Arjola Trimi
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15 March 1987 Milan, Italy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Classifications | S4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Pol Bresciana No Frontiere | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Trimi Arjola (born 15 March 1987) is an Italian Paralympic swimmer competing in S4 classification events.[1] She made her major international debut at the 2013 IPC Swimming World Championships in Montreal, where she won four medals.[2] A year later she became European champion in her classification in the 50m, 100m and 200m freestyle events. In 2015 she won her first World gold taking the 50m backstroke title at the World Games in Glasgow.[2]
Personal history
Trimi was born in Milan, Italy in 1989. She has an acquired form of degenerative muscular condition which has resulted in quadriplegia and muscle contractions.[2][3]
Swimming career
Trimi learnt to swim as a baby, but always saw it as a hobby that helped her relax. She took part in several sports, such as wheelchair basketball and athletics, but it was not until her medical condition worsened that she turned to swimming as a competitive event.[3] She took up swimming competitively in 2013 and was initially classified as a S5 athlete; but was reclassified soon after as S4.[3] That same year she was chosen to represent Italy at the 2013 IPC Swimming World Championships in Montreal.[2] There she won four medals: silvers in the 50m freestlye and the 50m 4x50 freestyle relay, and bronze in both the 100m and 200m freestyle S4 races.
In 2014 she won her first senior international gold medals, becoming European champion in the 50m, 100m and 200m freestyle events at the 2014 IPC Swimming European Championships in Eindhoven.[2] A year later she was back in the Italian squad, this time in the World Championships in Glasgow. Trimi won two medals, a siver in the 50m Freestyle and gold in the 50m backstroke, making her World champion in the event.[2]
References
- ↑ "Biography overview:Trimi, Arjola". IPC. Retrieved 5 May 2016.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Trimi, Arjola". paralympic.org. Retrieved 5 May 2016.
- 1 2 3 Arrigoni, Claudio (16 August 2013). "Il triplete di Arjola. Tre medaglie in tre finali per la Trimi al suo primo Mondiale di nuoto" (in Italian). Retrieved 5 May 2016.