Staff England has proudly risen to the highest of para swimming on the Commonwealth Video games since its debut at Delhi 2010.
As England’s greatest para swimmers put together for Glasgow 2026, right here’s the historical past of Staff England in para swimming that has seen the St George’s flag hoisted excessive.
A medal-winning debut for Staff England
Staff England’s para swimming workforce made a splash at Delhi 2010, returning with 5 medals from their debut competitors on the Video games.
Six years earlier than claiming Paralympic gold at Rio 2016, Stephanie Millward claimed England’s first ever para swimming medal with bronze within the ladies’s 50m freestyle S9.
Millward continued to set the usual with two silver medals within the 100m freestyle and butterfly S9, solely behind 15-time Paralympic gold medallist Natalie du Toit.
Robert Welbourn’s bronze within the 100m freestyle S10, in addition to Simon Miller’s silver within the 50m freestyle S9, marked a vivid begin to Staff England’s para swimming story.
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Oliver Hynd makes Glasgow golden
The primary of many victors for Staff England, Oliver Hynd secured England’s first-ever para swimming gold medal at Glasgow 2014 within the 200m particular person medley SM8.
It got here two years after he gained Paralympic Video games gold on house soil in the exact same occasion at London 2012.
Elsewhere north of the border, Stephanie Slater stepped onto the rostrum with silver within the 100m freestyle S8, crushed solely by Australian Maddison Elliott’s world file.
Thomas Hamer’s silver within the 200m freestyle S14 rounded off a marketing campaign that proved Staff England’s pedigree on the prime of the game.
Gold Coast by identify and nature
Impressed by Hynd’s groundbreaking win in Glasgow, three gold medals returned in England’s palms from Gold Coast 2018 in Australia.
Hamer levelled up his 200m freestyle S14 silver from Glasgow, ending in a blistering world file time of 1:55.88 to assert gold.
Alice Tai additionally stormed to the highest step within the 100m backstroke S9, beating Australia’s most embellished Paralympian Ellie Cole to gold.
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Tai additionally picked up silver within the ladies’s 100m freestyle S9, joined by Emily Beecroft within the prime 4, simply outdoors the medals.
Lewis White collected silver within the males’s 100m freestyle S9 as teen Ellie Robinson soared to victory in her favoured 50m butterfly S7 occasion.
Victorious house marketing campaign shines
At Birmingham 2022, Staff England didn’t simply have a number of athletes on the rostrum – that they had a number of athletes on the identical podium.
Maisie-Summers Newton and Grace Harvey achieved an distinctive feat within the ladies’s 100m Breaststroke SB6, securing a 1-2 within the remaining to take each prime steps of the podium.
Jessica Jane-Applegate and Louise Fiddles additionally clinched second and third collectively within the 200m freestyle S14, with teammate Poppy Maskill simply behind for fourth.
The story of the Video games went the best way of skilled head Tai, who retained her 100m backstroke S8 gold medal. It marked an unimaginable comeback after having had her leg amputated and classification modified in January that 12 months.
Hannah Russell swam to silver within the ladies’s 50m freestyle S13, whereas James Hollis got here out of retirement to realize his Commonwealth Video games desires of standing on the rostrum, as he gained bronze within the males’s 100m butterfly S10.
Their most profitable marketing campaign but, with seven medals and three golds, Staff England have been united greater than ever on house soil.