PLYMOUTH athlete Doaa Shayea enjoyed an impressive international debut for the British Weight Lifting team this weekend. Shayea, who has been competing in wheelchair racing for City of Plymouth Athletics Club since she was a teenager, is out in Tbilisi, Georgia, representing her country at the 2022 World Para Powerlifting (WPPO) European Championships. And she … Continue reading
BEN PROUD secured Great Britain’s first gold of the World Aquatics Championships in Budapest with a stunning victory in the men’s 50m freestyle on Friday evening. Leading from the front after a phenomenal start, the 27-year-old former Plymouth College pupil got the fastest reaction time of the field, maintaining a half body-length lead down the … Continue reading
PLYMOUTH’S Kerenza Bryson has been named in an eight-strong Great Britain squad to compete at the first UIPM Modern Pentathlon World Cup of the 2022 season. The event will take place in Cairo in Egypt next week (March 22-27). Bryson recently won the British Championships, but due to the Covid pandemic she has not competed … Continue reading
PLYMOUTH’S Reece Dunn became Paralympics GB’s most decorated athlete in Tokyo on Thursday by winning a fifth medal at the Games. Dunn took bronze in the men’s S14 backstroke final with a 59.97 second swim. It followed on from winning gold medals in the 200m freestyle, 200m IM and mixed relay event and a silver … Continue reading
PLYMOUTH swimmer Reece Dunn secured a third Paralympic Games gold medal and a third world record in Tokyo on Tuesday morning. Dunn triumphed in the men’s S14 200m IM, having also won the 200m freestyle and helped Great Britain to gold in the mixed S14 4x100m relay. He also took silver in the 100m butterfly. … Continue reading
PLYMOUTH’S Reece Dunn won a second Paralympic Games gold medal in the space of 24 hours on Saturday morning. Fresh from winning the individual S14 200m freestyle event on Friday, Dunn helped the Great Britain mixed S14 4x100m freestyle relay team to victory in Tokyo in a world record time. Dunn, who had also claimed … Continue reading
PLYMOUTH’S Reece Dunn described winning a Paralympic gold medal as ‘amazing’. Dunn broke his own world record to triumph in the men’s S14 200m freestyle title in Tokyo on Friday morning. The Plymouth Leander swimmer clocked 1:52.40 to hold off the challenge of Brazilian Gabriel Bandeira, who had beaten him to gold in the 100m … Continue reading
PLYMOUTH Leander’s Reece Dunn enjoyed a medal-winning debut at the Paralympics on Wednesday morning. Dunn took silver in the men’s S14 100m butterfly event, finishing just behind Brazilian Gabriel Bandeira. World record holder Dunn had broken the Paralympic record in the heats with a 55.99 swim. Although he went much quicker in the final, clocking … Continue reading
TOM DALEY capped a memorable Olympic Games with a second medal at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre on Saturday. The Plymothian secured bronze in a breathtaking men’s individual 10m platform final. It followed on from his historic 10m synchro victory with Matty Lee at the start of the Tokyo Games. Daley had been far from his … Continue reading
NEWLY-crowned Olympic 10m synchro champion Tom Daley safely booked his place in the semi-finals of the individual platform event in Tokyo on Friday morning. Daley finished fourth in a long, drawn-out preliminary competition after recovering from a shaky start. The former world champion was only 23rd after round one after only scoring 56.10 points for … Continue reading