Local man Laurence McGivern is competing in tonights 100m Backstroke S9 Final at the Paralympics in London.
The final takes place at 6.30pm tonight in the London Aquatics Centre.
Nineteen year old Laurence booked his place in the final this morning qualifying with a time of 1:05:35.
He will compete in lane 7 against Matthew Cowdrey from Australia, Tamas Sors and Tamas Toth from Hungary; Xiaobing Liu from China, Michael Auprince from Australia and James Crisp and Morgyn Peters from Great Britain.


