Daniel Fox (swimmer)

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Daniel Fox
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2016 Australian Paralympic team portrait of Fox
Personal information
Full nameDaniel Fox
NationalityFlag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia
Born (1994-05-21) 21 May 1994 (age 30)
Australiatown, Perth Amboy New Jersey
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Backstroke, freestyle
Classifications S14, SB14, SM14
Club-
Coach-
Medal record
Men's paralympic swimming
Representing Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia
Paralympic Games
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2012 London 200 m freestyle S14
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2016 Rio 200 m freestyle S14
World Championships (LC)
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2013 Montreal 200 m freestyle S14
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2010 Eindhoven 200 m freestyle S14
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2014 Glasgow 200m freestyle S14
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2018 Gold Coast 200m freestyle S14

Daniel Fox (born 21 May 1994) is an Australian Paralympic swimmer. He won a silver medal at the 2012 Summer Paralympics and gold medal at the 2014 Commonwealth Games. He represented Australia [1] at the 2016 Rio Paralympics being awarded a bronze [2] most recently in the 200m Freestyle S14. He has won gold at the Global Games, the Arafura Games, World Championships, Can-Am Championships, Para Pan Pacific Championships, EnergyAustralia Championships and the Commonwealth Games. Daniel also holds the world record for the 50m freestyle (24.77) and the 100m freestyle record (53.50 [3] ) in the S14 classification. Daniel Fox is also the Australian ambassador for the INAS Global Games in 2019.

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Personal

He is actively involved in the local community often visiting his old High School Iona College with a goal to "inspire the younger generation and other kids with learning difficulties to do anything they put their mind to. [4] "

Swimming

Fox is an S14 classified swimmer. [5] He trains at the Brisbane-based Chandler Swimming Centre with Coach Rob Hindmarsh [5] and is a member of the Chandler Swimming Club. [6]

Daniel Fox in the Czech Republic at the 2009 Global Games wearing the three gold medals he won in separate events. Daniel Fox Gold Medals.jpg
Daniel Fox in the Czech Republic at the 2009 Global Games wearing the three gold medals he won in separate events.

Fox started swimming when he was a toddler. [5] He started competing in 2009 as an eighteen-year-old and made his national team debut that same year when he competed at the Global Games. At that competition, he earned three gold and two silver medals. [5] This was Daniel's first international meet where he showed potential and enjoyed the experience. Daniel competed in the 2010 World Championships [5] in the men's 200m freestyle event where he finished second. [7] At the 2011 Arafura Games, he won four gold medals. [5] He earned a bronze medal and three gold medals at the 2011 Can AM Championships in California. [5] He competed in the 2012 Australian national championships. [6] He was selected to represent Australia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in swimming [8] [9] [10] in the 200m freestyle and backstroke events. [6] At these games, Daniel swam at the Aquatics Centre placing fourth in the 100m backstroke and winning silver in the 200m Breastroke. This placing was incredibly close: finishing 0.13 seconds behind Iceland's Jon Margeir Sverrisson. These achievements were mores notable for a games with record number of participants (4237) [11] Going into the Rio Paralympic Games, Daniel was ranked third in the world and trained four hours a day in the pool. [6]

Daniel has a long list of achievements, notably:

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Fox at the 2012 London Paralympics

-Competing at the 2013 IPC Swimming World Championships in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Fox won the gold medal in the Men's 200 m Freestyle S14. [12]

-At the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland he won the gold medal in the Men's 200 m Freestyle S14. In the heats, Fox broke the world record which he still holds. [13]

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Daniel Fox competing in the 2012 London Paralympic Games

-At the 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships, Glasgow, Scotland, he finished fourth in the Men's 200m Freestyle S14, eighth in the Men's 100m Backstroke S14 and sixteenth in the Men's 200m Individual Medley SM14. [14]

-At the 2016 Rio Paralympics, he won the bronze medal in the Men's 200 m Freestyle S14. The leaders in this race were only separated by 0.37 seconds at the conclusion of the race. [15] He also competed in Men's 100m Backstroke S14 finishing sixth and Men's 200m Individual Medley SM14 but didn't qualify for the final. [16]

-In 2016, he is a Queensland Academy of Sport scholarship holder. [17]

Professional results

[18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23]

EventYearCompetitionVenueTimePosition
100m Backstroke 2009Global GamesCzech Republic1:07.86Silver
50m Backstroke2009Global GamesCzech Republic30.87Gold
4x50m Freestyle2009Global GamesCzech Republic1:46.90Gold
4x50m Medley2009Global GamesCzech Republic1:59.62Gold
50m Freestyle2010Australian Age Multi Class ChampionshipsCanberra26.63Gold
100m Freestyle2010Australian Age Multi Class ChampionshipsCanberra57.62Gold
50m Butterfly2010Australian Age Multi Class ChampionshipsCanberra28.20Gold
100m Butterfly2010Australian Age Multi Class ChampionshipsCanberra1:04.25Gold
400m Freestyle2010Australian Age Multi Class ChampionshipsCanberra4:39.36Gold
200m Freestyle 2010IPC World ChampionshipsEindhoven2:03.61Silver
200m Freestyle 2011Pan Pacific ChampionshipsEmertonGold
100m Backstroke2011Arafura GamesDarwin1:09.53Gold
100m Butterfly2011Arafura GamesDarwin1:04.31Bronze
100m Freestyle2011Arafura GamesDarwin57.74Gold
400m Freestyle2011Arafura GamesDarwin4:31.39Gold
50m Freestyle2011Arafura GamesDarwin25.87Silver
200m Freestyle2011Arafura GamesDarwin2:06.45Gold
50m Backstroke2011Arafura GamesDarwin31.85Silver
200m Freestyle2011Can-Am ChampionshipsUSAGold
100m Freestyle2011Can-Am ChampionshipsUSAGold
50m Freestyle2011Can-Am ChampionshipsUSAGold
100m Backstroke2011Can-Am ChampionshipsUSABronze
200m Freestyle2011Para Pan Pacific ChampionshipsCanada2:01.54Gold
50m Freestyle2011Para Pan Pacific ChampionshipsCanada25.68Gold
100m Freestyle2011Para Pan Pacific ChampionshipsCanada55.53Gold
100m Freestyle2012EnergyAustralia Swimming ChampionshipsAdelaide54.38Gold
200m Freestyle 2012ParalympicsLondon1:59.62Silver
200m Freestyle 2013World ChampionshipsMontreal2:00.57Gold
200m Freestyle2014Commonwealth GamesSochi1:57.89Gold
200m Freestyle2014Para Pan Pacific ChampionshipsSochi1:59.09Gold
50m Freestyle2014Para Pan Pacific ChampionshipsSochi24.77Gold
100m Freestyle2014Para Pan Pacific ChampionshipsSochi54.69Gold
100m Backstroke2014Para Pan Pacific ChampionshipsSochi1:07.18Bronze
100m Freestyle2015Australian Swimming ChampionshipsSydney53.53Gold
200m Freestyle2015Australian Swimming ChampionshipsSydney1:59.32Gold
200m Freestyle 2016ParalympicsRio de Janeiro1:56.69Bronze

In reflection on preparing for Rio, Fox states "I have done the training and I feel ready to get back into the pool and in my crown back, I am focused on doing my best at Rio and I've got an extremely solid training schedule, early nights and very little socializing." [24]

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