Paralympic bronze medallist Gregor Ewan has been named in Nice Britain’s five-strong wheelchair curling squad for Beijing 2022.
Ewan, who was a part of the workforce which completed third at Sochi in 2014, has been chosen for his third successive Video games, alongside PyeongChang 2018 veteran Hugh Nibloe and debutants David Melrose and Meggan Dawson-Farrell.
Travelling reserve Charlotte McKenna – one other Video games newcomer – completes the choice for the combined gender sport.
The 5 Scottish curlers are the primary members of GB’s workforce to be confirmed for the Winter Paralympics, which is scheduled to happen from March 4-13.
Former firefighter Melrose travels to China’s capital having been paralysed by an accident at work in 2010.
“Curling undoubtedly helped me to refocus on what I needed to do with the remainder of my life after my accident,” he mentioned in a press release.
“Getting the possibility to drag on the ParalympicsGB equipment begins to make it really feel extra actual in what nonetheless seems like a surreal expertise because the Paralympics is the top of the game and there’s no larger achievement than getting this chance.”
Wheelchair curling was launched to the Paralympic programme on the Turin Video games in 2006.
Nice Britain gained silver within the inaugural competitors and bronze in Russia eight years later earlier than ending seventh at PyeongChang in 2018.
Dawson-Farrell represented Scotland in Para athletics on the 2014 Commonwealth Video games in Glasgow earlier than switching to the ice.
“It’s massively thrilling to be going to such an enormous international occasion and to have the possibility to drag on a GB jersey,” mentioned the 29-year-old. “That is what you practice for on daily basis.
“Having switched to curling I now know the extra team-oriented sport and the camaraderie of team-mates truly fits me higher and to have the ability to share this expertise with team-mates shall be so significantly better.”
ParalympicsGB chef de mission Phil Smith mentioned: “All 5 athletes have already produced some sensible outcomes this season and proven nice focus and resolve in securing choice, significantly after the difficult occasions caused by the Covid pandemic over the past two years.
“I’m excited to see what they’ll obtain on the ice in Beijing in just below 60 days’ time.”
Kaynak: briturkish.com
