WILL REED has just completed his Level 1 Safeguarding Course to support his voluntary work teaching children to swim 🏊♂️. Having
#DownSyndrome
is no barrier to
#achievement
#ThisAbility
Amalia - the Junior 25m butterfly
#WorldChampion
👏👏👏
At her first ever international event, coming so close to medalling in the open 50m backstroke too.
What a debut🇬🇧 & it’s only Day 1 of the World
#DownSyndromeSwimming
Champs 2022!
This man really is a champion - MARK EVENS not only got PBs and QTs over the weekend but then went straight back to work where he's celebrating a whloe year working full time at ACSL Precision Engineering
#RoleModel
#Inspirstional
Well what a relay team ….. A NEW WORLD RECORD
Breaking the T21 Women’s LC 4x100m freestyle relay World Record
🇬🇧🔥European Champions 🔥🇬🇧
Fantastic Helen Thompson, Caroline Faithfull, Cerys McCrindle & Amalia Freeland🥇🥇🥇🥇
Just
#huge
TEAM GBR 2nd place overall in the Down Syndrome World Swimming Championships 2018
#Canada
We couldn’t be more proud
#SoManyWorldRecordsandMedals
🇬🇧🏊🏻♂️🇬🇧🏊🏻♂️
He's back! Jake Vicars kept fit with
@thebodycoach
throughout lockdown and kept positive but there's no substitute for the real thing. It feels so good to be
#BackInTheWater
.
Ciara McKenna was
@UniofHerts
today to speak to trainee midwives about her fantastic life. The key objective of
@DSAinfo
#TellitRight
training is to ensure that health professionals have up to date, accurate & balanced info about living with
#DownSyndrome
“I figure if a girl wants to be a legend, she should go ahead and be one” (Calamity Jane)
HOLLY SULLIVAN swam a PB & new junior SC T21🌍 WORLD RECORD🌎time in 100m free🏊🏻♂️ at
#Southampton
yesterday. Congratulations Holly 👏👏👏Well on the way to legend status🌟
🔥 It’s EUROPEAN GOLD🥇for the 🇬🇧 Mixed 4x100m medley relay 🔥
Super swimming from Amalia Freeland, Helen Thompson, Zac Lacey & Mark Evens
European
#DownSyndromeSwimming
Champs 2023
Such an exciting race to watch. Kept us on the edge of our seats!
🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
We are
#proud
to announce our squad for the Down Syndrome International Swimming Organisation - DSISO - European Champs in
#Sardinia
Huge congrats to all the
#swimmers
and thanks to all the clubs & coaches who have supported them 🏊♂️🥂🏊♂️👏
🎈Happy birthday 🎈to DYLAN HUGHES As his headmaster says “There is something about this young man that electrifies our school & our community - because of him we are all better people....he is an excellent role model for all of us” Profoundly moving words
#SeeTheAbility
Dylan Hughes from Wales swimming in
#Canada
at his 1st World Down Syndrome Swimming Championships - PBs in 50m freestyle and 25m backstroke , 3rd in men's 50m junior breaststroke, 5th men's 25m junior backstroke 🇬🇧🏴🇬🇧🏴
#RockingTheBestKit
@DSAInfo
Well done BETH GREIG swimming at her 1st LC gala at the Midland District Age Group Championships in Dundee. A PB in 50m free & 2 QTs for the DS EuroChamps2019 in Italy
#RoadToSardinia
#SteppingUpToTheChallenge
What’s not to love?
Beth had a fab weekend
@SASANorth
&
@SASAMidland
Age Group Champs round 2 in
#Aberdeen
Putting what she’s worked on into practice, loving the LC experience - coming home with a couple of improved times. Wonderful stuff Beth 💪
#backstroke
😴
CIARA McKENNA swims 3 x a week 🏊♀️🏊♀️🏊♀️she does judo 🥋she likes to go to top golf🏌️♀️and she's just joined the local gym 🤸♀️. This is Ciara at her first ever mainstream gala. 1 PB & a bronze in the 50m backstroke
#thisgirlcan
#NationalFitnessDay
#inclusion
A new PB for BETH GREIG - recently selected to join the
@DSSGB1
sqaud to attend the DSISO European Swimming Championships in
#Sardinia
- in the 50m breaststroke swimming in Glasgow yesterday
#thisgirlcan
#ThisAbility
Team for DSISO World Championships in Portugal, October 2022 announced. Congratulations to the swimmers selected 🇬🇧
Thank you to the clubs & coaches that have worked so hard with their swimmers to help them achieve their goals. 5 more months to prepare.
#DownSyndromeSwimming
Great swimming from Will Browning at the
@CoLeedsSC
New Year Meet 2020 👊4PBs in his 4 races & a medal🥈Great atmosphere👏 & a fab day 👍 More racing tomorrow - Good luck Will & everyone else taking part 🏊🏻♂️🤞🏊🏻♂️
After another full morning of racing Mark Evens storms home to take gold🏅by nearly 50m in the men’s 1500m freestyle at the European Down Syndrome Swimming Championships 2023 in Padova 🇮🇹
Mark you are a true champion 🔥👏💪
3
@DSSGB1
swimmers to watch - these girls really swim
LIZZIE ALLEN 2 🥇1🥈2PBs
BETH GREIG 3🥇1🥉4 PBs 3 QTs
HELEN THOMPSON 3🥇2🥈1🥉6PBs 1 Junior 🌍record
What a weekend of swimming in
#Southampton
#ThisAbility
🔥🇬🇧🥇European Champion 🥇🇬🇧🔥
Another title for Amalia Freeland
T21 Women’s 100m butterfly
Blowing the Championships out the water. And still not finished yet….
HOLLY SULLIVAN gets a gold medal in the South West regionals in the 100m free and a new Long Course PB - there's just no stopping this young lady
#thisgirlcan
#ThisAbility
Laura Logan has just completed her 1st week as Sports Development Assistant
@SportLeisureSAC
👏👏. Meaningful, paid employment benefits everyone. Laura with her experience on the
@DSSGB1
swim squad can only be an asset to her new employers and other members of the team & public.
WORLD CHAMPIONS
What a race!! The roar was deafening when Team GB stormed home for🥇in the 4x100m T21 mixed Medley Relay 🎉🎉🎉
Congratulations you were on fire🔥
Amalia Freeland🥇
Holly Sullivan🥇
Zac Lacey🥇
Mark Evens🥇
#worldclass
#downsyndromeswimming
#worldchampions
We keep in touch every day to help each other stay positive & motivated🌟What made you proud this week? Supporting your friends📞💻? Learning new skills? Longer workouts? More reps? S&C? Being a key worker? All of us
#together
@DSSGB1
🧑🍳🧑🔧🏃🏼♀️🚶🧘♀️🏋️🚴🎨🎹🧑💻
#StayInWorkOut
Quite an extraordinary performance from Amalia at her first international as a senior
Two European silver medals on Day 1
🥈Women’s T21 100m freestyle
🥈Women’s T21 50m backstroke
Congratulations Amalia. Extremely proud & rather excited to see what’s in store for Days 2-4
Jake Vicars has returned from the European championships in Italy with a Bronze🥉medal in the 4 x 100m mixed T21 freestyle relay - no wonder he's smiling 👏👏
Zac Lacey has done it! A bronze 🥉 for 🇬🇧 in the T21 200m individual medley 🤩 at the European TriGames 2021
With thanks to all that helped him get to 🇮🇹 in time! Well done
@zacswim
#ProudDad
@NeilNeillacey
#TeamManager
After bossing 50m backstroke for a new PB last week CHRISTOPHER McDONNELL deserves to look delighted with his Outstanding Achievement Award 2018 - he works hard, trains hard. Well done Christopher 👍👏🤙
CONGRATULATIONS Zac Lacey World
#DownSyndromeSwimming
200m Butterfly Champion - winner of the Snr Men’s Disability Award 2022
@isle_sports
Achievement Awards honour those who have made an outstanding contribution to sport on the Isle of Wight & recognise the
#PeaksOfAchievement
A busy 48hrs for FLORENCE GARRETT - 1 moment she’s achieving a
#DS
EuroChamps 50mFly QT
@Kingston_Royals
NY meet, the next moment she’s off for her 1st day employed as librarian & postmaster
@Brainlabs
Thank you
@DSWorkfit
What a success story. Non-stop achievement
#ThisGirlCan
Silver medal goes to Becky Turner, Kathryn Martin, Holly Sullivan, Caroline Faithfull in the 4 x 200m freestyle relay at the World Down Syndrome Swimming Championships in
#Canada
#thisgirlcan
#ThisAbility
Conor is so
#PROUD
to qualify as an
@InstituteofSwim
L1 Swim Assistant (Teaching)
He can now assist a qualified swim teacher in a learn to swim lesson👏
Great work Conor to pass the theory, practical & assessment with fantastic support from course tutor Danielle🙏
#LearnToSwim
The rain didn’t dampen our entrance to the
#OpeningCeremony
of the World
#DownSyndromeSwimming
Champs
Delayed by
#Covid
Captain Thomas has waited a long time to lead in his team 🇬🇧
He says he’s so proud of how
@DSSGB1
came through lockdown. A positive team is a winning team
Congrats to FLORENCE GARRETT Just scraping a new PB in her 50m fly by 11 hundredths of a second at Surrey Age Group Championship 2019
@AquaticsCentre
#RoadToSardinia
Introducing our new Team Captain
Mark Evens
A superb swimmer & a true leader. Mark steps up when the team needs him, leading by example
It’s an honour to swim for 🇬🇧
It’s an even greater honour to lead the team for your country
Congratulations Mark
We are all so proud of Dylan Hughes
@DSSGB1
- He's just back from the European championships where he competed as one of our Junior swimmers - 7 races and 7 age group medals
1🥇
5 🥈🥈🥈🥈🥈
1 🥉
#nextgen
Helen Thompson does it again👏👏👏
At the
@SEEastRegion
SC Champs 2019 in Basildon, Helen has broken her own
#DownSyndrome
Jnr World🌎Records AGAIN in both 400m free (by 4secs) & 200m IM (by 1.1secs). Constantly improving. Truly remarkable. Well done Helen 🌟
@ActiveEssex
Dylan Hughes is back in the water and he couldn't be happier. He did a good job at keeping fit during
#lockdown
in
#Wales
🏴 as you can see, but like all
#elite
athletes he knows when he needs a rest.
#Goodtobeback
10 - 9 - 8 - 7 - 6 - 5 - 4 - 3 - 2 - 1 Blast off 🚀🚀🚀 Countdown to European Championships in
#Sardinia
10 days to go - Harry Humphries and Ciara Mckenna will be there - bit.ly2M7jDah
Wow
🥇European Champion🥇
Amalia Freeland shaves a second off her PB to take the European gold medal🥇for T21 Women’s 50m butterfly
What a race! Congratulations Amalia. Another international senior medal for your growing collection!
Another great swim from our hard working lads THOMAS RADDINGS &
@YouthSportTrust
ambassador WILL BROWNING this w/e
@DartesDoncaster
Mad March Sprints - PBs AND bling. Fantastic swimming Thomas & Will!
WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS
World DownSyndrome Swimming Championships 2024 BEST TEAM
The swimmers have shown their usual brilliant resilience
5 days of fierce competition back to back
They have done us PROUD & come out with flying colours
Absolutely
#worldclass
#downsyndromeswimming
After 2 days of competition:
🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇
🥈🥈🥈🥈🥈🥈🥈🥈🥈🥈
🥉🥉🥉🥉🥉🥉🥉
but it’s not just about medals. There have been some fantastic performances from the whole 🇬🇧
@DSSGB1
squad, maintaining race skills under huge pressure on the biggest stage of all.
The World DS Champs
Hats off and huge congratulations to our 7 runners, ZAC, WILL, HOLLY, JEMIMA, ELLEN, LIZZIE & FLORENCE for completing the TURKS HEAD 10K FUN RUN -
#ThisAbility
At the end of Day 2 in
#Sardinia
@DSSGB1
have
7 Gold medals 🥇
7 Silver medals 🥈
9 Bronze medals 🥉
Congratulations to all our medal winners seen here - what an amazing first half of the competition.
#teamworkmakesthedreamwork
BECKY TURNER is so chuffed with her 50m breaststroke PB & para gold medal she won at the Glos Level 3 Sprint Meet last weekend. Super result Becky.
#SwamFast
#HadFun
🤩
It’s a 🇬🇧 silver medal 🥈🥈🥈🥈 for our T21 mixed 4x100 freestyle relay team
Congratulations William Roberts, Cerys McCrindle, Helen Thompson & Mark Evens
You swam a fabulous race ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
And the final European medal of Day 2 (to bring the🇬🇧grand total so far to 28)(yes, 28!)
Congratulations Dylan Williams, Will Reed, Zac Lacey & Mark Evens on European🥈in T21 Men’s 4x100m medley relay
Ending Day 2 (of 4) in style🇬🇧
European
#DownSyndromeSwimming
Champs 2023
Ellen swam a well paced race to take a decisive victory & gold🏅1500m free setting a Women’s Mosaic World Record
Ellen you are a star ⭐️
What an amazing championship 🔥🔥
Always raising your game
European Down Syndrome Championships 2023 Padova 🇮🇹
Fantastic swimming at the Redditch Special Olympics gala at Abbey Stadium for 3 of our swimmers. STEVEN BOYCE won🥇for 100m free👏ALEX EDWARDS🥇for 100m backstroke 👏 & 🥈for HARRY HUMPHRIES in his 1st ever Individual Medley👏Congratulations Steven, Alex & Harry - fabulous stuff!
After his emphatic victory in 800m free in the morning, &🥇in 4x100m mixed relay, Mark secures the silver medal 🥈for T21 men’s 200m freestyle
Phenomenal 🏊♂️
European
#DownSyndromeSwimming
Championships 2023