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Born | Nuth, Netherlands | 22 April 1996||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in) | ||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Paralympic swimming Paratriathlon | ||||||||||||||||
Disability | Paraplegia | ||||||||||||||||
Disability class | S8 | ||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Romy Pansters (born 22 April 1996) is a Dutch paratriathlete and former Paralympic swimmer who competes at international level events, she was also a tennis player and handballer at national youth level before suffering from a blood clot in her spinal cord which led to paraplegia in June 2006 and has used a wheelchair since however is learning to walk again through rehabilitation. During her swimming career, she has won two European swimming medals and was a finalist in the women's 400m freestyle S8 where she finished last place as well as swimming at the 50m freestyle S8 and 100m freestyle S8. [1]
Pansters switched sports and turned to paratriathlon in 2015, she competed in the ETU Paratriathlon Championships but did not finish after she crashed her bike during the race in Lisbon. [2]
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