Swimmer Wallace to face Europe's elite
North Berwick's Dan Wallace spends almost as much time commuting to and from Edinburgh to train as he does in a pool each week.
But patience and determination has paid off for the recently turned 17-year-old who has been named alongside three other Scots in the British team to take on Europe's elite at the European Junior Championships in Finland (July 14-18).
The European Championships are the major focus for Wallace this year but were an equally big challenge to be selected for. The competition is for athletes with 1992 and '93 birthdays and Wallace was born in the latter year.
Sliced
Yet, in this year's British Gas Swimming Championships in Sheffield, he finished third in the 200m IM, taking two seconds off his PB and breaking the Scottish record he set last year at the British Youth Championships.
He also finished fourth in the 200m breaststroke and sliced off four seconds from his PB in the 400m Individual Medley.
"This will be the first European Championships for me as I was too young a year ago and I'm delighted to be going," he said. "I swam the 400 and the 200 IMs and 200 BS but qualified for the team in the 200 IM so I'll be swimming that."
Full report in East Lothian News, May 14, 2010
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