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2023 World Para Swimming Championships – Women's 50 Metre Freestyle
The women's 50m freestyle events at the 2023 World Para Swimming Championships were held at the Manchester Aquatics Centre between 31 July and 6 August. Events were held in eleven classifications. Medalists Results S3 12 swimmers took part in this event, with both the heats and final on 4 August. Swimmers in S1 and S2 classes were eligible in this event. The applicable records going into this event were as follows: ;Heats ;Final S4 8 swimmers took part in the event, which progressed straight to final. The event took place on 4 August. ;Final S5 15 swimmers took part in this event, with both the heats and final on Monday 31 July. : Tully Kearney Tully Alicia Jacqueline Kearney (born 11 April 1997) is a British Paralympic swimmer. Kearney competes in the S5 classification for swimmers with physical disabilities. She won Gold and Silver at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games setting World ... : 34.07 ;Heats ;Final S6 ;Heats Ten swimmers entered this event, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2023 World Para Swimming Championships
The 2023 World Para Swimming Championships was the 12th edition of the World Para Swimming Championships, an international swimming competition for swimmers with disabilities. It was held in Manchester, Great Britain from 31 July to 6 August 2023. This was the third time that Great Britain have hosted the World Para Swimming Championships with Glasgow hosting in 2015 and London hosting in 2019. The World Championships serves as a qualifier for the 2024 Summer Paralympics where two top swimmers in each individual medal event final will be automatically selected to compete at the Paralympics. As a swimmer can only hold one quota, which makes them eligible for all events in their classification for which they have a qualifying time, unrequired quotas are returned to be distributed later. Participating nations * (18) * (26) * (4) * (3) * (1) * (3) * (2) * (29) * (20) * (3) * (24) * (2) * (14) * (4) * (1) * (7) * (1) * (1) * (5) * (3) * (1) * (13) * (13) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecília Jerônimo De Araújo
Cecília Kethlen Jerônimo de Araújo (born 13 October 1998) is a Brazilian Paralympic swimmer. She represents Brazil in elite international competitions. She represented Brazil at the 2016 and 2020 Summer Paralympics. Career Jerônimo de Araújo made her international debut for Brazil at the 2015 Parapan American Games. She won seven medals at the 2019 Parapan American Games, including four gold medals. She won a gold medal at the 2017 World Para Swimming Championships in the 50 metre freestyle S8 event and a silver medal in the 100 metre freestyle S8 event. She won a silver medal at the 2019 World Para Swimming Championships in the 50 metre freestyle S8 event. She represented Brazil at the 2016 Summer Paralympics. She again represented Brazil 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 Gam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Stetsenko (swimmer)
Anna Stetsenko (born April 18, 1992) is a visually impaired Ukrainian Paralympic swimmer, competing in S13 class. She has won four gold medals in Summer Paralympics and two in the world championships. She also holds two current World records A world record is usually the best global and most important performance that is ever recorded and officially verified in a specific skill, sport, or other kind of activity. The book ''Guinness World Records'' and other world records organization ...: in 50 m and 100 m freestyle. References External links * 1992 births Living people Ukrainian female freestyle swimmers Paralympic swimmers of Ukraine Paralympic gold medalists for Ukraine Paralympic silver medalists for Ukraine Paralympic bronze medalists for Ukraine Paralympic medalists in swimming 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Carolina Gomes Santiago
Maria Carolina Gomes Santiago (born 2 August 1985), also known as Carol Santiago, is a Brazilian Paralympic swimmer who competes in international level events. She competed at the 2020 Summer Paralympics and won five medals, including three gold medals. Life Santiago has a congenital eye condition called morning glory syndrome which is a defect in her optic nerve, she is partially sighted in her left eye but doesn't have peripheral vision in her right eye. She began swimming aged four and took part in able-bodied swimming competitions and open water swimming aged twelve. By the age of seventeen, she was completely blind for eight months due to accumulation of water in her retina and stopped swimming. She went back to swimming a decade later aged 27 and started to swim competitively again and in 2019 at the Caixa Open, she broke the Brazilian national record in the 50m freestyle that was set by Fabiana Sugimori at the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens Athens ( ; el, Αθ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karolina Pelendritou
Karolina Pelendritou (born 25 August 1986 in Limassol) is a visually impaired swimmer from Cyprus. She has won gold medals and broken records in national and international games as well as winning three gold medals, a silver and two bronze over four Paralympic Games (winning medals in each Games except for 2016 when she came in 4th). Due to her achievements she is known as the "Princess of the Pool". Pelendritou was the first living person to appear on a national Cypriot stamp, in 2004. She has promoted the work of various EU initiatives throughout the years, currently holding the title of ambassador for the "Youth On The Move" initiative since 2010. Early life She began swimming at the age of 9. A family member of hers, Antonakis Katsiounis, started to take her swimming. He noticed that she had a hidden talent. At the age of 10 she became a member of the Cyprus Swimming Federation with the Nautical Club of Limassol and at 13 years old she became a member of the National Swimmin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liesette Bruinsma
Liesette Bruinsma (born 9 September 2000) is a Dutch Paralympic swimmer. She competes in S11 classification events for athletes with visual impairments. She is the 2016 double Paralympic champion within her classification. She competed at the 2020 Summer Paralympics, in Women's 400 metre freestyle S11, and Women's 100 metre freestyle S11, winning silver medals. Swimming career Bruinsma first competed for the Netherlands at Glasgow in 2014. Her first major international competition was the 2016 IPC Swimming European Championships in Funchal, where she competed in six events, and took a medal in five of them. Three of her Funchal medal's were gold: 400 m freestyle (S11), 100 m breaststroke (SB11) and the 200 m find. medley (SM11). In the same year, Bruinsma made her Paralympic Games debut, winning five medals including two golds in the 200 metres individual medley and the 400 metres freestyle. The Netherlands did not send a team to the 2017 World Para Swimming Championships i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ma Jia
Ma Jia (born 4 February 1998) is a Chinese para swimmer. Career Ma competed in her first Paralympic games 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 ..., where she won two gold medals in the 50 metre freestyle S11 and in the 200 metre individual medley SM11 events. References 1998 births Living people Paralympic gold medalists for China Paralympic swimmers for China Chinese female freestyle swimmers Swimmers at the 2020 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 2020 Summer Paralympics S11-classified para swimmers Paralympic medalists in swimming Chinese female medley swimmers 21st-century Chinese women {{PRChina-swimming-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emeline Pierre
Emeline Pierre (born 4 December 1999) is a French Paralympic swimmer who competes at international swimming competitions. She is a World bronze medalist and a double European bronze medalist. Career In 2014, Pierre fell badly from a balance beam at a gymnastics Gymnastics is a type of sport that includes physical exercises requiring balance, strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, dedication and endurance. The movements involved in gymnastics contribute to the development of the arms, legs, shou ... competition and dislocated her right elbow. She had several operations to regain movement on her right arm but it was unsuccessful and it caused permanent damage to her arm. References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Pierre, Emeline 1999 births Living people Sportspeople from Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques Paralympic swimmers for France French female freestyle swimmers French female backstroke swimmers French female medley swimmers Swimmers at the 2020 Summer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alessia Scortechini
Alessia Scortechini (born 11 February 1997) is an Italian Paralympic swimmer who competes in international level events. She is a double World champion and a double European bronze medalist. She competed at the 2020 Summer Paralympics, in Women's 50m Freestyle-S10. Biography She is born with a shortened forearm and has limited strength in her wrist. She competed at the 2017 World Para Swimming Championships, and 2019 World Para Swimming Championships. See also *Italy at the 2020 Summer Paralympics Italy competed at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan, from 24 August to 5 September 2021. This was their sixteenth consecutive appearance at the Summer Paralympics The Summer Paralympics also known as the Games of the Paralympiad, are ... References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Scortechini, Alessia 1997 births Living people Swimmers from Rome Paralympic swimmers for Italy Medalists at the World Para Swimming Championships Medalists at the World Para Swimm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florianne Bultje
Florianne Bultje (born 26 April 1998) is a Dutch Paralympic swimmer who competes in international swimming competitions. She is two-time World In its most general sense, the term "world" refers to the totality of entities, to the whole of reality or to everything that is. The nature of the world has been conceptualized differently in different fields. Some conceptions see the worl ... bronze medalist. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Bultje, Florianne 1998 births Living people Sportspeople from North Holland Paralympic swimmers for the Netherlands Dutch female freestyle swimmers Dutch female butterfly swimmers S9-classified para swimmers Medalists at the World Para Swimming Championships ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexa Leary
Alexa Leary (born 18 August 2001) is an Australian Paralympic swimmer. She won a gold medal and silver medal at the 2023 World Para Swimming Championships. She has been selected to compete at the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris. Personal life Leary was born on 18 August 2001. Her parents are Russ and Belinda Leary. She has two sisters, Madison and Ashtyn, and two brothers Max and Jack. She grew up on the Gold Coast and later Yamba and Noosa, where her triathlon coach was based. She attended Good Shepherd Lutheran College. On 17 July 2021, Leary suffered life-changing brain injuries as a result of a serious cycling accident in Pomona, Queensland. Whilst riding her bike in training for triathlons, her front wheel clipped the bike ahead at 70 km/h. She landed on her head which resulted in major brain damage, blood clots and several broken bones. She spent 111 days in hospital. Whilst in hospital, a fund raising campaign called 'moveforlex' raised over $130,000 for enha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |