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Eleanor May Simmonds, OBE (born 11 November 1994 [2]) is a British retired Paralympian swimmer who competed in S6 events. She came to national attention when she competed in the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, winning two gold medals for Great Britain.
Swimmers have a significant loss of power or control in legs, arms and hands. Some athletes may also have limited trunk control. This could be caused by tetraplegia, polio or similar disabilities. [3] Swimmers who are in this class use a wheelchair in daily life. Izhak Mamistvalov (2-1-1) 50 metre freestyle 50 metre backstroke 100 metre freestyle
Johnson added to her Paralympic medal collection at London 2012 Paralympics, as she set a new Paralympic record en route. Johnson recorded a season's best time of 1:40.90, to take the bronze medal in the SB6 100 m backstroke. In the buildup towards her fourth Paralympics at Rio, Johnson underwent an operation for a hernia. While recovering, she ...
The paralympic swimmer, 32, placed first in the 400m freestyle S8 on Wednesday, September 4 — the same event in which she won gold 20 years earlier in Athens at age 12. Great Britain's Alice Tai ...
Paralympic swimmer Jessica Long won her 30th medal at the 2024 Paris Paralympics. She talks on the TODAY show about having 17 golds and her future.
Britain has won three gold medals at the Winter Paralympics and 626 at the Summer Games. Combining these results, the British team is positioned in second place on the all-time Paralympic Games medal table. Great Britain was the host of the first Stoke Mandeville Games to coincide with London's hosting of the 1948 Summer Olympics. These Games ...
Jessica Long is golden — again! The 32-year-old won gold in the 400-meter freestyle S8 at the Paralympic Games on Wednesday, Sept. 4, a full 20 years after she won gold in the same event back in ...
Iona Winifrith (born 11 April 2011) [1] is a British swimmer, who won silver in the 100 m breaststroke SB7 at the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris. [ 2 ] References