Jon Shaw (PNZ Head Performance Coach) said, “It was another great day in the pool for the New Zealand Para-Swimming Team at the 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships in Glasgow”.
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After qualifying fastest from the morning heats, the 20-year old pulled clear of the field in the breaststroke leg of the final before powering home in 3:01.02 – more than five seconds ahead of Ukraine’s silver medallist Yelyzaveta Mereshko (3:06.08).
The result continued the 20-year-old’s record of dethroning champions as she beat 2013 gold medallist and team-mate Viktoriia Savtsova, while Australia’s Tiffany Kane secured bronze.
Ellie Simmonds and Oliver Hynd were the stand-out performers, both setting new world records, with Tully Kearney and Sacha Kindred also winning gold.
The 22-year-old was pleased to win in a category he doesn’t consider his forte, with his preferred 400m freestyle later in the week.
The 22-year-old, who has won numerous Paralympic and world championship titles, clocked 2min 26.51sec to finish less than a second outside her own world record time.
“Whenever I’m racing against Daniela Schulte, she’s a real force to be reckoned with”.
Hall said he felt fast in the water and was happy with his first swim in Glasgow. “I had 4:24 in my head as the time I thought I was capable of so I’m so chuffed to go out there and do it”. “I have a weight lifted off my shoulders because I worked so hard to get here and after the 200 IM, I wasn’t sure how I was going to do but I stuck through, believed in myself and made it happen”. If he hadn’t set the standard so high, I wouldn’t have swum so fast tonight.
Beckenham-based Rodgers added to the five medals she won two years ago when she claimed bronze in the women’s 100m freestyle S7.
Kindred, who has already bagged 17 World Championship gongs during a glittering career, will be competing in the SM6 200m individual medley. I should try doing that more often.’. “I’m just happy to keep progressing”.
In the early session, 16-year-old Bournemouth College student Alice Tai broke her own British record in the 50m freestyle S10 with a swim of 29.60, but missed out on a final place.
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Thomas Hamer and Andrew Mullen were the other two Brits in action on day five, finishing fourth in their respective finals.
