Daniel Fox (swimmer)

Daniel Fox

2016 Australian Paralympic Team portrait of Fox
Personal information
Full name Daniel Fox
Nationality  Australia
Born (1991-05-21) 21 May 1991
Cleveland, Queensland, Australia
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Backstroke, freestyle
Classifications S14, SB14, SM14
Club Chandler
Coach Rob Hindmarsh

Daniel Fox (born 21 May 1991) is an Australian Paralympic swimmer. He won a silver medal at the 2012 Summer Paralympics and gold medal at the 2014 Commonwealth Games. He has been selected to represent Australia at the 2016 Rio Paralympics. [1]

Personal

Fox was born on 21 May 1991 and is from Cleveland, Queensland.[2][3] He has an intellectual disability.[2]

Swimming

Fox is an S14 classified swimmer.[2] He trains at the Brisbane-based Chandler Swimming Centre [2] and is a member of the Chandler Swimming Club.[4]

Fox started swimming when he was a toddler.[2] He started competing in 2009 as a thirteen-year-old and made his national team debut that same year when he competed at the Global Games. At that competition, he earned three gold and two silver medals.[2] He competed in the 2010 World Championships[2] in the men's 200m freestyle event where he finished second.[5] At the 2011 Arafura Games, he won fourfold medals.[2] He earned a bronze medal and three gold medals at the 2011 Can AM Championships in California.[2] He competed in the 2012 Australian national championships.[4] He was selected to represent Australia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in swimming[3][6][7] in the 200m freestyle and backstroke events.[4] Going into the Paralympic Games, he was ranked third in the world and training four hours a day in the pool.[4]

Competing at the 2013 IPC Swimming World Championships in Montreal, Canada, Fox won the gold medal in the Men's 200 m Freestyle S14. [8] At the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland he won the gold medal in the Men's 200 m Freestyle S14. In the heats, Fox broke the world record.[9]

At the 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships, Glasgow, Scotland, he finished fourth in the Men's 200m Freestyle S14, eighth in the Men's 100m Backstroke S14 and sixteenth in the Men's 200m Individual Medley SM14. [10]

In 2016, he is an Queensland Academy of Sport scholarship holder and is coached Rob Hindmarsh at the Chandler Swimming Centre in Brisbane.[11]

References

  1. ↑ "Swimming Australia Paralympic Squad Announcement". Swimming Australia News. Retrieved 13 April 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "Daniel Fox". Australia: Australian Paralympic Committee. 2012. Retrieved 13 July 2012.
  3. 1 2 Kay, Ross (2012-08-09). "Who are our Queensland Paralympians?". ABC Wide Bay Qld - Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 2012-08-14.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Alston, Josh (2012-04-17). "Daniel Fox breaks two swimming world records on way to Games | News, events and sport for Brisbane East". The Courier-Mail. Retrieved 2012-08-14.
  5. ↑ "Cowdrey, Leek finish with world records". ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation). 2010-08-21. Retrieved 2012-08-14.
  6. ↑ "Paralympic swim team revealed". Australian Paralympic Committee. 2012-07-10. Retrieved 2012-07-10.
  7. ↑ "Cowdrey leads Paralympic swim team". ABC Grandstand Sport - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation). Retrieved 2012-07-13.
  8. ↑ "Golden start for the Australian swim team in Montreal". Swimming Australia News, 13 August 2013. Retrieved 13 August 2013.
  9. ↑ "Para gold for Daniel Fox in Glasgow". Ninemsn, 27 July 2014. Retrieved 26 July 2014.
  10. ↑ "Daniel Fox results". Glasgow 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
  11. ↑ "Daniel Fox". Queensland Academy of Sport website. Retrieved 16 April 2016.

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