Category: Para Swimming
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Paralympics swimmer from Rice University has eyes for gold
A Rice swimmer is going for the gold medal again. Ahalya Lettenberger is not your average swimmer, though. She’s headed to London to compete with Team USA against other athletes with disabilities at the biggest international meet of the year. Ahalya was born with a condition called arthrogryposis multiplex congenital. It’s a muscular skeletal disorder…
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Paralympic swimmer joins the Rice Owls swim team
Though Rice freshman swimmer Ahalya Lettenberger has barely finished her first week of college classes, she already has an excused absence from the University for September while she attempts to bring home gold.
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Last Leg’s Alex Brooker Breaks Down in Tears Attempting 500m Swim | Sink or Swim Stand Up to Cancer
The celebrities have to swim 500m in Lake Windermere, but can Alex Brooker complete their first big task?
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Japan’s Taka Suzuki trains in the UK | ITV News
One of the athletes with a good chance of success at next year’s Tokyo Paralympics is training hard in Newcastle – but he won’t be competing for Team GB.
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Ellen Keane | World Para Swimming | London 2019
She’s reached the Podium at European and Paralympic level and now Ireland’s poster girl and Team Citi athlete, Ellen Keane, is competing to add a World Championships’ medal to her haul.
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‘The Paralympics and the Olympics should be less separate’
German Paralympic long-jump gold medallist Markus Rehm would like to see a closer relationship between the Paralympics and the Olympics. His world record jump would have won gold at the last three Olympics. But others think the events should be kept separate.
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World Para Swimming | World Championships Athlete Messages
Although today (25th August 2019) marks one year to go to the Tokyo2020 Summer Paralympic Games we first need to note that the world’s best Para swimmers are going to London for the World Para Swimming Allianz Championship from 9-15 September.
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Deaf swimming team Trip to Brazil in limbo
The Kenya national deaf swimming team may not travel to brazil for the 5th deaf world championships due to lack of funds.