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Express & Star 26 Jan 11
Palalympic swimmer Eleanor Simmonds, a double gold winner at 2008 Beijing games, is poised to jet off to Doha in Qatar on Saturday for a two-week, warm weather training camp as she hones her speed and stamina ahead of March trials for the European Championships four months later in Berlin.
And the schoolgirl champion, who first learnt to swim in Walsall Council pools, will be taking her GCSE coursework with her for the trip…
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Sam Green Advertiser 25 Nov 10
London 2012 could well turn into the ‘Eleanor Simmonds Show’ – according to a Great Britain Paralympian legend.
David Roberts has the chance to make Paralympic history at the London 2012 – but admits Aldridge-born teen sensation Ellie Simmonds could steal his thunder in the capital.
Fellow swimmer Roberts is currently the joint most decorated British Paralympian in history – his 11 gold medals on a par with the legendary Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson…
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BBC Sport 19 Aug 10
Walsall’s Ellie Simmonds won her third title of the IPC World Swimming Championships as she surged to gold in the 200m individual medley.
Simmonds was sixth at 100m mark but dominated in the second half of the race to set a new world record time…
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BBC Sport 17 Aug 10
Ellie Simmonds was one of three teenagers to win gold as Great Britain enjoyed a superb day three at the IPC World Swimming Championships.
Simmonds won her second gold of the meet in the 50m freestyle while 19-year-olds Thomas Young and Harriet Lee were also victorious…
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Advertiser 12 Aug 10
Ellie Simmonds has vowed to ensure her meteoric rise continues at the IPC Swimming World Championships in Eindhoven this weekend.
The 15-year-old Boldmere Swimming Club life member captured the nation’s hearts in Beijing two years ago when she claimed double Paralympic gold in the 100m and 400m freestyle events…
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Advertiser 5 Aug 10
Ellie Simmonds hasn’t put a foot wrong in her career so far and has vowed to ensure her meteoric rise continues at the IPC Swimming World Championships in Eindhoven.
The 15-year-old captured the nation’s hearts in Beijing two years ago when she claimed double Paralympic gold in the 100m and 400m freestyle events.
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B'ham Mail 28 Jun 10
Paralympic golden girl Ellie Simmonds is urging Midland stars from the past to come forward to be reunited through a new website.
The 14-year-old Walsall swimmer became Great Britain’s youngest-ever individual gold medallist at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing…
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Advertiser 3 Jun 10
Boldmere Swimming Club’s Eleanor Simmonds insists she is just getting started in 2010 despite notching up yet another world record at the BT Paralympic World Cup this week.
The 15-year-old Boldmere life member set a new world mark on the way to 100m freestyle gold at the Manchester event last year and repeated the trick in the 200m medley on Monday…
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Tom Reynolds Advertiser 20 May 10
Double Paralympic champion Ellie Simmonds is adamant her golden form will continue at the BT Paralympic World Cup – despite admitting she’s barely trained for the event.
Boldmere Swimming Club life member Simmonds wrote herself into the history books in Beijing in 2008 becoming Britain’s youngest ever Paralympic champion after scooping double gold in the 100 and 400m freestyle, aged just 13…
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Walsall Advertiser 25 Mar 10
Aldridge’s Ellie Simmonds will lead the Great Britain swimming team taking on the rest of the world at the BT Paralympic World Cup in May.
Double Paralympic gold medallist Simmonds will hope to shine in the pool once again as the home nation take on swimmers representing Europe, the Americas and Rest of The World for the BT Paralympic World Cup trophy…