Category: Para Swimming
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What It Takes To Compete at the Highest Level as a Para Swimmer | Katie Cosgriffe | Flame Bearers
In this episode of Flame Bearers, host Manasi Joshi speaks with Canadian paraswimming icon Katie Cosgriffe on reclaiming her purpose after a life-altering 2021 diagnosis, leaning into the philosophy of turning life’s hardest trials into its greatest triumphs, and navigating the relentless mental and physical fatigue of elite training. Katie directly challenges the public’s limited…
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Para Inclusion At The Heart of European Aquatics Masters Championships 2026 | European Aquatics
Inclusion is not just a word, but a value we live by
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‘Attitude Is Everything’: Katie Cosgriffe Attributes Singapore 2025 Success to Happy and Fun Mindset | CBC Sports
They say a happy swimmer is a fast swimmer and that couldn’t be more true for Paralympian Katie Cosgriffe, who focused on the fun side of swimming in her best meet yet Singapore 2025. She tells us about the night and day attitude and results compared to Paris 2024.
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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…