Ashleigh McConnell
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| Full name | Ashleigh McConnell | ||||||||||||
| Nationality |
 Australia | ||||||||||||
| Born | 26 March 1996 | ||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||
| Classifications | S9, SB8, SM9 | ||||||||||||
| Club | Melbourne Vicentre | ||||||||||||
| Coach | Brad Harris | ||||||||||||
Medal record
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Ashleigh McConnell (born 26 March 1996) is a limb deficient Paralympic swimmer of Australia. She won a gold medal at the 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships.She has been selected to represent Australia at the 2016 Rio Paralympics.[1]
Personal
She is missing her left forearm and left hand.[2] She attended Sunbury College.[3] In 2015, she is studying Business at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.[2]
Career
McConnell started swimming at the age of four.[2] She is classified as a S9 swimmer.[2] She narrowly missed out on making the 2014 Commonwealth Games and 2014 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships.[3] In 2015, she is a Victorian Institute of Sport scholarship holder[4] and is coached by Brad Harris at Melbourne Vicentre Swimming Club.[2] At the 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships in Glasgow, Scotland, she won a gold medal in the Women's 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay 34 points.
Her goal is to qualify for the 2016 Summer Paralympics.[3]
References
- ↑ "Swimming Australia Paralympic Squad Announcement". Swimming Australia News, 13 April 2016. Retrieved 14 April 2016.
- 1 2 3 4 5 "Ashleigh McConnell". International Paralympic Comnmittee Swimming Athlete Biography. Retrieved 17 July 2015.
- 1 2 3 Kennedy, Barry (21 April 2014). "Sunbury College swimming sensation aims for 2016 Rio Paralympic Games". Sunbury Leader. Retrieved 17 July 2015.
- ↑ "Ashleigh McConnell". Victorian Institute of Sport website. Retrieved 17 July 2015.
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