Laurence McGivern is a paralympic swimmer from Rostrevor

Rostrevor

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, Co. Down Northern Ireland

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, coached by Paul Rogers, Gary McCreesh and Dave Malone. His first main sporting event was the European Athletics Championships in Iceland

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 and the age of 18 he competed in the 2010 Commonwealth Games

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 in Delhi

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. He became the only person to represent Northern Ireland

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 at the Commonwealth Games

Commonwealth Games

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 when he finished seventh in the S9 50 m freestyle and fifth in the S10 100 m freestyle at the 2010 games in Delhi

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Commonwealth Games

Laurence competed in the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, being the only paralympic athlete representing Northern Ireland in the games. He came seventh in the Paralympic 50m S9 swimming event in a time of 28.95 - he set a personal best of 28.84 in the heats. He also finished fifth in the 100m S10 freestyle final in a time of 1:03.31, being the second fastest of the S9 swimmers.