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The Link Magazine• July 1992. 16
Firemen collect sports honours

Two Westlea firemen are blazing a
trail for Wiltshire across the world.
With backing from the brigade,
fund raisingby colleagues and spon-
Creative Há.:esign sorship from National Power at
Wind mill Hill, David Gray and Paul
10TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION Brew took themselves and their
wives off to Las Vegas, USA for the
second World Firefighter Games in
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£76CI4 0/ri,
May.
On arrival they soon realised that
Call in or give us a ring. You'll be the competition was going to beveiy
amazed with what your hear.
tough. Amongst the 3,500 athletes
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from 35 countries, there were many
Tel: Swindon (0793) 873217 ex-Olympic competitors including
Open: Mon to Wed Qam-6pm Thur gam-gpm Fri 9am-7pm Sat 8.30am-1.30pm Paul who swum for Britain at the
Seoul Olympics. Against the other
fire fighters he won four gold med-
als in the swimming competition. Paul Brew and Dave Gray in Las Vegas
C 1 C desert heat competing in the medals and was top overall swim-
Meanwhile Dave was in the 100'
In June Paul again took four gold
triathalon. He was in a medal win-
mer at the British Fire Brigades
T1 ning position after a great swim, but championships. In fact, with Dave
a puncture set him back in the bike swimming in the over 30s masters
Ballgown
ride. Trying to get back onto level competition, the two of them won
terms, he completed the 10 kilome-
the trophy for gaining most points
tre run and took eleventh place out out of the 25 brigades present, some
Sale. Everything 100 triatheletes. of which had entered ten swimmers.
They also took part in the 'Tough-
Paul and Dave are now in train-
est Firefighter Alive' competition ing for the European Fire Brigade
half price. which included exhausting tasks like Triathalon Championships in July
hose running, ladder pitching and and Paul has been selected to swim
20a Dyer Street climbing 27 storeys of the Sahara for Britain at September's European
Hotel - whilst wearing a breathing Fire Brigade competition in Den-
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