As the Para-Badminton Tokyo Paralympic Games event becomes ever closer, here is a look at both the coaches and presenters who will be at the High Performance Training Camp in Dublin.
The course will run from Monday 17 June to Tuesday 18 June, as we build towards the Paralympic Games in 2020.
A look at the coaches heading to Ireland
Pavel Dobrynin
The Head Coach at the training camp in Ireland is a full-time para-badminton coach for the Russian National Para-Badminton Team, focusing on WH classes with four years of experience. Dobrynin is Head Para-Badminton coach of Saint-Petersburg in Russia. The coach has been a para player since 1994 and is a European Champion in Men’s Singles, in SU5 (June 2011, reclassified as non eligible).
Ilse van de Burgwal
The Dutch coach is a former World Champion and has won multiple European and Dutch titles in both Women’s Singles, as well as both Doubles disciplines. As well as para-badminton, van de Burgwal also plays wheelchair tennis. The Dutchwoman also trains both able and disabled badminton players and has experience in successfully coaching players with autism.
Bartlomiej Mroz
The Pole is a badminton player and has been since 2005. Mroz is the founder member of his own academy called Fundacja Bartłomieja Mroza, since March 2018 and from 2012, he has played para-badminton as well as using his academy to develop the sport in his own country (Poland). Mroz holds a BWF Coach Education Level 1 certificate in badminton coaching and has taken part in a Badminton Europe Para-Badminton event in 2015.
The presenter overviews
Kevin McManamon
The Irishman is a consultant working with a broad range of sports, business teams and high performers including the Ireland Olympic Boxing team. McManamon runs educational programmes in the area of life skills, leadership and also mental health. Being an experienced high-performance athlete, McManamon has also represented in the Dublin Senior Gaelic Football team since 2010 and has won 6 medals in that time.
David Tobin
Tobin, a performance nutritionist who works in the profession at the Sport Ireland institute. Outside of that, the graduate after completing an MSc in Sport and Exercise Nutrition works with a multidisciplinary team which delivers a ‘food first’ approach to nutrition support with Irish athletes from a range of different sports.
Stay tuned for next week, when there will be an updated progress of the High Performance camp in Dublin.