Stirling University student Keith Gray from Bo’ness was selected to be part of the Scottish National Team competing in the DSE Seniors Short Course Home Nations Event at Ponds Forge International Sports Arena in Sheffield.

Keith who is nineteen years of age trains with Bo’ness Swimming Club, the SportCentral Regional Development Squad and at the National Centre of Excellence at Stirling University.

159 athletes from Great Britain returned from the Special Olympics World Summer Games in Shanghai with a total of 224 medals including 84 gold and 83 silver.  GB team members were part of 7,000 athletes from 169 countries who competed at the World Games between 2 and 11 October 2007.  4,000 volunteers and 3,500 event officials were involved in the organisation of the event.  This was the most successful GB team ever to participate in a World Summer Games. 

Team Great Britain competed in aquatics, athletics, badminton, basketball, cycling, equestrian, football, golf, gymnastics, judo, kayaking, powerlifting, sailing, table tennis, ten pin bowling and tennis. 

Richard Binnie pictured above, was delighted to be selected  for the Great Britain Football Team

The Team of 11 played in Division A in a group of 4 and beat Kenya, Equador and Russia to go through to the Final with Russia.

The gold medallists couldn’t be decided in the 90 minutes of play or even after extra time so the game went to penalties.   But after the intense experience Russia was beaten 5-3 in the penalty competition.