Song Lingling (born 17 January 1996) is a Chinese Paralympic swimmer competing in the S6 class. She has won two silver and a gold paralympic medal.

Life

Song was born in 1996 and she lost the use of her legs due to polio.China's Song grabs 100m backstroke S6 gold in Rio
9 September 2016, Xinhuanet.com, Retrieved 12 September 2016 She took up swimming in Shenyang in 2009 and her club coach was Li Jianhui. Her swimming hero was Ning Zetao. In 2010 at the IPC Swimming World Championships at Eindhoven in the Netherlands she gained a silver and a bronze medal swimming freestyle and a gold medal in the 4x50m medley. At the

2012 Summer Paralympics The 2012 Summer Paralympics, branded as the London 2012 Paralympic Games, were an international multi-sport parasports event held from 29 August to 9 September 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. They were the 14th Summer Paralympic Gam ...

in London she won a silver medal in the SB5 100 m backstroke (S6). At the

2016 Summer Paralympics The 2016 Summer Paralympics (), the 15th Summer Paralympic Games, were a major international multi-sport event for disabled sports, athletes with disabilities governed by the International Paralympic Committee, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, fro ...

in Rio she won a gold medal in the 100m backstroke (S6). Her team mate Lu Dong took the silver.Paralympics 2016: Storey clinches 12th gold as Dias thrills Rio crowd – as it happened
The Guardian, Retrieved 9 September 2016 In the 200 metres she took another silver medal after being beaten by Ellie Simmonds of Great Britain. Song was at the World Para Swimming Allianz Championships in 2019 in London. She was the world record holder and she competed in the 100m backstroke S6 and took silver to the gold gained by

Verena Schott Verena Schott (born 6 March 1989) is a German paraswimmer and Paralympic medal winner. Biography Schott was born in 1989 in Greifswald. At the age of three, she and her family moved to Bennewitz, Saxony; when she was eight, she took up s ...

of Germany. In 2020 she was at the Paralympic games in Tokyo where she competed in freestyle and breaststroke. She made the finals at several events but did not finish with a medal.

Honours

The world's largest trade union, the All-China Federation of Trade Unions, gave her the

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References

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