Matthew John Cowdrey is an Australian politician and Paralympic swimmer. He presently holds numerous world records. He has a congenital amputation of his left arm;it stops just below the elbow. Cowdrey competed at the 2004 Paralympic Games,2006 Commonwealth Games,2008 Paralympic Games,2010 Commonwealth Games,and the 2012 Paralympic Games. After the 2012 London Games,he is the most successful Australian Paralympian,having won thirteen Paralympic gold medals and twenty three Paralympic medals in total. On 10 February 2015,Cowdrey announced his retirement from swimming.
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.
Siobhan Bethany Paton,OAM is an Australian Paralympic swimmer who was born in Sydney. Paton has had an intellectual disability from birth which was a consequence a lack of oxygen. Paton decided to become a swimmer after finding out she has a connective tissue disorder and that swimming would assist in the strengthening of her joints. Siobhan initially began competing with non-disabled athletes and only in 1997 did she compete in a competition for athletes with disabilities,where she won seven gold medals and one silver medal. As of 2004,she holds thirteen world records in her disability class of S14.
Dame Sophie Frances Pascoe is a New Zealand para-swimmer. She has represented New Zealand at four Summer Paralympic Games from 2008,winning a total of eleven gold medals,seven silver medals and one bronze medal,making her New Zealand's most successful Paralympian. She has also represented New Zealand at the Commonwealth Games.
Ellie Victoria Cole,is an Australian retired Paralympic swimmer and wheelchair basketball player. After having her leg amputated due to cancer,she trained in swimming as part of her rehabilitation program and progressed more rapidly than instructors had predicted. She began competitive swimming in 2003 and first competed internationally at the 2006 IPC Swimming World Championships,where she won a silver medal. Since then,she has won medals in the Pan Pacific Swimming Championships,the Commonwealth Games,the Paralympic Games,the IPC Swimming World Championships,and various national championships. Following the 2012 London Paralympics,where she won four gold and two bronze medals,Cole underwent two shoulder reconstructions and made a successful return to swimming at the 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships,winning five medals,including three golds. She subsequently represented Australia at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Paralympics,the 2018 Commonwealth Games,and the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics. In claiming her seventeenth Paralympic medal in Tokyo,Cole became Australia's most decorated female Paralympian with six gold,five silver and six bronze medals from four Paralympic Games.
Dame Sarah Joanne Storey,is a British Paralympic athlete in cycling and swimming,and a multiple gold medalist in the Paralympic Games,and six times British (able-bodied) national track champion. Her total of 28 Paralympic medals including 17 gold medals makes her the most successful and most decorated British Paralympian of all time as well as one of the most decorated Paralympic athletes of all time. She has the unique distinction of winning five gold medals in Paralympics before turning 19.
Brenden Hall,is an Australian Paralympic amputee swimmer who won two gold medals at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London. He represented Australia at the 2016 Rio Paralympics where he won one gold,one silver and one bronze medal. He competed at 2020 Summer Paralympics,his fourth games.
Prue Watt,is a Paralympic swimming gold medalist from Australia. She has represented Australia at the four Paralympics from 2004 to 2016.
Kayla Clarke is an Indigenous Australian swimmer who represented Australia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in swimming,and has medalled at the 2010 Australian Disability Age Group Nationals,and 2010 International Paralympic Swimming World Championships,2009 Queensland State Championships,2009 Queensland Secondary School Titles,and 2009 Global Games. She competes in a number of events,including the 100m freestyle,100m backstroke,100m breaststroke,100m butterfly and 200m individual medley.
Bethany Charlotte Firth,is a Northern Irish swimmer. Since 2014 she has competed for Great Britain;previously,Firth had represented Ireland. A six time Paralympic gold medalist,she has won gold in her specialist event - the 100 metres backstroke - for both Ireland at the 2012 Summer Paralympics and Great Britain at the 2016 and 2020 Summer Paralympics. These were in addition to the Mixed 4 x 100 metres freestyle relay S14 at the 2020 Games,and 200 metres medley and 200 metres freestyle for Great Britain at the 2016 Games,where she was the nation's most successful Paralympian with three golds and a silver medal. She competes in the S14 classification for athletes with an intellectual impairment.
Summer Ashley Mortimer is a Canadian-Dutch former paraswimmer who competed internationally for Canada,and later the Netherlands national paralympic team,an artist,a performing artist,and CBC Sports personality.
Jessica-Jane Applegate MBE is a British Paralympic swimmer. Applegate competes in the S14 classification for swimmers with intellectual disabilities,mainly freestyle and backstroke preferring shorter distances. She qualified for the 2012 Summer Paralympics and on 2 September,Applegate won the gold setting a Paralympic record in the S14 200m freestyle.
Darda Sales is a Canadian swimmer,4.0 point wheelchair basketball player and motivational speaker. She won gold medals with the 4x100 medley relay team at the 2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney and the 2002 IPC Swimming World Championships in Mar del Plata,and a silver medal at the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens. She switched to wheelchair basketball after she retired from swimming in 2009,and won a gold medal in that sport at the 2014 Women's World Wheelchair Basketball Championship in Toronto.
The 2014 IPC Swimming European Championships was an international swimming competition held in Eindhoven,the Netherlands,from the 4th to the 10th of August. Around 375 athletes from 35 different countries attended. The venue,the Pieter van den Hoogenband Swimming Stadium,also held the 2010 IPC Swimming World Championships.
Brian David Hill is a S13 Canadian para-swimmer who has competed in the 2000,2004,2008,2012 Summer Paralympics and the 2007 Parapan American Games. He had won five gold medals,three silver medals and 3 bronze medals in his international career. Hill started swimming as a child and competitive swimming at the age of nine. He has won the British Columbia Blind Sports Award and Athlete of the Year Award.
Lakeisha Dawn Patterson,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.
Timothy Hodge is an Australian Paralympic swimmer. He represented Australia at the 2016 Rio Paralympics and the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics,where he won two silver and one bronze medals.
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.
Robert Griswold is an American swimmer. He was a member of the 2016 and 2020 U.S. Paralympic Swimming Teams. He holds multiple American and world paralympic swimming records in freestyle,backstroke,butterfly,and individual medleys. He competes in the Paralympic classes S8/SB7/SM8,and has cerebral palsy that affects coordination and strength. The United States Center for SafeSport temporarily suspended Griswold in 2020,reinstated him prior to the 2021 Paralympic Games,and then temporarily suspended him again in 2022,after he was accused of raping a fellow member of the US Paralympic Team at the 2021 Paralympic Games and thereafter;Griswold was later removed as a member of the US National Team.
Chelsey Gotell is a Canadian Paralympic swimmer and 12-time medalist. She has oculocutaneous albinism which causes her to have poor vision.
