Isabella Vincent (born 14 January 2006) is an Australian Paralympic swimmer. At the age of fifteen, she was the youngest Australian swimmer selected for the

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, where she won a silver and bronze medal.

Personal

Vincent lives in

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. She was born with sacral agenesis or

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. She attended Marryatville Primary School. Since 2020, she has attended Pembroke School.

Swimming

Vincent took up competitive swimming in 2018 after a stint of post-operative hydrotherapy. Joining the EnABLE program at Norwood Swimming Club with coach Alana Fuller. She is classified as an S7. At 2018 School Sport Australia Swimming Championships in

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she collected the most medals of any with nine – seven gold, one silver and one bronze. At the 2020 SA Short Course Swimming Championships, she won the

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Trophy for best multi-class performance. At the

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, Vincent came first in the S7 - 400m freestyle S6-S13, 100m backstroke and second in the SM7 200m individual medley. At the

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, Vincent, together with her team of

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, and Ashleigh McConnell won a silver medal in the Women's 4x100m Freestyle 34 pts with a time of 4:26.82, two seconds behind the winners, Italy. She also won a bronze medal in the 34pts Women's 4x100m Medley 34 pts. Her team of

, Keira Stephens and

clocked 4:55.70. She swam in two individual events, finishing sixth in the Women's 200 m Individual Medley SM7, but failing to qualify in the 100 m freestyle S7. At the

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, she finished 5th in the Women's 100 m backstroke S8 and the Women's 100 m breaststroke SB6.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Vincent, Isabella 2006 births Living people Female Paralympic swimmers for Australia S7-classified para swimmers Paralympic bronze medalists for Australia Swimmers at the 2020 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 2020 Summer Paralympics Commonwealth Games competitors for Australia Swimmers at the 2022 Commonwealth Games People with caudal regression syndrome Swimmers from Adelaide Sportswomen from South Australia Australian female medley swimmers 21st-century Australian women