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Nationality | American | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Beverly, Massachusetts, U.S. | May 8, 1988|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Home town | Salem, Massachusetts, U.S. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Paralympic swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Disability class | S3, SM3 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Leanne Smith (born May 8, 1988) is an American Paralympic swimmer who represented the United States at the 2020 Summer Paralympics. [1]
Smith represented the United States in the women's 100 metre freestyle S3 event and won a silver medal at the 2020 Summer Paralympics. [2]
On April 14, 2022, Smith was named to the roster to represent the United States at the 2022 World Para Swimming Championships. [3] At the World Championships, she won a gold medal in all seven events she participated in, to lead all swimmers in gold medals. Her seven gold medals were the most in a single championships by an American since Jessica Long also won seven gold medals in 2010. [4]
On April 29, 2023, Smith was named to the roster to represent the United States at the 2023 World Para Swimming Championships. [5]
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.
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.
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.
Sergeant First Class Elizabeth Marks is an American Paralympic swimmer who specializes in the 100m breaststroke distance.
McKenzie Coan is an American swimmer. At the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, she swam the 400m Freestyle in the S8 category. Coan was one of four S8 category swimmers chosen to compete for Team USA at the games. She later had her breakout games in the 2016 Summer Paralympics, where she would go on to win 3 gold medals in the category S7 50, 100, and 400M Freestyle races, with an additional silver medal in the 34-point women's 4 × 100 m Freestyle relay. In the process of getting her gold medal in the 50M Freestyle she also set a new Paralympic Record.
The United States competed at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan from 24 August to 5 September 2021.
Hannah Elizabeth Aspden is an American Paralympic swimmer. She was the youngest swimmer on Team USA to medal at either the Olympics or Paralympics in 2016. During the 2019–20 season at Queens University of Charlotte, Aspden broke two American Paralympic Short Course Meters Swimming records in both the 100-Meter Backstroke and the 100-Meter Freestyle.
Colleen Young is an American swimmer. She won a bronze medal at the 2016 Paralympic Games. She also won bronze medals in the 100 backstroke and 100 breaststroke at the 2015 World Championships She competes in the Paralympic class S13. In 2016 she set a Pan-American record in the 100m breast.
Elizabeth "Lizzi" Smith is an American Paralympic swimmer who competes in international level events. She was born without a left forearm due to amniotic band syndrome.
Julia Kay Gaffney is an American Paralympic swimmer who competes in international level events. She was born with proximal femoral focal deficiency and had her right leg with amputated above the knee and her left leg amputated below the knee due to fibular hemimelia when she was born.
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.
Anastasia Pagonis is an American Paralympic swimmer. She represented the United States at the 2020 Summer Paralympics. She is a world record and American record holder within the sport.
Gia Pergolini is an American Paralympic swimmer who represented the United States at the 2020 Summer Paralympics.
Ahalya Lettenberger is an American Paralympic swimmer who represented the United States at the 2020 Summer Paralympics.
Jamal Hill is an American Paralympic swimmer. He represented the United States at the 2020 Summer Paralympics.
Matthew Torres is an American Paralympic swimmer who represented the United States at the 2020 Summer Paralympics.
Morgan Stickney is an American Paralympic swimmer who represented the United States at the 2020 Summer Paralympics.
Mikaela Jenkins is an American Paralympic swimmer who represented the United States at the 2020 Summer Paralympics.
David Henry Abrahams is a blind American Paralympic swimmer. He represented the United States at the 2020 Summer Paralympics.
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