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NEWCOMER’S GUIDE TO SWIMMING Swimmers often talk using strange abbreviations and words that don’t apply to the outside world. Below is a simple glossary of some of these terms. PB - Personal best time Splits - The time at each 50m turn. Swimmers will monitor these to check how they paced a race. Taper - Prior to any big competition, a swimmer will ‘taper’. All this really means is that they rest they cut back the amount of training that they do and decrease the intensity. Free - Freestyle / front crawl Breast - Breaststroke Fly - Butterfly Back - Backstroke IM - Individual medley (butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, freestyle). At the Paralympic Games there is a 200m IM (a swimmer swims 50m of each above stroke) and a 150m IM for classifications SM3 and SM4 (50m of each stroke excluding butterfly). In a medley relay, the backstroke is first which addresses the fact that backstrokers can’t do a dive takeover. Four swimmers complete 50m or 100m each (depending whether it’s a 4x50m or 4x100m relay) in the following order: backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly, freestyle. Long Course - The Paralympic Games are being held in long course format, which means that all events take place in a 50m pool. Short course events are those held in a 25m pool. Shaving-down - Most swimmers shave the hair from their bodies for a big meet. Although they will remove almost all of their body hair, the actual purpose is to remove the top layer of skin. This increases the sensitivity and “feel” for the water. Even though a lot of swimmers will wear all-over body suits at the Paralympic Games, shaving will remain an important psychological step in getting ready for a race. The eight fastest swimmers from the heats will swim in the final. However, where there are less than eight entrants, the race will be swum as a straight final. The lane order for finals is decided from the times recorded in the heats (or in entry times in the case of a straight final). The fastest qualifier swims in lane four, second fastest in lane five, third in lane three, fourth in lane six, fifth in lane two, sixth in lane seven, seventh in lane one and eighth in lane eight. Theoretically, this creates a spearhead format in the race. 10
PARALYMPIC SWIMMING EVENTS 50m and 100m freestyle: class S1 men only and S2 to S13 200m freestyle: class S2 men only and S3 to S5 400m freestyle: class S6 to S13 50m backstroke: class S1 men only and S2 to S5 100m backstroke: class S6 to S13 50m butterfly: class S4 to S7 100m butterfly: class S8 to S13 50m breaststroke: class SB2 men only and SB3 100m breaststroke: class SB4 to SB9 and S11 to S13 150m individual medley: class SM3 men only and SM4 200m individual medley: class SM5 men only and SM6 to SM13 Relay 4x50m freestyle and 4x50 medley relay Relay 4x100m freestyle and 4x100m medley relay 11
Page 1 and 2: THE 2004 PARALYMPIC GAMES BRITISH S
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Page 5 and 6: MEDIA CONTACTS CONTACT DETAILS IN A
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Page 15 and 16: FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 24TH S1 S8 S8 S11
Page 17 and 18: HISTORY OF THE PARALYMPICS The Para
Page 19 and 20: BRONZE Elaine Barrett Jeanette Chip
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Page 23 and 24: EVENT CLASS RECORD TIME ATHLETE PLA
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Page 41 and 42: Kenny Cairns First Sporting Success
Page 43 and 44: Jody Cundy Date of Birth: 14.10.78
Page 45 and 46: David Hill Date of Birth: 23.03.89
Page 47 and 48: Dervis Konuralp Date of Birth: 27.0
Page 49 and 50: Andrew Lindsay Date of Birth: 25.10
Page 51 and 52: David Roberts Date of Birth: 25.05.
Page 53 and 54: Matt Walker Date of Birth: 25.04.78
Page 55 and 56: Marc Woods Date of Birth: 01.01.69
Page 57 and 58: Elaine Barrett Finest Sporting Mome
Page 59 and 60: Jennifer Coughlin Lara Ferguson Dat
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Jemma Houghton Date of Birth: 19.02
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Natalie Jones Date of Birth: 31.10.
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Mhairi Love Date of Birth: 05.05.81
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Jane Stidever Date of Birth: 15.01.
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BRITISH SWIMMING STAFF PROFILES Tim
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