Jessica Roux (born 10 November 1992 in
Port Elizabeth) is a South African distance swimmer. Her club is the Swimcats/Bay Eagle Swim Team, and she is based in
Durban
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.
She is also trained in hockey and water polo.
At the time of the 2012 Olympics she was a student at
Varsity College. She trained for the
2012 Summer Olympics in the bay at
Cape Town
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where the water is colder. At the 2012 olympics in London she competed in the
Women's marathon 10 kilometre, but didn't complete the race, and had to be taken to safety on a raft and taken away in a wheelchair.
References
1992 births
Living people
South African female swimmers
Olympic swimmers of South Africa
Swimmers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Female long-distance swimmers
Sportspeople from Port Elizabeth
20th-century South African women
21st-century South African women
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