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| Country |  China |
| Sport | Swimming |
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Huang Chaowen is a Chinese paralympic swimmer. He participated at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in the swimming competition, being awarded the bronze medal in the men's 50 metre breaststroke SB2 event. [1] [2] [3]
Jessica Tatiana Long is a Russian-American Paralympic swimmer from Baltimore, Maryland, who competes in the S8, SB7 and SM8 category events. She has held many world records and competed at five Paralympic Games, winning 29 medals. She has also won over 50 world championship medals.
Ellie Victoria Cole, is an Australian retired Paralympic swimmer and wheelchair basketball player. After having her leg amputated due to cancer, she trained in swimming as part of her rehabilitation program and progressed more rapidly than instructors had predicted. She began competitive swimming in 2003 and first competed internationally at the 2006 IPC Swimming World Championships, where she won a silver medal. Since then, she has won medals in the Pan Pacific Swimming Championships, the Commonwealth Games, the Paralympic Games, the IPC Swimming World Championships, and various national championships. Following the 2012 London Paralympics, where she won four gold and two bronze medals, Cole underwent two shoulder reconstructions and made a successful return to swimming at the 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships, winning five medals, including three golds. She subsequently represented Australia at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Paralympics, the 2018 Commonwealth Games, and the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics. In claiming her seventeenth Paralympic medal in Tokyo, Cole became Australia's most decorated female Paralympian with six gold, five silver and six bronze medals from four Paralympic Games.
Brenden Hall, is an Australian Paralympic amputee swimmer who won two gold medals at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London. He represented Australia at the 2016 Rio Paralympics where he won one gold, one silver and one bronze medal. He competed at 2020 Summer Paralympics, his fourth games.
Daniel Fox 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 at the 2016 Rio Paralympics being awarded a bronze 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) in the S14 classification. Daniel Fox is also the Australian ambassador for the INAS Global Games in 2019.
Stephanie Millward, is a British Paralympic swimmer.
Emily Beecroft is an Australian Paralympic swimmer. She represented Australia at the 2016 Rio Paralympics and the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics. She won a silver and bronze medal at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics.
Tiffany Thomas Kane, is a retired Australian Paralympic swimmer. She represented Australia at the 2016 Rio Paralympics, winning a gold and three bronze medals, and at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, winning a further two bronze medals.
Lakeisha Dawn Patterson, 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. At the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, she won the gold medal in the Women's 400 m Freestyle S9.
Swimming at the 2016 Paralympic Games was held from 8 to 17 September 2016 at Rio Olympic Aquatics Stadium. The competition consisted of 152 events, across multiple classifications, and all swum in a long course (50-metre) pool. Up to 600 swimmers competed in the Games. With 152 events, swimming came second only to athletics as the largest sport at the 2016 Games.
China has qualified to send athletes to the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 7 September to 18 September 2016. Sports China competed in include blind football, archery, boccia, cycling, goalball, judo, paracanoeing, sitting volleyball and wheelchair basketball.
Jenna Jones is an Australian Paralympic swimmer. She represented Australia at the 2016 Rio Paralympics.
Katja Dedekind is an Australian Paralympic vision-impaired swimmer and goalball player. She won a bronze medal at the 2016 Rio Paralympic Games and two bronze medals at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympic Games.
Liam Schluter is an Australian Paralympic swimmer with an intellectual disability. He represented Australia at the 2016 Rio Paralympics and the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics.
Song Lingling is a Chinese Paralympic swimmer competing in the S6 class. She has won two silver and a gold paralympic medal.
Dong Lu is a Chinese paralympic swimmer, who won gold and silver medals at the 2012 Summer Paralympics and a silver medal at the 2016 Summer Paralympics. She got 38.28 seconds on 50m butterfly. At the 2020 Summer Paralympics she won four gold medals with three world record. Lu lost both her arms after being hit by a motorist at age six.
Huang Wenpan was a Chinese Paralympic swimmer. He won five gold medals at the 2016 Summer Paralympics: at the Men's 50 metre freestyle S3 event with a world record and paralympic record of 39.24, at the Men's 200 metre freestyle S3 event with a world record and paralympic record of 3:09.04, at the Men's 50 metre breaststroke SB2 event with a world record and paralympic record of 50.65 at the Men's 150 metre individual medley SM3 event with a world record and paralympic record of 2:40.19. and at the Mixed 4 x 50 metre freestyle relay 20pts event with a world record and paralympic record of 2:18.03. He also won a silver medal at the Men's 50 metre backstroke S3 event with 46.11.
Huang Xing is a Chinese paralympic sport shooter. He participated at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in the shooting competition, being awarded the gold medal in the mixed 25 m pistol. Xing participated at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in the shooting competition, being awarded the silver medal in the men's 10 m air pistol event. He also participated in the mixed 25 m pistol at the 2020 Summer Paralympics, being awarded the gold medal.
Iaroslav Semenenko is a Ukrainian paralympic swimmer. He participated at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in the swimming competition, being awarded the bronze medal in the men's 100 metre backstroke S6 event. Semenenko had participated at the 2008 and 2012 Summer Paralympics in the swimming competition without winning a medal. On 13 September 2012, he was awarded the title "Honorary Citizen Of The City Of Slovyansk".
Serhii Palamarchuk is a Ukrainian paralympic swimmer. He participated at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in the swimming competition, being awarded the bronze medal in the men's 200 metre freestyle S2. Palamarchuk also participated in the men's 50 metre backstroke S2 event, being awarded the bronze medal. He participated in the men's 100 metre backstroke S2 event, being awarded the bronze medal.
He Shiwei is a Chinese paralympic swimmer. He participated at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in the swimming competition, being awarded the silver medal in the men's 50 metre butterfly S5 event.
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