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Pages in category "Female Paralympic swimmers for Australia" The following 102 pages are in this category, out of 102 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
The Australian Paralympic Swim Team has competed at every Summer Paralympics, which started with the 1960 Summer Paralympic Games. [1]Matthew Cowdrey at the 2012 London Games replaced Priya Cooper as Australia's most successful Paralympic swimmer, with a tally of 13 gold medals over three Paralympic Games (2004, 2008 and 2012).
She began to swim competitively when she was 15 with the Jones started swimming in a Springwood Swimming Club under Nick Robinson. [2] She is classified as a S8 swimmer. She was selected on the Australian team at the 2019 World Para Swimming Championships where she finished sixth in the Women's 100 m freestyle S6, seventh in the Women's 100 m ...
Lakeisha Dawn Patterson, OAM (born 5 January 1999) is an Australian Paralympic swimmer. She won medals at the 2014 Commonwealth Games and 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships. At the 2016 Rio Paralympics, she won Australia's first gold medal of the Games in a world record time swim in the Women's 400m freestyle S8.
Emily Jane Beecroft OAM (born 19 November 1999) is an Australian Paralympic swimmer. She represented Australia at the 2016 Rio Paralympics, 2020 Tokyo Paralympics and 2024 Paris Paralympics. [1] [2] She won a silver and bronze medal at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, and a gold and bronze medals at the 2024 Paris Paralympics.
At the 2023 World Para Swimming Championships, Manchester, she won a gold medal in the Women's 100 m Freestyle S9 just outside the world record and a silver medal in the Women's 50 m Freestyle S9. [6] At the 2024 Paris Paralympics, she won gold medals in Women's 100 m freestyle S9 (world record) and Mixed 4 x 100 m medley 34 pts (Paralympic ...
Rachael Elizabeth Watson, OAM (born 30 January 1992) is an Australian Paralympic swimmer. Watson represented Australia at the 2016 Rio Paralympics winning gold in the 50m Freestyle S4, [1] a feat she repeated at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics. [2] At the 2024 Paris Paralympics, she won two bronze medals.
Although she was targeting the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo rather than the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio, [4] at the 2016 Australian Swimming Championships in Adelaide, she met the Rio qualifying times in the 50, 100 and 400 metre freestyle, 100 metre backstroke and 100 metre breaststroke events, [6] and on 14 April 2016 was named a ...