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Swimming At The 2012 Summer Paralympics – Women's 100 Metre Backstroke S9
The women's 100 metre backstroke S9 event at the 2012 Summer Paralympics, 2012 Paralympic Games took place on 31 August, at the London Aquatics Centre in the Olympic Park, London. The event was for athletes included in the S9 (classification), S9 classification, which is for competitors with physical impairments. Ten swimmers took part, representing a total of seven different nations. Australia's Ellie Cole won the gold medal. Results ;Key: * Qualified for next round * *OC = Oceania record Heats Two heats were held, each with five swimmers; the swimmers with the eight fastest times advanced to the final. The heats took place on 31 August starting at 10:38 British Summer Time, BST. Heat 1 Heat 2 Final Australia's Ellie Cole won the gold medal in a time of one minutes, 9.42 seconds, setting a new Oceania record. Great Britain's Stephanie Millward took silver and Elizabeth Stone (swimmer), Elizabeth Stone won bronze. Eleven time Paralympic champion Natalie du Toit finished fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London Aquatics Centre
The London Aquatics Centre is an indoor facility with two swimming pools and a diving (sport), diving pool in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford, London, Stratford, London. The centre, designed by architect Zaha Hadid as one of the main venues of the 2012 Summer Olympics and 2012 Summer Paralympics, Paralympics, was used for the Swimming at the 2012 Summer Olympics, swimming, Diving at the 2012 Summer Olympics, diving and Synchronized swimming at the 2012 Summer Olympics, synchronised swimming events. After significant modification, the centre opened to the public in March 2014. Design The centre was designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Zaha Hadid in 2004 before London bid for the 2012 Summer Olympics, London won the bid for the 2012 Summer Olympics. It was built alongside the Water Polo Arena and opposite the Olympic Stadium (London), Olympic Stadium on the opposite bank of the Waterworks River. The site is high, long, and wide. The wave-like roof is stated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellie Cole
Ellie Victoria Cole, (born 12 December 1991) is an Australian retired Paralympic swimmer and wheelchair basketball player. After having her leg amputated due to cancer, she trained in swimming as part of her rehabilitation program and progressed more rapidly than instructors had predicted. She began competitive swimming in 2003 and first competed internationally at the 2006 IPC Swimming World Championships, where she won a silver medal. Since then, she has won medals in the Pan Pacific Swimming Championships, the Commonwealth Games, the Paralympic Games, the IPC Swimming World Championships, and various national championships. Following the 2012 Summer Paralympics, 2012 London Paralympics, where she won four gold and two bronze medals, Cole underwent two shoulder reconstructions and made a successful return to swimming at the 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships, winning five medals, including three golds. She subsequently represented Australia at the 2016 Summer Paralympics, 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephanie Millward
Stephanie Millward (born 20 September 1981) is a British former Paralympic swimmer. At the age of 17 she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS). As a result, she competed in the S9 (classification) Paralympic classification. Since 12 June 2016, she competes in the S8 classification after her category change from the less impaired S9 category down to S8. She was reclassified at the Berlin Open. Personal life Millward was born on 20 September 1981 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. She was awarded the Freedom of the Town of Corsham on 2 March 2013. Millward is proud ambassador of Wiltshire and Bath Air Ambulance Charity. Education Millward attended The Corsham School, Wiltshire. Swimming Millward was close to a place in the British international non-disabled team and, having broken the British record for the 100-metre backstroke at the age of 15, hoped to qualify for the 2000 Summer Olympics before she was diagnosed with MS. She qualified for the 2008 Summer Paralympics hel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Stone (swimmer)
Elizabeth Stone ( ka, ქეთევან ხურციძე; born as Ketevan Khurtsidze) is an American Paralympic swimmer of Georgian origin. Biography Elizabeth Stone was adopted on the 4th of July at age 4 from Kutaisi, Georgia. In the last year of high school she used to compete in track & field and also sometimes run a race for River Bank Run in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She participated in the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, Greece. At the 2006 World Championships she won a gold medal for 4x100 metre medley and a bronze one for the backstroke. In 2008 Paralympics she won a silver medal for another 100 metre backstroke in Beijing, China and on 2010 World Championships she won another gold for 4x100 metre medley which was held at Eindhoven, Netherlands. Couple of years later she received a bronze medal for her participation at 2012 Summer Paralympics in London London is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2012 Summer Paralympics
The 2012 Summer Paralympics, branded as the London 2012 Paralympic Games, were an international Multi-sport event, multi-sport parasports event held from 29 August to 9 September 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. They were the 14th Summer Paralympic Games as organised by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC). These Games were the first Summer Paralympics to be hosted by London, and the first hosted solely by Great Britain; the English village of Stoke Mandeville co-hosted the 1984 Summer Paralympics, 1984 Games with Long Island, Long Island, New York after its original host, the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, withdrew due to financial issues. In 1948, the village hosted the Stoke Mandeville Games—the first organised sporting event for athletes with disabilities, and a precursor to the modern Paralympic Games—to coincide with the opening of the 1948 Summer Olympics, 1948 Olympics in London. In 1935, London hosted the 1935 Summer Deaflympics. Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olympic Park, London
Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park is a sporting complex and public park in Stratford, London, Stratford, Hackney Wick, Leyton and Bow, London, Bow, in east London. It was purpose-built for the 2012 Summer Olympics and 2012 Summer Paralympics, Paralympics, situated adjacent to the Stratford City development. It contains the London Stadium, Olympic stadium, now known as the London Stadium, and the London Aquatics Centre, Olympic swimming pool together with the athletes' East Village, Stratford, Olympic Village and several other Olympic sporting venues and the London Olympics Media Centre. The park is overlooked by the ArcelorMittal Orbit, an observation tower and Britain's largest piece of public art. It was simply called The Olympic Park during the Games but was later renamed to commemorate the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II, Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
S9 (classification)
S9, SB8, SM9 are para-swimming classifications used for categorizing swimmers based on their level of disability. Swimmers in this class generally have severe weakness in one leg. This class includes a number of different disabilities including people with amputations and cerebral palsy. The classification is governed by the International Paralympic Committee, and competes at the Paralympic Games. Definition This classification is for swimming. In the classification title, S represents Freestyle, Backstroke and Butterfly strokes. SB means breaststroke. SM means individual medley. Jane Buckley, writing for the Sporting Wheelies, describes the swimmers in this classification as having: "severe weakness in one leg only; Swimmers with very slight coordination problems; Swimmers with one limb loss. Unless there is an underlying medical condition usually all of these athletes will start out of the water." Swimming classifications are on a gradient, with one being the most severely ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Summer Time
During British Summer Time (BST), civil time in the United Kingdom is advanced one hour forward of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), in effect changing the time zone from UTC+00:00 to UTC+01:00, so that mornings have one hour less daylight, and evenings one hour more. BST begins at 01:00 GMT every year on the last Sunday of March and ends at 02:00 BST on the last Sunday of October. The starting and finishing times of daylight saving were aligned across the European Union on 22 October 1995, and the UK retained this alignment after it left the EU; both BST and Central European Summer Time begin and end on the same Sundays at 02:00 Central European Time, 01:00 GMT. Between 1972 and 1995, the BST period was defined as "beginning at two o'clock, Greenwich mean time, in the morning of the day after the third Saturday in March or, if that day is Easter Day, the day after the second Saturday in March, and ending at two o'clock, Greenwich mean time, in the morning of the day after the fou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emily Gray (swimmer)
Emily Rose Gray (born October 5, 2000) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder for Piteå IF of the Damallsvenskan, on loan from the Utah Royals of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL). Early life Gray was raised in the Sewell section of Washington Township, Gloucester County, New Jersey, where she attended Washington Township High School. College career Gray attended Virginia Tech where she played for the Hokies from 2018 to 2021. Club career North Carolina Courage, 2022–2023 Gray was selected by the North Carolina Courage as the number three overall pick at the 2022 NWSL Draft. She made her debut for North Carolina on April 29, 2022, earning an assist. Utah Royals, 2024– She was traded to Utah Royals in November 2023. Odense Boldklub Q (loan), 2024 On July 19, 2024, Utah Royals announced that Gray had been loaned to Odense Boldklub Q of the Danish Kvindeliga for the remainder of the 2024 NWSL season. Piteå IF (loan), 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shanntol Ince
Shanntol Ince (born 10 April 1995) is a Trinidad and Tobago Paralympic swimmer who competes in international elite events. She is a double Parapan American Games bronze medalist and has competed at the Paralympic Games twice in 2012 and 2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa .... She was born with her right leg shorter than her left leg. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Ince, Shanntol 1995 births Living people Paralympic swimmers for Trinidad and Tobago Swimmers at the 2012 Summer Paralympics Swimmers at the 2016 Summer Paralympics Swimmers at the 2010 Commonwealth Games Medalists at the 2011 Parapan American Games Trinidad and Tobago female freestyle swimmers S9-classified para swimmers Parapan American Games medalists in swimming Parapan American Games bronze ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natalie Du Toit
Natalie du Toit OIG MBE (; born 29 January 1984) is a South African swimmer. She is best known for the gold medals she won at the 2004 Paralympic Games as well as the Commonwealth Games. She was one of two Paralympians to compete at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; the other being table tennis player Natalia Partyka. Du Toit became the third amputee ever to qualify for the Olympics, where she placed 16th in the 10 km swim. Early life Du Toit was born in Cape Town, South Africa and attended Timour Hall Primary school. She began competing internationally in swimming at the age of 14. In February 2001, her left leg was amputated at the knee after she was hit by a car while riding her scooter back to school after swimming practice. She was 17 at the time. Three months later, before she had started walking again, she was back in the pool with the intention of competing in the 2002 Commonwealth Games. Du Toit swims without the aid of a prosthetic limb. She completed her s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
