{"id":140619,"date":"2015-06-29T09:35:40","date_gmt":"2015-06-29T16:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=140619"},"modified":"2015-06-29T09:35:40","modified_gmt":"2015-06-29T16:35:40","slug":"yelyzaveta-mereshko-ready-to-race-idol-eleanor-simmonds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/yelyzaveta-mereshko-ready-to-race-idol-eleanor-simmonds\/","title":{"rendered":"Yelyzaveta Mereshko Ready to Race Idol Eleanor Simmonds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine&#8217;s <strong>Yelyzaveta Mereshko<\/strong> is preparing to mount a challenge against Great Britain&#8217;s seven-time world champion <strong>Eleanor Simmonds<\/strong> at the 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships starting on\u00a0J<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_2131361336\"><span class=\"aQJ\">uly 13<\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-two-year-old Mereshko, who currently holds the season&#8217;s fastest time in the women&#8217;s 400m freestyle S6, a title that Simmonds has won at every World Championships and Paralympic Games since 2008, credits her admiration for the British superstar as her inspiration:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are always idols in the sport, and the athletes who just started their sport career always dream to become the best one, trying to beat the results of talented athletes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People say: `A soldier who doesn&#8217;t want to be a general is a bad soldier&#8217;. 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Thus I hope to show high results.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have been training for the whole year to get better. Hopefully we will honourably represent our country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships will feature around 580 athletes from nearly 70 countries and will be one of the biggest qualification opportunities for the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets are still available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ticketmaster.co.uk\/Glasgow2015\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">www.ticketmaster.co.uk\/<wbr \/>Glasgow2015<\/a> and all seven days of action will be shown live at Glasgow2015.com alongside live results.<\/p>\n<p>Fans can also follow @IPCSwimming on Twitter and Facebook and Paralympics Instagram for behind-the-scenes updates and pictures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>The above article is a press release submitted to Swimming World. To reach our audience, contact us at <\/i><a href=\"mailto:newsmaster@swimmingworld.com\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>newsmaster@swimmingworld.com<\/i><\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\"><i>.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine&#8217;s Yelyzaveta Mereshko is preparing to mount a challenge against Great Britain&#8217;s seven-time world champion Eleanor Simmonds at the 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships starting on\u00a0July 13. 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