The Disabled Sports Personality of the Year David Smith, a 19 year old apprentice from Treloar College in Hampshire, won a Gold badge at this summer’s Paralympic Games in Beijing. He abutting above Treloar College academy mates Dan Bentley and Danielle Watts who aswell took allotment in the Games.
David represented Britain at the action of Boccia, for which he is the accepted World Champion. Boccia is a Paralympic action for athletes with a disability, played by humans with bookish attached and added disabilities affecting motor skills. It is played in over forty countries worldwide, and is a analysis of beef ascendancy and accuracy, ambitious acute concentration.
The British leash of Smith, Nigel Murray, and Dan Bentley took on Portugal in the Boccia finals. Portugal is one of the world's top boccia-playing nations who won six medals at the Athens paralympics.
This was David’s aboriginal time aggressive at paralympic level, as one of the four-strong British Boccia squad. Last year, David was a affiliate of the British aggregation which won the gold badge at the Boccia World Cup in Vancouver.
Treloar School, www.treloar.org.uk, has an absorbing full-blooded of training abeyant Paralympic athletes and acceptance from both Treloar School and College consistently attempt at civic level. The new 2012 Boccia Competition Manager Sandra King currently teaches concrete exercise to Treloar’s students, abounding of whom accept astringent and circuitous concrete disabilities.
Prior to the amateur David Smith bidding his action about traveling to Beijing, saying: “This is a abundant befalling to appearance to the apple that aptitude which we accept in this country. I am captivated that Britain has accepted the accent of disabled athletes to action today. Personally speaking, I feel Boccia has developed so abundant in the endure four years and the aggregation and I are traveling to accord it our all to accompany some gold aback home!”
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