{"id":1715,"date":"2013-10-01T13:46:22","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T13:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perrybeechesswimming.co.uk\/site\/?p=1715"},"modified":"2013-10-01T13:46:22","modified_gmt":"2013-10-01T13:46:22","slug":"congratulations-to-hasna-hakim-and-keira-shepherd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/perrybeechesswimming.co.uk\/site\/congratulations-to-hasna-hakim-and-keira-shepherd\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to Hasna Hakim and Keira Shepherd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The West Midlands Regional Disability Championships was held at Tudor Grange Leisure Centre in Solihull on Saturday 28th September and saw the largest competitor entry for a number of years with a total of 48 swimmers applying to compete.<\/p>\n<p>There was also a number of Young Volunteers (Andrew Gulliver, Jovan Owusu-Nepaul included) gaining their competition experience as part of the Timekeeper course.<\/p>\n<p>Disabilities ranged from Alex Johnson (SB4) up to Martha Ryan (S15), with 6 swimmers also competing for the first time following their classification earlier in the day.<\/p>\n<p>Notable results from the competition include:<\/p>\n<p>18 year old Tully Kearney (S10) was the first winner of the night with a solo swim in the 400m freestyle, cheered on home as she finished in a time of 5:00.76 and followed this up with golds in the 50m Back (34.94), 100m Back (1:12.03) and 50m Fly (35.16).<\/p>\n<p>Later on and to show age is no barrier to competing, a young 40 year old Robin Surgeoner (SB5) took gold in both the 50m Breast (50.72) and 100m Breast (1:51.62).<\/p>\n<p>Newly classified 23 year old Keira Shepherd (S8) took gold in the 50m Free (36.83), 100m Free (1:25.43) and silver in the 50m Back (44.20).<\/p>\n<p>S14 swimmer Adam Meanwell (22 years), won gold in 100m IM (1:10.47), 50m Fly (30.15) and 50m Free (26.69).<\/p>\n<p>Hasna Hakim (SB9) won the 50m Breastroke in a personal best time of 42.25.<\/p>\n<p>Full results can be seen here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.westmidlandswimming.org.uk\/website\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=433:regional-disability-championships&amp;catid=20:news&amp;Itemid=36\">http:\/\/www.westmidlandswimming.org.uk\/website\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=433:regional-disability-championships&amp;catid=20:news&amp;Itemid=36<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The West Midlands Regional Disability Championships was held at Tudor Grange Leisure Centre in Solihull on Saturday 28th September and saw the largest competitor entry for a number of years with a total of 48 swimmers applying to compete. There was also a number of Young Volunteers (Andrew Gulliver, Jovan Owusu-Nepaul included) gaining their competition &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/perrybeechesswimming.co.uk\/site\/congratulations-to-hasna-hakim-and-keira-shepherd\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Congratulations to Hasna Hakim and Keira Shepherd<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1078,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/perrybeechesswimming.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/perrybeechesswimming.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/perrybeechesswimming.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/perrybeechesswimming.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/perrybeechesswimming.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/perrybeechesswimming.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1716,"href":"http:\/\/perrybeechesswimming.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715\/revisions\/1716"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/perrybeechesswimming.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/perrybeechesswimming.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/perrybeechesswimming.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/perrybeechesswimming.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}