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UK SCHOOL GAMES
The 2009 UK School Games
will be held in Cardiff, Newport
and Swansea from 3rd to 6th
September where 1,600 children
will compete. The games will THE SPORTS
replicate a major multi-sport event
with an opening and closing 1. Swimming 4. Athletics
ceremony plus an athletes’
village. Swimming will be competed for at the Athletics will be hosted at the new Cardiff
Wales National Pool in Swansea and is International Sports Stadium and will have
Alongside the new sport of track cycling, one of the three sports to have a disability disability events within the timetable.
competition will take place in hockey, element. Paralympic gold medallist Eleanor Former UK School Games athlete Ashlee
badminton, judo, volleyball, athletics, Symonds competed in the 2007 UK School Nelson went to the Beijing Olympics as part
fencing, gymnastics, swimming and table Games. of the GB women’s 4 x 100m relay team.
tennis, with disability events in athletics,
swimming and table tennis also included. 2. Volleyball 5. Fencing
Chief Executive of the Youth Sport Trust, If its atmosphere you are after all roads As with Volleyball, Fencing will be located
Steve Grainger, said: “From the opening lead to University of Wales Institute, at UWIC (Cyncoed Campus). This year
and closing ceremonies, to the elite level Cardiff (UWIC). The indoor athletics Wales will be hoping to replicate the medal
sporting action that will be witnessed at the track will be subject to a dramatic haul of 10 from the 2008 UK School Games.
venues in Cardiff, Newport and Swansea, transformation, two full size volleyball Competitors will be participating in team
the 2009 UK School Games will offer a truly courts will be constructed. and individual events in epee, foil and sabre.
memorable experience for the competitors,
young volunteers, ofﬁ cials and spectators.” 3. Judo 6. Table Tennis
UK School Games
In the build up to The UK School Games we One of the three new sports to be Table tennis has been a mainstay at the
will be proﬁ ling the sports, the competitors introduced in 2007, local Swansea UK School Games since its inception in
and all the information you will need to competitor Brandon Dodge won gold at 2006. Newport Tennis Centre will host the
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know about the biggest multi sport event to the 2008 UK School Games. Judo will also competition for the 2009 UK School Games.
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be hosted in Wales for 50 years. be located in Swansea at the University.
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