 2016 Australian Paralympic team portrait of Huebner | ||||||||||||||||||
| Personal information | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Tanya Huebner | |||||||||||||||||
| Nationality |  Australia | |||||||||||||||||
| Sport | ||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Freestyle, butterfly, medley | |||||||||||||||||
| Classifications | S6, SB5, SM6 | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Tanya Huebner is an Australian swimmer. She has represented Australia at the 2012 London and the 2016 Rio Paralympics. [1]
Huebner is an S6 classified swimmer. [2] [3] She is a member of Melbourne Vicentre Swimming Club. [4]
She started swimming when she was extraordinarily young. [5] In 2008, Huebner competed in Rock2Ramp. [6] That year, she also competed in the Club-to-Club swim from Edithvale Life Saving Club to Aspendale Life Saving Club. [7] In 2010, she woke up at 4:30am daily in order to train. [8] [9] She competed in the 2010 International Paralympic Committee swimming world championships. [10] She took up a swimming scholarship at the Australian Institute of Sport in July 2011. [11] She swam for Bayside at the 2011 Australian Open Championships. [12] She competed in the 2011 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships in the 200 metres individual medley SM6 event, where she finished first with a time of 3:31:36. [3] In 2011, she also competed at the Can-Am Championships in California. [13] She was selected to represent Australia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in swimming in the 50m Freestyle, 100m Freestyle, 100m Breaststroke, 50m Butterfly and 200m Individual Medley events. [2] [14] The Games were her first. [11]
At the 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships, Glasgow, Scotland, she won gold medal in the Women's 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay 34pt as a heat swimmer, silver medal in the 4 × 100-metre Medley Relay 34pts as a heat swimmer, fourth in the 100-metre Breaststroke SB6, seventh in the Mixed 4 x 50-metre freestyle relay 20pts, ninth in the Women's 50m Butterfly S6 and thirteenth in the Women's 50-metre Freestyle S6. [15]
At the 2016 Rio Paralympics, she competed and placed fifth in her heat for 50-metre butterfly S6 and didn't qualify for the finals. [16] She was fifth in the finals of the 100-metre Breaststroke SB6, [17] and placed sixth in the Mixed 4 x 50-metre Freestyle Relay 20 points alongside Rachael Watson, Tiffany Thomas Kane, Ahmed Kelly and Matthew Haanappel. [18]
