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| Nationality |  Australia | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 26 May 2004 (age 20) | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||
| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||
| Classifications | S13, SB13, SM13 | ||||||||||||||
| Club | Genesis Aquatics | ||||||||||||||
| Coach | Rick Pendleton | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Kirralee Hayes (born 26 May 2004) is an Australian Paralympic swimmer. She represented Australia at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics. [1]
Hayes, a founding member of the Genesis Aquatics based at Genesis Christian College, qualified for the S13 (vision impaired) 50m Freestyle and 100m Butterfly at the 2020 Summer Paralympics. [2]
At 2021 Australian Swimming Trials, she finished second in Women's 50m Freestyle S13.
At the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, she swam in two events, the 50 m freestyle S11 and the 100 m butterfly S11 but did not qualify for the finals. [3]
At the 2022 Commonwealth Games, Birmingham, England, she won the bronze medal in the Women's 50 m freestyle S13. [4] [5]
Hayes is based at the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra and coached by Yuriy Vdovychenko, but regularly returns to train at Genesis Aquatics with her coach Rick Pendleton.
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