Category: Para Swimming
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‘A Happy Swimmer Is a Fast Swimmer’: Mary Jibb Is a Happy World Champion | CBC Sports
What a difference a year makes. From being a quiet and shy Para swimmer at Paris 2024, to blossoming into a world champion at Singapore 2025, we talk to Mary Jibb about the journey.
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‘I Can Swim Again’: Para Swimmer Nicolas-Guy Turbide Shares More About Mercury Poisoning Diagnosis | CBC Sports
Since 2022, Para swimmer Nicolas-Guy Turbide hadn’t been feeling like himself, but specialist after specialist couldn’t give him any answers. Finally in April he got some; mercury poisoning due to how his body was metabolizing his fish consumption. Armed with answers and a sense of relief he’ll be competing at Para swimming worlds coming up…
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World-Record Swimmer Visits FOX 8
Grace Nuhfer broke the 200 meter butterfly world record at the TYR Pro Swim Series. It happened after Grace won a silver medal at the Paralympic Games in France back in August.
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Legally Blind Akron Student World Record Para Swimmer | NBC4 Columbus
Legally blind Akron student world record Para swimmer
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Shark Attack Survivor Wins Paralympic Swim Medals | Inside Edition
Alexandra Truwit was attacked by a shark on while on vacation in Turks and Caicos. She had just graduated from Yale University and was celebrating with a friend. During a snorkeling excursion, the shark appeared out of nowhere. “The next thing I knew it had bitten off my foot and part of my leg,” she…
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Jessica Long Is Swimming in Gold | WMAR-2 News
Another example of the stellar swimmers to come out of Maryland. Paralympic athlete Jessica Long, from Baltimore, won her 30th medal in Paris. She took the gold in the 400-meter freestyle, an event she initially wasn’t going to do in Paris but decided to train for it in December.
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Anastasia Pagonis: US Para Swimmer’s Inspiring Journey to Paris 2024 | Paralympic Games
Para swimmer Anastasia Pagonis says she is ready to show the world who she really is. As a youngster, Pagonis was diagnosed with a condition which has left her with a visual impairment. Following her diagnosis, she says it left her feeling depressed but explains that over time, she has learnt to look at the…