Category: Para Swimming
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Swimmer Gabrielzinho Wins Laureus Award, Considered the Oscar of Sports | SBT News
Swimmer Gabriel Araújo, “Gabrielzinho,” won the Laureus Award for best athlete with a disability. Brazil stands out after a season with gold medals and a world record. Carlos Alcaraz, Aryna Sabalenka, and Lando Norris were also honored at the awards ceremony.
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New Classification Changes Everything for These Swimmers | A Current Affair
Gitai and Elodie are strangers connected by a love for the water. Thanks to a new change in swimming classifications, they are finally fulfilling their dreams of competing on the world.
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St. Albert Teen Named Swimming Canada’s Para Athlete of the Year | CTV News
Swimming Canada named a teenager from St. Albert, Reid Maxwell, as its para male athlete of the year.
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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…