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Jacqueline Freney
Jacqueline Rose "Jacqui" Freney (born 6 June 1992) is an Australian Paralympic swimming, Paralympic swimmer. At the 2012 Summer Paralympics, 2012 London Games, she broke Siobhan Paton's Australian record of six gold medals at a single Games by winning her seventh gold medal in the Women's 400 m Freestyle S7. She finished the Games with eight gold medals, more than any other participant in the Games. Biography Jacqueline Rose Freney was born in Brisbane, Queensland with cerebral palsy diplegia. She won three bronze medals at the 2008 Summer Paralympics, 2008 Beijing Games in the women's 100m freestyle S8 event, 400m freestyle S8 event and 50m freestyle S8 event. In 2012 at the 2012 Summer Paralympics, London Paralympic Games she won 8 gold medals in the women's 100m backstroke S7, women's 50m butterfly S7, 100m freestyle S7, 400m freestyle S7, 50m freestyle S7, 200m individual medley SM7, 4 × 100 m freestyle relay 34 pts, and the medleyrelay event. She broke Siobhan Paton's A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
S7 (classification)
S7, SB6, SM7 are disability swimming classifications used for categorizing swimmers based on their level of disability. Swimmers in this class have use of their arms and trunk. They have limited leg function or are missing a leg or parts of both legs. This class includes a number of different disabilities including people with amputations and cerebral palsy. The classification is governed by the International Paralympic Committee, and competes at the Paralympic Games. Classification definition This classification is for swimming. In the classification title, S represents Freestyle, Backstroke and Butterfly strokes. SB means breaststroke. SM means individual medley. Swimming classifications are on a gradient, with one being the most severely physically impaired to ten having the least amount of physical disability. Jane Buckley, writing for the Sporting Wheelies, describes the swimmers in this classification as having: "full use of their arms and trunk with some leg function; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
