Torch relay

A torch relay and cauldron lighting ceremony celebrated the opening of the Special Olympics State Long Course Aquatics Carnival at the Peninsula Leisure Centre on August 12.

Over 130 athletes with intellectual disabilities from all parts of NSW competed at the event.

The torch relay started at 9am at the entrance of the centre, followed by a cauldron lighting ceremony where a Central Coast athlete said the athlete's oath.

Gosford Mayor Cr Laurie Maher officially opened the carnival at 9am with races beginning at 9.30am.

Duncan Bond, David Brown, Therese Jackson, Sandy Caruana, Stefan Gilligan, Mark O'Brien, Martin Reidy, Ashley Emerson, Carley Chapman, Mathew Schofield, Brad Perrin and Vicki Hodges represented the Central Coast.

Each swimmer was entitled to swim in five events, made up of four individual events and a relay.

Press release, August 10 Marion Newall, Gosford Council