Aaron Moores
Personal information | |
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Born | Trowbridge, England | 16 May 1994
Sport | |
Country | ![]() |
Sport | Swimming |
Club | Trowbridge ASC |
Coached by | Sarah Paton |
Achievements and titles | |
Paralympic finals | 2012 |
Aaron Moores MBE (born 16 May 1994) is a British Paralympic swimmer competing in the S14 category, mainly in the backstroke and breaststroke. In 2010 he set a new British record in his class for the 50m breaststroke and after qualifying for the 2012 Summer Paralympics he won a silver medal in the 100 m backstroke.
Career history[]
Moores was born in Trowbridge, England in 1994.[1] Moores, who has a learning disability, began swimming at the age of 10.[2] He joined Trowbridge Swimming Club and entered his first national championship when he entered the 5th British Learning Disability Swimming Championship in Sheffield on 10 July 2010.[3] He recorded a time of 31.08 in the 50m breaststroke, a national record. He also collected four golds and a silver in other events at the meet.
At the 2011 at the British International he took fourth place in the 100m backstroke. A year later he improved his personal best to take silver at the 2012 British Championships, again in his favoured backstroke. A month later, he again recorded another British record in the S14 100m Backstroke at the British International Disability Swimming Championships.[1] He came second in his heat, with a time of 1:05.15, behind the winner and fellow Paralympian Jonathan Fox.[4]
His results in the British Internationals saw Moores selected for the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, in both the S14 100m backstroke and the SB14 100m breaststroke.[5] In the 100m backstroke, Moore recorded a time of 1:04.80, finishing in silver medal position behind Marc Evers of the Netherlands.[6]
References[]
- ^ a b "Meet The Team - Aaron Moores". swimming.org. Retrieved 1 September 2012.
- ^ "Aaron Moores". paralympics.org.uk. Archived from the original on 1 September 2012. Retrieved 1 September 2012.
- ^ "Trowbridge Amateur Swimming Club Member takes British Record". swimtrowbridge.co.uk. Archived from the original on 18 November 2012. Retrieved 1 September 2012.
- ^ "BIDSC 2012 Day One Live Updates and Videos". swimming.org. Retrieved 1 September 2012.
- ^ "PARALYMPICS: Aaron gets by with a little help from his friends". gazetteandherald.co.uk. 25 August 2012. Retrieved 1 September 2012.
- ^ Domm, Matt (31 August 2012). "Result: Aaron Moores takes silver in S14 backstroke". sportsmole.co.uk. Retrieved 1 September 2012.
- 1994 births
- Living people
- People from Trowbridge
- British male swimmers
- Paralympic swimmers of Great Britain
- Paralympic gold medalists for Great Britain
- Paralympic silver medalists for Great Britain
- Swimmers at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
- Swimmers at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
- S14-classified Paralympic swimmers
- Members of the Order of the British Empire
- Paralympic medalists in swimming