Toni Stephanie Shaw (born 5 August 2003) is a British

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. In 2019 she set the

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time for the S9 200m

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, and was also part of the team that set a new world record for the medley relay. At the

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, she won a bronze medal in the women's 400 metre freestyle S9 event and later went on to win gold at the

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, becoming the World Champion. She is a three-time World Champion and two-time European Champion.

Personal life and career

Shaw's right arm never fully formed and she was born without her right hand. From 2019 Shaw started using a carbon fibre

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for her arm that with the use of different attachments enabled her to undertake upper-body exercises such as press-ups and weight training that benefit swimmers but had previously not been possible for her. Shaw was born on 5 August 2003 and took swimming lessons from the age of eight. At the age of 14, she held 14 Scottish national swimming records in the S9 and

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classifications and was selected to compete for Team Scotland at the

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where she finished 5th in both the Women's S9 100m Backstroke and Women's 100-metre freestyle S9; 6th in the Women's 200-metre individual medley SM10, and seventh in the Women's 100-metre breaststroke SB9. She set a new world record time of 2.30.46 in the S9 200m butterfly at the Para-swimming World Series in Berlin in 2019 at the age of 15, and won six medals at the 2019 World Para Swimming Championships, including

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s in the medley relay and the freestyle relay. The medley relay team, comprising

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, Brock Whiston, Shaw and

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beat the second-placed United States team by 22 seconds and set a new world record of 4.36.31. Shaw was coached by the

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performance swimming coach Gregor McMillan and trained at Aberdeen Sports Village Aquatics Centre. She was one of ten nominees for

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in 2019. Shaw currently Swims for

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while doing an

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in Business. In June 2022, Shaw won Bronze in the Women's 100m Butterfly S9 at the

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, qualifying first her heat for the final. She also came 5th in the SM9 200m Individual Medley. On 16 June, Shaw won gold in the women's 400 metre freestyle S9,and became the World Champion. On the first day of swimming competition at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, held in

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Shaw won bronze in the S9 100m Freestyle at the

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in a time of 1:03.75,finishing one one-hundredth of a second behind Australia's

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Record in major competitions

*5th – Women's S9 100m Backstroke *5th – Women's 100-metre freestyle S9 *6th – Women's 200-metre individual medley SM10 *7th – Women's 100-metre breaststroke SB9

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*1st – Women's 400 metres freestyle *1st – Women's 4 x 100 metres medley relay *2nd – Women's 200 metres individual medley *2nd – Women's 100 metres butterfly *3rd – Women's 100 metres backstroke

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*5th – Women's S9 50m Freestyle *3rd – Women's S9 100m Freestyle *2nd – Women's S9 400m Freestyle *2nd – Women's S9 100m Butterfly *3rd – Women's S9 200m Individual Medley *1st – Women's 34pt Medley Relay *1st – Women's 34pt Freestyle Relay

* 4th – Women's S9 100m Freestyle * 4th – Women's S9 200m Individual Medley * 3rd – Women's S9 100m Butterfly * 1st – Women's S9 400m Freestyle

* 3rd-Women's S9 100m Freestyle

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* * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Shaw, Toni 2003 births Living people Scottish female freestyle swimmers British female freestyle swimmers British female backstroke swimmers British female butterfly swimmers British female medley swimmers British female breaststroke swimmers Paralympic swimmers for Great Britain Paralympic bronze medalists for Great Britain Paralympic medalists in swimming Swimmers at the 2020 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 2020 Summer Paralympics Commonwealth Games bronze medallists in swimming Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Scotland Swimmers at the 2022 Commonwealth Games Medallists at the 2022 Commonwealth Games Medalists at the World Para Swimming Championships Medalists at the World Para Swimming European Championships People educated at Albyn School Sportspeople from Aberdeen S9-classified para swimmers Scottish female breaststroke swimmers Scottish female medley swimmers Scottish female butterfly swimmers Scottish female backstroke swimmers 21st-century Scottish sportswomen