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Rogier Dorsman from the Netherlands made it three gold medals in three days of the Madeira 2024 Para Swimming European Open Championships as he clinched the men’s 100m breaststroke SB11 victory on Tuesday (23 April).
The 24-year-old who had won the 50m freestyle S11 on Sunday and 100m butterfly S11 on Monday, was unstoppable and led the final race from start to finish, clocking in at 1:10.42 – 11 hundreds of a second from his own European record – to beat runner-up Danylo Chufarov from Ukraine convincingly by 4.06 seconds. Lithuania’s Edgaras Matakas clinched the bronze.
The world and Paralympic champion can now also call himself a European 100m breaststroke SB11 title holder, completing his set of gold medals in the event he has dominated in recent years.
Italy’s Carlotta Gilli completed another kind of hat-trick as she won her third consecutive European gold medal in the women’s 100m freestyle S13. 
The world record holder had been the fastest in the heats and made no mistake in the final to take her second gold medal at Madeira 2024, having crushed the opposition in the women’s 100m butterfly S13 on Sunday. Spain’s Emma Feliu Martin took silver, 0.93 second behind the winner, as neutral athlete Aleksandra Ziablitseva claimed bronze.
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🇬🇧 Great Britain, 🇳🇱 Netherlands, and 🇪🇸 Spain complete the Top 5.

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Her teammate Alberto Amodeo also made it two gold medals on the Portuguese island as he finished first in the men’s 100m butterfly S8 final, adding a new title to Sunday’s 400m freestyle S8 triumph. Portugal’s Diogo Cancelo finished third to earn the host nation its first medal of the championships.
In another contribution to the Italian medal haul, world champion Simone Barlaam was the only swimmer in the men’s 100m butterfly S9 final to get below the one-minute mark, making the most of his wide wingspan to take the gold medal in 59.06. Behind him, Germany’s Malte Braunschweig, Ireland’s Barry McClements and Italy’s Federico Morlacchi battled it out from the two remaining medals, finishing within 0.34 of a second of each other. Braunschweig came out winning the race for second place, clinching the silver medal 2.22 seconds behind the winner and 13 hundredths of a second before McClements, who took bronze.
“It’s always lovely to be in Madeira and to break the ice with my first race like this,” Barlaam said. “I want to enjoy the whole experience here, there have been some phenomenal swim from Team Italy, but also from swimmers from Europe and other part of the world these days.”
 
Italy’s Giulia Ghiretti had won the women’s 100m breaststroke SB4 gold medal on Sunday and was the woman to beat in Tuesday’s 50m butterfly S5, where she was the defending champion. However, Turkey’s Sevilay Ozturk, a 2023 world championship bronze medallist who finished second in Monday’s 50m backstroke S5, had different plans. The 20-year-old, who had had to settle for silver medals in the past two European championships, took an early lead and managed to keep the rest of the field behind her for the rest of the race. Ozturk clinched the long-awaited gold medal with a dominant performance, finishning 4.28 seconds before Ghiretti as her compatriot Sumeyye Boyaci made it two times Turkey on the podium.
Great Britain claimed three of Tuesday’s 20 gold medals, with two teenage talents and Paralympic champion Maisie looking in great form. Shooting star Iona Winnifrith continued her successful debut run as she claimed her second gold medal at Madeira 2024 in the women’s 100m breaststroke SB7. Winnifrith, who turned 13 earlier this month, made a strong minute to finish in 1:29.29 making it two European titles in three days, having won the 200m individual medley SM7 on Sunday. Winnifrith finished 1.75 seconds before neutral athlete Mariia Pavlova as Nahia Zudiare Borrezo clinched bronze 2.88 seconds after the winner.
International major championship debutant Harry Stewart from Great Britain claimed the gold medal in the men’s 100m breaststroke SB14 with a strong last 50m push. Finishing in 1:06.79, the 19-year-old beat silver medallist Vasyl Krainyk from Ukraine, who had led the race at the half-way turn, by 0.97 of a second. Neutral athlete Artem Pavlenko took bronze.
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Sevilay Ozturk 🥇in the women’s 50m Butterfly S5
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Great Britain’s Maisie Summers-Newton, holding the world record in the women’s 200m individual medley SM6 since taking the title at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, made no mistake to collect the gold medal in the event at Madeira 2024 too. The 21-year-old, who is strong in the breaststroke and freestyle, finished comfortably 8.50 seconds before runner-up Verena Schott from Germany as Nicole Turner from Ireland took bronze, 17.51 after the winner.
“I’m very happy with that. We had our Paralympic trials two weeks ago so this is a meet we have trained well for and have been working hard around it. To achieve this result still in April is really good as we are still some months away from the Paralympic Games,” said Summers-Newton.
Ukraine, second in the overall standings, also had a successful day. Oleksandr Komarov was untouchable in the men’s 50m butterfly S5 final and took the gold medal in 36.14. The 35-year-old kept first chaser Antoni Ponce Bertran from Spain 1.35 second behind as Alexandros-Stylianos Lergios from Greece completed the podium with his first major international medal.
Komarov’s teammate Anton Kol won the men’s 100m backstroke S1 after a close battle for first place with Israel’s Iyad Shalabi. At the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, Kol lost the gold medal to Shalabi by 0.25 second. This time, the two-time Paralympic champion Shalabi was fastest in the first 50m but had to settle for a silver medal as Kol made a last push to finish 0.28 of a second faster than his main rival in the dramatic race where Italy’s Francesco Bettella took bronze.
Germany’s Gina Boettcher, who had won bronze in the women’s 150m individual medley SM4 in the last two European championships, upgrade it to a gold medal this time as she finished 2.06 seconds before the 2021 European champion, neutral athlete Nataliia Butkova, who had to settle for a silver. Ukraine’s Maryna Verbova took bronze.
Zsofia Konkoly from Hungary claimed the gold medal in the women’s 100m butterfly S9, keeping runner-up Florianne Bultje from the Netherlands behind her in a tight finish as Spain’s Sarai Gascon finished third to retain her record of consecutive medals at the European championships with an eight straight podium.
Daria Lukianenko won the women’s 100m breaststroke SB11 gold medal in a world record time. The neutral athlete finished in 1:17.65 to beat the former world record holder Karolina Pelendritou from Cyprus by 3.85 seconds, cutting 2.13 seconds of the Cypriot’s record time from 2021. Italy’s Martina Rabbolini finished third, 15.10 seconds behind the winner.
In the last event of the evening, Spain continued their strong mixed relay run in Madeira, claiming the mixed 4×50 medley relay 20pts gold medal 4.41 seconds before runners-up Ukraine as Italy took bronze.
Click here for all results and medallists from the Madeira 2024 European Open Championships.

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Thursday, August 10, 2023
By ohtadmin | on August 09, 2023
(Above) Mc Eachin Excavating, out of Deckerville, breaks up the concrete from what used to be the Deckerville community swimming pool. After more than a decade of disuse, the pool – located on Deckerville Community School grounds – is being demolished. (Photo by Casey Johnson)
DECKERVILLE — The metallic clanging of an excavator breaking into concrete could be heard on the Deckerville Community School grounds last week, as the community swimming pool, which has not been used for 13 summers, was demolished.
The pool was installed in the mid-1970’s with a grant from the Department of Natural Resources. Several local businessmen spearheaded the project, village president Don Murdock told the News, and tried to find a location for the pool in the village.
The village, however, had no available space and leased the property from the school for about 20 years.
“Something happened in that time period where (the pool) had to be reconstructed,” Murdock said, and the pool was rebuilt in the 1980’s.
After the property lease expired, the village turned the pool over to the school, where it saw years of use. However, issues with cost and lifeguard staffing led to the pool’s closure in 2010.
(Right) The Deckerville community swimming pool in 1993. (Deckerville Village photo)
In 2010, the News interviewed then superintendent Donald Schelke who said the cost to maintain the pool was around $20,000.
“In better times, the district could afford to subsidize the pool,” Schelke told the News at the time. “But with declining student enrollment and state financial aid, and a fund equity that is now shrinking rather than growing, the school system can no longer afford the expense. We don’t want to close the pool … but it’s hard to justify when we’re running in the red.”
The original intention was to close the pool for one year, and re-evaluate the following season.
The pool never reopened.
The board approved the pool demolition project in April, 2023, in the amount of $25,298.

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When a car crushed her foot and left her with a permanent injury, Vicki Baumann, 62, used yoga to improve her strength and mobility
While I’ve been doing yoga on and off for the last 25 years, I’d never fully understood how important it was to my wellbeing. But in 2012, my life changed in the blink of an eye. Crossing Oxford Street in Central London, a speeding car snagged my foot, crushing the bones. The pain was immense, and I passed out. Taken to the nearest hospital, I was told it was fractured and given a temporary cast to wear. 
It was only once the cast was removed at my local hospital a few days later that the true extent of my injury became clear. The swelling hadn’t gone down and the doctor had a concerned look on his face as he sent me for an MRI scan. 
The results showed it was serious and I was immediately checked in for an operation. The danger was the complexity of the injury – a Lisfranc injury, which affects the way the foot holds itself. Because I’d had a crush and twist injury it had fractured the metatarsals, and it was vital to get it repaired within seven days of the accident, or I could suffer “drop foot” where the toes drag along the ground permanently.
It was the weekend of the London Olympics finale, and I spent it lying in hospital with my leg up, with ice packs round my swollen foot, watching the celebration of all the amazing athletes with the nurses – unable to move. The irony was not lost on me.
Trying not to contemplate what I was up against and what the impact might be, I kept myself calm during the 10 weeks of bed rest, the long rehabilitation and the gruelling sessions of physio as I slowly learned to use and walk on that foot again.
I was just living moment-to-moment and dealing with each phase, slowly and determinedly getting myself back to fitness. But once I was off crutches and starting to swim, I realised I was quite traumatised. The accident, surgery and rehabilitation had left me drained and depressed. As it became clear how much my life had changed, I seriously lost my mojo.
I had always been a very active person, riding motorbikes and hiking in mountains.
Once I could walk, I went running to build strength, but a half-marathon proved too much – I started getting problems with the foot again. The consultant said no more marathons and my confidence took another knock. 
That’s when I started doing yoga intensively, four or five classes a week, with my old teacher. It felt good to be back on the yoga mat – a familiar place, where I felt calm, doing moves that I knew and trusted. Over time I saw a change in what my foot could do. Yoga gave me back much of the strength, flexibility and movement that I’d lost. Gradually my confidence returned, and I felt like I’d come back to myself. 
Your perspective shifts when something so life-changing happens. Lying in bed for all those weeks after the accident, wondering whether I’d be able to hike mountains like before, whether I’d even walk OK, facing all those worries about how my post-injury life might be different, left me determined that the accident wasn’t going to define who I was in the future. 
I wasn’t going to be somebody who couldn’t live my life how I wanted. So, when I eventually trained to be a yoga teacher, I didn’t let my life-long fear of exams stand in my way – and now fully qualified, I love sharing the power of yoga in my classes and on my retreats.
My foot will never be ‘normal’ again. It needs regular exercise, otherwise I get pain, especially if I sit still too much. There’s a constant throb and the bones and nerves sit differently than before, so I’m always moving my toes and flexing my foot. But thanks to daily yoga my foot is so much stronger than it could have been. I know it’s now as good as it’s going to be, and I can’t ever see myself stopping doing yoga – if I did it would just stiffen up, as would I! 
Sadly, I’ve had to give up certain things. I don’t ride my motorbike anymore and I can’t run. I’ve just had to accept I can’t do everything I could do, but I can still live a lovely life. Yoga has really added to that, giving me opportunities I never thought I would have. It’s given me the stability and strength to tackle whatever I may face in the future. 
As told to Marina Gask
Benefits: The small muscles of the feet and ankles are worked to maintain balance and stability in the standing leg.
1. From a standing position, place your feet hip-width apart, and hands in prayer position.
2. Inhale and then with an exhale, slowly lift one foot off the ground, stretching your leg behind you, toes pointed to the wall behind. At the same time, drawing your body forward, stretch your arms out in front of you, palms together.
3. Maintaining the position, keep your body parallel to the floor. Keep stretching the toes behind and fingers forward, while engaging the muscles of the standing leg.
5. Gaze softly forward. Hold for 30 seconds, or longer if you are able.
6. With an inhale, slowly bring your leg back down and feet together and with your arms over the head, go back to standing position. Repeat on the other leg.
Benefits: Improves sense of balance. Strengthens feet, ankles, calves, thighs and spine. 
1. Start in mountain pose (‘Tadasana’), standing with feet together, equal weight across both feet, hands by your side.
2. Bend and lift one leg up, bringing the foot inside the thigh, toes pointing down. If this is too difficult, start by bringing your foot above the ankle or to the calf.
3. Bring both hands into a prayer position. Inhale and slowly stretch the arms over the head, palms together.
4. Bring your gaze softly to a point directly in front of you. Hold for 30 seconds – longer if you are able.
5. Exhale, bringing the arms back to prayer position, lower your foot to the floor. Repeat on the other leg.
Benefits: Strengthens and stretches the feet, ankles, thighs and legs, tones your core and increases ankle mobility.
1. Start in mountain pose (‘Tadasana’) standing with feet together, equal weight across both feet, hands by your side.
2. Stretch your arms straight above your head, palms together.
3. Slowly bending your knees, sit back as if sitting on a chair – keeping your knees over ankles (check you can see your toes). Sit back as far as possible, thighs parallel to the floor.
4. Keep stretching your arms straight up, lengthening your spine, breathe and hold for 30 seconds – longer if you are able.
5. Inhale as you straighten the legs, bring arms back to the side, and return to standing position.
Benefits: Strengthens and stretches your ankles and tones the legs, while strengthening the whole body.
1. Starting on your hands and knees, wrists under your shoulders, knees under your hips, feet hip-width apart. 
2. Spread your fingers wide, middle finger pointing forward. Press the floor firmly through your fingers, knuckles and palms.
3. Exhale and tuck your toes under and lift your knees off the floor. 
4. Draw your pelvis up toward the ceiling, and your buttocks toward the wall behind you. 
5. As you stretch up and back, you will find your heels can get closer to the floor. Do not try and flatten your feet – rather keep drawing your hips up and back whilst drawing your chest toward your thighs. Through this action, over time you will find your heels can reach comfortably to the floor.
6. Hold for 30 seconds – longer if you are able.
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