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Canadians continue to swim tough in Berlin
Canadians continue to swim tough in Berlin
“Donovan has raced well this weekend and continues to build on his form from Commonwealth Games in March. Overall, I have been very pleased with the level of performance of the 5 paralympic veterans at the meet and as Benoit said earlier, the racing is good and it will help the overall performance at World Trials in San Antonio in August and Worlds in December," says McCord
Berlin - Saturday was a tough day for the five Canadian swimmers attending the German Open Disability Swimming Championships, but Team Canada still managed three podium finishes and a number of top 8 finishes in the Open categories with great success in their class events.
Valerie Grand'Maison was the big winner of the day with a Gold medal in the open women's 200 butterfly and a silver in the junior women's 100 free. Grand’Maison also placed fifth in the open women's 100 free event.
"Performances have been good for an in season meet as I have been training very hard since Commonwealth Games and I have been able to swim a number of events that I have not swum in a long time," says Grand'Maison, "the competition has been very tough racing against the other swimmers that I have never raced against before in the point scoring system and it is tough to place high."
Brian Hill of Montreal had a silver medal in the open men's 200 butterfly. Benoit Huot of Montreal, swum a lot of events so far this weekend and every race has been a challenge with a 5th place finish in a very competitive 100 freestyle.
"It is a very competitive meet that will help prepare me for worlds. I am racing against some of the best swimmers in the world. When you race in one of the super final, there are a lot of Paralympic medalists next to me and it is very tough to get to the podium. It’s great to be in such a competitive meet and it’s a lot of fun racing the best in the world," says Huot.
Anne Polinario placed 5th in the open women's 100 free after a tough morning of racing three events." Anne has done an amazing job and has really done some solid work since her medal winning performances in Melbourne," says National Coach SWAD Craig McCord. "The work she has done since Commonwealth Games and the racing here this weekend is going to prepare her for the tough competition she will face at Worlds this fall.”
Completely blind swimmer Donovan Tildesley of Vancouver continues to be one of the top swimmers in the world and showed it today with S11 class wins in the 200 IM and 100 free against a strong competitor from Poland.
“Donovan has raced well this weekend and continues to build on his form from Commonwealth Games in March. Overall, I have been very pleased with the level of performance of the 5 paralympic veterans at the meet and as Benoit said earlier, the racing is good and it will help the overall performance at World Trials in San Antonio in August and Worlds in December," says McCord
Competition wraps up Sunday at the Schwimm Halle in Berlin, results are available at http://mysql.snafu.de/idm-schwimmen/English/index.html
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Martin Richard
Communications - Swimming Natation Canada
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