Anthony Stephens (born 9 July 1986) is a

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who has participated in three

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, winning five medals. He competes in S5 classification events.

Career

Stephens began swimming at the age of three and by eight he was competing in national events. In 2003 he entered the British Championships taking gold in both the 200m Freestyle and 150m Individual Medley. He was selected for the Great Britain team in the

2004 Summer Paralympics ) , nations = 136 , athletes = 3,806 , events = 519 in 19 sports , opening = 17 September , closing = 28 September , opened_by = President Costis Stephanopoulos , cauldron = Georgios Toptsis , stadium = Olympic ...

in Athens. There he competed in seven events, the

50m 5 (five) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number, and cardinal number, following 4 and preceding 6, and is a prime number. It has attained significance throughout history in part because typical humans have five digits on eac ...

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and

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Freestyle (S5), the 50m Backstroke (S5), 200m Individual Medley (S5) and the 4x50m Freestyle (20pts) and 4x50m Medley (20pts) relays.

Notes

{{DEFAULTSORT:Stephens, Anthony Living people 1986 births English male swimmers Paralympic swimmers for Great Britain Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Paralympics Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Paralympics Swimmers at the 2012 Summer Paralympics Paralympic silver medalists for Great Britain Paralympic bronze medalists for Great Britain World record holders in paralympic swimming Medalists at the 2004 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 2008 Summer Paralympics S5-classified para swimmers Team Bath swimmers Team Bath Paralympic athletes Medalists at the World Para Swimming European Championships Paralympic medalists in swimming British male freestyle swimmers British male medley swimmers British male backstroke swimmers 21st-century British people