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Tully Kearney
Tully Alicia Jacqueline Kearney (born 11 April 1997) is a British Paralympic swimmer. Kearney currently competes in the S5 (classification), S5/SB4/SM5 classification for swimmers with physical disabilities. She won gold and silver at the 2020 Summer Paralympics, Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games and followed this up at the 2024 Summer Paralympics, Paris 2024 Games with two further gold medals, including retaining her Swimming at the 2024 Summer Paralympics, 100 m freestyle S5 title. Since first competing at the World Para Swimming Championships in 2013 IPC Swimming World Championships, 2013 she has won thirteen World Championship medals, ten of which are gold. Kearney is a multiple British, European and World record holder. Early and personal life Kearney was born in Nottingham, England in 1997 and grew up in Aldridge. She was born with cerebral palsy (spastic diplegia) and developed generalised dystonia, a progressive neurological movement disorder, in her mid teens. These conditi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loughborough University
Loughborough University (abbreviated as ''Lough'' or ''Lboro'' for Post-nominal letters, post-nominals) is a public university, public research university in the market town of Loughborough, Leicestershire, England. It has been a university since 1966, but it dates back to 1909, when Loughborough Technical Institute was founded. In March 2013, the university announced it had bought the former broadcast centre at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park as a second campus. The annual income of the institution for 2023–24 was £363.2 million, of which £47.8 million was from research grants and contracts, with an expenditure of £251.6 million. In 2024, Loughborough Rankings of universities in the United Kingdom, ranked ninth nationally for undergraduate education. History The university traces its roots back to 1909, when the Loughborough Technical Institute was founded in the town centre. There followed a period of rapid expansion led by principal Herbert Schofield ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
