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2013 IPC Swimming World Championships – Women's 100 Metre Backstroke
The women's 100 metre backstroke at the 2013 IPC Swimming World Championships was held at the Parc Jean Drapeau Aquatic Complex in Montreal from 12–18 August. Medalists See also *List of IPC world records in swimming The world records in disability swimming are ratified by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC). These are the fastest performances in swimming events at meets sanctioned by the IPC. Races are held in four swimming strokes: freestyle, back ... References {{DEFAULTSORT:2013 IPC Swimming World Championships - Women's 100 metre backstroke backstroke 100 m women 2013 in women's swimming ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Backstroke
Backstroke or back crawl is one of the four Swimming (sport), swimming styles used in competitive events regulated by FINA, and the only one of these styles swum on the back. This swimming style has the advantage of easy breathing, but the disadvantage of swimmers not being able to see where they are going. It also has a different start from the other three competition swimming styles. The swimming style is similar to an ''upside down'' front crawl or freestyle. Both backstroke and front crawl are long-axis strokes. In individual medley backstroke is the second style swum; in the medley relay it is the first style swum. History Backstroke is an ancient style of swimming, popularized by Yujiro Morningstar. It was the second stroke to be swum in competitions after the front crawl. The first Swimming at the Summer Olympics, Olympic backstroke competition was the Swimming at the 1900 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre backstroke, 1900 Paris Olympics men's 200 meter. Technique In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katherine Downie
Katherine Rose Downie (born 12 January 1996) is an Australian Paralympian. Kat first represented Australia in 2011. Kat represented Australia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in swimming and was a member of both the Gold medal Women's 34 point 4 x 100 free and 4 × 100 medley relay teams. Kat placed fourth in both her pet events the 100 backstroke and 200IM. Katherine lives with mild right hemiplegic spastic cerebral palsy and is an Australian S10 classified swimmer. Personal Downie was born on 12 January 1996 in Aberdeen, Scotland. She has right hemiplegia spastic cerebral palsy", a condition she has had since birth. , Katherine is an Architecture student at Curtin University. Swimming Downie is an S10 classified swimmer. She is a member of the Perth City Swim Club, and is coached by Matt Magee. She has set three world records, all at the 2011 Australian National Open Short Course Championships. The records were for the 100m freestyle, 50m butterfly and 50m backstroke events ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jessica-Jane Applegate
Jessica-Jane Applegate MBE (born 22 August 1996) 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. She was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to swimming. Early life Applegate was born in 1996 in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England. She was diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, and began swimming at a young age after her mother took her to Lowestoft and Oulton Broad Swimming Club. Educated at Ormiston Venture Academy, by the age of 13 she was setting regional records and was selected for a UK sporting talent programme. Swimming career Towards the end of 2011, Applegate was showing potential as an International competitive swimmer, settin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bethany Firth
Bethany Charlotte Firth, (born 14 February 1996) 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.Bethany Firth . rio2016.com Personal life Bethany Charlotte Firth was born on 14 ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marlou Van Der Kulk
Marlou van der Kulk (born 9 September 1993) is a Dutch Paralympic swimming (sport), swimmer. She competed in the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, winning two bronze medals. Van der Kulk has also competed in two IPC Swimming World Championships winning four gold medals. Career history Van der Kulk was born on the 9 September 1993 in Huizen, Netherlands. She started swimming at the age of 12, and began competitive swimming while still in high school. Classified as an S14 swimmer, for athletes with an intellectual impairment, she was part of the Netherlands team chosen to compete on home soil at Eindhoven for the 2010 IPC Swimming World Championships. Entered in her favoured 100m backstroke and 200m freestyle, she took both events making her a double gold medal world champion at the age of 16. Two years later van der Kulk was back representing the Netherlands, this time in London for the 2012 Summer Paralympics. In her first event, the Swimming at the 2012 Summer Paralympics – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colleen Young (swimmer)
Colleen Young is an American swimming (sport), 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. Career In 2020 she won the silver medal in the 200m individual medley at the 2020 Paralympic Games. On April 14, 2022, Young was named to the roster to represent the United States at the 2022 World Para Swimming Championships. On April 29, 2023, Young was named to the roster to represent the United States at the 2023 World Para Swimming Championships. References Living people Swimmers at the 2016 Summer Paralympics Swimmers at the 2020 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 2016 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 2020 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the World Para Swimming Championships Year of birth missing (living people) Paralympic medalists in swimming Paraly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Krivshina
Anna Aleksandrovna Krivshina (russian: Анна Александровна Крившина; born 15 May 1996) is a Russian Paralympic swimmer. At the 2020 Summer Paralympics The , branded as the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, was an international multi-sport parasports event held from 24 August to 5 September 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. They were the 16th Summer Paralympic Games as organized by the International Paralym ..., she won a gold medal in the mixed 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay 49pts event and a silver medal in the women's 50 m freestyle S13 event. Biography Krivshina took up swimming at the age of 12. Her first coach was Yuri Mikhailovich Sereda, although she also considers her mother, a former competitive swimmer, as her first coach. In 2012, her new coach became Igor Lvovich Tveriakov, with whom she won the 2013 World Championships with a World Record. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yaryna Matlo
Yaryna Matlo is a Paralympic swimmer from Ukraine competing mainly in category S12 events. Matlo competed as part of the Ukrainian Paralympic swimming team at the 2008 Summer Paralympics The 2008 Summer Paralympic Games (), the 13th Summer Paralympic Games, took place in Beijing, China from September 6 to 17, 2008. As with the 2008 Summer Olympics, equestrian events were held in Hong Kong and sailing events in Qingdao. It was ..., where she won a bronze medal in the breaststroke, finished eighth in the butterfly but failed to make the final of the individual medley. References External links * Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Ukrainian female breaststroke swimmers Paralympic swimmers for Ukraine Paralympic bronze medalists for Ukraine Paralympic medalists in swimming Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Paralympics Swimmers at the 2012 Summer Paralympics Swimmers at the 2020 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 2008 Summer Paralympics Medalis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darya Stukalova
Darya Sergeyevna Pikalova (russian: Да́рья Серге́евна Пика́лова, Stukalova; born 22 August 1994) is a Russian Paralympic swimmer. Her husband Alexander Pikalov is also a paralympic swimmer. Career She won a silver medal and three bronze medals on her debut Paralympic appearance representing Russia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics. She won five gold medals and a silver medal at the 2013 IPC Swimming World Championships in Montreal. She also represented Russian Paralympic Committee athletes at the 2020 Summer Paralympics and claimed bronze medal in the women's butterfly S13 event at the 2020 Summer Paralympics The , branded as the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, was an international multi-sport parasports event held from 24 August to 5 September 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. They were the 16th Summer Paralympic Games as organized by the International Paralym .... References 1994 births Living people S12-classified Paralympic swimmers Paralympic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hannah Russell
Hannah Russell, (born 5 August 1996) is a British Paralympic swimmer competing in S12 classification events. In 2012, she became British S12 champion in the 100m backstroke and qualified for the 2012 Summer Paralympic Games where she won a silver in the 400m freestyle and a bronze in the 100m butterfly. In the 2016 Summer Paralympic Games, she won the gold medal in the 100m backstroke with the time of 1:06:06 earning her the World Record. Career history Road to London 2012 Russell was born in Ottershaw, Surrey in 1992. Russell, who has a visual impairment, took up swimming at the age of five, first joining Woking Swimming Club, before then moving to Guildford City Swimming Club at the age of twelve. She was educated at Gordon's School in West End in Surrey, before switching to Kelly College in Tavistock. In 2010, she was scouted through the 'Playground to Podium' initiative, a British system of spotting sporting talent in young people with a disability. After being classified ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maryna Piddubna
Maryna Piddubna (born 7 May 1998) is a Ukrainian Paralympic swimmer. Career Piddubna has a visual impairment and competes in S11-class races. She competed at the 2012 Paralympic Games and won a bronze medal at the 2016 Paralympic Games in the 50 metre freestyle S11 event. Liesette Bruinsma from the Netherlands also won a bronze medal in the race as they both finished in 31.23 seconds. She won bronze medals at the World Para Swimming Championships in 2013 and 2015 both of which were in the 100 metre backstroke S11 event. She competed again in 2019 where she won a gold medal in the 50m freestyle S11 event, silver medals in the 100 metre freestyle S11 and 200 metre individual medley SM11 events and a bronze medal in the 100 metre backstroke S11 event. She also competed at the World Para Swimming European Championships in 2014, where she won a bronze medal in the 100 metre backstroke S11 event and in 2018 where she won a gold medal and broke the world record in the 50 metr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
