Lane End Primary School

Olympic Swimmers at Lane End

Stockport Olympic Swimmers Keri-Anne Payne and David Carry, Olympic swimmers visited school and spoke to the children about perseverance and putting in effort to gain success as well as the upcoming Olympics. The children were completely enthralled and asked some excellent questions.

An article from the Stockport Times:  

 It is great to have the children’s good behaviour and questions commented upon. The message about putting effort in to gain success was clear and something we want to look at more with the children. Thank you to Cranford Johnstone who made the contact with the swimmers from Stockport Metro for us.

Information from Wikipedia:

Keri-Anne Payne (born 9 December 1987 in Johannesburg, South Africa) is a British Olympic swimmer and silver medallist. She was a gold medalist at the 2009 world championships.

She represented Great Britain at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the 200m and 400m individual medley swimming events as well as the 10 km open water event, in which was placed second and won a silver medal for Great Britain.

At the 2009 World Aquatics Championships, held in Rome, Payne won the 10km swim. She finished first in a time of two hours, one minute and 37.1 seconds.

David Robert Carry (born 8 October 1981, Aberdeen) is a Scottish swimmer of Faroese heritage. His specialism is freestyle, and he has represented Scotland at the 2002, 2006 and 2010 Commonwealth Games. In 2006 he won gold in the 400 metre freestyle and 400 metre individual medley.

He attended Robert Gordon's College during his school years.

He is currently training at Stockport ITC and represented Great Britain at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the 400 m freestyle and 4×200 m freestyle relay swimming events.