3 weeks ago
Teenager Iona Winnifrith has won her 2nd golden badge of nan European Para-swimming Championships successful Madeira.
Winnifrith, 13, won nan SB7 100m breaststroke title to adhd to her triumph successful nan SM7 200m individual medley connected the opening time of nan competition connected Sunday.
Her clip of 1 infinitesimal 29.91 seconds was besides a British and European record.
Harry Stewart besides won golden for Britain by claiming nan men's SB14 100m title successful a clip of 1 infinitesimal 6.79 seconds.
Double Paralympic champion Maisie Summers-Newton besides claimed golden successful nan SM6 200m individual medley, while Bruce Dee won metallic successful nan aforesaid men's event.
"My main extremity is to break nan world grounds soon," said Winnifrith aft her victory.
"I'm breaking my individual champion rather a batch now truthful it's conscionable going to beryllium astir keeping going pinch my training and hopefully get nearer to that."
Winnifrith, who had already achieved nan event's qualifying clip for nan Paris Paralympics astatine nan Aquatics GB Swimming Championships this month, vanished up of neutral jock Mariia Pavlova and Nahia Borezzo Zudaire of Spain.
On Monday, Mark Tompsett won golden and William Ellard metallic successful nan men's S14 100m backstroke, while location were besides silvers for Grace Harvey successful nan women's S6 100m freestyle and Megan Neave successful nan women's S14 100m backstroke.
The championships are nan past awesome world trial earlier this summer's Paris Paralympics, and it is besides unfastened to non-European swimmers.
