FRAN NEWS FRAN NEWS FRAN NEWS Great news from the land of the Pampas and Johhny Gaucho: Fran has won a silver medal at the IPC World Swimming Championships in Argentina. Here's what she wrote to her mother: Oh my God I've just got silver....... came 3rd but the 1 who won (Japan) was so quick, she got the WR by 20 secs so got questioned and DQed. so it was Patricia, Me then Annke! can u believe it? i beat ANNKE!!! I did 1.06!! Mother adds: Anneke is usually pretty impressive. She holds several of the World records so it is quite something for Fran to beat her. I add that the event is the 50m freestyle and Anneke must be the German young lady Anneke Conradi who was third in the world rankings with a time of 1:02:3: Fran's previous best was 1:13.3 Brilliant news! DW