Jonathan Andrew Fox (born 30 May 1991) is a British

Paralympic swimmer Para swimming is an adaptation of the sport of swimming for athletes with disabilities. Para swimmers compete at the Summer Paralympic Games and at other sports competitions throughout the world. The sport is governed by the International Para ...

Personal life

Fox was born on 30 May 1991 in

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, Devon, England. He was educated at

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, earning a BTEC in Sport and Science in 2007. He was born with cerebral palsy and competes in the S7 Paralympic classification.

Swimming

Fox was introduced to Paralympic swimming at a Regional Disability Swimming meet in 2001. He represented

Great Britain at the 2008 Summer Paralympics Great Britain competed at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, People's Republic of China. Great Britain sent a delegation of around 400, of which 212 were athletes, to compete in eighteen sports at the Games. The team was made up of athletes ...

held in Beijing, China. Fox won a silver medal in the 100-metre backstroke S7 event. He also finished fifth in the

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, eighth in the 50-metre freestyle and ninth in the 400-metre freestyle. In 2009 at the

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(IPC) European Swimming Championships held in Reykjavík, Iceland, he won three gold medals and two silver medals. At the 2010

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Fox won a gold medal in the 100-metre backstroke event and a bronze in the 400-metre freestyle. In the same year he won two gold medals and two bronze at the British Championships. In 2011 Fox won three gold, a silver and two bronze medals at the European Championships in Berlin as well as two gold medals at the British Championships. Fox was selected to compete for

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in the 50-metre freestyle,

, 400-metre freestyle and 100-metre backstroke events in the S7 classification. In the heats of the 100 m backstroke he broke his own world record, setting a time of one minute 9.86 seconds to qualify fastest for the final. He went on to win the final in a time of one minute 10.46 seconds to take Great Britain's first swimming gold medal at the Games. , he holds S7 world records in long course 200-metre freestyle, 800-metre freestyle, 50 metres backstroke and 100 metres backstroke events.

Honours

Fox was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the

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for services to swimming.
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Personal life

Swimming

Honours

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