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IPC European Swimming Championships
Berlin 2011
The Romanian team  

Four young visually impaired swimmers aged 14-16 yrs, Samuel Ciorap, Naomi Ciorap, Petrisor Prundaru, Valentin Velecico, along with one physically disabled young swimmer, Ionel Romaniuc (16) and his carer Andrei Griguta accompanied by their trainer Emese Maniu and Sally Wood-Lamont participated for the first time in the IPC European Swimming Championships. All five swimmers formed the first group of Romanian swimmers to qualify for the IPC European Championships which was a remarkable achievement after only two years of competitive swimming.     
                        
Altogether 440 swimmers from 36 countries took part and for the young swimmers it was their toughest competition to date as they were competing as one of the youngest teams in the competition against swimmers with at least ten years of experience.

Naomi Ciorap took 4th place at the 200m individual medley and fifth place at the 100m breaststroke and 5th at the 50m freestyle qualifying for all three for London 2012.  She also was placed second in the women’s 100m backstroke and 6th at the 100m freestyle. Samuel Ciorap could only manage 6th place in the final of the 100m breaststroke with a time of 1,12minutes – his best time ever. Samuel also qualified for London at the 50m freestyle even though not getting a place in the first six. Valentin took 6 seconds of his best time at the 100m breastroke gaining 5th place meaning he is now 5th in the European ranking – an excellent result.  

The youngsters performed well but in fact did not win any medals: however, all of them took between 3 and 7 seconds of their best times in every race demonstrating that they can only improve. We must remember that they are aged only between 14 and 16 and were competing against swimmers aged 20 years and older with most of them having over ten years of competitional swimming.

Valentin, Emese (Coach), Naomi, Samuel

 

Fourth IBSA World Swimming Championships
Alanya, Turkey 3-8 April 2011



Four swimmers from the Hope Lamont team in Cluj represented Romania at the 4th IBSA World Championships in Alanya, Turkey: Ciorap, Naomi (14 yrs), Prundaru Petrisor (16yrs), Ciorap Samuel (16yrs), Velecico Valentin (16yrs), all pupils at the Liceul de Nevazatori, Cluj and their coach Emese Maniu, Sally Wood-Lamont, Director of the Lamont Centre Cluj and President of the National Paralympic Committee Romania accompanied them. This was their most important competition till now and it was also the first time that Romania had been represented at the IBSA World Championships. There were 21 countries altogether who sent teams here as a precursor to the European Championships in June and also as a qualifying tournament for the London Paralympics in 2012.
The 50m, ten lane swimming pool was opened only a few weeks beforehand and was an excellent venue to hold this competition.
On the first day Naomi Ciorap won the 100m butterfly and broke the IBSA World Championship record in her class S13 and for this received a gold medal. In the 50m breastroke Samuel Ciorap won the silver medal in class S12, just point 3 seconds from the Russian. In the 100m butterfly, Petre Prundaru won the bronze medal in the S13 class.
On the second day Samuel won a sılver medal at the 200m breaststroke ın a thrıllıng race agaınst the top Russıan and also a bronze medal at the 100m backstroke. Naomı Cıorap won a sılver medal at the 50m butterfly the dıfference between the gold medal wınner and her beıng only .04 of a second!
On the fourth day Samuel won a silver medal at the 100m breaststroke, there being only .05 seconds of a difference between him and the Russian. Naomi broke the IBSA World Championship record in the 50m backstroke in her class S13 and for this received a gold medal.

This was a great start for the team who only learnt to swim two years ago (Valentin Velecico only in November 2009) and an excellent preparation for the European Championships in July 2011.

International Open, Brescia
11 December 2011

Four swimmers from the Lamont Centre participated in this International Swimming Competition in Brescia on the 11 |December : Naomi Ciorap; Samuel Ciorap; Valentin Velecico Petre Prundaru with their coach Emese Maniu. 53 teams from 15 countries with over 200 athletes paticipated. The results were as follows :

Naomi Ciorap: Place 1 – 200m IM; Place 2 - 100mfreestyle, 100m breaststrokee
Samuel Ciorap: Placel 1 – 100m breaststroke; 200m IM; Place 3 - 100m backstroke
Valentin Velecico: Place 1 – 100m backstroke
Petre Prundaru: Place 1 - 100m backstroke;Place 3 – 50m freestyle
These were very good results for our team against very high quality opponents, and now Valentin has qualified for London 2012, together with Naomi and Samuel.