Location: Ponds
Forge International Sports Centre,
Event: Disability
Sport Events (DSE) National Swimming Champs (25m)
Date: Sat
3rd – 4th Nov 2007
Swindon
Dolphin’s Allan
Minns won a bronze medal in the 100m butterfly over
the weekend at the Disability Sport Events (DSE) National Short Course Swimming Championships.
Allan Minns
More
than 200 swimmers, including athletes from
,
,
,
and
, took part in the two-day event held at Sheffield’s Ponds Forge, where some of
’s top disability swimmers represented their regions as they continued with their
preparations.
23 year old Minns,
who has recently increased his training to four sessions in the pool and two in the
gym, was in tremendous form during the championships and recorded a 19 second personal
best time on his way to bronze, swimming for the South West in the S8 category. He
also secured personal bests in the 50m, 100m & 400m freestyle, 50m butterfly and
50m & 100m backstroke.
Dolphin
ASA coach, Steve Cryer, said that “Allan’s success was testament to his hard work
and he is now on course for London 2012”.
Source:
Dolphin Press Team
