{"id":173,"date":"2025-05-30T12:56:21","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T11:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/sayoungreporter\/?p=173"},"modified":"2025-05-30T15:13:35","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T14:13:35","slug":"para-athlete-goes-from-strength-to-strength-in-swimming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/sayoungreporter\/2025\/05\/30\/para-athlete-goes-from-strength-to-strength-in-swimming\/","title":{"rendered":"Para-athlete goes from strength to strength in swimming"},"content":{"rendered":"

Irving <\/span>Norquoy aged 14 is a para-swimmer for Scotland and is on the rise, winning multiple medals from his incredible swimming skills he has displayed at the Scottish Disability Junior Swim Championships.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Irving, from Sandwick, started his swimming journey at the age of 3<\/span>. Irving was born with spina bifida.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI feel very proud, and I put a lot of effort in training beforehand<\/span>,\u201d said Irving, on winning his medals.\u00a0<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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H<\/span>is training strategy is gym twice a week and swim twice a week. <\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

When asked about <\/span>representing Orkney at a young age Irving replied saying, \u201cI feel very good, and you enjoy going down south and it’s good to represent Orkney.\u201d<\/span><\/span> \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

(Credit Orkney Amateur Swimming Club Facebook for the photo)<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

By Elliott M<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Irving Norquoy aged 14 is a para-swimmer for Scotland and is on the rise, winning multiple medals from his incredible swimming skills he has displayed at the Scottish Disability Junior Swim Championships.\u00a0\u00a0 Irving, from Sandwick, started his swimming journey at the age of 3. Irving was born with spina bifida.\u00a0 \u201cI feel very proud, and … Continue reading Para-athlete goes from strength to strength in swimming<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1863,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/sayoungreporter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/sayoungreporter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/sayoungreporter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/sayoungreporter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1863"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/sayoungreporter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/sayoungreporter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/sayoungreporter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions\/183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/sayoungreporter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/sayoungreporter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/sayoungreporter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}