Ruby Storm (born 18 November 2003) is an Australian Paralympic swimmer with an intellectual disability. She represented Australia at the

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, winning a bronze medal, and at the

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, she won a silver and bronze medal. At the 2024 Paris Paralympics, she won a silver medal.

Personal

Storm was born on 18 November 2003 and grew up in

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, Victoria. She has indigenous heritage.

Swimming career

As a child Storm was scared of the water but she learnt to swim by observing her older sister. She is classified as an S14 swimmer. She smashed records at the 2018 Para Pan Pac trials in winning the 200m freestyle event. At the

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, she was a member of the Australian team that won the bronze medal in the Mixed 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay S14. She also competed in the Women's 200m Freestyle S14, Women's 100m Breaststroke SB14, Women's 200m Individual Medley SM14 and Women's 100m Butterfly S14. At the

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, Storm teamed up with Madeleine McTernan, Ricky Betar and Benjamin Hance in the Mixed 4 x 100 m freestyle S14. They won the silver medal with a time of 3:46.38, just under 6 seconds behind the winners, Great Britain, who set a world record. She also won the bronze medal in the Women's 100 m butterfly S14 with a time of 1:06.50, just under 3 seconds slower that Valeriia Shabalina of RPC who broke the world record. In second place was another Australian

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. She made three other individual finals. Storm won the silver medal in the Mixed 4 x 100 m Freestyle S14 at the

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. She did not medal in three other events. At the

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, she finished 6th in the Women's 100 m freestyle S14. Storm won a silver medal at the

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in Manchester, England in the Mixed 4 × 100 m freestyle relay S14. At the 2024 Paris Paralympics, she won a silver medal in the Mixed 4 × 100 m freestyle relay S14. She competed in three other events - Women's 100 butterfly S14 (9th), Women's 00 m freestyle S14 (7th) and Women's 100 m breaststroke SB14 (9th). Storm was coached by Deen Gooch in Traralgon but, as of 2024, is coached by Ashley Delaney at St Andrews Swim Club on the Sunshine Coast.

Recognition

*2018 – Junior Annual Gippstar Winner

References

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