Ashleigh McConnell
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| Full name | Ashleigh McConnell | ||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality |
 Australia | ||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
26 March 1996 Melbourne, Victoria | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||
| Classifications | S9, SB8, SM9 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Melbourne Vicentre | ||||||||||||||||||
| Coach | Alex Hirschauer | ||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Ashleigh McConnell (born 26 March 1996) is a limb deficient Paralympic swimmer of Australia. She won a gold medal at the 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships. She represented Australia at the 2016 Rio Paralympics.[1]
Personal
McConnell was born on 26 March 1996 Melbourne, Victoria.[2] She is missing her left forearm and left hand.[3] She attended Sunbury College.[4] In 2015, she is studying Business at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.[3]
Career
McConnell started swimming at the age of four.[3] She is classified as a S9 swimmer.[3] She narrowly missed out on making the 2014 Commonwealth Games and 2014 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships.[4] At the 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships in Glasgow, Scotland, she won a gold medal in the Women's 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay 34 points.
Her goal has been to qualify for the 2016 Summer Paralympics.[4] Her motto is "You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the further you get".[2]
In 2016, she is a Victorian Institute of Sport scholarship holder and coached by Brad Harris at Melbourne Vicentre Swimming Club.[2][3]
References
- ↑ "Swimming Australia Paralympic Squad Announcement". Swimming Australia News, 13 April 2016. Retrieved 14 April 2016.
- 1 2 3 "Ashleigh McConnell". Victorian Institute of Sport. Retrieved 2 June 2016.
- 1 2 3 4 5 "Ashleigh McConnell". International Paralympic Comnmittee Swimming Athlete Biography. Retrieved 17 July 2015.
- 1 2 3 Kennedy, Barry (21 April 2014). "Sunbury College swimming sensation aims for 2016 Rio Paralympic Games". Sunbury Leader. Retrieved 17 July 2015.