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DSE NATIONAL JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS 6th & 7th March 2010, Under DSE Technical Rules of Swimming,
Ponds Forge, Sheffield
EVENT 108 Boys Group B 50m Breaststroke
Category SB7
Place Name Club Time
2. Jordan Clark East Midland 55.21 PB Silver medal.
EVENT 116 Boys Group B 100m Freestyle
Category S8
Place Name Club Time
3. Jordan Clark East Midland 1:33.39 PB Bronze medal.
EVENT 210 Boys Group B 50m Backstroke
Category S8
Place Name Club Time
4. Jordan Clark East Midland 1:01.22 PB
EVENT 222 Boys Group B 100m Breaststroke
Category SB7
Place Name Club Time
2. Jordan Clark East Midland 2:16.28 Silver medal
This weekend saw Jordan Clark competing for the East Midlands at Sheffield’s Ponds Forge in the DSE British Short Course Junior Championships. The event brought over two hundred young swimmers together to show off their talent, with many swimmers breaking personal best times and a few even celebrating new British records.
Our own Jordan Clark had a fantastic weekend, coming away with three personal best times, 1 bronze and 2 silver (1 silver to be confirmed) medals. Jordan competed in 4 events and was on top form particularly in the 50m Backstroke where he swam almost 4 seconds faster than his current personal best time. This was an outstanding performance, particularly as this event has been described as being outside his comfort zone. If this is outside his comfort zone ‘brings on the other events’! He also produced two second PBs in both the heats of the 50m Breaststroke and 100m Freestyle, what a fantastic achievement. It’s not easy when you are the only disability swimming from your club competing over the weekend!
A full set of results can be read on the DSE website. Our thanks go to everyone that attended the event and supported Jordan at the weekend. The next DSE swimming event in Sheffield is the British International Disability Swimming Championships from 16-18 April.
You might like to know that Disability Sport Events (DSE) is renowned worldwide in a variety of sports. It organises National Championships in a variety of sports and has an annual calendar of events to be proud of. Swimming and athletics are the highest participation sports for disabled people in this country and Nationwide’s sponsorship enables DSE to build on current success to contribute towards the number of medals won at the Paralympics in both 2008 and 2012.
A brief introduction to swimming classifications
Swimming is the only sport that combines the conditions of limb loss, cerebral palsy (coordination and movement restrictions), spinal cord injury (weakness or paralysis involving any combination of the limbs) and other disabilities (such as Dwarfism or major joint restriction conditions) across classes.
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‘S’
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the class for Freestyle, Backstroke and Butterfly
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‘SB’
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the class for Breaststroke
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‘SM’
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the class for Individual Medley
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Classes 1-10
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physically disabled swimmers
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Classes 11-13
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visually impaired swimmers
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Class 14
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learning disabled swimmers
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Class 15 hearing impaired swimmers
The range of classification starts with S1, SB1, and SM1, which donates swimmers with a severe disability, up to those with the minimal disability of S10, SB9, and SM10 classification. Swimmers can with a dive or in the water and this is taken into consideration when classifying the athlete.
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