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Nationality | Ukrainian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 24 July 1998 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Paralympic swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Disability class | S5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Iryna Poida (born 24 July 1998) [1] is a Ukrainian swimmer, who won silver in the 200 m freestyle S5 at the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris. [2]
Danylo Chufarov is a Ukrainian paralympic swimmer competing mainly in category S13 events.
Iryna Balashova is a paralympic swimmer from Ukraine competing mainly in category S13 events.
Sebastián Rodríguez Veloso is a Spanish Paralympic swimmer. He has competed at four Paralympic Games winning fifteen medals: eight gold, four silver and three bronze. His attendance at the Games was controversial after it was revealed that he had been jailed for bomb attacks while a member of First of October Anti-Fascist Resistance Groups (GRAPO).
The 2024 Summer Paralympics, also known as the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, and branded as Paris 2024, were the 17th Summer Paralympic Games, an international multi-sport parasports event governed by the International Paralympic Committee. The Games were held in Paris, France, from 28 August to 8 September 2024, and featured 549 medal events across 22 sports. These games marked the first time Paris hosted the Summer Paralympics and the second time France hosted the Paralympic Games, following the 1992 Winter Paralympics in Tignes and Albertville. France also hosted the 2024 Summer Olympics.
Tully Alicia Jacqueline Kearney is a British Paralympic swimmer. Kearney currently competes in the S5/SB4/SM5 classification for swimmers with physical disabilities. She won gold and silver at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games and followed this up at the Paris 2024 Games with two further gold medals, including retaining her 100 m freestyle S5 title. Since first competing at the World Para Swimming Championships in 2013 she has won thirteen World Championship medals, ten of which are gold. Kearney is a multiple British, European and World record holder.
Rachael Elizabeth Watson, is an Australian Paralympic swimmer. Watson represented Australia at the 2016 Rio Paralympics winning gold in the 50m Freestyle S4, a feat she repeated at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics. At the 2024 Paris Paralympics, she won two bronze medals.
Zheng Tao is a Chinese para swimmer and five-time Paralympic champion. He is known as the "armless swimmer". He made a world record by winning 4 gold medals in Tokyo 2020 Paralympic.
Sevilay Öztürk is a Turkish Paralympic swimmer. She competes in the disability category of S5 in freestyle, backstroke and butterfly, specializing in sprint events. She competed in the 2016 Summer Paralympics.
Oleksandr Komarov is a Ukrainian Paralympic swimmer.
Iryna Volodymyrivna Koliadenko is a Ukrainian freestyle wrestler. She is a two-time Olympic medallist and won the silver medal in the women's freestyle 62 kg event at the 2024 Summer Olympics and one of the bronze medals in the women's freestyle 62 kg event at the 2020 Summer Olympics. Koliadenko is also a World Championships silver and bronze medallist, and a three-time European champion.
Mohammad Abbas Karimi is a swimmer, who came second in the S5 50 meter butterfly event at the 2017 World Para Swimming Championships, making him the first refugee athlete to win a medal at that competition. He came eighth in the 50 meter butterfly S5 event for the Refugee Paralympic Team at the 2020 Summer Paralympics.
Ugo Didier is a French Paralympic swimmer. He represented France at the 2020 and 2024 Summer Paralympics.
Suzanna Hext is a British Paralympic swimmer and equestrian, who won three gold medals in dressage at the 2017 FEI European Championships, and two medals at both the 2019 and 2023 World Para Swimming Championships. She finished fourth in two S5 swimming events at the 2020 Summer Paralympics.
The men's 100 metre freestyle swimming (S5) event at the 2024 Summer Paralympics took place on 30 August 2024, at the La Défense Arena in Paris.
The men's 200 metre freestyle swimming (S5) event at the 2024 Summer Paralympics took place on 29 August 2024, at the La Défense Arena in Paris.
The medal table of the 2024 Summer Paralympics ranks the participating National Paralympic Committees (NPCs) by the number of gold medals that were won by their athletes during the competition. The 2024 Paralympics was the seventeenth Games to be held, a quadrennial competition open to athletes with physical and intellectual disabilities. The games were held in Paris, France from 28 August to 8 September 2024. There were 549 medal events.
Kirill Pulver is a Russian swimmer, who won silver in the 200 m freestyle S5 at the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris.
Guo Jincheng is a Chinese Paralympic swimmer. He represented China at the 2024 Summer Paralympics.
He Shenggao is a Chinese Paralympic swimmer. She represented China at the 2024 Summer Paralympics.