Aaron Moores

Aaron Moores

Personal information
Born	(1994-05-16) 16 May 1994 Trowbridge, England
Sport
Country	United Kingdom
Sport	Swimming
Club	Trowbridge ASC
Coached by	Sarah Paton
Achievements and titles
Paralympic finals	2012
Medal record Paralympic Games 2012 London 100 m backstroke (S14) 2016 Rio de Janeiro 100 m backstroke (S14)

Aaron Moores MBE (born 16 May 1994) is a British Paralympic swimmer competing in the S14 category, mainly in the backstroke and breaststroke. In 2010 he set a new British record in his class for the 50m breaststroke and after qualifying for the 2012 Summer Paralympics he won a silver medal in the 100 m backstroke.

Career history

Moores was born in Trowbridge, England in 1994.^[1] Moores, who has a learning disability, began swimming at the age of 10.^[2] He joined Trowbridge Swimming Club and entered his first national championship when he entered the 5th British Learning Disability Swimming Championship in Sheffield on 10 July 2010.^[3][4] He recorded a time of 31.08 in the 50m breaststroke, a national record. He also collected four golds and a silver in other events at the meet.

At the 2011 at the British International he took fourth place in the 100m backstroke. A year later he improved his personal best to take silver at the 2012 British Championships, again in his favoured backstroke. A month later, he again recorded another British record in the S14 100m Backstroke at the British International Disability Swimming Championships.^[1] He came second in his heat, with a time of 1:05.15, behind the winner and fellow Paralympian Jonathan Fox.^[5]

His results in the British Internationals saw Moores selected for the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, in both the S14 100m backstroke and the SB14 100m breaststroke.^[6] In the 100m backstroke, Moore recorded a time of 1:04.80, finishing in silver medal position behind Marc Evers of the Netherlands.^[7]

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