Great Britain top team again at the World Down Syndrome Swimming Championships 2024

Great Britain retained their top team title at the 11th World Down Syndrome Swimming & Artistic Championships in Antalya, Turkiye. The Championships were held over the week 19-26 March 2024 as part of the World Trisomy Games comprising 8 sports – athletics, basketball, futsal, gymnastics, judo, swimming, tennis and table tennis. Down Syndrome Swimming Great […]

GB Selection for the World Championships

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Down Syndrome Swimming Great Britain (DSS-GB) is proud to announce that 29 swimmers have been selected to represent Great Britain at the 11th Down Syndrome Swimming World Champinoship.

Great Britain top team at European Down Syndrome Championships

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Great Britain & Northern Ireland were named the top team at the seventh European Down Syndrome Championships. Down Syndrome Great Britain took a team of 33 swimmers to Padova to compete at last months Championships with 13 nations taking part at the event in Northern Italy. Teams from the USA, South Africa and Brazil joined ten […]

Pre Euro Champs Long course Training Camps 2023

32 DSS-GB swimmers from around the U.K were lucky enough to attend two action packed camps in preparation for the European Championships in Italy this September. Both camps were run by DSS-GB coaches with a 1 day camp in Oundle at Oundle School and a 2 day camp at Sunderland Aquatic Centre. Thank you to […]

Press Release – British Para Meet 2023

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  The 2023 British Para-swimming meet was held at Ponds Forge International Sports Centre in Sheffield 16-19 March. The 4 day event was held in parallel with the British leg of the World Para-swimming Series. Emerging talent from Great Britain were therefore able to compete alongside leading names in the international para-swimming circuit. 7 of […]

Team GB on Top of the World!

The 10th Down Syndrome World Swimming Championships were held in Albufeira, Portugal from 17th – 22nd October 2022 and Team GB demonstrated the importance of teamwork superbly as they were crowned Champions of the World! Every member of the 30 strong squad contributed to the success of the team with many achieving personal best times. […]