2017 Para Swimming World Series – Sheffield
- April 27-30
- Sheffield, Great Britain
- Results
- Meet Central
Multiple world records fell at the third stop of the Para Swimming World Series in Sheffield, Great Britain, with the four days of competition coming to a close Sunday. The meet was competed in a multi-class format, with a points system used to determine the winner of each event.
There was a total of three world records broken, achieved by Brits Alice Tai and Bethany Firth and the Czech Republic’s Arnost Petracek.
Tai, the Rio bronze medalist in the 100 back, broke the women’s world record in a time of 1:07.66 on her way to gold, totalling 1045 points.
“It seems so surreal right now to be a world record holder,” Tai said. “I wasn’t expecting to swim that much faster than this morning. Going into the race my PB was 1:08.34 so I was going to be happy with anything close to that. “I’ve not been close to my PB in a while so to go a 1:07 and knock lots of time off my PB and get the world record is just crazy”, Tai said post race.
Three-time Paralympic champion Firth broke the world record in the women’s s14 100 fly, putting up a time of 1:04.62. Despite the record, Firth didn’t win. That went to Rebecca Meyers of the US, who, competing in the S13 category, recorded a time of 1:04.70 to give her 934 points. Firth’s swim earned her 845 points and placed her 5th.
Along with the 100 fly record, Firth won gold in the 200 free in a time of 2:04.31 for 947 points. She was the Paralympic champion in that event last summer.
The other record went to Petracek, who broke a nine-year-old record in the men’s S4 50 back clocking 42.22 for gold. He also won gold in the 50 fly.
Along with the world records, there was also a British Record broken by Lewis White, who broke the S9 100 free record in a time of 57.18, earning him gold and 850 points.
Along with Petracek, there were three other multi-event winners in the meet. Dmitriy Horlin of Uzbekistan won the 200 IM, 100 fly and 400 free competing in the S12 category. Hannah Russell of Great Britain took down both the 50 and 100 free titles for women competing in the S12 category, and the American Meyers added wins in the 200 IM and 400 free to go along with the 100 fly mentioned earlier.
British Swimming did full recaps of all eight sessions in Sheffield, which you can find on their website here.
Check out some of the interviews from the winners, courtesy of British Swimming on Youtube, below.
Seems facts are coming out
A while back I posted what I felt would happen with certain GB swimmers and it looks like it’s started.
Steph Slater has started to process to be lowered from S8 to S7, by her latest post on fb and picture you can see her sat in GBs on hand electric wheelchair and claims on fatigue ( invisible disability her words)
Well fatigue is not a disability it’s a condition you can recover from.
The Para swimming world is looking more and more like a joke with countries playing the system to out cheat each other at every opertunity.
So if I was the USA Para swimming selection panel I would be on the phone to… Read more »
Just been contacted by Australian press and asked to go on the record over Aussie cheating in Para swimming ??
Great looking forward to giving them all the info on some great Swimmers inc statements from team mates
Let’s hope sponsors read it could be some interesting times ahead when the Lance Armstrong effect takes place
So which is it the mother or the aunt ??
So it now seems Maddison Elliot is to be classified in Indianapolis after all and Australian Para swimming want to keep it under the radar as they know that public interest will be on the cheating S8 pair who to be honest are a standing joke!!!
Evidence provided on both showing that they are faking the severity of their CP has been handed into the IPC in both video and photos along with GB new swimming S8 proves that its medals before sportsmanship between these two countries.
So I stand by my prediction and look forward to the protest as Maddison Elliot has no QT as an S9 for worlds.
Evidence of cheating by these two has… Read more »
Nice to see that Someones family are keeping tabs on my posts
Pity really but even IPC are shocked that her name is not on the list but she is being classified
All underhand from a team that has nothing to hide ??
Keep going forward mark , and hopefully the people speaking to you will eventually come forward in stead of hiding behind you , the more we stand together the stronger we will be ,
We must get the cheats out of he system and Australia and Great British swimming also has to clean up instead of encouraging it , as was said at head of ipc it been because of the money and medals and life style ,
Please anyone if you have concerns over cheating and good old fashioned eveidence and not hear say come forward and report it , this won’t go away and will get worse before it gets better ,
Fingers crossed you… Read more »
Well meeting with IPC went really well and we came away with positive comments and written promise that any swimmers who come forward with evidence of IM will be protected.
They are well aware of certain S8 swimmers who are very suspect and these along with some new names we provided with appropriate evidence will be looked at closely
So far we are the only parents to visit the IPC in Bonn and made to feel most welcome so if you get the chance to pay them a visit with information then contact them and offer to do so
If we stand together and supply evidence then we can help clean up the sport our children love
Who in their right mind could dislike cleaning up the cheating in swimming
Mind boggles at times
Thank you to all those who contacted me with info and evidence!!
The txt msg between an IPC Australian classifier and a parent confirming that Maddison and Lakeisha are known to cheat by taking cold showers just before bench testing and limping will be hard for the IPC to refute
Plus e-mails from their team mates also stating they know they cheat the system with coaches approvel.
And it seems I am due to be contacted by Australian Para swimming soon to discuss my concerns ???
Don’t bother I have nothing to say to those who approve cheating in any sport but disability sport that’s sad
The classifications in Sheffield have all gone through.
Tai S9SB9SM9, Kearney S7SB6SM7, Richter S8SB8SM8. Kearneys is staggering given that she was dqd in breastroke swim. Now it seems you don’t even have to complete classification or compete to be classified. Let’s see what the Aussies respond with in their next round of Classifications. Para Sport is nothing more than a political rat nest orchestrated by the NGBs. It’s actually pointless and, when these athletes are children, child abuse.
It also appears now that anything involving GBs Craig Nicholson oozes controversy and suspicion – his involvement with Maddison Elliott & her goslow swim 2015 will never be forgotten.
The lack of respect that the IPC and its NGBs… Read more »
I am going to try and show this site that classification is fixed way before a swimmers review takes place.
Maddison Elliot and her friend LP are both up for classification this year, Maddison will be moved from S8 to S9 in Indianapolis and Australia will immediately put in a protest with Maddison being put back down to S8.
Now LP will struggle to walk to the blocks and her gait will be the worst it ever has been and she will look to go S7 but claim to be happy to remain as an S8.
Now you may ask why I have made this claim well the answer is simple the Australian NGB are expecting this… Read more »
So ME is not being classified in Indianapolis whilst other Australian swimmers are how strange but I still stand by my prediction for when she is