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Special Olympics - Cardiff 2001

GOING FOR GOLD - AND WE GOT IT!

Four horse riders, Kyle Bennett-Knell, Matthew Bird, Sharon Foster and Donna Hercock, from the Elisabeth Curtis Centre in Bromham qualified through competition to represent not only the Centre, but also the Eastern Region, at the Special Olympic National Games.

These games are held every four years and this year took place in Cardiff between 28 July and 4 August.

Previous to the games the riders had been training hard and competed in three disciplines - Dressage, Horsecare and a Trail ride.

The results - in order of age, youngest first were:

Dressage Horse Care & Knowledge Trail Ride
Donna Hercock Bronze Silver Silver
Matthew Bird Silver Silver 4th
Kyle Bennett-Knell Silver Gold 5th
Sharon Foster 5th Bronze 5th

Donna, Matthew and Kyle are still at school. Sharon works for Bedford Garden Enterprises and they were very pleased with her success.

We are proud of them all. It was a big event and the first time any of them had competed at that level.

Eileen Nash

Editor:- (Congratulations to Jenni Williams and Eileen Nash and all those volunteers to worked hard to ensure our riders could take part)

This page was last updated: 03/05/2003