Lakeisha Patterson

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Lakeisha Patterson
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2016 Australian Paralympic team portrait of Patterson
Personal information
Full nameLakeisha Patterson
NicknameLucky
NationalityAustralian
Born (1999-01-05) 5 January 1999 (age 25)
Wodonga, Victoria
Sport
Sport Swimming
Classifications S9
ClubBelgravia Swim Team
CoachHarley Connolly
Medal record
Women's paralympic swimming
Representing Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia
Paralympics
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2016 Rio de Janeiro 400 m freestyle S8
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2016 Rio de Janeiro 4×100 m freestyle
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2020 Tokyo 400 m freestyle S9
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2016 Rio de Janeiro 50m freestyle S8
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2016 Rio de Janeiro 100m freestyle S8
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2016 Rio de Janeiro 4×100 m medley
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2016 Rio de Janeiro 200m individual medley S8
World Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2015 Glasgow 4×100 m freestyle
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2019 London 400 m freestyle S9
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2023 Manchester 400 m freestyle S9
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2015 Glasgow 50 m freestyle S8
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2015 Glasgow 4×100 m medley
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2015 Glasgow 100 m freestyle S8
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2015 Glasgow 400 m freestyle S8
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2018 Gold Coast 50 m freestyle S8
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2018 Gold Coast100 m freestyle S9
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2014 Glasgow 100 m freestyle S8

Lakeisha Dawn Patterson, OAM (born 5 January 1999) 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. [1]

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Personal

Patterson was born on 5 January 1999 in Wodonga, Victoria. [2] She has early onset Parkinson's disease, epilepsy and cerebral palsy left hemiplegia. [3] [4] In 2020, she is undertaking a Bachelor of Communication (majoring in Digital Media) at University of Queensland.

She lives at Caboolture, Queensland.

Career

Patterson started swimming at the age of three as part of her rehabilitation to overcome muscle stiffness. [5] She is classified as an S9 swimmer. She initially trained under Steve Hadler at Southern Cross Swimming Club Archived 13 September 2018 at the Wayback Machine , Scarborough and Suellyn Fraser at the Bribie Island Aquatic Leisure Centre. [5]

Patterson after winning the 400m freestyle at the Rio Paralympics Lakeisha Patterson Rio2016.jpg
Patterson after winning the 400m freestyle at the Rio Paralympics

At the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland, she won the bronze medal in the Women's 100 m Freestyle S8. [3] Competing at the 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships in Glasgow, she won a gold medal in the Women's 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay 34 points, silver medals in the Women's 50 m Freestyle S8 and Women's 4 × 100 m Medley Relay 34 points and bronze medals in the Women's 100 m Freestyle S8 and Women's 400 m Freestyle S8. [6] [7] [8] She finished fifth in the Women's 100m Backstroke S8. [9]

In April 2016, she was selected as part of the national team for the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro. [10] She won Australia's first gold medal of the Rio Paralympics in winning the Women's 400m Freestyle S8, she set a new World record, Paralympic record, and Oceania record of 4:40:33, slicing 0.11 seconds of the previous world record time set by her long-time idol, American Jessica Long, who came in second. [11] [12] She was a member of the team that won the gold medal in the Women's 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay 34 points. Three silver medals were won in the Women's 50 m and 100m Freestyle S8 behind Maddison Elliott and the Women's 4 × 100 m Medley Relay 34 points. [13]

In reflection on competing at Rio 2016, Patterson says "If someone told me one year ago that this is where I'd be I would have said, 'no, this is a joke.'" [14] But after winning her first gold medal against Jessica Long, she states "I knew I had to attack and go out hard and keep fighting for it, and I knew she was right behind me, so I just had to keep going forward." [15]

At the 2019 World Para Swimming Championships in London, she won the gold medal in the Women's 400 m Freestyle S9 and did not medal in three other events. [16]

At the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, in her only event, she won the gold medal in the Women's 400 m Freestyle S9 with a time of 4:36.68. This repeated her success in Rio but this time she was in the S9 class as she was reclassified as an S9 swimmer, a class for less physically impaired swimmers. [17]

At the 2022 Commonwealth Games, Birmingham, England, she finished 5th in the Women's 200 m individual medley SM10. [18] [19]

In 2015, she was coached by Jan Cameron at the University of the Sunshine Coast Paralympic Training Centre. [2] In early 2016, she moved to coach Harley Connolly. [20]

Recognition

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