Sipho dives into swimming champs challenge
Sherwood's Sipho Majoka aims to bring medals home from the INAS World Swimming Championships.
LOCAL swimmer, Sipho Majoka, will represent South Africa once again when he leaves on 14 August with the intellectually impaired swimming team to take part in the INAS World Swimming Championships in Noumea, New Caledonia.
Sipho, (24), is an experienced swimmer who has represented South Africa since 2005 and is one of the top swimmers in the team. His speciality is freestyle and butterfly sprints.
Sipho will join other team mates, Cornelia Fowler, Cindy Mkhize and Aaron Putz, to swim in the championships, under national coach, Jean Nortje.
The team has been in a high intensity training camp, swimming for four hours a day for the past three weeks in preparation for the event.
The coach has high hopes for medals at the championships, especially for the women’s relays. The team has entered five men’s and women’s relays at the event.
At the previous championships in Italy in 2011, the women won medals in all five relays and the men in three.
For the first time at the championships, an open water 1.5km surf swim in the Pacific has been introduced, and the Midmar Mile medalists in the team are looking forward to this.
The team is made up of young and experienced swimmers, and Sipho, for one, is looking forward to the challenge.
