Tanya Huebner is an Australian swimmer. She has represented

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at the 2012 London and the

2016 Rio Paralympics ) , nations = 159 , athletes = 4,342 , opening = 7 September , closing = 18 September , opened_by = President Michel Temer , cauldron = Clodoaldo Silva , events = 528 in 22 sports , stadium = Maracanã , sum ...

Swimming

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Huebner is an S6 classified swimmer. She is a member of

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Swimming Club. She started swimming when she was extraordinarily young. In 2008, Huebner competed in Rock2Ramp. That year, she also competed in the Club-to-Club swim from Edithvale Life Saving Club to Aspendale Life Saving Club. In 2010, she woke up at 4:30am daily in order to train. She competed in the 2010 International Paralympic Committee swimming world championships. She took up a swimming scholarship at the

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in July 2011. She swam for Bayside at the 2011 Australian Open Championships. She competed in the 2011 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships in the 200 metres individual medley SM6 event, where she finished first with a time of 3:31:36. In 2011, she also competed at the Can-Am Championships in California. She was selected to represent

at the

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in swimming in the 50m Freestyle, 100m Freestyle, 100m Breaststroke, 50m Butterfly and 200m Individual Medley events. The Games were her first. At the

2015 IPC Swimming World Championships The 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships was an international swimming competition for athletes with a disability. It was held in Glasgow, United Kingdom and took place from 13 to 19 July. Around 580 athletes from around 70 countries competed at ...

, Glasgow, Scotland, she won gold medal in the Women's 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay 34pt as a heat swimmer, silver medal in the 4 × 100-metre Medley Relay 34pts as a heat swimmer, fourth in the 100-metre Breaststroke SB6, seventh in the Mixed 4 x 50-metre freestyle relay 20pts, ninth in the Women's 50m Butterfly S6 and thirteenth in the Women's 50-metre Freestyle S6. At the

, she competed and placed fifth in her heat for 50-metre butterfly S6 and didn't qualify for the finals. She was fifth in the finals of the 100-metre Breaststroke SB6, and placed sixth in the Mixed 4 x 50-metre Freestyle Relay 20 points alongside

Rachael Watson Rachael Elizabeth Watson, (born 30 January 1992) is an Australian Paralympic swimmer. Watson represented Australia at the 2016 Rio Paralympics winning gold in the 50m Freestyle S4, a feat she repeated at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics. Personal Wa ...

, Tiffany Thomas Kane,

Ahmed Kelly Ahmed Kelly (born 18 November 1991) is an Iraqi-born Australian Paralympic swimmer. At the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, his third games, he won the silver medal in the Men's 150 m individual medley SM3 . Personal Nicknamed "Liquid Nails", Kelly wa ...

and

Matthew Haanappel Matthew Anthony "Matt" Haanappel, (born 21 May 1994) is an Australian Paralympic swimmer. He was born in Wantirna, Victoria and resides in the far eastern suburbs of Melbourne. He has cerebral palsy right hemiplegia. Haanappel has represente ...

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Huebner, Tanya Living people Female Paralympic swimmers of Australia Swimmers at the 2012 Summer Paralympics Swimmers at the 2016 Summer Paralympics S6-classified Paralympic swimmers Year of birth missing (living people) Medalists at the World Para Swimming Championships Australian female freestyle swimmers Australian female breaststroke swimmers Australian female butterfly swimmers Australian female medley swimmers 21st-century Australian women