Calum and the GB team have arrived in Austria today Tuesday 14 March for the Special Olympics World Winter Games 2017.
Calum was the first Special Olympics figure skater to represent Great Britain back in 2012. He has won international titles in Finland, Iceland, Austria and the UK and most recently he brought back five medals from the World Figures event in Canada at Christmas 2016.
He is currently ranked Men’s No.1 in the World Rankings for Inclusive Skating.
Coverage of the SO WWG Opening Ceremony can be found on ESPN Saturday 18th March at 6pm.
Calum is competing on March 19th and 23rd in the Level 3 category.
Closing ceremony will be on Friday 24th March.
The team fly back to the UK on Saturday 25th March arriving at Heathrow at 1pm on a flight from Munich.
If you wish to keep up with Calum and the rest of Team GB while they are out in Austria you can find them on the following social media channels under these user names (some are general accounts for the games themselves)
Websites: www.austria2017.org/en/
Facebook: www.facebook.com/austria2017
Twitter: www.twitter.com/sowwg2017/
Calum also has his own Facebook Group “Calum Titmus – Figure Skater”.
If you wish to post a comment about the games then please use the hashtag #SOGBWWG and @SpecialOlympicsGB for Facebook and @SOGreat Britain on Twitter.
If you want to help fund Calum’s efforts, look for the Just Giving page: https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/calum-titmus
Calum is also being featured on Inside Out (East). This programme is being broadcast on Monday 20th March at 7:30pm on BBC1. Trailer for this is also available online.
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