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Open Water Swimming Technical & Unified Sports Delegate - Great Britain, United Kingdom

Dave Harman

Open Water Swimming Technical & Unified Sports Delegate - Raalte, Netherlands

Dave has been directly involved in Swimming management and officiating since 1972, and directly with Disability Swimming for a little over 20 years, having been appointed as Referee to the INAS European Championships in Reading, UK in 2000. Dave have had a number of roles in British Swimming, Fina/LEN, DSISO, Special Olympics GB and SOI, IPC (WPS) and latterly INAS/Virtus. In 2017, he temporarily moved to South America, but returned to the UK permanently in mid 2020.

Dave has had many experiences over the past years including but not limited to:

  • Technical Lead for National Summer Games 2009, 2013, 2017.
  • National Adviser for Swimming and Open Water Swimming.
  • Technical Lead for National Summer Games 2009, 2013, 2017.  Referee 2001.
  • Technical Lead for Annual National Partnership Event (Mencap, SOGB, DSISO, British Swimming) 2005 – 2017.
  • Worked with SO International Working Group for Open Water Swimming, Referee for OW at World Summer Games 2015 (Los Angeles).
  • From Spring 2022 working again with SOGB advising swimming event organizers.

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