Anna Johannes (born August 12, 1993) is a Kyrgyzstani-born American

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swimmer.

Biography

Johannes was born in

Bishkek Bishkek, formerly known as Pishpek (until 1926), and then Frunze (1926–1991), is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Kyrgyzstan. Bishkek is also the administrative centre of the Chüy Region. Bishkek is situated near the Kazakhstan ...

Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyzstan, officially the Kyrgyz Republic, is a landlocked country in Central Asia lying in the Tian Shan and Pamir Mountains, Pamir mountain ranges. Bishkek is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Kyrgyzstan, largest city. Kyrgyz ...

with

Amniotic band syndrome Constriction ring syndrome (CRS) is a congenital disorder with unknown cause. Because of the unknown cause there are many different, and sometimes incorrect, names. It is a malformation due to intrauterine bands or rings that produce deep grooves ...

. At age 2 she already started jumping into a pool and by the time she turned 6 she joined a local swimming team for able bodied children. At age nine she joined the Olympics but didn't started competing for it till 2011 when she won gold in 100m butterfly,

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breaststroke Breaststroke is a human swimming, swimming style in which the swimmer is on their chest and the torso does not rotate. It is the most popular recreational style due to the swimmer's head being out of the water a large portion of the time, and ...

and

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. At the same

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she won the same kind of medal for freestyle and silver one for 50m freestyle. During the

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she won a bronze medal in 4 × 100 m medley, got 4th in 100 metre breaststroke and 5th in individual medley. For a time she also held both the American and

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s in 100 metre breaststroke and 200 metre individual medley.

References

1993 births Living people Swimmers from Bishkek Paralympic swimmers for the United States Paralympic bronze medalists for the United States Swimmers at the 2012 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 2012 Summer Paralympics American female backstroke swimmers American female breaststroke swimmers American female freestyle swimmers American female medley swimmers S9-classified para swimmers Paralympic medalists in swimming Medalists at the World Para Swimming Championships Medalists at the 2011 Parapan American Games American adoptees 21st-century American sportswomen Swimmers at the 2011 Parapan American Games Parapan American Games medalists in swimming Parapan American Games gold medalists for the United States {{US-Paralympic-medalist-stub