SWIMMING :DOUBLE AMPUTEE INSPIRES GLASGOW CROWD IN SWIMMING COMPETITION

ANN WACUKA'S DETERMINATION IN PARA-100 S8 SWIMMING  COMPETITION INSPIRES GLASGOW'S CROWD

Australia’s Maddison Elliott may have broken the world record to claim the gold in the para-100m S8 swim but the 15-year-old was upstaged by Ann Wacuka of Kenya.

The race in which both Elliot and Ann were racing, (the S8 class), contains athletes “who have lost either both hands or one arm,” or “athletes with severe restrictions in the joints of the lower limbs”.

 

While the rest of the field fell into the former category, Ann Wacuka, as can be seen from the picture above, fell into the latter.

                                                                                                                                                         Elliott’s time of 1:05.32 set a new world record,but it was Wacuka’s swim of 2:04.03 that really drew inspiration from the crowd.

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She made the Glasgow crowd witness something very special, and they roared her home even though she came in some 45-odd seconds behind sixth-placed Nikita Howarth.

She's really an inspiration to the physically challenged.