Ashleigh McConnell
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| Full name | Ashleigh McConnell | ||||||||||||
| Nationality |  Australia |
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| Born | 26 March 1996 | ||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||
| Classifications | S9, SB8, SM9 | ||||||||||||
| Club | Melbourne Vicentre | ||||||||||||
| Coach | Brad Harris | ||||||||||||
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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 has been selected to represent Australia at the 2016 Rio Paralympics.[1]
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Personal
She is missing her left forearm and left hand.[2] She attended Sunbury College.[3] In 2015, she is studying Business at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.[2]
Career
McConnell started swimming at the age of four.[2] She is classified as a S9 swimmer.[2] She narrowly missed out on making the 2014 Commonwealth Games and 2014 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships.[3] In 2015, she is a Victorian Institute of Sport scholarship holder[4] and is coached by Brad Harris at Melbourne Vicentre Swimming Club.[2] 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 is to qualify for the 2016 Summer Paralympics.[3]
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External links
- Use Australian English from July 2015
- All Wikipedia articles written in Australian English
- Pages using Infobox sportsperson with module2 parameter
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- Pages using infobox swimmer with nationality parameter
- 1996 births
- Amputee category Paralympic competitors
- Female Paralympic swimmers of Australia
- Living people
- Sportswomen from Victoria (Australia)
- Swimmers at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
