After today’s heats he was eighth fastest in 2 min 13.2 sec, with the two fastest times recorded by a Hungarian and a Russian.However, Paul du Feu, who is coaching Simon as well as other members of the Great Britain team, said that everyone in the British party have performed outstandingly well this morning.’There are 35 countries represented at swimming; and all of the Great Britain swimmers who swam this morning, including Simon, have reached an A-string final.
We’re all pretty pleased for them.’Le Couilliard (16) is in the final at around 5 o’clock today.Two AIB Tigers were in action yesterday in the National Age Group championships held in Sheffield.The first in the pool was Sarah Hassell, in the girls 400m freestyle event, and although she was not expected to win she swam a strong middle section to finish 20 places higher than her initial ranking, coming home in a new PB of 4.56.53.Meanwhile Island Games’ swimmer Victoria Rebours powered her way to the final of the girls 200m breaststroke but, swimming in an outside lane in the final, found the pace extremely fast.Even so, she rose to the occasion, and dropped her heat time by two seconds to finish seventh overall in 2.49.54 which makes her sixth for her age group in Britain.
