going to need a world record to win and to do that is great.”
Second place went to Germany’s Verena Schott in 3:10.96 and third place to Britain’s Natalie Jones who touched home in 3:11.12.
Multi Paralympic Champion Sascha Kindered took to his main event with great confidence after having the fastest qualifying time for the SM6 200m Individual Medley. He began the race with a strong Butterfly and got ahead of Yuanrun Yang of China at the 25 metre mark. Sascha kept his calm throughout the race and his experience kept him in a good position to break his own world record.
Kindered finished the race in 2:42.18 to claim gold and to lower the world record. Kindered said: “I wanted that record. It was a good race and I’, happy to have got in and come away with the gold medal and the record.”
Following Kindered was Yang who touched in at 2:47.48 and Ukrainian Iaroslay Semenenko took bronze in 2:53.20.
In other races, Jonathan Fox claimed his first championship victory in the men’s S7 100m Backstroke, Daniel Pepper took gold in the men’s final of the S14 100m Breaststroke and Stephanie Millward bagged her third medal of the event after winning silver in the women’s S9 400m Freestyle.
Elsewhere, Jonathan Fox took his first championship gold in the men’s S7 100m Backstroke, Daniel Pepper won the final of the men’s S14 100m Breaststroke, and Stephanie Millward took her third medal of the competition after winning silver in the women’s S9 400m Freestyle.
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