Event in Manchester, England, continues to Sunday
Improvement from year to year, season to season, is the most important thing in sports, especially for young athletes. Nicholas Bennett of Parksville, 19, is following that path to near perfection as he continued his rise to the Paralympics next summer in Paris by claiming gold as the 2023 world Para swimming championships began in Manchester, England.
Bennett touched in one minute, 54.75 seconds, a hairsbreadth ahead of silver-medallist William Ellard of Great Britain , in the taut final. Bronze-medallist Jack Ireland of Australia clocked 1:55.38. “I held back the first 100 because I knew my top opponents go out hard. I was able to hold back and push myself forward to the end. It just feels amazing,” added Bennett, in a statement.
“This is paving the way to Paris 2024 [Paralympics],” he told the Times Colonist in Birmingham, while sending a shout out to his swimming teammates in the Ravensong Aquatic Club in Qualicum Beach: “So many people have supported me back home and that means the world to me.”
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