Tiffany Thomas Kane
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| Full name | Tiffany Thomas Kane | |||||||||||||||||||||
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 Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 9 September 2001 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Classifications | S6, SB6, SM6 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Ravenswood Swimming Club | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Coach | Lachlan Falvey | |||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Tiffany Thomas Kane (born 9 August 2001) is a Paralympic swimmer of Australia. She has been selected to represent Australia at the 2016 Rio Paralympics.[1]
Personal
Thomas Kane was born on 9 August 2001 with hypochondroplasia and is a girl of short stature.[2] She attends Ravenswood School for Girls in Sydney, New South Wales.[3]
Career
Thomas Kane took up swimming at the age of 3. She is a S6 swimmer.[4] In 2015, she trains under Mitch and Lach Falvey at Ravenswood Swim Club, the same club as dual world champion and Olympic silver medallist James Magnussen.[2] She was the youngest Australian swimmer selected to compete at the 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships in Glasgow, Scotland after breaking world records at the 2015 Australian Swimming Championships.[2] At the age of 13, at 2015 IPC Swimming Championships, she won a gold medal in the Women's 100m breaststroke SB6 in a world record time of 1:34.95,[2] silver medal in the Women's 50 m Butterfly S6 and bronze medals in the Women's 50 m Freestyle S6 and Women's 100 m Freestyle S6.[5] [6] She finished fifth in the Women's 100m Backstroke S6 and seventh in the Mixed 4x50m Freestyle Relay 20pts.[7] She was awarded Swimming Australia's 2015 AIS Discovery of the Year Award.[8] In 2015, she is an New South Wales Institute of Sport scholarship holder. [9]
At the 2016 Australian Swimming Championships in Adelaide, she set a world record of 43.06in Women's S6 in winning the Women’s 50 breast multi-class event.[10]
References
- ↑ "Swimming Australia Paralympic Squad Announcement". Swimming Australia News, 13 April 2016. Retrieved 14 April 2016.
- 1 2 3 4 "World record for 13-year-old Tiffany Thomas-Kane as Dolphins light up the pool in Glasgow 15 July". Swimming Australia News, 15 July 2015. Retrieved 15 July 2015.
- ↑ Theodosiou, Peter (7 May 2015). "Junior Sports Star Tiffany Thomas Kane is a world record holder". North Shore Times. Retrieved 16 July 2015.
- ↑ "Tiffany Thomas Kane". IPC Swimming Athlete Biographies. Retrieved 16 July 2015.
- ↑ "Aussies add two silver and two bronze on Day 3 in Glasgow". Swimming Australia News, 16 July 2015. Retrieved 16 July 2015.
- ↑ "Six golds and one world record for Ukraine at Glasgow 2015". International Paralympic Committee News, 16 July 2015. Retrieved 16 July 2015.
- ↑ "Tiffany Thomas Kane". Glasgow 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
- ↑ "Bronte Campbell and Emily Seebohm share Swimmer of the Year Award". Swimming Australia News, 5 September 2015. Retrieved 6 September 2015.
- ↑ "Swimmers selected for World Championships". NSWIS News, 10 April 2015. Retrieved 17 July 2015.
- ↑ "Emily Seebohm Rockets To Top-Ranked 58.73 in 100 Back". Swimming World Magazine News. Retrieved 10 April 2016.
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