Ruby Storm (born 18 November 2003) is an Australian Paralympic swimmer with an intellectual disability. She represented Australia at the

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, winning a bronze medal, and at the

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, she won a silver and bronze medal.

Personal

Storm was born on 18 November 2003 and grew up in Traralgon, Victoria. She has indigenous heritage.

Swimming career

As a child Storm was scared of the water but she learnt to swim by observing her older sister. She is classified as an S14 swimmer. She smashed records at the 2018 Para Pan Pac trials in winning the 200m freestyle event. At the

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, she was a member of the Australian team that won the bronze medal in the Mixed 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay S14. She also competed in the Women's 200m Freestyle S14, Women's 100m Breaststroke SB14, Women's 200m Individual Medley SM14 and Women's 100m Butterfly S14. At the

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, Storm teamed up with Madeleine McTernan, Ricky Betar and Benjamin Hance in the Mixed 4 x 100 m freestyle S14. They won the silver medal with a time of 3:46.38, just under 6 seconds behind the winners, Great Britain, who set a world record. She also won the bronze medal in the Women's 100 m butterfly S14 with a time of 1:06.50, just under 3 seconds slower that

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of RPC who broke the world record. In second place was another Australian

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. She made three other individual finals. Storm won the silver medal in the Mixed 4 x 100 m Freestyle S14 at the

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. She did not medal in three other events. At the

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, Birmingham, England, she finished 6th in the Women's 100 m freestyle S14. Storm won a silver medal at the

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in Manchester, England in the Mixed 4 × 100 m freestyle relay S14. Storm has a been selected to compete at the

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. Storm was coached by Deen Gooch in Traralgon but, as of 2024, is coached by

Ashley Delaney Ashley Jason Delaney (born 11 April 1986)2003 births Living people Intellectual Disability category Paralympic competitors Female Paralympic swimmers for Australia S14-classified para swimmers Medalists at the World Para Swimming Championships Indigenous Australian Paralympians Paralympic bronze medalists for Australia Paralympic medalists in swimming Swimmers at the 2020 Summer Paralympics Swimmers at the 2024 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 2020 Summer Paralympics Commonwealth Games competitors for Australia Swimmers at the 2022 Commonwealth Games Australian female freestyle swimmers Australian female breaststroke swimmers Australian female butterfly swimmers Australian female medley swimmers 21st-century Australian women Sportspeople from Traralgon Sportswomen from Victoria (state)