British Swimming Profiles

Sam Hynd   -   Ollie Hynd

 

Ollie's turn to shine

Congratulations to Ollie Hynd European Champion and Record holder

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Sutton's Finest Do It Again

Sam takes Gold with Ollie taking the Silver on day 3 of the European Championships in Berlin.

 

Link to - BBC Sport website - for full report

Ollie Hynd

At the Sam Hynd Trophy Gala, held at the Lammas pool on Saturday 11th June 2011 Sutton Swimming Club were honoured to have Ollie Hynd competing for the team and representing his brother Sam on the evening.

Ollie has recently made it into the ranks of the British Paralympic swimming squad. To mark this achievement Gren Greaves (SSC Head Coach) made an announcement at the start of the Gala awarding Ollie honourary life membership of Sutton Swimming Club.

Stop Press: The result of the Sam Hynd Trophy Gala was as follows:

1st Sutton 197pts, 2nd Worksop 164, 3rd Falcon 159, 4th Rykneld 130, 5th Radford 116, 6th Sherwood 100.

Well done the Snipes.  

 

 

 

Sam Hynd Trophy Gala - Saturday 11th June 2011

This annual gala provides an opportunity to re-affirm our club's connections with Sam Hynd and his brother Ollie Hynd. At the 2011 Gala Ollie was given honourary  life membership of Sutton Swimming Club.

Visit http://www.team-2012.com/athletes/samhynd/profile.aspx to find out more about Sam's preparations towards London 2012 Paralympics.

The following link takes you to a quite inspirational interveiw with Sam (perhaps a couple of years ago, but interesting all the same).

http://tv.swimming.org/video/sam-hynd?current-channel=world-class-disability-swimming

 

 

This picture shows Sam and Ollie Hynd following their success at the 2009 Ashfield Sports Awards, where they picked up Disabled Sports Person of the Year and Junior Disabled Sports Person of the Year awards respectively.

I'm sure we would all like to congratulate them for this recognition and wish them the best of fortunes for 2010.  

Sam's done it again

Select the following link for news of his success at the European Championships

Paralympics GB site               IPC site

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

11th May 2008

Sam is going to Beijing!

It was announced last week that Sam has been selected to represent his country at the Paralympic games in Beijing in September!

This weekend he has proved to the world why he deserves his place on the team as has been named 2008 Visa Paralympic World Champion in 400m Freestyle in World Record time at the World Championships in Manchester !

Well done Sam !!

 

 

 

29th April 2008

Sam's mum sent us another quick update on his paralympic trials.

Just a quick update!................ Sam has just returned from the 2nd Paralympic Trials and it has gone very well !  He broke his WORLD Record in the S8 400 Freestyle which means his 2nd World Record in just 3 Weeks!  The Paralympic GB Swim Team for Beijing will be announced Live on BBC on Thursday Morning!... so fingers crossed!!

 

Don't forget to visit http://www.paralympicworldcup.com/ for tickets to see Sam swim in 400 freestyle in Manchester.

 

Good Luck Sam xx

 

 

 

19th April 2008

We received an update on Sam's paralympic trials.

Sam will be back in Sheffield all next weekend at the 2nd Paralympic trials...25th/26th/27th April and then Team GB For the Beijing Paralympic Games should be announced on the 1st May!!

 

He has been selected to swim for GB at the Visa Paralympic World Cup which is being held in Manchester on Saturday 10th May.  He will be swimming his main event which he is now Word NO1 in, the S8 400 Freestyle....so if anyone wants to come and support him then now is the time to get tickets

 

Visa Paralympic World Cup has a web site and tickets/ information is available on it

 

 

 

19th February 2008

Thanks Sam!

Sam is currently in Florida but found 5 minutes to send us an email about how he feels about the County Champs and what its like to swim for team GB.

County Champs is going fantastically well!  It is good to produce some excellent swims on the back of heavy training which is very promising for me for the rest of the Olympic year!

 

It is so good to see lots of other members of the club having equally good success !! and to compete as part of that team was special too!..... This is where I started so who knows where some others from Sutton SC may go !!

 

I was really pleased to break the 3 World Records and I am now hoping to build on that and move on even more!

 

It amazing to swim for GB and to train with the GB Squad and it is the most awesome experience to stand on a Podium and win a Medal for your Country!!...... as i experienced in Germany last year!!  We inspire each other in training and also competition and support each other as a team which is great.

 

We all have our individual disability and we help each other with that

As a GB Swimmer on The World Class Programme we get fantastic support from the Coaching and support staff which all play an important part in Team GB success!

 

Lets hope Sutton SC can carry on the success we started with at the 2008 County Champs!

 

Sam

 

 

 

11th February 2008

Congratulations to Sam Hynd !

He has again made history at the County Championships when he smashed his own S8 Category BRITISH, EUROPEAN and WORLD IPC 400m Freestyle Short course Record (subject to ratification). In a fantastic performance, Sam slashed a full three seconds off his own record, clocking 4.24.8.

Sam then went onto break the World Records for the SB8 200m Breaststroke and S8 200m Freestyle over the weekend, again subject to ratification.
 
He and 11 other swimmers from the Nova Centurion Squad fly off to Florida for a two week training camp, from 18th February 2008, to train for the British Champs and Olympic and Paralympic Trials in March.

 

 

 

26th November 2007

Another huge Congratulations to Sam !

 Sam was named

'BBC East Midland Junior Disabled Sports Personality of The Year'

last night at the Sports Awards in Derby hosted by John Inverdale!

We are currently trying to persuade Sam to start his own page on this site, in the form of a blog - so watch this space!  He is a true inspiration to so many young swimmers and everyone at Sutton Swimming club is very proud of him.

Well done again Sam - a thoroughly deserved award!

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 5th November 2007

Congratulations go to our Great Britain Disability
World Class Swimmer [S8], Sam Hynd 


The club received a lovely email after the weekend from Sam letting us know what he has been up to:

Sam has been racing all weekend  in Sheffield at the Disability National Short Course Championships and his results were as follows!........

Sam won

7 GOLD Medals

and (subject to ratification) Sam broke.....

7 BRITISH Records

3 EUROPEAN Records

3 WORLD!! Records

 

 

A huge congratulations go to Sam from all of us !

 

 

 

10th July 2007:

A Sutton S.C.Olympian... well, the next best thing!  

A British Swimming manager, who is a former Sutton Swimming Club swimmer, and the daughter of proud Sutton S.C. coaches, Gren and Christine Greaves, has been formerly selected to undertake a prestigious International Olympic Committee course after being nominated by the British Olympic Association.