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] He recorded a time of 31.08 in the 50m breaststroke, a national record. At the meet, he also collected four golds and a silver in other events.
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. [4]
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. [5] In the 100m backstroke, Moore recorded a time of 1:04.80, finishing in the silver medal position behind Marc Evers of the Netherlands. [6]
At the 2016 Rio Paralympics, Moores failed to advance from his heat in the 100m backstroke S14, but won gold in the 100m breaststroke SB14. [7]
He was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to swimming. [8]
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