Personal information | |
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Nationality | ![]() |
Born | 5 November 2004 20) | (age
Sport | |
Sport | Swimming |
Classifications | S10, SB9, SM10 |
Club | Aquablitz Toongabbie |
Coach | Gavin Stewart |
Medal record |
Alexander Tuckfield (born 5 November 2004) is an Australian Paralympic swimmer. He began swimming at the age on ten. He has cerebral palsy. [1] At the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, he won a bronze medal [2]
Tuckfield who was born on 5 November 2004 and has cerebral palsy. He began swimming at the age of ten. [3]
At the 2020 Swimming Australia Virtual Championships, he broke the Men's 200m Freestyle S9 world record. [4]
Tuckfield finished second in the Men's 400 m S9 at 2021 Australian Swimming Trials and qualified for the 2020 Summer Paralympics. [5]
At the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, Tuckfield qualified first in his heat and then won the bronze medal in the Men's 400 m freestyle S9. His time of 4:13.54 was three-and-a-half seconds slower than the gold medal winner William Martin of Australia. He also swam in the 50 m freestyle S9 but failed to qualify for the final. [6]
At the 2024 European Para Swimming Championships in Madeira, Tuckfield took Bronze in the Men's 100 m Freestyle S10, and swam the second leg in the mixed 4 × 100 m Freestyle 34pts where the team took the bronze and set an OC Record with a time of 4:11.56
At the 2025 Australian Swimming Trials, Tuckfield qualified in both the 50 and 100 freestyle for the World Para swimming championships to be held in Singapore in September 2025.